Sea Quotes - page 82

In the old days, the navigators used magic to make themselves strong, but now, nothing; they just pray. Before they leave and at sea, they pray. But I, I make myself strong by thinking-just by thinking! I make myself strong because I despise cowardice. Too many men are afraid of the sea. But I am a navigator. (Mau Piailug)
My father taught me that the sea is full of signs. Let's say we leave on a voyage at sunset. At midnight the navigator listens for chirping birds. You and I don't hear them-we can't hear them. Only the navigator can hear them. View quote
Mau Piailug
The waters were his winding sheet, the sea was made for his tomb; Yet for his fame the ocean sea, was not sufficient room. View quote
Richard Barnfield
I was a very poor young black boy in New Orleans, just a face without a name, swimming in a sea of poverty trying to survive. View quote
Tyler Perry
The gaudy, blabbing, and remorseful day Is crept into the bosom of the sea. View quote
William Shakespeare
This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war, This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea, Which serves it in the office of a wall Or as a moat defensive to a house, Against the envy of less happier lands,-- This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England. View quote
William Shakespeare
The fortune of us that are the moon's men doth ebb and flow like the sea, being governed, as the sea is, by the moon. View quote
William Shakespeare
Ornament is but the guiled shore to a most dangerous sea. View quote
William Shakespeare
When you do dance, I wish you a wave o' the sea, that you might ever do nothing but that. View quote
William Shakespeare
Nimble thought can jump both sea and land. View quote
William Shakespeare
Orpheus with his lute made trees, And the mountain tops that freeze, Bow themselves, when he did sing To his music, plants and flowers Ever sprung as sun and showers There had made a lasting spring. Every thing that heard him play, Even the billows of the sea, Hung their heads, and then lay by. In sweet music is such art, Killing care and grief of heart Fall asleep, or hearing, die. (William Shakespeare)
Where is your ancient courage You were used to say extremities was the trier of spirits That common chances common men could bear That when the sea was calm all boats alike showed mastership in floating. View quote
William Shakespeare
Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet. View quote
William Shakespeare
ROMEO to BALTHASAR But if thou, jealous, dost return to pry In what I further shall intend to do, By heaven, I will tear thee joint by joint And strew this hungry churchyard with thy limbs The time and my intents are savage-wild, More fierce and more inexorable far Than empty tigers or the roaring sea. View quote
William Shakespeare
GLOUCESTER Yet so much is my poverty of spirit, So mighty and so many my defects, As I had rather hide me from my greatness, Being a bark to brook no mighty sea, Than in my greatness covet to be hid, And in the vapour of my glory smotherd. But God be thanked.... View quote
William Shakespeare
Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea, But sad mortality o'ersways their power, How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea, Whose action is no stronger than a flower? View quote
William Shakespeare
Some of us are like the Dead Sea, always taking in but never giving out, because we are not rightly related to the Lord Jesus. View quote
Oswald Chambers
I knew the Spring was come. I knew it even Better than all by this, that through my chase In bush and stone and hill and sea and heaven I seem'd to see and follow still your face. Your face my quarry was. For it I rode, My horse a thing of wings, myself a god. View quote
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
The mountain rill Seeks with no surer flow the far bright sea, Than my unchang'd affections flow to thee. View quote
Park Benjamin, Sr.
They have [...] a split personality. One moment they're your best mate, and next they are trying to drag you down to the bottom of the sea to drown you. [...] It's just astonishing. View quote
Lewis Pugh
There's nothing more chilling than swimming across open sea, where recently there used to be a solid glacier. (Lewis Pugh)
No matter how tough my day has been, when I dive into the sea, the world seems perfect. View quote
Lewis Pugh
I have been haunted by that swim through the whale graveyard and haven't been able to get the image of the bones out of my head. Man hunted whales almost to the point of extinction, not seeming to care that we would lose one of the wonders of the sea world forever. It is the coldness of the water in Antarctica that preserves the bones and makes it look like they were left there yesterday but I like to think they are there as a reminder of man's potential for folly. View quote
Lewis Pugh
I always feel nostalgic when I disembark (off a ship). It's not that I don't like land. I just love being at sea. View quote
Lewis Pugh
Today's American bemoans the extermination of the passenger pigeon and the threatened extinction of the whooping crane and the ivory billed woodpecker; he contributes to conservation organizations that seek to preserve the Hawaiian goose, the sea otter of the Aleutian Islands, the lizard of the Galapágos Islands... But who ever shed a tear over the loss of the native American cultures? View quote
Peter Farb