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Quotes About Sea

She had learnt to wait for the changes and the help that life brings. Life is like the sea, sometimes you are in the trough of the wave, sometimes on the crest. When you are in the trough, you wait for the crest, and always, trough or crest, a mysterious tide bears you forward to an unseen, but certain shore. In
~ Dorothy Whipple
A woman's passion is nothing less than the sea that tosses a man's ship, and to weather the storm he must use skill and humility to ride her waves, having given up his own course and dragged down his sails, letting the sea take him where it will. For a sailor who knows that there is nothing to fear, this is the greatest adventure of life, as he lashes himself to the mast, knowing that his surrender is his strength and the chance for his redemption.
~ Douglas Carlton Abrams
It is always with excitement that I wake up in the morning wondering what my intuition will toss up to me, like gifts from the sea. I work with it and rely on it. It is my partner." —Jonas Salk
~ Douglas E. Richards
The Tasman Sea covers about a million square miles, located more or less between Australia and New Zealand. And east of Tasmania, which is a large island with over a thousand smaller islands around it. But we aren't on any of these.
~ Douglas E. Richards
The sea, the sea is everything! Its sovereign mass brings to me atoms of a myriad faraway lands;Its bright smile animates me in the limpid mornings. And when at the end of day my faith has failed me, My heart echoes the sound of its sorrow in the sands! (Mi Retiro)
~ Dr. Jose P. Rizal
An hour at sea with Uncle Nicholas comprised forty minutes of waiting, nineteen minutes of wondering, and one minute of sheer excitement.
~ Dudley Pope
Went to get coffee today-opened my change purse. Sea shells fell out. Barista goes "Sorry, we only take cash or credit." So there's that.
~ Taylor Swift
I love the beach. I love the sea. All my life I live within - in front of the sea.
~ Rafael Nadal
That sinuous southern life, that oblique and slow and complicated old beauty, that warm thick air and blood warm sea, that place of mists and languor and fragrant richness.
~ Anne Rivers Siddons
I have lived in Norfolk all my life. It inspires me, the sea, the limitless skies, the mud and the burning sunsets and the freedom of a place where more than 50% of the neighbours are fish.
~ Raffaella Barker
Politicians who complain about the media are like sailors who complain about the sea.
~ Enoch Powell
A Wired reader told me once, Get a life, which I read from the back of a yacht in the Aegean, while eating fresh sea urchins and drinking terrific Montrachet.
~ Nicholas Negroponte
EVEN AS THEY resumed eating, memories and sexual awareness sparked between them, growing so palpable, it was like a physical force as strong and wild as the sea crashing against the cliff outside the windows.
~ JoAnn Ross
The sea was a landscape of longing, she thought, a landscape of ceaseless change.
~ Ann Howard Creel
love was the sea;
~ Ann Napolitano
I sit watching until dusk, hypnotized. I think of the sea as continually sloshing back and forth, repetitive, but my psyche goes with the river- always loping downhill, purposeful, listening only to gravity.
~ Ann Zwinger
Maa, vaikkei kotimaani olekaan / on muistoissani katoamaton / ja merikin niin hellän-jäinen, / sen vesi miltei suolaton
~ Anna Ahmatova
Yellow and fresh are the lanterns, Black is the road of the garden at sea. I am very calm. Only please, do not Talk about him with me. You're tender and loyal, we'll be friends. . Have fun, kiss, together grow old. . And light months above us will fly like feathers, Like stars made of snow and as cold.
~ Anna Akhmatova
Isn't it the sea? No, it's only graveyard Pine-needles, and in a boiling of foam, Still closer,closer... Marche funèbre
~ Anna Akhmatova
A whisper. To speak in a whisper. To whisper—like the sea.
~ Anna Kamie?ska
Don't you like the sea any more?' she asked. [...] 'No,' said the man. 'I don't think so. I think I hate it.' But then, feeling the hollow, vague coldness inside the glass, and going away from the sea, there was nothing at all left and nothing mattered at all. 'I don't feel anything about it,' he said. 'I don't feel anything about anything.
~ Anna Kavan
Here Naples was not bathed by the sea. I was sure that no one had ever seen this place or remembered it. In this dark pit only the fire of sexuality burned bright under an eerie black sky.
~ Anna Maria Ortese
And then, the unspeakable purity and freshness of the air! There was just enough heat to enhance the value of the breeze, and just enough wind to keep the whole sea in motion, to make the waves come bounding to the shore, foaming and sparkling, as if wild with glee.
~ Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey
XXIV. And kneeling at the edge of the transparent sea I shall shape for myself a new heart from salt and mud
~ Anne Carson