At Sea Quotes

An intense copper calm, like a universal yellow lotus, was more and more unfolding its noiseless measureless leaves upon the sea.

You left me boundaries of pain Capacious as the sea, Between eternity and time, Your consciousness and me.

Hunting and gathering are in my blood. But I've lived long enough to witness a diminution in the seas, and to notice a fragility where once I saw - or assumed - an endless bounty.

I'd just like to think that there's some kind of underworld where whoever's been lost at sea is there... I dunno, there probably isn't, but I'd like to believe there is.

Break, break, break, On thy cold gray stones, oh sea! And I would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me.

The depths of the sea are only water after all.

I never dreamed the sea so deep, The earth so dark; so long my sleep, I have become another child. I wake to see the world go wild.

There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath.

Even in the vast and mysterious reaches of the sea we are brought back to the fundamental truth that nothing lives to itself.

Little islands are all large prisons: one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow.

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

She watched the gap between ship and shore grow to a huge gulf. Perhaps this was a little like dying, the departed no longer visible to the others, yet both still existed, only in different worlds.

Around you move many seas. It is impossible not to drown a little.

With earth's burgeoning human population to feed we must turn to the sea with understanding and new technology. We need to farm it as we farm the land.

Many of us ask what can I, as one person, do, but history shows us that everything good and bad starts because somebody does something or does not do something.

Turkey is a European country, an Asian country, a Middle Eastern country, Balkan country, Caucasian country, neighbor to Africa, Black Sea country, Caspian Sea, all these.

The wife's Mother said, ‘When you're dead, I'll dance in your grave.’ I said: ‘Good, I'm being buried at sea’.

The sea, washing the equator and the poles, offers its perilous aid, and the power and empire that follow it... ''Beware of me,'' it says, ''but if you can hold me, I am the key to all the lands.

We know that when we protect our oceans we're protecting our future.

The sooner we learn to be jointly responsible, the easier the sailing will be.

You are the generation that will reach the sea and hoist the flag of Palestine over Tel Aviv.

No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.

It's hard to bullshit the ocean. It's not listening, you know what I mean.

If you think life is a smooth sea, you will soon be awakened from this sweet dream by the slap of a bitter wave!

Love is fearless in the midst of the sea of fear.

Anybody can pilot a ship when the sea is calm.

It was morning, and the new sun sparkled gold across the ripples of a gentle sea.

There's fish in the sea, no doubt of it, As good as ever came out of it.

Waves are the voices of tides. Tides are life," murmured Niko. "They bring new food for shore creatures, and take ships out to sea. They are the ocean's pulse, and our own heartbeat.

Heart is a sea, language is the shore. Whatever is in a sea hits the shore.

My words are like a ship, and the sea is their meaning. Come to me and I will take you to the depths of spirit.

If the Spray discovered no continents on her voyage, it may be that there were no more continents to be discovered. She did not seek new worlds, or sail to pow-wow about the dangers of the sea.

Music was a thing of the soul — a rose-lipped shell that murmured of the eternal sea — a strange bird singing the songs of another shore.

By numberless examples it will evidently appear that human affairs are as subject to change and fluctuation as the waters of the sea agitated by the winds.

And one day we will die and our ashes will fly from the aeroplane over the sea. But for now we are young; let us lay in the sun and count every beautiful thing we can see.

These poor rich men, we anglers pity them perfectly.

I have known the silence of the stars and of the sea. And the silence of the city when it pauses, And the silence of a man and a maid, And the silence for which music alone finds the word.

Fishing is not like billiards, in which it is possible to attain a disgusting perfection.

Oh salty sea, how much of your salt Is tears from Portugal?

When smashing monuments, save the pedestals - they always come in handy.

And from that time on I bathed in the Poem Of the Sea, star-infused and churned into milk, Devouring the green azures; where, entranced in pallid flotsam, A dreaming drowned man sometimes goes down.

All wars will be settled by sea power.

The belief in a certain idea gives to the researcher the support for his work. Without this belief he would be lost in a sea of doubts and insufficiently verified proofs.

Bragging may not bring happiness, but no man having caught a large fish goes home through an alley.

I would like a man now who is rich, and who can give me a boat - a sailboat. I want to own it and let him pay for it. My first love is the sea and water, not music. Music is second.

The Navy speaks in symbols and you may suit what meaning you choose to the words.

My logic's been drowned in a sea of emotion.

The roaring seas and many a dark range of mountains lie between us.

I'm thankful for the sea breeze that feels so good right now, and the scent of jasmine when the sun starts going down.

The English, a spirited nation, claim the empire of the sea; the French, a calmer nation, claim that of the air.