History Quote by David Elliott

“I have left behind what tethered me to the lake. The sadness. The self-pity. The dark tentacles of the murky sea monster only I…

— Wendy Wunder

“Only the sea is like a human being . . .always moving, always something deep in itself is stirring it. It never rests; it…

— Olive Schreiner

“I like the sea: we understand one another. It is always yearning, sighing for something it cannot have; so am I.”

— Greta Garbo

“I have been feeling very clearheaded lately and what I want to write about today is the sea. It contains so many colors. Silver…

— Anthony Doerr

“It’s so dark that I can hear the sea better than I can see it. Shhhhh, Shhhhh, it says, like I’m a fretful child…

— Maggie Stiefvater

“The sea up close is enormous. I squeezed my eyes against it for a moment, which is ridiculous, like fighting a giant with a…

— Franny Billingsley

“Whales, porpoises, mermaids and mermen, dead sailors, fishes, crabs, tiny shrimps; the sea is forever full of eyes that watch me. I never fly…

— Mari Strachan

“The sea is very beautiful and gives us many things, but it must be understood and respected, or it will slap you ...”

— J.Z. Colby

“The Pacific is my home ocean; I knew it first, grew up on its shore, collected marine animals along the coast. I know its…

— John Steinbeck

“What is it about the sea? Is it because it’s there?”

— Jerry Pinto

“But I can’t stop thinking about the ocean. It got in my head. The roar it makes—both peaceful and angry. The way its mood…

— Tarryn Fisher

“For me, the sea has always been a confidant, a friend absorbing all it is told and never revealing those secrets; always giving the…

— Ernesto "Che" Guevara