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I live by the sea in Australia and the weather of course is glorious all year round. — Anna Torv

...what exactly is there in human existence that can lure you away from pleasure: peace of mind, a walk by the sea, moderation? — Kapka Kassabova

Finally, by the sea, where God is everywhere, I gradually calmed. — Patti Smith

A mountain ultimately had to give way to the sea if hammered by its salty waves. — Pepper Winters

Barrabas came to us by the sea. — Isabel Allende

There twice a day the Severn fills; The salt sea-water passes by, And hushes half the babbling Wye, And makes a silence in the hills. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

People travel to marvel at the mountains, seas, rivers and stars and they pass right by themselves without astonishment. — Saint Augustine

The powe if fate is something terrible. It cannot be escaped
not with wealth or by war,
not with a tower ir a sea-lashed black ship. — Sophocles

we rescue our tears from the sea
secure them by writ — M. NourbeSe Philip

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. — Rabindranath Tagore

Paint me the bold anfractuous rocks Faced by the snarled and yelping seas. — T. S. Eliot

The evening uneven sea glimmered with slices of dairy moon, the surface waves a shifting brew of dark tea stirred by an atmospheric spoon. — Neale Osborne

Come all you thoughtless young men,
a warning take by me
And never leave your happy homes
to sail the raging sea. — Patrick O'Brian

Though I'm tempted by the call of the sea, I resist.
It can't claim me.
In a way I'm stronger than the waves and I feel good about that. — Darren Shan

The British are coming. One if by land, two if by sea. — Paul Revere

Maria didn't fear the sea but, as taught by her father, she respected its power. In her experience the ocean had no intent to drown travellers. — Sara Sheridan

Isn't man but a blossom taken by the wind, and only the mountains and the sea and the stars and this Land of the Gods real and everlasting? — James Clavell

The populace is like the sea motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze. — Livy

The fortune of us that are the moon's men doth ebb and flow like the sea, being governed, as the sea is, by the moon. — William Shakespeare

Whenever he saw the sea, or a fire, he fell silent, impressed by their elemental force. — Paulo Coelho

Isn't man but a blossom taken by wind, and only the mountains and the sea and the stars and this land of the gods everlasting? — James Clavell

We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance. — John Archibald Wheeler

Rains driven by storms fall not perpetually on the land already sodden, neither do varying gales for ever disturb the Caspian sea. — Horace

I must go down to the sea ... to the lonely sea and the sky, And all I ask is a tall ship, and a star to steer her by ... — John Masefield

If Americans in 2100 came to see 12 meters sea-level rise as inevitable by 2200, who can even begin to fathom how the nation would respond? — Joseph J. Romm

Everyone who wades through time eventually gets dragged out to sea by the undertone, — John Green

There are continents and seas in the moral world, to which every man is an isthmus or inlet, yet unexplored by him. — Henry David Thoreau

Hill and valley, seas and constellations, are but stereotypes of divine ideas appealing to and answered by the living soul of man. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

By December an elastic skin of ice reached out hundreds of miles into the sea, rolling with every wave. — Will Chancellor

My objects dream and wear new costumes,
compelled to, it seems, by all the words in my hands
and the sea that bangs in my throat. — Anne Sexton

Mary means Star of the sea, for as mariners are guided to port by the ocean star, so Christians attain to glory through Mary's maternal intercession. — Thomas Aquinas

An ugly, lovely town ... crawling, sprawling ... by the side of a long and splendid curving shore. This sea-town was my world. — Dylan Thomas

Practice loving kindness wherever you may go. — Heather Wolf

China believes that it has the rightful claim to a vast portion of the South China Sea, which is claimed by other countries. — Evan Osnos

We don't sail because the sea is there. We sail because there's a harbour. We don't start by heading for distant shores. We seek protection first. — Carsten Jensen

As the sailor locates his position on the sea by "shooting" the sun, so we may get our moral bearings by looking at God. We must begin with God. — A.W. Tozer

Unlike the boundaries of the sea by the shorelines, the "ocean of air" laps at the border of every state, city, town and home throughout the world. — L. Welch Pogue

Go to the Black Sea, meet new people, see beautiful places, get killed by a mutant carnivorous kangaroo goat. One item off my bucket list. — Ilona Andrews

Don't fear to pledge. By winds the perjuries of love Are blown, null and void, across the land and farthest seas. — Tibullus

By constantly keep one's attention on the Source, the ego is dissolved in that Source like a salt-doll in the sea. — Ramana Maharshi

Those who live by the sea can hardly form a single thought of which the sea would not be part. — Hermann Broch

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

Coroner's inquest: death by drowning. And he hasn't been to the sea-shore in ten years. — Leonard Cohen

Fishing, by its very nature, nourishes the imagination, feeding it with a potent fuel of hope and desire. — Tony Bishop

But beauty is set apart,
beauty is cast by the sea,
a barren rock,
beauty is set about
with wrecks of ships ... — Hilda Doolittle

She liked the sharp salty smell of the air, and the vastness of horizons bounded only by a vault of azure sky above. — George R R Martin

There the poor have another advantage ... for they may defy not only death, but every loss by sea or land, for they have nothing to lose. — Elizabeth Inchbald

A man by the truth is a house by the sea: He has a clear range of vision and a very fresh air! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Implacable I, the implacable Sea; Implacable most when most I smile serene- Pleased, not appeased, by myriad wrecks in me. — Herman Melville

