Quotes About Mermaids

The kicker was an image of Bryson, naked as the day he was born, being chased by seven mermaids that were so angry they had sprouted legs. He'd never admitted exactly what he'd done.

I am especially fascinated with mermaids, and they are always coming out in pirate stories.

Brave men die a single death; cowards marry fish-head mermaids!

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!

I just love mermaids. I was a mermaid in my past life. I just feel it when I go in the sea. I just feel a connection there between me, and the water, and the fish - they speak to me - and the shells - they ring out to me.

There is a lot of contradictions of mermaids as a symbol. I'm always interested in contradictions.

And unless I'm remembering it wrong, mermaids don't sing and sirens don't swim. Ariel sang in 'The Little Mermaid', Corey said. Sam came over to join us. Do I even want to know why you remember her name?

the sails in wind and the slap of waves on the hull of a boat that's sinking to the sound of mermaids singing songs of love, and the tug of a simple profound sadness when it sounds so far away.

The sea maidens were as fresh and lovely as ever, while each and all proved sweet tempered and merry, even at the breakfast table—and that is where people are cross, if they ever are.

These are the hermit crabs, said one of the mermaids. They steal these shells and live in them so no enemies can attack them. Don't they get lonesome? asked Trot. Perhaps so, my dear. But they do not seem to mind being lonesome. They are great cowards, and think if they can but protect their lives there is nothing else to care for.

Why hasn't anybody seen a mermaid and lived? asked Trot again. 'Cause mermaids is fairies, an' ain't meant to be seen by us mortal folk, replied Cap'n Bill. But if anyone happens to see 'em, what then, Cap'n? Then, he answered, slowly wagging his head, the mermaids give 'em a smile an' a wink, an' they dive into the water an' gets drownded.

Break a leg, Gilly!" Kayla appears out of nowhere. "You're not supposed to say that, remember?" she whispers. "It offends the mermaids since they don't have legs.

I started early, took my dog, And visited the sea; The mermaids in the basement Came out to look at me

I found my fantasy in movies and she found it in mermaids, but we both knew you needed something. The smarter you were, the more you saw the world for what it was, people for who they truly were, those inside-out people, and if that was all you saw... you'd be in therapy 24/7. You needed to make your own reality because the real version could make you doubt humanity.

I've always been obsessed with things that are half animal and half human - like mermaids and Minotaurs - because they are trapped in an animal body. And I felt trapped in my own life.

Mermaids are just the most whimsical, mystical creatures of all time.

I think we could be friends," he said, falling into step with her. "It's perfect because I wouldn't fall in love with you, like I do with the mermaids. Girls always seem so exotic. But it would be okay with you, because you're more like...you know. Not like a girl." He shrugged.

Matthew emerged from sleep slowly, luxuriously. It must be nearly noon. He swam up from the depths of a calm warm sea. The glittering sea of the far south that he'd read about. A blue sea under a glorious sun. A sea full of pearls and exotic creatures and soft silky water. And mermaids. Indubitably there were mermaids in this sea. His particular mermaid slept naked in his arms. When he was inside her, she undulated in endless waves like a sea of pleasure.

THIRD WATCHER Let her speak. Don't interrupt. She knows words that mermaids taught her...I'm falling asleep in order to hear her...Go on, sister, go on...My heart aches because I wasn't you when you dreamed at the seashore...

I'm living in New York, getting paid to do what I love. I get to boss people around, wear a fancy costume, dance with beautiful mermaids, and meet my fans every night at the stage door. I'm loving it.

It was a night when you might expect to stray into a dance of mermaids.

I often have the fantasy that curly girls are mermaids who have had to adapt to life on dry land. We come from the sea. The ocean is in our blood. It sings through our heart and lungs, our skin and hair. Our curls require the nourishment only a watery environment can provide. Both ocean waves and curly hair are forces of nature that can't be tamed. We can only accept and admire their power and beauty.

for frail but surprisingly strong fairies who had lost their way above ground for burned mermaids and sick vampire girls for wild wolfish women with sharp teeth and leaves in their hair

Mer-people could be read as a colonialist term," explained the biologist.