Famous Quotes & Sayings

Walter Savage Landor

Falsehood is for a season.

Winston Churchill

The British people are good all through. You can test them as you would put a bucket into the sea and always find it salt.

Winston Churchill

I pass with relief from the tossing sea of Cause and Theory to the firm ground of Result and Fact.

Virginia Woolf

She fell into a deep pool of sticky water, which eventually closed over her head. She saw nothing and heard nothing but a faint booming sound, which was the sound of the sea rolling over her head. While all her tormentors thought that she was dead, she was not dead, but curled up at the bottom of the sea.

Woodrow Wilson

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.

Yasser Arafat

You are the generation that will reach the sea and hoist the flag of Palestine over Tel Aviv.

Rudyard Kipling

Never was isle so little, never was sea so lone, But over the scud and the palm-trees an English flag was flown.

Virginia Woolf

The word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into a sea of words and came up dripping.

Zane Grey

There was never an angler who lived but that there was a fish capable of taking the conceit out of him.

Zane Grey

Fishermen, no matter what supreme good fortune befalls them, cannot ever be absolutely satisfied. It is a fundamental weakness of intellect.

Wendell Berry

Finally from the crease of the ravine I am following, there begins to come the trickling and splashing of water. There is a great restfulness in the sounds these small streams make; they are going down as fast as they can, but their sound seem leisurely and idle, as if produced like gemstones with the greatest patience and care.

Wendell Berry

The river is of the earth and it is free. It is rigorously embanked and bound, and yet it is free. To hell with restraint, it says, I have got to be going. It will grind out its dams. It will go over or around them. They will become pieces.

Wendell Berry

Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.

Walter Raleigh

Our shipping and sea service is our best and safest defence as being the only fortification and rampart of England.

Walter Raleigh

Whoever commands the sea, commands the trade; whosoever commands the trade of the world commands the riches of the world, and consequently the world itself.

Vivienne Westwood

How impossible it is for us to imagine ourselves victims of disaster. We suffer for the poor people who were thrown into the sea from their cruise ship off the coast of Tuscany, some losing their lives. Imagine a world of accelerating natural disasters, one after the other so that nobody can help anyone else.

Virginia Woolf

But I beneath a rougher sea, And whelmed in deeper gulfs than he.

Virginia Woolf

The depths of the sea are only water after all.

Werner Herzog

at the press conference for the film he impressed everyone with his complete sincerity and innocence. he said he had come to see the sea for the first time and marveled at how clean it was. someone told him that, in fact, it wasn't. 'when the world is emptied of human beings' he said, 'it will become so again

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A single thought is that which it is from other thoughts as a wave of the sea takes its form and shape from the waves which precede and follow it.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

How well he fell asleepl Like some proud river, widening toward the sea; Calmly and grandly, silently and deep, Life joined eternity.

Samuel Beckett

Unfathomable mind, now beacon, now sea.

Samuel Beckett

There's never an end for the sea.

Salvador Dali

When I paint, the Sea Roars Others Splash about in the bath

Salman Rushdie

England in a way is lucky. It's an island, so the frontiers are given by the sea.

Joseph Chamberlain

Let it be our endeavour, let it be our task, to keep alight the torch of imperial patriotism, to hold fast the affection and the confidence of our kinsmen across the seas; so that in every vicissitude of fortune the British Empire may present an unbroken front to all her foes, and may carry on even to distant ages the glorious traditions of the British flag.

Kathleen Quinlan

I am really a sea creature. Just a mammal that lost its fins.

Ramana Maharshi

By constantly keep one's attention on the Source, the ego is dissolved in that Source like a salt-doll in the sea.

Ralph Hodgson

God loves an idle rainbow, no less than laboring seas.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Chiefly the sea-shore has been the point of departure to knowledge, as to commerce. The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Or whipping its rough surface for a trout...

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I DO not count the hours I spend In wandering by the sea; The forest is my loyal friend, Like God it useth me.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

O friend, never strike sail to a fear! Come into port greatly, or sail with God the seas.