Bottom Quote by Herman Melville

Father Mapple paused a little; then kneeling in the pulpit's bows, folded his large brown hands across his chest, uplifted his closed eyes, and…

— Herman Melville

“Why was he kneeling there like a child saying his evening prayers? To be alone with his soul, to examine his conscience, to meet…

— James Joyce

There was a brisk northern wind, heavy and wet with the salt of the sea, and he felt, as he turned his face to…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“the Dead Sea valley, at more than thirteen hundred feet below sea level, was tranquil. A desolate landscape, but strangely it was where Jack…

— Glenn Meade

“I pondered some time without fully comprehending the reason for this. Father Mapple enjoyed such a wide reputation for sincerity and sanctity, that I…

— Herman Melville

The Father of Waters again goes unvexed to the sea.

— Abraham Lincoln

“After a time, he felt a deeper rhythm, the rhythm of the stone and water, not the rhythm of his words and heartbeat. He…

— Katherine Addison

Man ... has an inborn religious sentiment that whispers of a God to his inmost soul, as a shell taken from the deep yet…

— Horace Mann

Sea does the sweep of his eyes that he does, the one that goes from my head to my toes and back again and…

— Maggie Stiefvater

So God stepped over to the edge of the world And He spat out the seven seas; He batted His eyes, and the lightnings…

— James Weldon Johnson

“Because in the pupils of his eyes there lingered the mysterious and eternal horizon that the sea leaves as a keepsake deep in the…

— Yukio Mishima

The ocean was one of the greatest things he had ever seen in his life—bigger and deeper than anything he had imagined. It changed…

— Haruki Murakami