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Quotes About Sea

His calm and gentle tone was like an anchor in a ferocious sea, keeping me from drifting into a current of heartache.
~ Unknown
Was bounded by the sea alone. Their holy works have won them praise
~ V?lm?ki
his conceived. Who else across the sea can spring, Save Váyu896and the Feathered King?897 Who, pass the portals strong and high Which Nágas,898Gods, and fiends defy, Where Ráva?'s hosts their station keep,— And come uninjured o'er the deep?
~ V?lm?ki
Raghu's race. Well has he planned and bravely fought, And with due care my lady sought. But of the sea I sadly think
~ V?lm?ki
with ever new delight The nectar-sea of deeds by Ráma done. Hail, arch-ascetic, pious
~ V?lm?ki
A bridge was thrown by Nala o'er The narrow sea from shore to shore.39 They crossed to Lanká's golden town, Where Ráma's hand smote
~ V?lm?ki
Il mare sarebbe Dio? - No, ma è lo specchio in cui Dio si riflette. Guai a chi infrange il suo ordine e altera il ritratto dell'Onnipotente, composto dalle onde quando sono calme e si succedono regolari. Non può risultarne che una tempesta, attraverso la quale Satana troverà il suo varco.
~ Unknown
The thoughts you think on land, the old man said, are different from what you think with the sea. In the sea you learn to think with the water, the fish. That's why people who make decisions on land, separated from the world by glass and concrete, air-conditioning and software, have such terrible ideas for the world.
~ Unknown
Intanto, allontanandosi da Napoli, guardandola un'ultima volta dal finestrino del treno, fece questa riflessione: "Se non venivo qui a fare il soldato, chissà il mare quando l'avrei conosciuto". E fu, senza ch'egli se lo dicesse, un modo di consolarsi e di pensare che dopotutto, anche dall'esperienza più negativa e più vieta, qualcosa si riesce sempre a salvare.
~ Unknown
At the Docks' altitude, gravity was still about three-quarters of a gee. Air fountains hung a breathable atmosphere over the middle part of the platform. The day before, she had taken a sailboat across the clear-bottomed sea. That was a strange experience indeed: planetary clouds below your keel, stars and indigo sky above.
~ Vernor Vinge
Este es el mar El mar con sus olas propias Con sus propios sentidos El mar tratando de romper sus cadenas Queriendo imitar la eternidad Queriendo ser pulmón o neblina de pájaros en pena O el jardín de los astros que pesan en el cielo Sobre las tinieblas que arrastramos O que acaso nos arrastran Cuando vuelan de repente todas las palomas de la luna Y se hace más oscuro que las encrucijadas de la muerte
~ Vicente Huidobro
The fortified watchtower overlooking the Eastern Sea was officially called Ferrigan's Tower for the engineer who'd built it, but to the miserable soldiers stationed there, the post was known as the Snow Devil's Asshole.
~ Unknown
Beauty of expression is so akin to the voice of the sea.
~ George Matthew Adams
She ought to go down to the beach. It was Thursday, early closing, and it seemed ungrateful to live so close to the sea and never look at it for weeks on end.
~ Penelope Fitzgerald
Glass is material sea.
~ Peter Ackroyd
the first sea battle in English history took place off Sandwich, in Kent, when the invaders were rebuffed.
~ Peter Ackroyd
The Danube, first recorded as the Danuvius, was named after the Celtic goddess Danu, whose name means "divine waters". The Rhône, first recorded as Rhodanus, also incorporates the name of the goddess prefixed by the Celtic ro, or "great". The Rhine, originally recorded as Rhenus, is a Celtic word for "sea way".
~ Unknown
The sun, coming hard around the world: the island rises from the sea, sinks, rises, holds.
~ Peter Matthiessen
The sea defines us, connects us, separates us. Most of us experience only its edges, our available wilderness on a crowded island – it's why we call our coastal towns 'resorts', despite their air of decay.
~ Philip Hoare
As they climbed, she could see the glitter of the moon on the sea far off to the left, and its silver-sepia light seemed to envelop her in a cool, skeptical wonder. The wonder was in her, and the skepticism was in the world, and the coolness was in both.
~ Philip Pullman
There ariseth a little cloud out of the sea, like a man's hand. • I KINGS •
~ Philip Pullman
The bronze-haired avenger of his father's death, already filled with the fierce light of the future, is at sea and sailing fast for Troy.
~ David Malouf
La luce della cabina si spense. A bordo, l'odore di pesce e salsedine si fece più intenso. Nel buio, scaldato dal tepore del corpo del ragazzo, diedi libero sfogo alle lacrime. La mia mente era ormai acqua limpida che scivolava via goccia a goccia, mentre a me restava solo il dolce piacere di ciò che finisce e non lascia più nulla.
~ Yasunari Kawabata
Then you must tell 'em dat love ain't somethin' lak uh grindstone dat's de same thing everywhere and do de same thing tuh everything it touch. Love is lak de sea. It's uh movin' thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets, and it's different with every shore.
~ Zora Neale Hurston