By The Sea Quotes

We save limited resources in terms of who we are physically screening. The approach will allow us to pay more attention to those potential terrorists.

Over-population is the 'cause of drive-by shootings' and other social ills, but the root of the problem is Christianity, which posits that people are more important than sea otters and elephants.

Our Faith must be tested. God builds no ships but what He sends to sea.

Unfathomable mind, now beacon, now sea.

I walked beside the evening sea And dreamed a dream that could not be; The waves that plunged along the shore Said only: "Dreamer, dream no more!"

There’s a magic in the distance, where the sea-line meets the sky.

Sell a country! Why not sell the air, the clouds and the great sea, as well as the earth? Did not the Great Spirit make them all for the use of his children?

We are like sailors who have to rebuild their ship on the open sea, without ever being able to dismantle it in dry-dock and reconstruct it from the best components.

Fishing should be a ceremony that reaffirms our place in the natural world and helps us resist further estrangement from our origins.

Was Daedalus really stricken with grief when Icarus fell into the sea? Or just disappointed by the design failure

What's this war in the heart of Nature? Why does Nature vie with itself? The Land contend with the Sea? Is there an avenging power in Nature? Not one power, but two?

But no matter how many fish in the sea, itd be so empty without me.

I am, Sir, a brother of the angle.

In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.

All I ask is a tall ship and a star to sail her by.

I will bring you a flower from the floor of the sea to wear in your hair.

Life originated in the sea, and about eighty percent of it is still there.

I'm a sucker for turquoise sea, white beaches and palm trees. I've been to the tropics every year since I could afford it. It's the perfect place to unwind. I can chill out, read, do a bit of yoga.

Work: a dangerous disorder affecting high public functionaries who want to go fishing.

For acting, darlings, is the world's most perilous trade. Compared with actors, steeple jacks and deep-sea divers lead snug and placid lives.

Knowledge is an island surrounded by a sea of mystery.

An undisturbed river is as perfect as we will ever know, every refractive slide of cold water a glimpse of eternity.

Lo! on a narrow neck of land, 'Twixt two unbounded seas, I stand. Secure, insensible.

Fishermen, no matter what supreme good fortune befalls them, cannot ever be absolutely satisfied. It is a fundamental weakness of intellect.

The fair breeze blew, The white foam flew, And the forrow followed free. We were the first to ever burst into the silent sea.

Ah me son, we don't be takin' nothin' from the sea. We has to sneak up on what we wants and wiggle it away

There are more active volcanoes beneath the sea than on land by two orders of magnitude.

So when I cease to be I want to go back...to the sea! Oh for the life of a sardine! That is the life for me!

It is a long baptism into the seas of humankind, my daughter. Better immersion than to live untouched.

Fly silly sea bird, no dreams can possess you, no voices can blame you for sun on your wings.

When you want to build a ship, then do not drum the men together in order to procure wood, to give instructions or to distribute the work, but teach them longing for the wide endless sea.

Your heart must become a sea of love. Your mind must become a river of detachment.

They change their skies, but not their souls who run across the sea.

There are many wild beasts on land and in the sea, but the beastliest of all is woman.

They went to sea in a sieve, they did; In a sieve they went to sea; In spite of all their friends could say.

Love is a bridge over the sea of change. Do not build a house on it.

Hope for a great sea-change timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.

When the heavens are with you, when the earth is with you, when the sea is with you, when the wind is with you. Who's going to defeat you after that? Nobody.

I think it was lucky that during most of the work on the Odyssey I lived on Homer's sea in houses that were, in one case, shaken by the impact of the Mediterranean winter storms on the rocks below.

If you were a mermaid, you said, If you were a mermaid, I was the sea.

Today the vacuum [of space] is not regarded as empty. It is a sea of dynamic energy, like the spray of foam near a turbulent waterfall.

At midnight the wind in the tress can sound like the ocean. The moonlight can make a road appear as endless as the sea.

I like a good story and I also like staring at the sea-- do I have to choose between the two?

I saw thousands of pumpkins last night come floating in on the tide, bumping up against the rocks and rolling up on the beaches; it must be Halloween in the sea

Fish and visitors stink in three days.

One of the things I wanted to introduce in The Same Sea beyond transcending the conflict, is the fact that deep down below all our secrets are the same.

A temptation arises: it is the wind. It disturbs you: it is the surging of the seas. This is the time to awaken Christ and let Him remind you of these words

Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.

Whitecaps in profusion all around me, but somehow in your eyes I found the strength to sail upon that raging sea.

Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea.