Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edward Forbes

The naturalists of our own time hold equal faith in the wonders of the sea, but seek therein rather for the links of nature's chain than for apparent exceptions.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The little cares that fretted me, I lost them yesterday Among the fields above the sea, Among the winds at play.

William Shakespeare

When faced with a sea of troubles, take action, and in so doing end it.

William Shakespeare

Ornament is but the guiled shore to a most dangerous sea.

William Shakespeare

England, bound in with the triumphant sea, Whose rocky shore beats back the envious siege Of watery Neptune.

We were always taking a back seat to him.

Charlie Cook

Until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore, you will not know the terror of being forever lost at sea.

Charles Dudley Warner

It is well known that no person who regards his reputation will ever kill a trout with anything but a fly. It requires some training on the part of the trout to take to this method. The uncultivated, unsophisticated trout in unfrequented waters prefers the bait; and the rural people, whose sole object in going a-fishing appears to be to catch fish, indulge them in their primitive taste for the worm. No sportsman however, will use anything but the fly, except when he happens to be alone.

Charles Dickens

I would like to be going all over the kingdom...and acting everywhere. There's nothing in the world equal to seeing the house rise at you, one sea of delightful faces, one hurrah of applause!

Charles Spurgeon

That which,like a sea, threatens to drown you- shall be a highway for your escape

Charles Spurgeon

Do not wade far out into the dangerous sea of this world's comfort. Take the good that God provides you, but say of it, "It passeth away;" for, indeed, it is but a temporary supply for a temporary need. Never suffer your goods to become your God.

Alan Watts

You are something that the whole world is doing just as when the sea has waves on it.

Al Pacino

One of the things that made me want to be an actor more than ever was seeing a Chekhov play, "The Sea Gull," when was 14 in the Bronx.

David Allan Coe

The Beatles were just the beginning of everything music could be, just like the Stones I was Rolling along like a ship lost out on the sea.

Dave Barry

But if I hadn't shoved you off the boat back there,you'd be lost at sea now,wouldn't you? We'd all be lost! So thanks to me you're all standing on land." (Pirates, its a good thing they're idiots)

Dave Barry

Fishing is boring, unless you catch an actual fish, and then it is disgusting.

David Suzuki

Canada, more than any nation, will be affected by rising sea levels from global warming.

David R. Brower

We need the sea. We need a place to stand and touch and listen - to feel the pusle of the world as the surf rolls in.

Carl Sagan

Sailors on a becalmed sea, we sense the stirring of a breeze.

Bryan Procter

I never was on the dull, tame shore, But I loved the great sea more and more.

Bryan Procter

I 'm on the sea! I 'm on the sea! I am where I would ever be, With the blue above and the blue below, And silence wheresoever I go.

Success soon palls. The joyous time is when the breeze first strikes your sails, and the waters rustle under your bows.

Charles Bradlaugh

Probably they had good reason for omitting it. A profane mind might make a jest of an apostle half seas over, and ridicule an apostolic gate-keeper who couldn't keep his head above water.

Charlaine Harris

Most humans were on one big island, to the fairies, and that island was adrift on a sea called I Totally Don’t Care.

William Shakespeare

'Twas merry when You wagered on your angling, when your diver Did hang a salt fish on his hook, which he With fervency drew up.

Bill Maher

You know what happens when windmills collapse into the sea? A splash.

Bob Marley

Let righteousness cover the earth like the water cover the sea!

Cecilia Bartoli

I still love to walk in the mountains or be on the sea. I like to be in nature. Sometimes I bicycle. It's important to feel good with your body. The body is extremely important. If you feel good, you have more energy in your singing.

Cat Deeley

I have the biggest hair in the world - and that's official!

Carlos Mesa

Direct access to sea is an essential part of foreign policy.

We want to search things that may be overlooked. We need to search and re-search again.

Catherynne M. Valente

He missed you like a fish in a bowl misses the open sea.

Casey Affleck

I like to just keep the land within sight. Nowadays they can tell you if there's a storm three days out. So it's not much of a concern. But I've never been a big boat person. I don't spend a lot of time at sea.