Sea Quotes

For dinner I want real sushi - not the Americanized kind. My parents are American Samoan so I don't go for any of those rolls. I'll have raw prawn or sea urchin or octopus. I love it.

There is the churning and the boiling of the sea, and the foam on top of it and that is what man is, churning and foam together.

If you pinch the sea of its liberty, though it be walls of stone or brass, it will beat them down.

Little islands are all large prisons: one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow.

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.

When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing - just sitting and looking at the sea, or watching the wind blowing the tree limbs, or waves rippling on a pond, a flickering candle or children playing in the park?

About fifteen miles above New Orleans the river goes very slowly. It has broadened out there until it is almost a sea and the water is yellow with the mud of half a continent. Where the sun strikes it, it is golden.

A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea. If he tries to climb out into the air as inexperienced people endeavor to do, he drowns.

There are more active volcanoes beneath the sea than on land by two orders of magnitude.

Since the German people, with unparalleled heroism, but also at the cost of fearful sacrifices, has waged war against half the world, it is our right and our duty to obtain safety and independence for ourselves at sea.

When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick.

All handling by IPCC of the Sea Level questions have been done in a way that cannot be accepted and that certainly not concur with modern knowledge of the mode and mechanism of sea level changes.

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.

We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.

I know my own soul, how feeble and puny it is: I know the magnitude of this ministry, and the great difficulty of the work; for more stormy billows vex the soul of the priest than the gales which disturb the sea.

O wise man! Give your wealth only to the worthy and never to others. The water of the sea received by the clouds is always sweet.

Many corpses will be floating in the sea.

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

Civilization grew in the beginning from the minute that we had communication - particularly communication by sea that enabled people to get inspiration and ideas from each other and to exchange basic raw materials.

Though the terror of the sea gives to none security, in the secret of the shell. Self preserving we may dwell.

Beautiful isle of the sea, Smile on the brow of the waters.

If you want to go anywhere in modern war, in the air, on the sea, on the land, you must have command of the air.

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

The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.

A long sea implies an uniform and steady motion of long and extensive waves; on the contrary, a short sea is when they run irregularly, broken, and interrupted; so as frequently to burst over a vessel's side or quarter.

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.

In every island of the Aegean Sea are found abundant traces of a vast prehistoric empire.

The question of armaments, whether on land or sea, is the most immediately and intensely practical question connected with the future fortunes of nations and of mankind.

It must be remembered that the sea is a great breeder of friendship. Two men who have known each other for twenty years find that twenty days at sea bring them nearer than ever they were before, or else estrange them.

Just under the surface I shall be, all together at first, then separate and drift, through all the earth and perhaps in the end through a cliff into the sea, something of me. A ton of worms in an acre, that is a wonderful thought, a ton of worms, I believe it.