Sea Quotes - page 2

We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance. (John Archibald Wheeler)
It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top. View quote
Hunter S. Thompson
Earth and Sky, Woods and Fields, Lakes and Rivers, the Mountain and the Sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books. View quote
John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm. View quote
William Cowper
Don't worry over what the newspapers say. I don't. Why should anyone else? I told the truth to the newspaper correspondents - but when you tell the truth to them they are at sea. View quote
William Howard Taft
Many a calm river begins as a turbulent waterfall, yet none hurtles and foams all the way to the sea. View quote
Mikhail Lermontov
Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. View quote
Kahlil Gibran
But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. View quote
Kahlil Gibran
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I never was on the dull, tame shore, But I loved the great sea more and more. View quote
Bryan Procter
The sea has neither meaning nor pity. (Anton Chekhov)
Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever; One foot in sea, and one on shore, To one thing constant never. View quote
William Shakespeare
You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. View quote
Rabindranath Tagore
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea. View quote
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness - has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power. View quote
Joseph Conrad
The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness. View quote
Joseph Conrad
We must plant the sea and herd its animals ... using the sea as farmers instead of hunters. That is what civilization is all about - farming replacing hunting. View quote
Jacques-Yves Cousteau
Something must be left to chance; nothing is sure in a sea fight above all. View quote
Horatio Nelson
A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea. View quote
Honoré de Balzac
Just as we have the power to harm the ocean, we have the power to put in place policies and modify our own behavior in ways that would be an insurance policy for the future of the sea, for the creatures there, and for us, protecting special critical areas in the ocean. View quote
Sylvia Earle
The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave. (Thomas Jefferson)
I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it roaring and raging like a wild beast in its den. It puts me in mind of the everlasting efforts of the human mind, struggling to be free, and ending just where it began. View quote
William Hazlitt
Except by name, Jean Paul Friedrich Richter is little known out of Germany. The only thing connected with him, we think, that has reached this country is his saying,imported by Madame de Stal, and thankfully pocketed by most newspaper critics,'Providence has given to the French the empire of the land to the English that of the sea to the Germans that ofthe air' Richter German humorist prose writer. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
Debt is a bottomless sea. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
The Bible is God's chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show you where the harbor is, and how to reach it without running on rocks or bars. View quote
Henry Ward Beecher