I'm a bit claustrophobic, I don't like crowds, I live by the sea - that's what I see when I come out of my house in Bridlington. — David Hockney

he had a strong premonition that ship had already sailed, been set on fire by pirates and sunk into the sea. — Dana Marton

Life can be very hard sometimes and you wonder why, but a little compassion is sometimes all anyone needs to get by. — Heather Wolf

Broad based upon her people's will, And compassed by the inviolate sea. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

There are houses in Gloucester where grooves have been worn into the floorboards by women pacing past an upstairs window, looking out to sea. — Sebastian Junger

Shipping by sea produces 1/60 the emissions of shipping by air and about 1/5 that of trucking. — Daniel Goleman

Never travel by sea when you can go by land. — Cato The Younger

The mob is easily led and may be moved by the smallest force, so that its agitations have a wonderful resemblance to those of the sea. — Polybius

I could not help concluding this man had the most supreme pleasure while he was driven so fast and so smoothly by the sea. — James Cook

Barrabas came to us by sea, the child Clara wrote in her delicate calligraphy. — Isabel Allende

A beach is not only a sweep of sand, but shells of sea creatures, the sea glass, the seaweed, the incongruous objects washed up by the ocean. — Henry Grunwald

To Meath of the pastures,
From wet hills by the sea,
Through Leitrim and Longford,
Go my cattle and me. — Padraic Colum

Sure we are all made by some secret Power, who formed the earth and sea, the air and sky. — Daniel Defoe

On men reprieved by its disdainful mercy, the immortal sea confers in its justice the full privilege of desired unrest. — Joseph Conrad

The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers. — Jose Saramago

I DO not count the hours I spend In wandering by the sea; The forest is my loyal friend, Like God it useth me. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

If I had to name one book that has had the most lasting influence on my work, I would pick 'The Big Sea' by Langston Hughes. — Pearl Cleage

Companions are we, enlivened by a mighty gallop quickly sliding a harsh straw basket of sea foam gathered astride the tide. — Bradley Chicho

He believed in it, as certain good women believe in the leviathan-by faith, not by reason. — Jules Verne

[P]eople think that the human brain is in the head. Nothing of the sort; it is carried by the wind from the Caspian Sea. — Nikolai Gogol

In her mind, every last Queen lies at the bottom of the sea, drowned by the Goddess the moment she was done with them. — Kendare Blake

A pebble thrown in a pool
may ripple from end to end,
but tossed into the sea,
it is swallowed by enormity. — Craig Froman

The hall's door was framed by a pair of vast curved bones that had come from some sea monster. — Bernard Cornwell

When I looked back, all I could see were flashes of green and blue as my father fought the Titan and the sea itself was torn apart by the two armies. — Rick Riordan

We have lingered in the chambers of the sea
By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown
Till human voices wake us ... and we drown. — T. S. Eliot

I grew up outside of Boston in a town called Manchester by the Sea, and we spent our summers in Nantucket. — Nat Faxon

Those who spread their sails in the right way to the winds of the earth will always find themselves born by a current toward the open seas. — Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

You can't cross a sea by merely staring into the water. — Rabindranath Tagore

His eyes were open wounds beneath his heavy brows, a blue as dark as the sea by night. — George R R Martin

It was many and many a year ago, in a kingdom by the sea ... — Edgar Allan Poe

Just one act of kindness can change someone's whole world. — Heather Wolf

Go gather by the humming sea
Some twisted, echo-harbouring shell,
And to its lips thy story tell. — W.B.Yeats

Sometimes I think it is my fate to live in the wreckage and confusion of crumbling houses. — Abdulrazak Gurnah

I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air. — Bram Stoker

By listening to certain words as a child listens to the sea in a seashell, a word dreamer hears the murmur of a world of dreams. — Gaston Bachelard

England in a way is lucky. It's an island, so the frontiers are given by the sea. — Salman Rushdie

I was lost, starving for intimacy, desperate to be valued, swallowed by a sea of lonely hearts, thinking that perhaps I was the only one who was lost. — Ted Dekker

Take one day at a time and be aware that every moment and interaction serves a purpose. We are here to learn, love, and share. — Jonathan Kuiper

A long time ago in a kingdom by the sea there lived a princess as tall and bright as a sunflower. — Jeanne Desy

I have explained the phenomena of the heavens and of our sea by the force of gravity, but I have not yet assigned a cause to gravity. — Isaac Newton

The sun was like a word written between the sea and the sky, a word that was swallowed up by the sea before any man had time to read it. — Stella Benson

Is this chicken, what I have, or is this fish? I know it's tuna, but it says 'Chicken by the Sea. — Jessica Simpson

Better wilt thou live ... by neither always pressing out to sea nor too closely hugging the dangerous shore in cautious fear of storms. — Horace

I wrote a lot of poetry that was based on stories of the sea and I was really inspired by that. — Ellie Goulding

I am a poem, or I am a pattern, or a race of people whose world was swallowed by the sea. — Neil Gaiman

Just sharing one little smile can change someone's whole world. — Heather Wolf

Daire drew in a breath, inhaling her intoxicating scent of the sea, sun, and lavender. And might.
By the heavens, he craved her. — Donna Grant

When Israel was from bondage led,Led by the Almighty's handFrom out of foreign land,The great sea beheld and fled. — Abraham Cowley

If you were born by the sea, there's always a magnet that draws you back there. — Marc Almond

Then there were those famous wings. Was Daedalus really stricken with grief when Icarus fell into the sea? Or just disappointed by the design failure? — Alison Bechdel

Ideals are like the stars: we never reach them, but like the mariners of the sea, we chart our course by them. — Carl Schurz