Sea Quotes

The human heart is like a ship on a stormy sea driven about by winds blowing from all four corners of heaven.

Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.

The Baltic Sea is becoming more and more polluted. Not everybody living near the shore of the Baltic Sea is protecting it. It is the water of life for countries like Finland and Sweden.

I still don't understand what a sea god would be doing in Atlanta." Leo snorted. "What's a wine god doing in Kansas? Gods are weird.

God buries our sins in the depths of the sea and then puts up a sign that reads, "No fishing."

A ship is always referred to as 'she' because it costs so much to keep one in paint and powder.

the mighty main sea is the begetter of clouds and winds and rivers.

Naples sitteth by the sea, keystone of an arch of azure.

There is no greater fan of fly fishing than the worm.

And when the day arrives I'll become the sky and I'll become the sea and the sea will come to kiss me for I am going home. Nothing can stop me now.

Humanity has understood nothing. Religious, tribal, national wars continue. The world continues to be in a sea of blood.

On land, on sea, at home abroad, I smoke my pipe and worship God.

At a certain point, you say to the woods, to the sea, to the mountains, the world, Now I am ready. Now I will stop and be wholly attentive. You empty yourself and wait, listening.

Next door to Ethiopia spreading out along the strategic Red Sea coastline is Eritrea, a relatively new country, and a place that few Americans seem to fully understand.

To me, the sea is like a person - like a child that I've known a long time. It sounds crazy, I know, but when I swim in the sea I talk to it. I never feel alone when I'm out there.

I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.

No good fish goes anywhere without a porpoise.

I suppose life is a little like that, isn't it, a message in a bottle pitched out to sea, to be carried by the winds and the tides, washing up on the beaches we could never imagine.

He who commands the sea has command of everything.

It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.

I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.

Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.

The voice of the sea is seductive, never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander in abysses of solitude.

In the sea there are countless treasures, But if you desire safety, it is on the shore.

Limitless and immortal, the waters are the beginning and end of all things on earth.

Have hung My dank and dropping weeds To the stern god of sea.

Life is an island. People come out of the sea, cross the island, and return to the sea. But this short life is long and beautiful. In getting to know nature man exalts the wonder and beauty of life.

I'm just a simple guy swimming in a sea of sharks.

I cannot live on an island of prosperity when I'm surrounded by a sea of misery.

When I open my eyes to the outer world I feel myself as a drop in the sea. But when I close my eyes and look within, I see the whole universe as a bubble raised in the ocean of my heart.

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea.

I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else.

I used to like fishing because I thought it had some larger significance. Now I like fishing because it's the one thing I can think of that probably doesn't.

Old age: The estuary that enlarges and spreads itself grandly as it pours into the Great Sea.

Ye marshes, how candid and simple and nothing-withholding and free, Ye publish yourselves to the sky and offer yourselves to the sea.

Naturally enough, I couldn't have foreseen the vast sea change which has come upon that scene as a result of German reunification and associated events.

In a calm sea every man is a pilot.

There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.

The populace is like the sea motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze.

We are not lacking in the dynamic forces needed to create the future. We live immersed in a sea of energy beyond all comprehension.

I'd missed Annabeth probably more than I wanted to admit.

Why is it that the destruction of something created by humans is called vandalism, yet the destruction of something created by God is called development?

All the ways of this world are as fickle and unstable as a sudden storm at sea.

On the other hand, if there's an underlying core of poetry that I go to, I go to the sea. I've lived on the sea all my life. I live on the sea in Cape Breton.

The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, it has its tides and in its depths it has its pearls too

The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.

If the Jewish state becomes a fact, and this is realized by the Arab peoples, they will drive the Jews who live in their midst into the sea.

Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.

I will make you brooches and toys for your delight Of bird-song at morning and star-shine at night. I will make a palace fit for you and me Of green days in forests and blue days at sea.

The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea.