Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

It is curious to note the old sea-margins of human thought! Each subsiding century reveals some new mystery; we build where monsters used to hide themselves.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

It was the schooner Hesperus, That sailed the wintry sea.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Two ways the rivers Leap down to different seas, and as they roll Grow deep and still, and their majestic presence Becomes a benefaction to the towns They visit, wandering silently among them, Like patriarchs old among their shining tents.

Henrik Ibsen

The sea possesses a power over one's moods that has the effect of a will. The sea can hypnotize. Nature in general can do so.

Henry Ward Beecher

It is not desirable that we should live as in the constant atmosphere and presence of death; that would unfit us for life; but it is well for us, now and then, to talk with death as friend talketh with friend, and to bathe in the strange seas, and to anticipate the experiences of that land to which it will lead us. These forethinkings are meant, not to make us discontented with life, but to bring us back with more strength, and a nobler purpose in living.

Henry Clay

Whether we assert our rights by sea, or attempt their maintenance by land whithersoever we turn ourselves, this phantom incessantly pursues us. Already has it had too much influence on the councils of the nation.

Helen Dunmore

i wish i was away in Ingo far across the briny sea sailing over deepest waters where neither care nore worry trouble me

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

How happy he who can still hope to lift himself from this sea of error! What we know not, that we are anxious to possess, and cannot use what we know.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Oh, happy he who still hopes he can emerge from Error's boundless sea! - Faust.

Khalil Gibran

The sea that calls all things unto her cals me, and I must embark.

Khalil Gibran

I discovered the secret of the sea in meditation upon a dewdrop.

Khalil Gibran

There must be something strangely sacred about salt. It is in our tears and in the sea.

Khalil Gibran

If I could take your troubles I would toss them into the sea, But all these things I'm finding Are impossible for me. I cannot build a mountain Or catch a rainbow fair, But let me be what I know best, A friend that is always there.

Jonathan Raban

Seattle was built out on pilings over the sea, and at high tide the whole city seemed to come afloat like a ship lifting free from a mud berth and swaying in its chains.

Norman Maclean

He told us about Christ's disciples being fisherman, and we were left to assume...that all great fishermen on the Sea of Galilee were fly fisherman and that John, the favorite, was a dry-fly fisherman.

Meir Kahane

The poor Palestinians who today kill Jews with explosives and firebombs and stones are part of the same people who when they had all the territories they now demand be given to them for their state -attempted to drive the Jewish state into the sea.

Malcolm Wallop

We are a communicating nation which needs access to space, access to the seas.

Malcolm Turnbull

Climate change is a global problem. The planet is warming because of the growing level of greenhouse gas emissions from human activity. If this trend continues, truly catastrophic consequences are likely to ensue from rising sea levels, to reduced water availability, to more heat waves and fires.

Hartley Coleridge

Thou breeze, That mak'st an organ of the mighty sea, Obedient to thy wilful phantasies, Provoke him not to scorn; but soft and low, As pious maid awakes her aged sire, On tiptoe stealing, whisper in his ear The tidings of the young god's victory.

Joan D. Vinge

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.

Jimi Hendrix

Drifting, On a sea of forgotten teardrops, On a lifeboat, Sailing for Your love

Heidi Klum

I like to wear things for longer than one season.

John McPhee

Catch and release fishing may be cruelty masquerading as political correctness

Rafael Nadal

I like fishing. Not actual fishing - I like the peace and quiet of being at sea. It's different.

Michael W. Smith

This Is Your Time, This Is Your Dance. Live Every Moment, Leave Nothing To Chance. Swim In The Sea. Drink Of The Deep, Embrace The Mystery Of All You Could Be. What if Tomorrow? And What If Today? Faced With The Question, Oh What Would You Say?

Sidney Lanier

Music is love searching for a word.

John Hench

I helped develop Disney's) special effects department at that time, which helped very much when we worked on "20000 Leagues under the Sea"

John Entwistle

I deep sea fish a lot.

I love the sea's sounds and the way it reflects the sky. The colours that shimmer across its surface are unbelievable. This, combined with the colour of the water over white sand, surprises me every time.

The most amazing thing to me about the sea is the tide. A harbour like St. Ives is totally transformed in a very short space of time by the arrival or departure of the sea.

Frank Yerby

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.

Frank Gaffney

Dozens of nations have agreed to join in monitoring and, if necessary, intercepting and boarding ships on the high seas in the event they are suspected of engaging in one or both of these threatening activities.

Frank Gaffney

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