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Quotes About Sea

Let the winds come from the sea and blow seeds about, seeds of the north, south, east, and west. Let the moths beat their wings against the windows and the fishermen cast curious glances. Let them come, let them return, let them reach.
~ Unknown
There was nothing but a lonely magnificence of sea and islands
~ Margaret Craven
Nights and days came and passed And summer and winter and the rain. And it was good to be a little Island. A part of the world and a world of its own All surrounded by the bright blue sea.
~ Unknown
For all dead loves and all remembered things. I have travelled through many seas.
~ Marguerite Young
Salt is born of the purest parents: the sun and the sea.
~ Pythagoras
They say fish should swim thrice * * * first it should swim in the sea (do you mind me?) then it should swim in butter, and at last, sirrah, it should swim in good claret.
~ Jonathan Swift
Hope for a great sea-change timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.
~ Seamus Heaney
So with this Earthly Paradise it is, If ye will read aright, and pardon me, Who strive to build a shadowy isle of bliss Midmost the beating of the steely sea.
~ William Morris
I wanted freedom, open air and adventure. I found it on the sea.
~ Alain Gerbault
America is the one that leads the effort to make sure the freedom of navigation in the South China Sea is protected.
~ John F. Kerry
Así con la playa vacía, las olas se vuelven imponentes, son ellas solas las que gobiernan el paisaje. En ese sentido me reconozco lamentablemente dócil, maleable. Veo ese mar implacable y desolado, tan orgulloso de su espuma y de su coraje, apenas mancillado por gaviotas ingenuas, casi irreales, y de inmediato me refugio en una irresponsable admiración.
~ Mario Benedetti
survivors.' The sea-spray had frozen in his and Todt's eyebrows and beards, white forests riming their faces.
~ Unknown
I entered the City of Books, dark jewels hoarded in temples and cathedrals. In this city I found buried candelabra and stories waiting to be read during nights of sea and moon. I loved the City of Books where lost gazelles wandered in search of signs.
~ Unknown
an immense sea turtle, his forehead still sharp and intelligent but his jowls and throat gone froggy
~ Unknown
In 1964, no one was watching whales for fun. Today, every orca in the Salish Sea is a star.
~ Unknown
I don't like grouper fish. Well, they're okay. They hang around star fish. Because they're grouper fish.
~ Mitch Hedberg
I was at sea the other day and loads of meat floated past. It was a bit choppy.
~ Tim Vine
How beautiful the yesterday that stood Over me like a rainbow! I am alone, The past is past. I see the future stretch All dark and barren as a rainy sea.
~ Alexander Smith
Without love, all worship is a burden, all dancing is a chore, all music is mere noise. All the rain of heaven may fall into the sea. Without love, not one drop could become a pearl.
~ Ritu Ghatourey
The next time I'm trapped in a glass box at the bottom of the sea, I'll consider it." Vai, crouched by the throne, did sigh. Mother bared her fangs. "Stop being overdramatic." Kai would have loved to, if dramatic things would stop happening to him.
~ Martha Wells
The mariner will have dominion over the atmosphere and the great deep, over the fish of the sea and the fowls of the air.
~ Mary Baker Eddy
Upon the lonely shore I lie, And gaze along its level sands. Still from the sea steals out the cry I left afar in crowded lands.
~ Unknown
If you work on a lobster boat, sneaking up behind someone and pinching him is probably a joke that gets old real fast.
~ Unknown
Gather yourself by the sea shore and I will love you there. Asemble yourself with wild things, with songs of the sparrow and seafoam. Let mad beauty collect itself in you eyes and it will shine, Calling me. For I long for a man with nests of wild things in his hair. A man who will Kiss the Flame.
~ Jewel