Sea Quotes

Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.

Estuaries are coastal bays, harbors, sounds and lagoons, places where rivers meet the sea.

A journey by Sea and Land, Five Hundred Miles, is not undertaken without money.

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.

I don't know if you saw the parting of the Red Sea with the chariots on the horses, I did stuff like that.

I love the sea.

Lovers of literature will look for the remains of the golden treasure in that shipwreck on the bottom of the sea of criticism.

On embarking to return we could perceive no sign of One Tree Island; and as we swept down towards the sea the leafy top of a tree seen in the clear water under the boat was the only evidence of its existence; though a few hours ago it had formed so prominent an object.

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

The ball whizzes past like a bumblebee and the Indians are in the sea.

The North Sea was supposed to run out in the 1980s. Then in the 1990s. And now production is still on-line.

I think the sea has thrown itself upon me and been answered, at least in part, and I believe I am a little changed - not essentially, but changed and transubstantiated as anyone is who has asked a question and been answered.

Here I found those who had set out before me, both by sea and land, except those who have died.

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.

Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precisely what he is seeking.

I've never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none.

I never was on the dull, tame shore, But I loved the great sea more and more.

My Cape women are generally true to type - big hearted, motherly women who love the sea. My other characters, with the exception of the Portuguese, who I occasionally mention as Cape dwellers, are obviously drawn from the city types one sees in everyday life.

Matrimony; the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented.

Nature is the glass reflecting God, as by the sea reflected is the sun, too glorious to be gazed on in his sphere.

Anybody can pilot a ship when the sea is calm.

There are millions of ways for people to die, if you number each vital organ, each ways it can fail, all the poisons from the earth and the sea which can cause these failures.

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

In a still hot morning, the tide went out and didn't come back in. This was not a spectacular event. The sea did not roll up like a scroll, like the sky in Revelations. It quietly withdrew.

He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.

I was lucky enough to see with my own eyes the recent stock-market crash, where they lost several million dollars, a rabble of dead money that went sliding off into the sea.

Niger is not an isolated island of desperation. It lies within a sea of problems across Africa - particularly the 'forgotten emergencies' in poor countries or regions with little strategic or material appeal.

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

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

No aquarium, no tank in a marine land, however spacious it may be, can begin to duplicate the conditions of the sea. And no dolphin who inhabits one of those aquariums or one of those marine lands can be considered normal.