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Quotes About Sea

Alla fine dell'estate chi è stato l'ultimo ad uscire dal mare? L'ultimo è tornato a casa senza chiudere il coperchio del mare. E da allora per tutto questo tempo il mare è rimasto scoperchiato.
~ Banana Yoshimoto
From earth, and sky, and sea, Let cheer come unto me, And mirth, and tenderness, And all the things that bless, That I may pass them on to those Who suffer woes; Not keep them for mine own.
~ bangs john kendrick iii
Later that evening, he sat in the bar, pint in one hand, pipe in the other, with good food beneath his belt and listened to the natural harmony of the Welsh fishermen singing their songs of Wales and the sea
~ Barbara Anderson
Bay of Biscay and so down the English Channel
~ Barbara Cartland
Two people were swimming in the sea One was alive and the other dead. See.
~ Barbara Comyns
Quinnipeague in August was a lush green place where inchworms dangled from trees whose leaves were so full that the eaten parts were barely missed. Mornings meant 'thick o' fog' that caught on rooftops and dripped, blurring weathered gray shingles while barely muting the deep pink of rosa rugosa or the hydrangea's blue. Wood smoke filled the air on rainy days, pine sap on sunny ones, and wafting through it all was the briny smell of the sea.
~ Barbara Delinsky
June would always be Charlotte's favorite month on Quinnipeague. She loved the frothy roil of the sea as it recovered from a day of rain, and in those early mornings, before the fog lifted and sun warmed the island, there was nothing, nothing better than a wood fire, wool socks, and hot chocolate made from scratch.
~ Barbara Delinsky
glass that the sea tossed up after years of being tumbled and turned by the waves and the salt water, finally landing on the sand as beautiful,
~ Barbara Freethy
We are like the whales that live in the sea, he said, civilizations without artifacts, living between stone and sky in our islands in the northern oceans.
~ Barbara Hambly
Asked what would be his idea of Heaven, one statesman in 1897 said it would be to "receive a flow of telegrams alternating news of a British victory by sea and a British victory by land.
~ Barbara W. Tuchman
You've all been asleep, you would not believe me Them voices telling me, you will soon receive me Standing on the beach, the sea will part before me (Fire wheel burning in the air!) You will follow me and we will ride to glory (Way up the middle of the air!) And I'll call down thunder and speak the same And my work fills the sky with flame And might and glory going to be my name And men going to light my way
~ barlow john perry ii
May the fire be your friend and the sea rock you gently, May the moon light your way - till the wind sets you free
~ Barry Andrews
I've just been away for a week, and I dropped my BlackBerry in the sea while I was messing around with the kids, so no one can reach me. Blissful. I heartily recommend it.
~ Nick Clegg
The problem is to find the time to write. That's why I go to sea. I couldn't be happier than when at sea.
~ Alex Haley
Man doth usurp all space, Stares thee, in rock, bush, river, in the face. Never thine eyes behold a tree; 'Tis no sea thou seest in the sea, 'Tis but a disguised humanity. To avoid thy fellow, vain thy plan; All that interests a man, is man. HENRY SUTTON.
~ George MacDonald
Sur le mer, les hommes sont presque en dehors des lois; chez eux c'est le droit du plus fort, comme chez nous le droit du plus riche.
~ George Sand
Poetry leads to the same place as all forms of eroticism — to the blending and fusion of separate objects. It leads us to eternity, it leads us to death, and through death to continuity. Poetry is eternity; the sun matched with the sea.
~ Georges Bataille
Life will dissolve itself in death, rivers in the sea, and the known in the unknown.
~ Georges Bataille
La vie animale est entièrement issue du mouvement des mers et, à l'intérieur des corps, la vie continue à sortir de l'eau salée.
~ Georges Bataille
Bruges was his dead wife. And his dead wife was Bruges. The two were united in a like destiny. It was Bruges-la-Morte, the dead town entombed in its stone quais, with the arteries of its canals cold once the great pulse of the sea had ceased beating in them.
~ Georges Rodenbach
That's old Bariteau on his way to laying his eel nets. He won't be back for another two hours.' How could old Bariteau see his way in all this blackness? God knows. You sensed the presence of the sea, very close, just at the end of the narrows. You could breathe it in. It was swelling, irresistibly invading the straits.
~ Georges Simenon
A voice that to Dominica's fancy seemed to hold all the sunshine and the salt wind of fine days at sea smote her ears.
~ Georgette Heyer
The boat was coming in. Suddenly the boat stopped and turned around and went out to sea again. "Well, well," thought Benny. "Whoever he is, he
~ Gertrude Chandler Warner
You don't know what it is to live and laugh and love and run a man through! You've never tasted salty air on your tongue or waved heartily at a mermaid!
~ Gideon Defoe