Sea Quotes

When you grow up on an island, what matters is how you stand to the sea.

Direct access to sea is an essential part of foreign policy.

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

If the infinity of the sea may call out thus, perhaps when a man is growing old, calls come to him, too, from another infinity still darker and more deeply mysterious; and the more he is wearied by life the dearer are those calls to him.

All things on earth point home in old October; sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long voice of the hounds, the lover to the love he has forsaken.

One of the many, many salutary aspects of Barack Obama's impending presidential nomination is the sea change his victory marks in the battle for the mind-set of the American foreign policy establishment.

Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.

I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.

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

I think the concept of the sea is very important.

The sea has neither meaning nor pity.

As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.

With every drop of water you drink, every breath you take, you're connected to the sea. No matter where on Earth you live.

I want to go to sea.

When you're young, you don't really know quite what you're aiming at. You're very impulsive and acting on impulse, which is very important and valuable. But you're kind of swimming in a blind sea. When you get older, you have more of a sense of direction.

Hence a ship is said to head the sea, when her course is opposed to the setting or direction of the surges.

But the revolutions and changes which are responsible for the present state of the earth are not limited to the upsetting of the ancient strata and to the ebbing of the sea after the formations of new layers.

Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.

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

The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.

The ethics of editorial judgement, however, began to go though a sea change during the late 1970s and '80s when the Carter and Reagan Administrations de-regulated the television industry.

Down below the broad, roaring waves of the sea break against the deep foundation of the rock. But high above the mountain, the sea, and the peaks of rock the eternal ornamentation blooms silently from the dark depths of the universe.

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge in vain wishes.

I wanted to be an artist. I was studying art. I wanted to be a great painter. When I went into the Navy, there wasn't much to draw at sea. So I began writing, and I began reading a lot.

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.

The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.

There is no humane slaughter requirement for wild fish caught and killed at sea, nor, in most places, for farmed fish.

From the sea came a boat with some Israeli commando soldiers who took me by the commando boat to the yacht and put me on the yacht. In the yacht I asked people, who are you. And they said we are Israelis, French and British.

The sea hath fish for every man.

The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness - has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.