Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Wordsworth

Chains tie us down by land and sea; And wishes, vain as mine, may be All that is left to comfort thee.

William Sharp

The gray silence, the gray waves, the gray wastes of the sea.

William Gilbert

I am never, never, sick at sea. What never? No never! What never? Hardly ever.

Will Gluck

I try not to read the Internet because it's mostly just a sea of hatred.

William Ellery Channing

I laugh, for hope hath a happy place with me; If my boat sinks, 'tis to another sea.

Wilbur Smith

I love the sea as much as I love the veldt of Africa.

Whoopi Goldberg

When I forget how talented God is, I look to the sea.

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.

Vladimir Nabokov

The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.

Yann Martel

I wish I could convey the perfection of a seal slipping into water or a spider monkey swinging from point to point or a lion merely turning its head. But language founders in such seas. Better to picture it in your head if you want to feel it.