The Sea Quotes

The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.

The idea that an individual can find God is terribly self-centered. It is like a wave thinking it can find the sea.

To me, the sea is like a person - like a child that I've known a long time. It sounds crazy, I know, but when I swim in the sea I talk to it. I never feel alone when I'm out there.

If the sun refused to shine, I'd still be loving you. If mountains crumble to the sea, there will still be you and me.

We use the coastline as much as the sea otters. And we take fish from the water, we swim in the water, surf in the water. And what's happening to the sea otter could very well be happening to a much larger picture than just the animals themselves.

I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

When you live by the sea, there are definite seasons when you can see the weather coming and going, which lends itself to photography.

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

We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.

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.

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.

My wife and I just prefer Seattle. It's a beautiful city. Great setting. You open your front door in the morning and the air smells like pine and the sea, as opposed to bus exhaust.

The sea from Dunkirk to Dover during these days of the evacuation looked like any coastal road in England on a bank holiday. It was solid with shipping.

I do not yet know why plants come out of the land or float in streams, or creep on rocks or roll from the sea. I am entranced by the mystery of them, and absorbed by their variety and kinds. Everywhere they are visible yet everywhere occult.

When the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea.

When I wrote the song, I had the sea near Bombay in mind. We stayed at a hotel by the sea, and the fishermen come up at five in the morning and they were all chanting. And we went on the beach and we got chased by a mad dog - big as a donkey.

The most desirable aspects of the Law of the Sea Treaty pertain to navigational rights.

Land is the secure ground of home, the sea is like life, the outside, the unknown.

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.

The sea heaves up, hangs loaded o'er the land, Breaks there, and buries its tumultuous strength.

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

Understand that sexuality is as wide as the sea. Understand that your morality is not law. Understand that we are you. Understand that if we decide to have sex whether safe, safer, or unsafe, it is our decision and you have no rights in our lovemaking.

All loose things seem to drift down to the sea, and so did I.

Buonaparte has often made his boast that our fleet would be worn out by keeping the sea and that his was kept in order and increasing by staying in port; but know he finds, I fancy, if Emperors hear the truth, that his fleet suffers more in a night than ours in one year.