At Sea Quotes

The first wild-flower of the year is like land after sea.

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.

There is but a plank between a sailor and eternity.

We are as near to heaven by sea as by land.

But where, after all, would be the poetry of the sea were there no wild waves?

Ocean is my potion, I need vitamin sea.

No life is so happy and so pleasant as the life of the well-govern'd angler.

Whenever your preparations for the sea are poor; the sea worms its way in and finds the problems.

I had fought on behalf of man against the sea, but I realized that it had become more urgent to fight on behalf of the sea against men.

Unlike the boundaries of the sea by the shorelines, the "ocean of air" laps at the border of every state, city, town and home throughout the world.

Bad cooking is responsible for more trouble at sea than all other things put together.

God's mercy is so great that you may sooner drain the sea of its water, or deprive the sun of its light, or make space too narrow, than diminish the great mercy of God.

We must fight our way to victory on a sea of blood and a horizon of fire.

There is nothing in the world that is not mysterious, but the mystery is more evident in certain things than in others: in the sea, in the eyes of the elders, in the color yellow, and in music.

As to hanging, it is no great hardship. For were it not for that, every cowardly fellow would turn pirate and so unfit the sea, that men of courage must starve.

Space is not empty. It is full, a plenum as opposed to a vacuum, and is the ground for the existence of everything, including ourselves. The universe is not separate from this cosmic sea of energy.

Matrimony; the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented.

The deep sea is the largest museum on earth, it contains more history than all the museums on land combined, and yet we're only now penetrating it.

Fishing in rainy conditions may make fisherman seem crazy to the great mass of unimaginative people, but then few fishermen care what they think

It is never too late to go quietly to our lakes, rivers, oceans, even our small streams, and say to the sea gulls, the great blue herons, the bald eagles, the salmon, that we are sorry.

Life on this earth first emerged from the sea. As the polar ice melts and sea level rises, we humans find ourselves facing the prospect that once again we may quite literally become ocean.

If there is poetry in my book about the sea, it is not because I deliberately put it there, but because no one could write truthfully about the sea and leave out the poetry.

Into the ocean went a world more fantastic than any imagination could inspire.

Dive into the sea, or stay away

To judge a man's character by only one of its manifestations is like judging the sea by a jugful of its water.

The Divine is the sea. All religions are rivers leading to the sea. Some rivers wind a great deal. Why not go to the sea directly?

I am no longer the wave of consciousness thinking itself separated from the sea of cosmic consciousness. I am the ocean of Spirit that has become the wave of human life.

The small wisdom is like water in a glass: clear, transparent, pure. The great wisdom is like the water in the sea: dark, mysterious, impenetrable.

find light in the beautiful sea. I choose to be happy.

It's not the sea that drowns you-it's the puddle.

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

Love was like the waves in the sea, gentle and good sometimes, rough and terrible at others, but that it was endless and stronger than the sky and earth and everything in between.

Sometimes the Lord rides out the storm with us and other times He calms the restless sea around us. Most of all, He calms the storm inside us in our deepest inner soul.

A sailor's joys are as simple as a child's.

The sea of pleasures may drown its owner and the swimmer fears to open his eyes under the water.

The questions that used to bother me at times, do not weigh anything before the immensity of a wake so close to the sky and filled with the wind of the sea

Thoughts are like drops of water: with our thoughts we can drown in a sea of negativity, or we can float on the ocean of life.

The cabin of a small yacht is truly a wonderful thing; not only will it shelter you from a tempest, but from the other troubles in life, it is a safe retreat.

From the sea of effortlessness, let your great uncaused compassion shine forth.

Like two rivers flow to the sea, someday we'll reunite for all eternity.

The light that never was, on sea or land; The consecration, and the Poet's dream.

The blues is a mighty long road. Or it could be a river, one that twists and turns and flows into a sea of limitless musical potential.

I want my house open to sun and wind and the voice of the sea, like a Greek temple, and light, light, light everywhere!

The sea is the sweat of the earth.

It's hard to tell the difference between sea and sky, between voyager and sea. Between reality and the workings of the heart.

Mary means Star of the sea, for as mariners are guided to port by the ocean star, so Christians attain to glory through Mary's maternal intercession.

The flavour of a fish which comes out of the sea at Acre is not similar to the flavour of a fish which comes out of the sea in Spain.

Our present control of the sea is so absolute that it is sometimes taken for granted.

Tell me how many songs that I must sing before I can see you in your glory, hear your whole entire story, bathe inside your golden, golden sea?

The closer I move To death, one man through his sundered hulks, The louder the sun blooms And the tusked, ramshackling sea exults.