At Sea Quotes
A lot of Pacific island nations are sinking below sea level; they could easily transition slowly into becoming floating nations.
Two voices are there; one is of the sea, One of the mountains: each a mighty Voice.
Black are the brooding clouds and troubled the deep waters, when the Sea of Thought, first heaving from a calm, gives up its Dead
I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.
Some people say there are plenty of fish in the sea - until you find love - then there is only one.
Writers dream of sentences that sail through the waters of thought. We try to control their shape and size, and we struggle to let them glide, rather than thrash at sea.
The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.
Don't worry over what the newspapers say. I don't. Why should anyone else? I told the truth to the newspaper correspondents - but when you tell the truth to them they are at sea.
Objects which are usually the motives of our travels by land and by sea are often overlooked and neglected if they lie under our eye.
I do fish. I think there is a connection between thinking and fishing mostly because you spend a lot of time up to your waist in water without a whole lot to keep your mind busy.
I break up through the skin of awareness a thousand times a day, as dolphins burst through seas, and dive again, and rise, and dive.
In 10 years, I’d love to live near the sea, in a warmer climate. I could see myself with three dogs…and it’d be great to share them with someone else.
Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precisely what he is seeking.
Once upon a time we were all born, popped out like jelly rolls forgetting our fishdom, the pleasuring seas, the country of comfort, spanked into the oxygens of death.
To me there is something completely and satisfyingly restful in that stretch of sea and sand, sea and sand and sky - complete peace, complete fulfillment.
To have that powder blown up your nose is rather like being shot out of a rifle barrel lined with Baroque paintings and landing on a sea of electricity.
In Europe men and women have intercourse because they love each other. In the South Seas they love each other because they have had intercourse. Who is right?
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.
And ne'er shall the sons of Columbia be slaves, while the earth bears a plant, or the sea rolls its waves.
Always the edge of the sea remains an elusive and indefinable boundary. The shore has a dual nature, changing with the swing of the tides, belonging now to the land, now to the sea.
Virtue could see to do what Virtue would by her own radiant light, though sun and moon where in the flat sea sunk.
A Wired reader told me once, Get a life, which I read from the back of a yacht in the Aegean, while eating fresh sea urchins and drinking terrific Montrachet.
She had the perpetual sense, as she watched the taxi cabs, of being out, out, far out to sea and alone; she always had the feeling that it was very, very, dangerous to live even one day.
To run over better waters the little vessel of my genius now hoists her sails, as she leaves behind her a sea so cruel.
What is American strategy first of all? So American strategy is to command the seas, right? The foundation of our power is sea control. Nobody can invade us, but we can invade them.
We know what the surface of the moon is better than we know what the surface of the sea floor is.
Only those become weary of angling who bring nothing to it but the idea of catching fish.
To Meath of the pastures, From wet hills by the sea, Through Leitrim and Longford, Go my cattle and me.
Terrible is the force of the waves of sea, terrible is the rush of the river and the blasts of hot fire, and terrible are a thousand other things; but none is such a terrible evil as woman.
O abyss! O eternal Godhead! O deep sea! What more could you have given me than the gift of your very self?
There will be no end to angling controversies for there is no one best way for everyone to fish.
There are times when salmon play no part in the proceedings of a day that is obstensibly spent in their pursuit.
In the sea of grief, there were islands of grace, moments in time when one could remember what was left rather than all that had been lost.
The oxygen cycle, the nitrogen cycle, the carbon cycle, the water cycle - all of these are linked to the existence of life in the sea.