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Quotes About Sea

Years at sea probably explains why I'm single. But every person in the military makes sacrifices.
~ Sarah West
All of the military services - land, sea, and air - spend a great deal of time awake. This is a direct result of the high tempo of operations we conduct while forward deployed well outside our national borders.
~ James G. Stavridis
Today, despite the jet and information age, 90 percent of global commerce and two thirds of all petroleum supplies travel by sea.
~ Robert D. Kaplan
Look at me, Conan!" She threw wide her arms. "I am Belit, queen of the black coast. Oh, tiger of the North, you are cold as the snowy mountains which bred you. Take me and crush me with your fierce love! Go with me to the ends of the earth and the ends of the sea! I am a queen by fire and steel and slaughter–be thou my king!
~ Robert E. Howard
sunset falls just right behind the sea, and not just when we look into the eyes of a newborn. The
~ Robert G. Allen
Vext the dim sea: I am become a name…
~ Robert Galbraith
How many times during his Cornish childhood had he been caught unawares as he stood with his back to the treacherous sea? Those who did not know the ocean well forgot its solidity, its brutality. When it slammed into them with the force of cold metal they were appalled.
~ Robert Galbraith
By your time, life had been evolving on Earth for four billion years. But there are Earth-descended life-forms in this time that are products of fourteen billion years of evolution. You'll never believe what daisies evolved into—or sea anemones, or the bacteria that caused whooping cough. In fact, I had lunch a few days ago with someone who evolved from whooping-cough bacteria.
~ Robert J. Sawyer
The reason that most sea salts have large, irregularly shaped crystals is that that's what slow evaporation produces, whereas the rapid vacuum-evaporation process used in making shaker salt produces tiny
~ Robert L. Wolke
Let there be light!" said God, and there was light! "Let there be blood!" says man, and there's a sea! —Lord Byron, Don Juan
~ Robert Liparulo
We were still on the whale road, in the wind that keened and thrummed the ropes.
~ Robert Low
Strange how we had longed for the feel and smell of land when afloat and now longed for the touch of ship and spray now that we were ashore. No
~ Robert Low
you trip and lance Your finger at a crab. It strikes. You rub It inch-meal to a bilge of shell. You dance Child-crazy over tub and gunnel, grasping Your pitchfork like a trident, poised to stab The greasy eel-grass clasping and unclasping The jellied iridescence of the crab.
~ Robert Lowell
I saw the spiders marching through the air, Swimming from tree to tree that mildewed day In latter August when the hay Came creaking to the barn. But where The wind is westerly, Where gnarled November makes the spiders fly Into the apparitions of the sky, They purpose nothing but their ease and die Urgently beating east to sunrise and the sea;
~ Robert Lowell
But having said that, there's also a sea change in attitude towards media.
~ Robert McChesney
Take a farewell look at the waves and sky. Take a farewell sniff of the salty sea. A little bit sad about the place you are leaving, a little bit glad about the place you are going.
~ Robert McCloskey
Sylvi wished she could gouge out the look in Dorogin's stony eyes, and change the course of history. She wished Fthoom had been eaten by a sea monster.
~ Robin McKinley
SONG OF QUIETNESS Drink deep, drink deep of quietness, And on the margins of the sea Remember not thine old distress Nor all the miseries to be. Calmer than mists, and cold As they, that fold on fold Up the dim valley are rolled, Learn thou to be.
~ Robinson Jeffers
I just want to sleep the sleep of ages, to know again the Great Rest, the perpetual bliss, to hear the songs the stars sing on the shores of the great sea.
~ Roger Zelazny
Now I just want to sleep the sleep of ages, to know again the Great Rest, the perpetual bliss, to hear the songs the stars sing on the shores of the great sea.
~ Roger Zelazny
It was wonderful and gauzy, going to sleep that way, like drifting in a small boat over a rippling sea.
~ Leif Enger
At the edge of the sea he took her to the ruins of the synagogue of Capernaum. Here, Jesus walked and taught and healed. Words came to Kitty's mind that she thought she had forgotten. Jesus walked by the Sea of Galilee and saw two brethren, Simon called Peter and Andrew his brother casting a net into the sea ... And they went into Capernaum and straight away on the Sabbath He entered into the synagogue and taught. It was
~ Leon Uris
Mediterranean.
~ Leon Uris
The banks of life cannot hold my love, which is as broad as the sea.
~ Leonid Andreyev