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Quotes About Sea

Far away in the west the sun was setting and the last glow of all too fleeting day lingered lovingly on sea and strand, on the proud promontory of dear old Howth guarding as ever the waters of the bay, on the weedgrown rocks along Sandymount shore and, last but not least, on the quiet church whence there streamed forth at times upon the stillness the voice of prayer to her who is in her pure radiance a beacon ever to the stormtossed heart of man, Mary, star of the sea.
~ James Joyce
Tides, myriadislanded, within her, blood not mine, _oinopa ponton_, a winedark sea.
~ James Joyce
All the seas of the world tumbled about her heart. He was drawing her into them: he would drown her.
~ James Joyce
Luz dorada sobr el mar, sobre arena, sobre cantizales. El sol está ahí, los gráciles árboles, las casas limón.
~ James Joyce
Woodshadows floated silently by through the morning peace from the stairhead seaward where he gazed. Inshore and farther out the mirror of water whitened, spurned by lightshod hurrying feet. White breast of the dim sea. The twining stresses, two by two. A hand plucking the harpstrings, merging their twining chords.
~ James Joyce
Se på havet. Hva bryr vel det seg om krenkelser? Buck Mulligan
~ James Joyce
Posidonius O'Fluctuary!
~ James Joyce
Epi oinopa ponton.
~ James Joyce
White breast of the dim sea. The twining stresses, two by two. A hand plucking the harpstrings, merging their twining chords. Wavewhite wedded words shimmering on the dim tide.
~ James Joyce
The water, the surf, the colors on the shore. You think they make the beauty of the tropical sea, aye, lad? They do not. 'Tis the knowledge of what lurks below the surface of it, that awful-looking thing, as you call it, that carries death with every move that it makes. So it is, so it is with all beauty.
~ James M. Cain
The sea is a dangerous place for a woman," said Mr. Chadwick, nodding. "So is dry land," said Chloe.
~ James Morrow
I want to be a scientist who studies the ocean when I grow up. I would go out to sea, and scuba dive, and find new things, and National Geographic will hire me." Sure, Nudge. Probably around the time I become president.
~ James Patterson
Pirates of the Caribbean
~ James Patterson
Reading about the adventures of Poseidon and his Lightning Thief son are even better when you're on the open sea breathing in all that salty air.)
~ James Patterson
There, then," Bree said, and she hugged me tight. "Briefly lost at sea. No shipwreck. A little navigation issue. That is all.
~ James Patterson
Pet Girl's address indicated that her apartment was in the picturesque and cheapest part of the former barracks, a long walk from where we stood. And what got to me instantly was that Norma Johnson's home was within viewing distance of Sea Cliff, where she'd gone to the Burke School—and where she'd been disgraced.
~ James Patterson
The guy's got a CCI sheet so long it begins with 'Call me Ishmael.
~ James Patterson
One of the unique things is that whether we were out at sea or in the middle of the water tank, a lot of times you just couldn't leave. Especially when we were out at sea.
~ John C. Reilly
The sea does not belong to despots. Upon its surface men can still exercise unjust laws, fight, tear one another to pieces, and be carried away with terrestrial horrors. But at thirty feet below its level, their reign ceases, their influence is quenched, and their power disappears.
~ Jules Verne
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
Once did She hold the gorgeous East in fee; And was the safeguard of the West: the worth Of Venice did not fall below her birth, Venice, the eldest Child of Liberty. She was a maiden City, bright and free; No guile seduced, no force could violate; And, when She took unto herself a Mate, She must espouse the everlasting Sea.
~ Thomas F. Madden
Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.
~ Thomas Fuller
Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.
~ Thomas Fuller
They err, who seek in earth or air Similitudes for woman; Or in the sea, for nothing there Is half so good, or half so fair, Her worth is too uncommon, For us to find a simile In all the earth--the air--the sea.
~ Thomas Haynes Bayly