Sea Quotes

With every drop of water you drink, every breath you take, you're connected to the sea. No matter where on Earth you live. Most of the oxygen in the atmosphere is generated by the sea.

With every drop of water you drink, every breath you take, you're connected to the sea. No matter where on Earth you live.

I've had the joy of spending thousands of hours under the sea. I wish I could take people along to see what I see, and to know what I know.

You play a 'lowdown dirty shame slow and lonesome, my mama dead, my papa across the sea I ain't dead but I'm just supposed to be' blues. You can take that same blues, make it uptempo, a shuffle blues, that's what rock n' roll did with it. So blues ain't going nowhere. Ain't goin' nowhere.

A long sea implies an uniform and steady motion of long and extensive waves; on the contrary, a short sea is when they run irregularly, broken, and interrupted; so as frequently to burst over a vessel's side or quarter.

Hence a ship is said to head the sea, when her course is opposed to the setting or direction of the surges.

I don't know if you saw the parting of the Red Sea with the chariots on the horses, I did stuff like that.

The sea always offers up incredible stories of survivors' fortitude. Myths of a lot of countries have variations on that.

The idea of having one ensemble do everything is what was on 'Sea Lion' and that's what I tried to make happen for 'Metals,' which is having five people in the room and all of us contributing equally to every arrangement and every song.

Naturally enough, I couldn't have foreseen the vast sea change which has come upon that scene as a result of German reunification and associated events.

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

The most desirable aspects of the Law of the Sea Treaty pertain to navigational rights.

Land is the secure ground of home, the sea is like life, the outside, the unknown.

The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.

Puberty for a girl is like floating down a broadening river into an open sea.

A journey by Sea and Land, Five Hundred Miles, is not undertaken without money.

If you want to go anywhere in modern war, in the air, on the sea, on the land, you must have command of the air.

The North Pole will be ice-free during summer in years to come, and that itself will put the Arctic Sea basin on a very high risk of... environmental disasters that might be there.

Even Castles made of sand, fall into the sea, eventually.

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.

The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.

Though the terror of the sea gives to none security, in the secret of the shell. Self preserving we may dwell.

A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.

A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us.

I love the sea.

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

All loose things seem to drift down to the sea, and so did I.

It seemed that rebellion must have an unassailable base, something guarded not merely from attack, but from the fear of it: such a base as we had in the Red Sea Parts, the desert, or in the minds of the men we converted to our creed.

Shaw is like a train. One just speaks the words and sits in one's place. But Shakespeare is like bathing in the sea - one swims where one wants.

The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea.

I feel we are all islands - in a common sea.

The loneliness you get by the sea is personal and alive. It doesn't subdue you and make you feel abject. It's stimulating loneliness.

There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates.

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.

My half-suppressed Canadian years, my whole childhood and youth, rose like a corpse from the bottom of the sea to confront me.

Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.

The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.

I believe that Palestine is an occupied land from the Mediterranean Sea to the Jordan River, and this is the right of the entire Palestinian people, this land.

There is no longer a way out of our present situation except by forging a road toward our objective, violently and by force, over a sea of blood and under a horizon blazing with fire.

I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.

My 20s was a sea of worry. I worried about benefit forms, about being thrown out of my flat. I never went on holiday because I thought: 'What if an audition comes up?' I was a nervous wreck.

I think the divine is like a huge smile that breaks somewhere in the sea within you, and gradually comes up again.

Our minds are mysterious; our conscious brain is like a ship on a sea that is obscure to us.

I have always had the sea as my playground.

To study the phenomena of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all.

He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all.

The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.

And ne'er shall the sons of Columbia be slaves, while the earth bears a plant, or the sea rolls its waves.

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.

In a still hot morning, the tide went out and didn't come back in. This was not a spectacular event. The sea did not roll up like a scroll, like the sky in Revelations. It quietly withdrew.

If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge in vain wishes.

I am really a sea creature. Just a mammal that lost its fins.

Seattle was built out on pilings over the sea, and at high tide the whole city seemed to come afloat like a ship lifting free from a mud berth and swaying in its chains.

The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea.

If Russia shuts off central Asia and the Caspian Sea from Europe, the European allies of the United States will be totally dependent on Russian gas and energy.

The autumn wind is a pirate. Blustering in from sea with a rollicking song he sweeps along swaggering boisterously. His face is weather beaten, he wears a hooded sash with a silver hat about his head... The autumn wind is a Raider, pillaging just for fun.

There are no signposts in the sea.

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

It is always with excitement that I wake up in the morning wondering what my intuition will toss up to me, like gifts from the sea. I work with it and rely on it. It's my partner.

The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.

The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers.

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.

We have found that morals are not, like bacon, to be cured by hanging; nor, like wine, to be improved by sea voyages; nor, like honey, to be preserved in cells.

Niger is not an isolated island of desperation. It lies within a sea of problems across Africa - particularly the 'forgotten emergencies' in poor countries or regions with little strategic or material appeal.

Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.

The sea has now changed from it's natural, to river coloured water, the probable consequence of some streams falling into the bay, or into the ocean to the north of it, through the low land.

From the sea came a boat with some Israeli commando soldiers who took me by the commando boat to the yacht and put me on the yacht. In the yacht I asked people, who are you. And they said we are Israelis, French and British.

I was at sea the other day and loads of meat floated past. It was a bit choppy.

Throughout the ages, stories with certain basic themes have recurred over and over, in widely disparate cultures; emerging like the goddess Venus from the sea of our unconscious.

He like a rock in the sea unshaken stands his ground.

As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to God.

In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.

I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.

About fifteen miles above New Orleans the river goes very slowly. It has broadened out there until it is almost a sea and the water is yellow with the mud of half a continent. Where the sun strikes it, it is golden.