Sea Quotes

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

Let only the young come, Says the sea. Let them kiss my face And hear me. I am the last word And I t...

A scientist said once that if the ocean were as clear as the sky, if we could see everything in it, ...

The sea is full of saints. You know that? You know that: you're a big boy. The sea's full of saints ...

In the deepest places, where physical norms collapse under the crushing water, bodies still fall sof...

A mile below the lowest cloud, rock breaches water and the sea begins.It has been given many names. ...

The sea hath no king but God alone.

She noticed then that Conor was watching her.'Are you going for a swim?' he asked her.'In a while. W...

He rose and turned toward the lights of town. The tidepools bright as smelterpots among the dark roc...

For me, the sea was a great comfort, Pilar. But it made my children restless. It exists now so we ca...

The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cl...

The children had had an argument once about whether there was more grass in the world or more sand, ...

The road to Manderley lay ahead. There was no moon. The sky above our heads was inky black. But the ...

The sea, like a crinkled chart, spread to the horizon, and lapped the sharp outline of the coast, wh...

There comes a time in a man's life when he hears the call of the sea. If the man has a brain in his ...

I like a good story and I also like staring at the sea-- do I have to choose between the two?

In school I ended up writing three different papers on "The Castaway" section of Moby-Dick, the chap...

What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at...

A fragrant breeze wandered up from the quiet sea, trailed along the beach, and drifted back to the s...

I liked to sail alone. The sea was the same as a girl to me - I did not want anyone else along.

The sea answers all questions, and always in the same way; for when you read in the papers the inter...

...vicinity to the sea is desirable, because it is easier to do nothing by the sea than anywhere els...

Searching my heart for its true sorrow, This is the thing I find to be: That I am weary of words and...

For sailors who love the wind, memory is a good port of departure.

The maid that loves goes out to sea upon a shattered plank, and puts her trust in miracles for safet...

Moon and SeaYou are the moon, dear love, and I the sea:The tide of hope swells high within my breast...

The old man knew he was going far out and he left the smell of the land behind and rowed out into th...

This unlikely story begins on a sea that was a blue dream, as colorful as blue-silk stockings, and b...

The sea, he thought, had treasured it's memories deeper than the faithless land.

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

On Caladan, we ruled with sea and air power," the Duke said. "Here, we must scrabble for desert powe...

You are the sick prince of my cerise innovations and in your drowning caresses I walk the sea

To reach a port we must set sail –Sail, not tie at anchorSail, not drift.

Merciful God!" sighed the General. "We've arrived." And it was true. For there was the sea, and on t...

My model for Kirk was Horatio Hornblower from the C.S. Forester sea stories. Shatner was open-minded...

She liked the sharp salty smell of the air, and the vastness of horizons bounded only by a vault of ...

She loved the sea. She liked the sharp salty smell of the air, and the vastness of the horizons boun...

Surely the Gods did not bring me safe through fire and sea only to kill me with a flux.

Under the sea the old fish eat the young fish.

Sometimes the storm winds blow so strong a man has no choice but to furl his sails.

It must be remembered that the sea is a great breeder of friendship. Two men who have known each oth...

Doesn't it seem to you," asked Madame Bovary, "that the mind moves more freely in the presence of th...

I have an immoderate passion for water; for the sea, though so vast, so restless, so beyond one's co...

I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocati...

I do not love the sea. The look of it is disquieting. There is something in the very sound of it tha...

The moon went slowly down in loveliness; she departed into the depth of the horizon, and long veil-l...

Being all alone is like the feeling you get when you stand at the mouth of a large river on a rainy ...

The sea possesses a power over one's moods that has the effect of a will. The sea can hypnotize. Nat...

A year indoors is a journey along a paper calendar; a year in outer nature is the accomplishment of ...

The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wo...

We need the tonic of wildness...At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things...

My soul is full of longingfor the secret of the sea,and the heart of the great oceansends a thrillin...

one captain, seizing the line-knife from his broken prow, had dashed at the whale, as an Arkansas du...

whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent...

Consider the subtleness of the sea; how its most dreaded creatures glide under water, unapparent for...

But though, to landsmen in general, the native inhabitants of the seas have ever regarded with emoti...

[T]hen all collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago...

Next morning the not-yet-subsided sea rolled in long slow billows of mighty bulk, and striving in th...

The warmly cool, clear, ringing, perfumed, overflowing, redundant days, were as crystal goblets of P...

Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my s...

There is, one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to spea...

For I say there is no other thing that is worse than the sea is for breaking a man, even though he m...

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

Buonaparte has often made his boast that our fleet would be worn out by keeping the sea and that his...

Duty is the great business of a sea officer; all private considerations must give way to it, however...

It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter ...

My dreams were always small and puny. All I ever needed was a little house with a little picket fenc...

Never seen the sea! How could anyone not have seen the sea? Surely the sea must somehow belong to th...

When the ship approached the equator, I stopped going out on deck in the daytime. The sun burned lik...

The Thames Shouldered its way past Blackfriars Bridge, impatient with the ancient piers, no longer t...

It is said by the Eldar that in water there lives yet the echo of the Music of the Ainur more than i...

Is Virgin you trying to fathom me

Says O'Sullivan to me, "Mr. Fay, I'll have a word wid yeh?" "Certainly," says I; "what can I do for ...

If they will only hold their hands until the season is over, he promises them a royal carnival, when...

ah yes I know them well who was the first person in the universe before there was anybody that made ...

The sea, the snotgreen sea, the scrotumtightening sea.

I never saw quite so wretched an example of what a sea-faring life can do: but to a degree, I know i...

How flat all sounds are at the seaside, flat and yet emphatic, like the sound of gunshots heard at a...

I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him meerly seise me, and only declare...

I really don't know why it is that all of us are so committed to the sea, except I think it's becaus...

We set sail on this new sea because there is new knowledge to be gained, and new rights to be won, a...

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

I must go down to the seas again to the lonely sea and the sky And all I ask is a tall ship and a ...

Doc was collecting marine animals in the Great Tide Pool on the tip of the Peninsula. It is a fabulo...

The Pacific is my home ocean; I knew it first, grew up on its shore, collected marine animals along ...

Time is more complex near the sea than in any other place, for in addition to the circling of the su...

The Pacific is my home ocean; I knew it first, grew up on its shore, collected marine animals along ...

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

It is always with excitement that I wake up in the morning wondering what my intuition will toss up ...

Day and night, their frail and crippled ships defy the tempest.

The sea, perhaps because of its saltiness, roughens the outside but keeps sweet the kernel of its se...

The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage,...

The sea - the truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage ...

And yet I have known the sea too long to believe in its respect for decency. An elemental force is r...

And suddenly I rejoiced in the great security of the sea as compared with the unrest of the land, in...

This could have occurred nowhere but in England, where men and sea interpenetrate, so to speak—the s...

I think the novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled b...