Quotes About Sea

One is often surprised at the juvenilities which grown people indulge in at sea, and the interest they take in them, and the consuming enjoyment they get out of them.

PLAYBOY OF THE WESTERN WORLD AND RIDERS TO THE SEA, J. M. Synge. 80pp. 0-486-27562-0 THE

April 10. The sea is a Mediterranean blue; and I believe that that is about the divinest color known to nature.

The human heart is like a ship on a stormy sea driven about by winds blowing from all four corners of heaven.

As he had once said to someone in England, though he did not care to remember whom, he had liked the sight of the sea because it represented his escape from England. And he had escaped. But she had said that perhaps it was from himself he wished to escape and that it could not be done. For wherever he went, he must inevitably take himself along too.

He smelled like the sea even after he had bathed. When he wasn't fishing, he sat on the floor in our dark front room mending a fishing net. And if a fishing net had been a sleeping creature, he wouldn't even have awakened it, at the speed he worked. He did everything this slowly.

A shapeless figure bent over him, he smelt the fresh leather of the revolver belt; but what insignia did the figure wear on the sleeves and shoulder straps of its uniform—and in whose name did it raise the dark pistol barrel? A second, smashing blow hit him on the ear. Then all became quiet. There was the sea again with its sounds. A wave slowly lifted him up. It came from afar and travelled sedately on, a shrug of eternity.

Well we shan't be at school for ever, said Nancy. We'll be grown up, and then we'll live here all the year round.... ...I shall be going to sea someday, said John, and so will Roger. But we'll always come back here on leave. I shall bring my monkey, said Roger. And the parrot shall always come, said Titty.

Elle est retrouvée! Quoi? -l'Éternité. C'est la mer allée Avec le soleil.

Flat muscled and honey coloured. Sea secrets in his eyes. A silver raindrop in his ear.

Quand elles en eurent assez d'avoir attendu, les odeurs du dîner descendirent des rideaux et s'échappèrent par les fenêtres de l'hôtel pour aller danser sur la mer jusqu'au petit matin.

Pandoru mukkuvan muthinu poyi, (Once a fisherman went to sea,) Padinjaran kattathu mungi poyi, (The west wind blew and swallowed his boat,)

The Seventh Sense Women who build nations learn to love men who build nations learn to love children building sand castles by the rising sea

When I'm old and gray, I want to have a house by the sea. And paint. With a lot of wonderful chums, good music, and booze around. And a damn good kitchen to cook in.

Only those could maintain certainty who were themselves of great permanence – like the stars, the mountains and the sea.

Only those could maintain certainty who were themselves of great permanence – like the stars, the mountains and the sea. And they in turn possessed no words with which to tell what they had come to know from their long existence.

I see my future now not as something intangible like a dream, but like a boat meeting land after time spent at sea, a destination I will reach.

The squid are leaving, Maura…

Napoleon recalled his dismay at seeing 'mountains of swirling red flames, like huge ocean waves, exploding up into the sky of fire, then sinking into the sea of flames below'.

A singular disadvantage of the sea lies in the fact that after successfully surmounting one wave you discover another behind it just as important and just as nervously anxious to do something effective in the way of swamping boats. In a ten-foot dinghy one can get an idea of the resources of the sea in the line of waves that is not probable to the average experience, which is never at sea in a dinghy.

Many a man ought to have a bath-tub larger than the boat which here rode upon the sea.

It was really the intention of the seven mad gods to drown him, despite the abominable injustice of it. For it was certainly an abominable injustice to drown a man who had worked so hard, so hard. The man felt it would be a crime most unnatural. Other people had drowned at sea since galleys swarmed with painted sails, but still--

Poseidon presented Amphitrite with the very first dolphin.

See the TURTLE of enormous girth! On his shell he holds the earth. His thought is slow but always kind; He holds us all within his mind. On his back all vows are made; He sees the truth but may not said. He loves the land and loves the sea, And even loves a child like me