Famous Quotes & Sayings

Louis L'Amour

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

Mark Twain

At noon I observed a bevy of nude young native women bathing in the sea, and I went and sat down on there clothes to keep them from being stolen.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

Naples sitteth by the sea, keystone of an arch of azure.

Martin Heidegger

Only a god can save us.

Nicholas Sparks

The emotions attached to them were like sand castles in the tide, slowly washing out to sea.

John Greenleaf Whittier

I hear the tread of pioneers Of nations yet to be, The first low wash of waves where soon Shall roll a human sea.

John Green

There comes a time when we realize that our parents cannot save themselves or save us, that everyone who wades through time eventually gets dragged out to sea by the undertow- that, in short, we are all going.

Patti Smith

Finally, by the sea, where God is everywhere, I gradually calmed.

Oswald Chambers

Adam was created to be the friend and companion of God, he was to have dominion over all the life in the air and earth and sea, but one thing he was not to have dominion over, and that was himself.

Michel de Montaigne

He that had never seen a river imagined the first he met to be the sea; and the greatest things that have fallen within our knowledge we conclude the extremes that nature makes of the kind.

Michael Mullen

I am convinced that America's great sea of goodwill can be, in fact, a rising tide, a tide that could lift every veteran and every family of our wounded and fallen.

Mark Twain

We all like to see people sea-sick when we are not ourselves.

Marianne Williamson

We are all part of a vast sea of love. One indivisible mind.

Gilbert Arenas

I had my house converted to the Colorado altitude, so I am always above sea level,

Francesca Lia Block

You asked me who I thought I was before. I said maybe I was a fish because I love water and you said, you thought a mermaid, maybe. If you were a mermaid, you said, if you were a mermaid, I was the sea.

Francesca Lia Block

If you were a mermaid, you said, If you were a mermaid, I was the sea.

Friedrich Nietzsche

One must be a sea, to receive a polluted stream without becoming impure.

John Owen

Without absolutes revealed from without by God Himself, we are left rudderless in a sea of conflicting ideas about manners, justice and right and wrong, issuing from a multitude of self-opinionated thinkers.

John Milton

So on this windy sea of land, the Fiend Walked up and down alone bent on his prey.

John Milton

Seas wept from our deep sorrows.

Nils-Axel Morner

The late 20th century sea level rise rate lacks any sign of acceleration. Satellite altimetry indicates virtually no changes in the last decade.

Nils-Axel Morner

All handling by IPCC of the Sea Level questions have been done in a way that cannot be accepted and that certainly not concur with modern knowledge of the mode and mechanism of sea level changes.

Mitch Albom

Miracles happen quietly every day - in an operating room, on a stormy sea, in the sudden appearance of a road side stranger. They are rarely tallied. No one keeps score.

Mike Tyson

I'm going to gut you like a fish.

Miguel de Cervantes

I have other fish to fry.

Miguel de Cervantes

To be good to the vile is to throw water into the sea.

Miguel de Cervantes

I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.

Robert Herrick

What though the sea be calm? trust to the shore, Ships have been drown'd, where late they danc'd before.

Robert Herrick

He who has suffered shipwreck, fears to sail Upon the seas, though with a gentle gale.

Rick Riordan

He offered to stop the tide for me once. He offered to build me a palace at the bottom of the sea.

Edward Burnett Tylor

The interior of Mexico consists of a mass of volcanic rocks, thrust up to a great height above the sea-level.

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.