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Like mighty eagle soaring light. O'er antelopes on Alpine height. The anchor heaves, the ship swings free, The sails swell full. To sea, to sea!
— Thomas Lovell Beddoes
Would it be enough to rock on a stormless sea with each our separate memories tuned to the state of the sinking sun?
— Kristen Henderson
I felt like time was a great sea, and I was floating on the back of a turtle, and no sails broke the horizon.
— Janet Fitch
Don't stay in the harbour and miss the greatness of the sea. Just because everyone else is anchored, doesn't mean you have to be.
— Joyce Rachelle
There's been a sea change in our focus on corporate ethics. We've made more progress in the last three years than the previous 30.
— Steve Odland
With everyone else, he was chipped ice on a mountain. With her sister, he was a summer breeze across the sea. Alas,
— Renee Ahdieh
How do men act on a sinking ship? Do they hold each other? Do they pass around the whisky? Do they cry?
— Sebastian Junger
When you are playing an egomaniac running a fantastical ship, you don't want him to be too suburban. Naturalism doesn't work on the high seas.
— Geoffrey Rush
We are adrift on a sea of moonlight sand, the silence as infinite as the space between the stars.
— Jessica Khoury
Trees quiver in the wind,sailing on a sea of mist
out of earshot. — Dag Hammarskjold
Many a green isle needs must be In the deep wide sea of Misery, Or the mariner, worn and wan, Never thus could voyage on.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
If we forget our past, then we lose direction. We become lost on a changing sea, easy prey for the shifting currents of the moment.
— John Zanetti
There is the churning and the boiling of the sea, and the foam on top of it and that is what man is, churning and foam together.
— Simone Schwarz-Bart
Thus the time passed. Toby stopped counting it. In any case, time is not a thing that passes, said Pilar: it's a sea on which you float.
— Margaret Atwood
I see on your cheek two tears which I know are hot as two sparks, and salt as two crystals of the sea.
— Charlotte Bronte
Instead of passing on choppy waters to the next generation, we should endeavor to leave them a calmer sea.
— Najib Razak
The feeling of freedom and scent of sea air are intoxicating. As the wind picks up, I gain speed, holding on to life with a capital L
— Laurie Nadel
It is better to go down on the great seas which human hearts were made to sail than to rot at the wharves in ignoble anchorage.
— Hamilton Wright Mabie
They knew that mere appearance and disappearance are on the surface like waves on the sea, but life which is permanent knows no decay or diminution.
— Rabindranath Tagore
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
Without fear we must set sail on the digital sea.
— Pope Benedict XVI
I love reading about the sea. I love reading about it a lot more than actually being on the sea, when you think about it.
— Clive James
Try to remember that the 'bottomless sea' can't hurt us as long as we keep on swimming.
— C.S. Lewis
Sometimes, when the wind hits hard and icicles form on the sea cliffs, we can all come together - and at those times, we are at our best.
— John Burnside
Today's woman must be a prostitute in the kitchen, a ghost in the bedroom, a sniper on the parapet, an octopus at sea world.
— Rob Thompson
The sea, no matter how endless, depends on rivers.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Praise the Sea, but keepe on land.
— George Herbert
On Caladan, we ruled with sea and air power," the Duke said. "Here, we must scrabble for desert power. This is your inheritance, Paul.
— Frank Herbert
My last picture for Warners was Romance on the High Seas. It was Doris Day's first picture; that was before she became a virgin.
— Oscar Levant
What goes on in the sea is of no interest to the rock
— Nathanael West
He complaines wrongfully on the sea that twice suffers shipwrack.
— George Herbert
I wrote a lot of poetry that was based on stories of the sea and I was really inspired by that.
— Ellie Goulding
O Elbereth! Gilthoniel! We still remember, we who dwell In this far land beneath the trees. Thy starlight on the Western Seas.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
I'm bangin' from Belize to Tel Aviv on the Red SeaRacin' Saddam Hussein on Kawasaki jet ski's — Ras Kass
One person standing on the Rock can throw a lifeline to others drowning in the sea. He
— Francine Rivers
Home is like the ship at sea, Sailing on eternally; Oft the anchor forth we cast, But can never make it fast.
— Charles Dickens
I grew up in Newquay, on the Atlantic coast and there developed a love of the sea and boats.
— Antony Hewish
I feel time beginning to slow, until the last of him is grey powder on the sea and time stops altogether.
