By The Sea Quotes

Kill all the men you have slept with. Put the bones in a box and send it into the sea with flowers.

Where the statue stood Of Newton, with his prism and silent face, The marble index of a mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of thought alone.

The edge of the sea is a strange and beautiful place.

Why did they make birds so delicate and fine as those sea swallows when the ocean can be so cruel?

You cannot lose what you never had.

If all the theories were correct, there wouldn't be a fish left in all of our lakes and rivers and streams.

Serene, I fold my hands and wait, Nor care for wind, nor tide, nor sea; I rave no more 'gainst time or fate, For lo! my own shall come to me.

Our view of reality is like a chart of the sea - the truer it is, the less likely we will become lost.

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

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.

... an ugly, lovely town ... crawling, sprawling ... by the side of a long and splendid curving shore. This sea-town was my world.

A life without fighting is a dead sea in the universal organism.

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

Fish and visitors stink in three days.

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

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

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

The storm came. Lives were washed away. Ancient pains resurfaced. Now it is time for a sea of change.

A trout is a moment of beauty known only to those who seek it.

The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper; I cannot quite make it out.

The sea hates a coward.

Green how I love you green. Green wind. Green boughs. The ship on the sea And the horse on the mountain.

The rain is falling all around, It falls on field and tree, It rains on the umbrellas here, And on the ships at sea. - Rain

I once knew a writer who, after saying beautiful things about the sea, passed through a Pacific hurricane, and he became a changed man.

O wise man! Give your wealth only to the worthy and never to others. The water of the sea received by the clouds is always sweet.

I also know there are timeless waters, endless seas, and lots of people in this world whose names don't matter to anyone but themselves. I look up at the sky and I see you there.

I would have written you, myself, if I could put down in words everything I want to say to you. A sea of ink would not be enough.' 'But you built me dreams instead.

Throughout the ages, stories with certain basic themes have recurred over and over, in widely disparate cultures; emerging like the goddess Venus from the sea of our unconscious.

First, a poem must be magical, then musical as a sea-gull and it must hold fire as well.

I don't really know how to tie a fly until I've tied a hundred dozen of them.

The sea is the universal sewer.

My love, i would like even more; to be an ocean if you are the wave; to be a wave, if you are the ocean.

So with this Earthly Paradise it is, If ye will read aright, and pardon me, Who strive to build a shadowy isle of bliss Midmost the beating of the steely sea.

I deep sea fish a lot.

There's nothing in the sea this fish would fear. Other fish run from bigger things. That's their instinct. But this fish doesn't run from anything. He doesn't fear.

Rumor, once started, rushes on like a river, until it mingles with, and is lost in the sea.

Mankind owns four things that are no good at sea: rudder, anchor, oars and the fear of going down.

You are the gull, Jo, strong and wild, fond of the storm and the wind, flying far out to sea, and happy all alone.

The nightingales are sobbing in The orchards of our mothers, And hearts that we broke long ago Have long been breaking others; Tears are round, the sea is deep: Roll them overboard and sleep.

The sea has now changed from its natural, to river coloured water, the probable consequence of some streams falling into the bay, or into the ocean to the north of it, through the low land.

The Bible is God's chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show you where the harbor is, and how to reach it without running on rocks or bars.

Whoever commands the sea, commands the trade; whosoever commands the trade of the world commands the riches of the world, and consequently the world itself.

Fly tackle has improved considerably since 1676, when Charles Cotton advised anglers to 'fish fine and far off,' but no one has ever improved on that statement.

The sea does not contain all the pearls, the earth does not enclose all the treasures, and the flint-stone does not inclose all the diamonds, since the head of man encloses wisdom.

The wave is ignorant of the true nature of the sea: how can the temporal comprehend the eternal?

To the seeker after pearls, silence is a speaking argument, for no breath comes forth from the diver of the sea.

The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea.

The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Have you been following the big oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico? Or as we call it now, the Dead Sea.

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.