At Sea Quotes

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.

Remember, Lord, my ship is small and thy sea is so wide!

An ancient adage warns, "Never go to sea with two chronometers; take one or three."

Global warming experts are saying that sea levels could rise 20 feet. Apparently their strategy for surviving this is to stand on top of a pile of government research grant money.

I love fishing. You put that line in the water and you don't know what's on the other end. Your imagination is under there.

The strength of that heretic [Calvin] consisted in this, that money never had the slightest charm for him. If I had such servants my dominion would extend from sea to sea.

Fish," he said, "I love you and respect you very much. But I will kill you dead before this day ends.

I have no doubts that the Devil grins, As seas of ink I spatter. Ye gods, forgive my “literary” sins – The other kind don’t matter.

I'm bangin' from Belize to Tel Aviv on the Red Sea Racin' Saddam Hussein on Kawasaki jet ski's

But beauty is set apart, beauty is cast by the sea, a barren rock, beauty is set about with wrecks of ships.

Chains tie us down by land and sea; And wishes, vain as mine, may be All that is left to comfort thee.

Is the sea drying up? It is going up into mist and coming down on us in this water spout, the rain. It raineth every day, and the weather represents our tearful despair on a large scale.

The work to me is everything, and I would throw every rule overboard and send them to the bottom of the sea tomorrow, if I felt there were a more excellent way.

I throw a kiss across the sea, I drink the winds as drinking wine, And dream they all are blown from thee, I catch the whisper'd kiss of thine.

Nature . . . has buried truth deep in the bottom of the sea.

Earth's sweat, the sea.

The bottom of the soul may be in repose, even while we are in many outward troubles; just as the bottom of the sea is calm, while the surface is strongly agitated.

No matter how wild the winds or rough the seas of life, libraries stand ready, beaming their reliable lights, guiding us toward knowledge, pleasure, consolation, wisdom, and hope.

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

Beginnings are apt to be shadowy and so it is the beginnings of the great mother life, the sea.

Moses lifting up his wand, and dividing the Red Sea, and Pharaoh in his chariot overwhelmed with the waters. This motto: "Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God."

Religion is, as it were, the calm bottom of the sea at its deepest point, which remains calm however high the waves on the surface may be.

Governments are the sails, the people the wind, the country is the ship and time is the sea.

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

For it's home, dearie, home--it's home I want to be. Our topsails are hoisted, and we'll away to sea. O, the oak and the ash and the bonnie birken tree They're all growing green in the old countrie.

I think music is a big, big wide world, and I am voyager on this particular ship in this sea of wild music, and I'm gonna dive in and find as many fish as I can and catch them all. I love music.

I have always had, as I know many people have, a singular passion for Australia. I do love the sunburnt country, its ancient landscapes, its exhilarating reaches of sand and sea.

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

Sharks are the criminals of the sea. Dolphins are the outlaws.

If we love the sea as much as we claim to we'll do everything we possibly can to keep it healthy. Otherwise we might as well take up golf.

Strictly speaking, the land does not exist; it is merely dehydrated sea.

wert thou as far As that vast shore washed with the farthest sea, I would adventure for such merchandise.

Don't fear to pledge. By winds the perjuries of love Are blown, null and void, across the land and farthest seas.

That sinuous southern life, that oblique and slow and complicated old beauty, that warm thick air and blood warm sea, that place of mists and languor and fragrant richness.

The sea is selective, slow at recognition of effort and aptitude but fast in sinking the unfit.

If the earth should cease to attract its waters to itself all the waters of the sea would be raised and would flow to the body of the moon.

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

The sea does not like to be restrained.

The river knows the way to the sea: Without a pilot it runs and falls, Blessing all lands with its charity.

Only the strongest players can swim in the shark-infested waters of the Masters' Seas.

I was born in the breezes, and I had studied the sea as perhaps few men have studied it, neglecting all else.

The deep sea can be fathomed, but who knows the heart of a woman?

He who ruleth the raging of the sea, knows also how to check the designs of the ungodly. I submit myself with reverence to His Holy Will. O Abner, I fear my God, and I fear none but Him.

The mob is easily led and may be moved by the smallest force, so that its agitations have a wonderful resemblance to those of the sea.

Managers think of themselves as captains of a ship on a stormy sea. Risk for them is danger, but they are fighting it, very controlled.

Ah, yes, the sea is still and deep, All things within its bosom sleep! A single step, and all is o'er, A plunge, a bubble, and no more.

....the sea changes color, but the sea does not change.

Underneath all civilization, ancient or modern, moved and still moves a sea of magic, superstition, and sorcery. Perhaps they will remain when the works of our reason have passed away.

The sea was angry that day my friend, like an old man trying to send back soup at a deli.

Smooth seas don't produce skillful sailors.' It's the rought waters that train us to e His disciples. He uses the turbulent times I our lives to prepare us for His purposes-if we'll let Him.