At Sea Quotes

Cease, rude Boreas, blustering railer! List, ye landsmen all, to me; Messmates, hear a brother sailor Sing the dangers of the sea.

A married man forms married habits and becomes dependent on marriage just as a sailor becomes dependent on the sea.

Consciousness of a fact is not knowing it: if it were, the fish would know more of the sea than the geographers and the naturalists.

Life's a vast sea That does its mighty errand without fail, Painting in unchanged strength though waves are changing.

Having once embarked on your marital voyage, it is impossible not to be aware that you make no way and the sea is not within sight; that in fact, you are exploring an enclosed basin.

I would not creep along the coast but steer Out in mid-sea, by guidance of the stars.

So our lives glide on: the river ends we don't know where, and the sea begins, and then there is no more jumping ashore.

I can't bear fishing. I think people look like fools sitting watching a line hour after hour-or else throwing and throwing, and catching nothing.

There are three waies, the Vniversities, the Sea, the Court.

Being on sea saile, being on land settle. [Being on sea, sail; being on land, settle.]

He complaines wrongfully on the sea that twice suffers shipwrack.

God strikes not with both hands, for to the sea he made heavens, and to rivers foords.

To render aid to the worthless is sheer waste. Rain does not freshen the Dead Sea, but only enables it to dissolve more salt.

What is more beautiful than a sea of water with a number of white-winged boats skirting its surface? Poetry and beauty contesting with the wind and the waves!

Beauty of expression is so akin to the voice of the sea.

He felt as though he were wandering in the forests of the sea bottom, lost in a monstrous world where he himself was the monster. He was alone. The past was dead, the future was unimaginable

The sea is never weary. I must be as tireless.

Through much of the last century, America's faith in freedom and democracy was a rock in a raging sea. Now it is a seed upon the wind, taking root in many nations.

According to the University of Illinois' Arctic Climate Research Center, global sea ice levels now equal those of 1979.

I tell you naught for your comfort, Yea, naught for your desire, Save that the sky grows darker yet And the sea rises higher.

I'm not a natural ocean person. I married into a family of swimmers, and I've slowly been drawn into the sea.

When you live by the sea, there are definite seasons when you can see the weather coming and going, which lends itself to photography.

Marine scientists predict that by 2050 there will be no more large fish left in the ocean if we don't change our relationship with the sea.

Peter Watts delivers-solid, inventive hard sf about the deep sea, but as we've never seen before. This moves like the wind.

The citadel of Machaerus rose east of the Dead Sea on a basalt Peak shaped like a cone, girdled by four deep valleys; two about its sides, one in front, and the fourth behind.

For anyone who lives in the oak-and-maple area of New England, there is a perennial temptation to plunge into a purple sea of adjectives about October.

It is better to go down on the great seas which human hearts were made to sail than to rot at the wharves in ignoble anchorage.

To tell the truth, fishermen remain always boys as far as their amusement goes.

The seed must move to the soil; the tree must turn to the sun. The river must leave its source to reach the sea. And man must forget man, the maker, in order to make the world.

Who can really distinguish between the sea and what's reflected in it? Or tell the difference between the falling rain and loneliness?

There are so many ships in the animation sea that are computer driven, that I think we can have at least one that's just a log raft that we can row by hand.

The cloudlets are lazily sailing O'er the blue Atlantic sea; And mid the twilight there hovers A shadowy figure o'er me.

Machines are the opium of the masses. If all the machines in England were thrown into the North Sea tomorrow, we should be back in the Garden of Eden. And the weather would probably improve.

Young sailors once stood under a square sail, gazing wonderingly across the water to where a strange shore rose about the sea - a New World.

Life is the wave's deep whisper on the shore Of a great sea beyond.

I thought, as I have my living to get, and have not eaten today, that I might go a- fishing. That's the true industry for poets. It is the only trade I have learned.

I have never met with a friend who furnished me sea-room. I have only tacked a few times and come to anchor - not sailed - made no voyage, carried no venture.

The sea, vast and wild as it is, bears thus the waste and wrecks of human art to its remotest shore. There is no telling what it may not vomit up.

There are continents and seas in the moral world, to which every man is an isthmus or inlet, yet unexplored by him.

Far from New England's blustering shore,New England's worm her hulk shall bore,And sink her in the Indian seas,Twine, wine, and hides, and China teas.

Who hears the fishes when they cry?

Such a man has some right to fish, and I love to see nature carried out in him.

In the love of narrow souls I make many short voyages but in vain-I find no sea room-but in great souls I sail before the wind without a watch, and never reach the shore.

Novelist-Citizen of Two Countries Interpreter of his Generation on both Sides of the Sea.

It is curious to note the old sea-margins of human thought! Each subsiding century reveals some new mystery; we build where monsters used to hide themselves.

By the shore of Gitche Gumee, By the shining Big-Sea-Water, At the doorway of his wigwam, In the pleasant Summer morning, Hiawatha stood and waited.

Men who neglect Christ, and try to win heaven through moralities, are like sailors at sea in a storm, who pull, some at the bowsprit and some at the mainmast, but never touch the helm.

There's magic in the water that draws all men away form the land, that leads them over hills, down creeks and streams and rivers to the sea.

A ship is a bit of terra firma cut off from the main; it is a state in itself; and the captain is its king.

You must have plenty of sea-room to tell the truth in.