Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tide flowing is feared, for many a thing, Great danger to such as be sick, it doth bring; Sea ebb, by long ebbing, some respite doth give, And sendeth good comfort, to such as shall live.

Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Life is as inexorable as the sea.

Red Buttons

Moses, who said when the Red Sea parted, What the hell was that? I was just going in for a dip! Never got a dinner!

Robert Bridges

Whither, O splendid ship, thy white sails crowding,Leaning across the bosom of the urgent West,That fearest nor sea rising, nor sky clouding,Whither away, fair rover, and what thy quest?

Sylvia Plath

I am but one more drop in the great sea of matter, defined, with the ability to realize my existence.

Rumi

Silence is the sea, and speech is like the river. The sea is seeking you: don't seek the river. Don't turn your head away from the signs offered by the sea.

Rumi

Don't sit and wait. Get out there, feel life. Touch the sun, and immerse in the sea.

Rumi

My words are like a ship, and the sea is their meaning. Come to me and I will take you to the depths of spirit.

Thomas Carlyle

Debt is a bottomless sea.

Thomas Carlyle

A very sea of thought; neither calm nor clear, if you will, yet wherein the toughest pearl-diver may dive to his utmost depth, and return not only with sea-wreck but with true orients.

Steven Morrissey

I don't perform. Seals perform.

Steven Brust

There are millions of ways for people to die, if you number each vital organ, each ways it can fail, all the poisons from the earth and the sea which can cause these failures.

Steven Chu

Let me state what the official IPCC prediction is: Sea levels could go up as much as three-quarters of a meter in this century, but there is a reasonable probability it could be much higher than that.

Stu Jackson

The message here is you cannot, under any circumstances, throw an object at an official. You just cannot do it.

Stevie Nicks

Drownin', in the sea of love Where everyone would love to drown. Stevie Nicks "Sara

Robert Burns

The lightly-jumping, glowrin' trouts, That thro' my waters play...

Robert Browning

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

Robert Browning

From the sprinkled isles, Lily on lily, that o'erlace the sea.

Robbie Keane

A Rod: An attractively painted length of fiberglass that keeps an angler from ever getting too close to a fish.

Richard Serra

On the other hand, if there's an underlying core of poetry that I go to, I go to the sea. I've lived on the sea all my life. I live on the sea in Cape Breton.

Sylvia Earle

It's mainly the high-end luxury market now that drives much of the fishing in the sea. It's not feeding the starving millions. It's feeding a luxury market.

Sylvia Earle

I've had the joy of spending thousands of hours under the sea. I wish I could take people along to see what I see, and to know what I know.

Sylvia Earle

When I first ventured into the Gulf of Mexico in the 1950s, the sea appeared to be a blue infinity too large, too wild to be harmed by anything that people could do.

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.

Thomas Aquinas

Do not wish to jump immediately from the streams to the sea, because one has to go through easier things to the more difficult.

Thom Yorke

The problem is, I cannot meditate. That's the one thing I can't do. That's the thing that's driving me nuts. I have a house by the sea, and I can sit and listen to the sound of the sea and eventually . . . but I can't really do it.