Sea Quotes

I grew up in Newquay, on the Atlantic coast and there developed a love of the sea and boats.

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

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

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.

I've never been hurt by a sea creature, except for jellyfish and sea urchins.

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.

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.

We tried burying the waste at sea and the concrete cannisters that held it cracked open.

We lived within two hundred yards of the sea, and its voice was in our ears night and day.

We need to take command of the solar system to gain that wealth, and to escape the sea of paper our government is becoming, and for some decent chance of stopping a Dinosaur Killer asteroid.

All rivers, even the most dazzling, those that catch the sun in their course, all rivers go down to the ocean and drown. And life awaits man as the sea awaits the river.

Is this chicken, what I have, or is this fish? I know it's tuna, but it says 'Chicken of the Sea.'

Fifty percent of our country that we own, have all legal jurisdiction, have all rights to do whatever we want, lies beneath the sea and we have better maps of Mars than that 50 percent.

Thankfully, due to the United Kingdom and the commitment of the Westminster government we are able to ensure that money brought in, whether it be from the City of London or from North Sea oil, can be pooled and directed to wherever it is needed most. That is what being in the United Kingdom is all about.

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.