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Quotes About Sea

Actors change, but the course of the tragedy remains the same. A humanitarian who starts with declarations of love for mankind and ends with a sea of blood.
~ Ayn Rand
And the March is a liminal place,' she said almost to herself. 'A border, between one thing and the other. Like a river or the edge of the sea. A place where magic happens, where people disappear and wizards and prophets and poets feel at home.
~ Barbara Erskine
Oh, that river of wishes, the slippery crocodile dream of it, how it might have carried my body down through all the glittering sand bars to the sea.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
The notebook from the tobacco stand was the beginning of hope: a prisoner's plan for escape. Its empty pages would be the book of everything, miraculous and unending like the sea at night, a heartbeat that never stops. Salomé for her part was not worried about running out of books, only of having her clothes go out of fashion.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
name petrel is supposedly a diminutive of Peter. You see, when it's feeding, the bird appears to hover just above the water, and its feet look as if they're pattering on the surface of the sea. One gets a sense that it's walking on water, the way St. Peter did in the Bible story, hence its name petrel, for Peter.
~ Barbara Taylor Bradford
This made a pattern of movement and gesture very effective and it provoked laughter, which is a welcome thing as saving from silence, but also frightening when there are many laughing together -- it is then a sea with strange tides. Players swim in the rise and fall of it and if they lose the mastery they drown.
~ Barry Unsworth
Philippine Sea, Pacific Ocean
~ Steve Alten
There is a magnificent intensity in life that comes when we are not in control but are only reacting, living, surviving. I am not a religious man per se...but for me, to go to sea is to get a glimpse of the face of God. At sea I am reminded of my insignificance-of all men's insignificance. It is a wonderful feeling to be so humbled.
~ Steven Callahan
Green how I love you green. Green wind. Green boughs. The ship on the sea And the horse on the mountain.
~ Federico Garcia Lorca
If time is my vessel, then learning to love might be my way back to sea
~ Paul Banks
Drifting, On a sea of forgotten teardrops, On a lifeboat, Sailing for Your love
~ Jimi Hendrix
I would like a man now who is rich, and who can give me a boat - a sailboat. I want to own it and let him pay for it. My first love is the sea and water, not music. Music is second.
~ Nina Simone
When I was a child, love to me was what the sea is to a fish: something you swim in while you are going about the important affairs of life.
~ P. L. Travers
I have always had, as I know many people have, a singular passion for Australia. I do love the sunburnt country, its ancient landscapes, its exhilarating reaches of sand and sea.
~ Peter Garrett
I think music is a big, big wide world, and I am voyager on this particular ship in this sea of wild music, and I'm gonna dive in and find as many fish as I can and catch them all. I love music.
~ Phil Anselmo
Love and anger are like land and sea: They meet at many different places.
~ Patricia A. McKillip
In 10 years, I'd love to live near the sea, in a warmer climate. I could see myself with three dogs…and it'd be great to share them with someone else.
~ Luke Evans
Some love to roam o'er the dark sea's foam, Where the shrill winds whistle free.
~ Charles Mackay
The pleased sea on a white-breasted shore-- A shore that wears on her alluring brows Rare shells, far brought, the love-gifts of the sea, That blushed a tell-tale.
~ Alexander Smith
In this, photography is the same thing as love. When my gaze, diving into the sea as my subject, converges with the act of photography, hot sparks fly at the point of intersection.
~ Shomei Tomatsu
Ulysses was not comely, but he was eloquent, Yet he fired two goddesses of the sea with love
~ Soren Kierkegaard
Seaweed: Contains all fifty-six minerals
~ Jonny Bowden
I was lost in a vast, storm-tossed sea of shifting rhythmic complexities.
~ Jordan Sonnenblick
A cidade da Bahia, negra e religiosa, é quase tão misteriosa como o verde mar
~ Jorge Amado