At Sea Quotes

Duty is the great business of a sea officer; all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be.

There is no new wave, only the sea.

Ideals are like the stars: we never reach them, but like the mariners of the sea, we chart our course by them.

God has cast our confessed sins into the depths of the sea, and He's even put a 'No Fishing' sign over the spot.

It would be better to drown these prisoners in the Dead Sea if possible, since that's the lowest point in the world.

When you do dance, I wish you a wave o' the sea, that you might ever do nothing but that.

They say fish should swim thrice * * * first it should swim in the sea (do you mind me?) then it should swim in butter, and at last, sirrah, it should swim in good claret.

Good evening, Mr. and Mrs. America from border to border and coast to coast and all the ships at sea. Let's go to press.

In still moments by the sea life seems large-drawn and simple. It is there we can see into ourselves.

Often extinctions in the ocean occur at the same time as those on land. Then again, the ice age extinctions lost many big animals, but not many sea faring ones.

It's an odd fact of life that whichever side of the stream you're on, two-thirds of the best water is out of reach on the other side.

There it is, the sea, the most incomprehensible of non-human existences.

We never gave up. We didn't get lost in a sea of despair. We kept the faith. We kept pushing and pulling. We kept marching. And we made some progress.

Really, what [sea] ice does is it acts like a garden. … Losing that ice is like losing the soil in a garden.

Love not too well the work of thy hands and the devices of thy heart; and remember that the true hope of the Noldor lieth in the West, and cometh from the Sea.

Seamen three! what men be ye? Gotham's three Wise Men we be. Whither in your bowl so free? To rake the moon from out the sea. The bowl goes trim. The moon doth shine, And our ballast is old wine.

The seas need their own Kyoto Protocol.

If Russia shuts off central Asia and the Caspian Sea from Europe, the European allies of the United States will be totally dependent on Russian gas and energy.

You can't cross a sea by merely staring into the water.

It's out there at sea that you are really yourself.

Let there be light! Said Liberty , And like sunrise from the sea, Athens arose!

What are heavy? sea-sand and sorrow. What are brief? today and tomorrow. What are frail? spring blossoms and youth. What are deep? the ocean and truth.

The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides.

In ten years [i.e., 1980] all important animal life in the sea will be extinct. Large areas of coastline will have to be evacuated because of the stench of dead fish.

Throwing a line out to sea To see if I can catch a dream

How simple and frugal a thing is happiness.

There is nowhere else I'd rather be, nothing else I would prefer to be doing. I am at the beach looking west with the continent behind me as the sun tracks down to the sea. I have my bearings.

If you want to go anywhere in modern war, in the air, on the sea, on the land, you must have command of the air.

Those who live by the sea can hardly form a single thought of which the sea would not be part.

Our tradition is that of the first man who sneaked away to the creek when the tribe did not really need fish.

Most fishermen use the double haul to throw their casting mistakes further.

There is little man has made that approaches anything in nature, but a sailing ship does. There is not much man has made that calls to all the best in him, but a sailing ship does.

The only way to get a good crew is to marry one.

The fishing was good; it was the catching that was bad.

Nothing that happens on the surface of the sea can alter the calm of its depths

...to slip beneath the surface and soar along the silent bottom of the sea agile and shining in water honeycombed with light.

There is only one river. There is only one sea. And it flows through you, and it flows through me. There is only one people. We are one and the same. We are all one spirit. We are all one name.

To die for the racists is lighter than a feather, but to die for the people is heavier than any mountain and deeper than any sea.

The red washing down the bathtub can’t change the color of the sea at all.

I need the sea because it teaches me

I do not know beneath what sky nor on what seas shall be thy fate; I only know it shall be high, I only know it shall be great.

Calling fishing a hobby is like calling brain surgery a job.

In Sea affairs, nothing is impossible, and nothing is improbable.

Blue suggests the sea and sky, and they, after all, are in actual, visible nature what is most abstract.

When peace like a river, attendeth my way / When sorrow like sea billows roll / Whatever my lot, Thou hast taught me to say / It is well, it is well, with my soul.

Most fishermen swiftly learn that it's a pretty good rule never to show a favorite spot to any fisherman you wouldn't trust with your wife.

The beach is in our blood. Everyone in our family returns to the beach instinctively, just like the sea turtles.

The sea hath fish for every man.

What attracts me are free and sensual curves. The curves we find in mountains, in the waves of the sea, in the body of the woman we love.

Ocean is my potion, I need vitamin sea.