— Sophie Hardcastle
We came to save the sacred writings. - Essenes to Eleazar, on collecting the Dead Sea Scrolls from the burning Temple. Jerusalem, 70 CE.
— Joseph Shellim
Every soldier should learn survival on land, sea, and in the air.
— Louis Zamperini
The art of land warfare is an art of genius, of inspiration. On the sea nothing is genius or inspiration; everything is positive or empiric.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
What will the creature made all of sea-drift do on the dry sand of daylight; what will the mind do, each morning, waking? His
— Ursula K. Le Guin
The light that never was, on sea or land; The consecration, and the Poet's dream.
— William Wordsworth
Summer Kingdom farthest west, Autumn next, then Winter, and finally the Spring Kingdom on the Destas Sea.
— Sara Raasch
The world is like a vast sea: mankind like a vessel sailing on its tempestuous bosom ... [T]he sciences serve us for oars.
— Oliver Goldsmith
I wanted freedom, open air and adventure. I found it on the sea.
— Alain Gerbault
Grief came in waves, sometimes big, sometimes small, but even on the calmest days, the grief remained. The tide still came ashore.
— Dianna Hardy
Before we take to the sea, we walk on land ... Before we create, we must understand ...
— Ernest Hemingway,
I 'm on the sea! I 'm on the sea! I am where I would ever be, With the blue above and the blue below, And silence wheresoever I go.
— Bryan Procter
and he knew no man was ever alone on the sea. He
— Ernest Hemingway,
Sure, cricket on a beach on the isle of Jura is different from a Test match in a stadium in Galle, 6000 miles away, despite the sea air.
— Romesh Gunesekera
Since we do float on an unknown sea, I think we should examine the other floating things that come our way carefully; who knows what may depend on it?
— Elizabeth Bishop
So our lives glide on: the river ends we don't know where, and the sea begins, and then there is no more jumping ashore.
— George Eliot
The night comes stealing o'er me,And clouds are on the sea;
While the wavelets rustle before me
With a mystical melody. — Heinrich Heine
Clouds of the golden west between its softly dark shores. The sea moaned eerily on the sand-bar, sorrowful even in spring, but a
— L.M. Montgomery
I have a birthmark on the inside of my left knee that resembles an upside-down sea horse.
— Gabourey Sidibe
IT was said that a new person had appeared on the sea-front: a lady with a little dog.
— Anton Chekhov
Greenwich got the nod because 72 per cent of the world's commerce depended on British sea-charts - and because it annoyed the French intensely.
— Richard Happer
Deep in the sea are riches beyond compare. But if you seek safety, it is on the shore.
— Idries Shah
Run equals die. Stay equals die. So before we go all O.K. Corral on this, let's consider the third option: We blow it up.
— Rick Yancey
To retire to the monastery, or the woods, or the sea, is to escape from the sharp suggestions that spur on ambition.
— Charles Horton Cooley
Novelist-Citizen of Two Countries Interpreter of his Generation on both Sides of the Sea.
— Henry James
A man who journeys in the desert finds a guide among the desert people, and he who journeys on the sea trusts seamen.
— Marmaduke William Pickthall
If you have decided to sail to the sea with great courage and determination, even the storm on the horizon will step aside!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Green how I love you green. Green wind. Green boughs. The ship on the sea And the horse on the mountain.
— Federico Garcia Lorca
Perhaps the greatest satisfaction on the first day of the season is the knowledge in the evening that the whole of the rest of the season is to come.
— Arthur Ransome
On men reprieved by its disdainful mercy, the immortal sea confers in its justice the full privilege of desired unrest.
— Joseph Conrad
I was promoted to be a major, and every Allied government gave me a decoration - even Montenegro, little Montenegro down on the Adriatic Sea!
— F Scott Fitzgerald
He kissed me like ice cream, like a jazz waltz, the rough, gentle way the sea washed sand off my skin on the hottest day of the year.
— Helen Oyeyemi
You have sea, you have boat, you have oars, and then why on earth you are rotting in the port?
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
The best-educated doctor in the world is standing on a low island in the middle of a sea of ignorance.
— Stephen King
I'm the lonely voyager standing on deck, and she's the sea.
— Haruki Murakami
Many live in the ivory tower called reality; they never venture on the open sea of thought.
— Francois Gautier
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
