At Sea Quotes

Save the stonewall to build the levees.

Mariner, do not ask whose tomb this may be, but go with good fortune: I wish you a kinder sea.

As a public official and being so highly visible, I have a responsibility to make it very clear that those people who will have cancer at one point in their lives will be able to function.

Life is as the sea, art a ship in which man conquers life's crushing formlessness, reducing it to a course, a series of swells, tides and wind currents inscribed on a chart.

Journalists are supposed to be skeptical, that's what keeps them digging rather than simply accepting the official line, whether it comes from government or corporate bureaucrats.

More needs to be done to take the fight to the enemy and secure our borders against the terrorist threat. We need more protection on land, sea and air.

My connection with the Reich Ministers was of a purely official nature and was very infrequent.

It is God that accomplishes all term to hopes, God, who overtakes the flying eagle, outpasses the dolphin in the sea; who bends under his strength the man with thoughts too high.

The health of our seas determines the future of humanity.

All men will be sailors then Until the sea shall free them

There is more evil in a drop of sin than in a sea of affliction.

Always the same. Now a spark of hope flashes up, then a sea of despair rages, and always pain; always pain, always despair, and always the same.

To cleave that sea [the Aegean] in the gentle autumnal season, murmuring the name of each islet, is to my mind the joy most apt to transport the heart of man into paradise.

The most ordinary conditions for observing sailing birds are then the wind and sea are both aft.

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

Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.

There was no violence, no speed. It moved to the rhythm of an elder dance, putting all the rituals of the world to shame. Black, silver, gold and moon-opal, night and sea, fire, earth, air and water.

War is behavior with roots in the single cell of the primeval seas. Eat whatever you touch or it will eat you.

No navigator has yet traced lines of latitude and longitude on the conjugal sea.

Many live in the ivory tower called reality; they never venture on the open sea of thought.

Sea level rise and destruction of water resources as glaciers melt alone may have horrendous human consequences.

If you would behold the spirit of death, open your heart wide unto the body of life. For life and death are one, even as the river and sea are one.

They change their sky, not their mind, who cross the sea. A busy idleness possesses us: we seek a happy life, with ships and carriages: the object of our search is present with us.

Do what we will, the Colorado will one day find an unimpeded way to the sea.

Because she deserved my tears if anyone on earth ever did. I could feel the tears within me, undiscovered, and untouched in their inland sea. Those tears had been with me always.

I grew up in Newquay, on the Atlantic coast and there developed a love of the sea and boats.

It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought.

I 'm on the sea! I 'm on the sea! I am where I would ever be, With the blue above and the blue below, And silence wheresoever I go.

There are always new places to go fishing. For any fisherman, there's always a new place, always a new horizon

We lived within two hundred yards of the sea, and its voice was in our ears night and day.

A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea. If he tries to climb out into the air as inexperienced people endeavor to do, he drowns.

All artists dream of a silence which they must enter, as some creatures return to the sea to spawn.

The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Civil War-when I really think about them they all seem about as likely as the parting of the Red Sea.

The things fishermen know about trout aren't facts but articles of faith.

Everything can be found at sea according to the spirit of your quest.

The true peace of God begins at any spot a thousand miles from the nearest land.

Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues

Discoveries that are anticipated are seldom the most valuable. ... It's the scientist free to pilot his vessel across hidden shoals into open seas who gives the best value.

There in the windy flood of morning Longing lifted its weight from me, Lost as a sob in the midst of cheering, Swept as a sea-bird out to sea.

The violet sea longs for the birth of gods, for to be born here is an unspeakable feast, a drumroll of commanding retinues and tritons.

O what a blessing is Sunday, interposed between the waves of worldly business like the divine path of the Israelites through the sea.

Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free, Silhouetted by the sea, circled by the circus sands

Fishing is such great fun, I have often felt, that it really ought to be done in bed

Deep in the sea are riches beyond compare, But if you seek safety, it is on the shore.

The pleased sea on a white-breasted shore-- A shore that wears on her alluring brows Rare shells, far brought, the love-gifts of the sea, That blushed a tell-tale.

A man who is not afraid of the sea will soon be drowned, for he will be going out on a day when he shouldn't.

Catch and release fishing may be cruelty masquerading as political correctness

How the waves of the sea kiss the shore!

I'm constantly searching for the truth amidst a sea of confusion and uncertainty.

And what of the dead? They lie without shoes in the stone boats. They are more like stone than the sea would be if it stopped. They refuse to be blessed, throat, eye and knucklebone.