At Sea Quotes

Talents are nurtured best in solitude, But character on life's tempestuous seas!

Seas are the fields of combat for the winds; but when they sweep along some flowery coast, their wings move mildly, and their rage is lost.

Don't think of sea as color. Make it a solid that can support a boat. Think of 'wetness' as color-texture.

When I was a child I truly loved: Unthinking love as calm and deep As the North Sea. But I have lived, And now I do not sleep.

We shot ['Sailcloth'] five days down in Cornwall, and you couldn't have asked for a more beautiful place. It was a couple of tough days at sea, but when I say tough it was still enjoyable.

The visual impact of a United States battleship springs from its ability to put Soviet ships on the bottom of the sea and to put devastating firepower ashore - nothing else.

Seas wept from our deep sorrows.

Hark! o'er the dread abyss the sea-bird screams-- The rocks resound--again the lightning gleams!

I was not allowed to take notes but my friend and I memorised those two and a half pages. Most people talked to me because of the warning. They knew this book was not going to be the official line.

They're still building and testing / But what can we do / Condemning the seas and the land and the trees to a tomb

The chief weapon of sea pirates, however, was their capacity to astonish. Nobody else could believe, until it was too late, how heartless and greedy they were.

My parents are the last of the middle class. My father worked for the government designing sea mines. My mother was a substitute teacher. Together, they worked really only until they were sixty.

No miles of level desert, no jagged mountain heights, no sea of endless blue Neither words nor tears, nor silent fears will keep me from coming back to you.

With thee all tales are sweet; each clime has charms; earth - sea alike - our world within our arms.

I've seen your stormy seas and stormy women, And pity lovers rather more than seamen.

Time is not a thing that passes ... it's a sea on which you float.

It is my view that there is no sensible military use for nuclear weapons, whether "strategic" weapons, "tactical" weapons, "theatre" weapons, weapons at sea or weapons in space.

The shore is an ancient world, for as long as there has been an earth and sea there has been this place of the meeting of land and water.

Some loves come unbidden like winds from the sea, and others grow from the seeds of friendship.

Ships are to little purpose without skillful Sea Men.

I am really dedicated to understanding the planet/creature on which we live and know that means I must go beneath the sea to see 72 percent of what is going on.

When you grow up on an island, what matters is how you stand to the sea.

An angry skipper makes an unhappy crew.

Fling me across the fabric of time and the seas of space. Make me nothing and from nothing-everything.

You have been hiding so long aimlessly drifting in the sea of my love Even so You have always been connected to me Connected, revealed in the known in the unmanifest I am life itself

Like the birds of the sea, men come from the ocean-the ocean of the soul. How could this bird, born from that sea, make his dwelling here?

Get your tickets now. Buy cable now. Get your jerseys now. Pull your boats up to the docking stations now. Bring your Sea-Doos now. If you can't afford a Sea-Doo, get a raft.

I'm from an island, so I've always been near the water. I don't think I could live somewhere far from the sea.

Do you want to change the world? Then change yourself first. Do you want to change yourself? Then remain completely silent inside the silence-sea.

When it came night, the white waves paced to and fro in the moonlight, and the wind brought the sound of the great sea's voice to the men on shore, and they felt that they could then be interpreters.

Is it the sea you hear in me? Its dissatisfactions? Or the voice of nothing, that was your madness? Love is a shadow. How you lie and cry after it.

Beached under the spumy blooms, we lie Sea-sick and fever-dry.

So I kiss him, and there is the great dark sea ahead.

The only wisdom we can hope to acquire Is the wisdom of humility: humility is endless. The houses are all gone under the sea. The dancers are all gone under the hill.

And the lost heart stiffens and rejoices in the lost lilac and the lost sea voices and the weak spirit quickens to rebel for the bent golden-rod and the lost sea smell quickens to recover.

The seas and the weathers are what is; your vessels adapt to them or sink.

This may be the very nature of love, a passion as fickle as the sea, full of certainty when the object of desire is absent, yet dubious when confronted again with the lover's presence.

And an airplane of spittle dived into the sea, there were no salivas.

We've got to maintain freedom of navigation of the seas and in the air.

I grew, a happy, healthy child in a bright world of illustrated books, clean sand, orange trees, friendly dogs, sea vistas and smiling faces.

Our shipping and sea service is our best and safest defence as being the only fortification and rampart of England.

"Chaunt in his ear delusions magical, That he may fight the horses of the sea." The Druids took them to their mystery, And chaunted for three days.

But the sea which no one tends is also a garden

On his 916th game as coach at University of Alabama - I've been here so long that when I got here the Dead Sea wasn't even sick.

When we venture in that unfamiliar sea, we trust blindly in those who guide us, believing that they know more than we do.

Like bubbles on the sea of matter borne, they rise, they break, and to that sea return.

Any person who, with all the sincerity of heart, is in search for God, on land or in the sea, is worthy of respect.

I was happy anywhere I could see the ocean.

The sea in all its vastness is its own, real world. Man is nature's sci-fi.

It’s one of the things I love about the sea, the way you can see weather afar. It’s like looking at the future.