Sea Quotes - page 4

A ruddy drop of manly blood The surging sea outweighs The world uncertain comes and goes, The lover rooted stays. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul. View quote
Victor Hugo
The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore. View quote
Vincent van Gogh
There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more. View quote
Lord Byron
We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea. View quote
Paul Tillich
The fish in the water is silent, the animals on the earth is noisy, the bird in the air is singing. But man has in him the silence of the sea, the noise of the earth and the music of the air. View quote
Rabindranath Tagore
I have come to believe that this is a mighty continent which was hitherto unknown. I am greatly supported in this view by reason of this great river Ozama, and by this sea which is fresh. View quote
Christopher Columbus
There is nothing quite so good as burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating. View quote
Alfred Hitchcock
I pass with relief from the tossing sea of Cause and Theory to the firm ground of Result and Fact. View quote
Winston Churchill
I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more the feeling that I could last for ever, outlast the sea, the earth, and all men the deceitful feeling that lures us on to joys, to perils, to love, to vain effort to death the triumphant conviction of strength, the heat of life in the handful of dust, the glow in the heart that with every year grows dim, grows cold, grows small, and expires and expires, too soon, too soon before life itself. View quote
Joseph Conrad
There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea. (Joseph Conrad)
The Sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever. View quote
Jacques-Yves Cousteau
Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians. View quote
Jacques-Yves Cousteau
Lord when you sell a man a book you don't sell just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night - there's all heaven and earth in a book, a real book. View quote
Christopher Morley
Let there be light said Liberty, And like sunrise from the sea, Athens arose. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
The sunlight claps the earth And the moonbeams kiss the sea What are all these kissings worth If thou kiss not me. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch - we are going back from whence we came. View quote
John F. Kennedy
The sea does not like to be restrained. View quote
Rick Riordan
I have always hated crowds. I like deserts, prisons, and monasteries. I have discovered, too, that there are fewer idiots at 3000 meters above sea level than down below. View quote
Jean Giono
The sea always filled her with longing, though for what she was never sure. View quote
Cornelia Funke
Rising sea levels, severe draughts, the melting of the polar caps, the more frequent and devastating natural disasters all raise demand for humanitarian assistance and disaster relief. (Leon Panetta)
Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think. View quote
Robert Henri
At night, when the sky is full of stars and the sea is still you get the wonderful sensation that you are floating in space. View quote
Natalie Wood
One of the unique things is that whether we were out at sea or in the middle of the water tank, a lot of times you just couldn't leave. Especially when we were out at sea. View quote
John C. Reilly
Sell a country! Why not sell the air, the clouds and the great sea, as well as the earth? Did not the Great Spirit make them all for the use of his children? View quote
Tecumseh