By The Sea Quotes

Generation on generation, your neck rubbed the windowsill of the stall, smoothing the wood as the sea smooths glass.

Look what [Chinese] are doing, they're building a massive fortress against everything. A massive fortress in the South China Sea. And yet they're ripping us off.

I remember having to read 'The Old Man and the Sea,' and I didn't want to read it; I didn't want to like Ernest Hemingway. I was being a stubborn teenager.

We do not keep security establishments merely to defend property or territory or rights abroad or at sea. We keep the security forces to defend a way of life.

First, separate ground, sea and air warfare is gone forever. If ever again we should be involved in war, we will fight it in all elements, with all services, as one single concentrated effort.

Fly fishing or any other sport fishing, is an end in itself and not a game or competition among fishermen. . . .

It is easy to tell tourists from tarpon. Tarpon have a narrow, bony plate inside the mouth of their lower jaw. Tourists have both upper and lower plates.

Alas, by what rude fate Our lives, like ships at sea, an instant meet, Then part forever on their courses fleet.

Is not short paine well borne, that brings long ease,And layes the soul to sleepe in quiet grave?Sleepe after toyle, port after stormie seas,Ease after warre, death after life does greatly please.

And her voice is a string of colored beads, Or steps leading into the sea.

Any hack can safely rail away at foreign powers beyond the sea; but a good writer is a critic of the society he lives in.

Man is at the nadir of his stregth when the Earth, the seas, the mountains are not in him, for without them his soul is unsourced, and he has no images by which to abide.

Since the revelations, we have seen a massive sea change in the technological basis and makeup of the Internet.

Music or the color of the sea are easier to describe than the taste of one of these Armoricaines.

If I had my will, I would live in a ship on the sea and never come nearer to humanity than that!

How joyously the young sea-mew Lay dreaming on the waters blue, Whereon our little bark had thrown A little shade, the only one; But shadows ever man pursue.

No mortal ever has been, no mortal ever will be like the soul just launched on the sea of life.

There the poor have another advantage ... for they may defy not only death, but every loss by sea or land, for they have nothing to lose.

Even so We find the sea of sorrow. Black as night The sullen surface meets our frightened gaze, As down we sink to darkness and despair.

This overload is edging me further out to sea, I need to put some distances between overkill and me.

The inferior complex is now extended to all Europe, save Nordics.

The Spirit lurks within the Flesh Like Tides within the Sea That make the Water live, estranged What would the Either be?

There is a solitude of space. A solitude of sea. A solitude of death, but these societies shall be compared with that profounder site-that polar privacy. A soul admitted to itself--Finite infinity.

I started early, took my dog, And visited the sea; The mermaids in the basement Came out to look at me

I never saw a meme; I never saw the sea.

You have opened up the prison gates of my womanhood. And all the passion that was unsatisfied in for me so many years, leaped into a wild reckless storm boundless as the sea.

My husband was getting his sea legs-rereading Joseph Conrad with a side order of C S Forester.

The artist who pictures sounds as colours, who feels the difference in microns between one sea green and another... is not attending to what the world considers important.

She is kind and very beautiful. But she can be so cruel and it comes so suddenly and such birds that fly, dipping and hunting, with their small sad voices are made too delicately for the sea.

Before we take to the sea, we walk on land. . . Before we create, we must understand. . .

I never lost a little fish - Yes, I'm free to say. It always was the biggest fish I caught, that got away.

Your mind and you are our Sargasso Sea.

Better let it all alone in the depths of her heart and the depths of the sea.

I feel at home up in the air, just like sailors do at sea and climbers do in the mountains.

God gave the sea the danger and the abyss, but it was in it that He mirrored the sky.

Even though I found you on an ordinary day, it felt like I found a precious pearl in an oyster when I deep dived into the sea. Baby, you are really that precious to me.

I have never been So insulted in all my life I could swallow the seas To wash down all this pride First you run like a fool Just to be at my side And now you run like a fool But you just run to hide.

We sack, we ransack to the utmost sands Of native kingdoms, and of foreign lands: We travel sea and soil; we pry, and prowl, We progress, and we prog from pole to pole.

Virtues lose themselves in self-interest, as rivers in the sea.

The most desirable aspects of the Law of the Sea Treaty pertain to navigational rights.

The world is empty - all of the people and places, the earth, the seas, mountains, deserts, forests and cities, and the beings that inhabit them, are unchangeable.

Salvakalpa samadhi is like a sea of perfect light; nirvikalpa samadhi is no light, no darkness, no way to describe it. Absorption is complete, that's nirvana.

There's a wideness in God's mercy Like the wideness of the sea Oratory Hymns.

As finite creatures who think and feel, we can create islands of meaning in the sea of information.

Alas, where is there still a sea in which one could drown: thus our lament resounds – across shallow swamps.

Like the creatures of the forest and the sea, I love To lose myself for a while.

Everything that has been is eternal: the sea will wash it up again.

I think in between where you are and where you want to be is a sea of reasons why you can't get there.

By listening to certain words as a child listens to the sea in a seashell, a word dreamer hears the murmur of a world of dreams.

We say that someone occupies an official position, whereas it is the official position that occupies him.