Quote by Patrick O'Brian

“The sea was a glorious shade of blue. The cliffs, edged with a narrow strip of golden sand, wound around the cove. Seabirds soared…

— Paul Moxham

“There, in the shimmering distance, was a sail. I stared in momentary disbelief, but there it was, one of the most beautiful sights the…

— Tom Neale

“Now Borluut was seeing it from close to. And to its very end, it seemed, from the way the line of the horizon merged…

— Georges Rodenbach

Overhead hung a summer sky furrowed with the rush of rockets; and from the east a late moon, pushing up beyond the lofty bend…

— Edith Wharton

“The sky was rarely more than pale blue or violet, with a profusion of mighty, weightless, ever-changing clouds towering up and sailing on it,…

— Karen Blixen

“They came there regularly every evening drawn by some need. It was as if the water floated off and set sailing thoughts which had…

— Virginia Woolf

“He had never seen the ocean before; he knew it only as the featureless blue void between the detailed continents on his father’s old…

— Jack Croxall

“He watched from the boat as they sailed past the sights of London – the thrusting steel spires of Canary Wharf, the domed O2…

— Paul Pilkington

“The sea, as much as the light, gives this curve of coast it's flavor. The light takes it's color from the sea, sometimes seems…

— James D. Houston

“It was the blue of the sky that caught him first: a rapturous, painfully pure spike of color that hooked his eyes like fish…

— Josh Ritter