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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

When you're on the open sea and you drop 10, 12 feet and your stomach goes up around your neck - that's when you have problems. — Tom Hanks

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

Silent," the carved wizardwood on his wrist breathed. "Silent as a blinded ship, floating hull-up in the sea. Silent as a scream underwater. — Robin Hobb

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

Well, the plenty of fish in the sea thing is bullshit," I said. "The other fish are weird, smell funny, or hooked on someone else's fishing line. — L.D. Davis

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

He who studies to imitate the poet Pindar, O Julius, relies on artificial wings fastened on with wax, and is sure to give his name to a glassy sea. — Horace

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

I'm sorry to go, but its alright. Rivers dry up; tides ebb; the sea goes on. — Seanan McGuire

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

Do not waste my words on tired minds.
I can only talk to those who are thirsty
for the sea. — Rumi

In the rolling sea of new state, new school, new dangers everywere, Daniel was the only rock she had to hold on to.And he was adout to leave her? ... — Lauren Kate

Look, I probably shouldn't tell someone holding a high-powered semiautomatic rifle this, but you're really starting to get on my nerves. — Rick Yancey

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

Evan is the little branch growing out of the cliff that she clings to, and the fact that he's gone makes her hang on even tighter. — Rick Yancey

I'm bangin' from Belize to Tel Aviv on the Red Sea
Racin' 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

The wind had its arms around them. The sea dandled them on its knee. — Tom Robbins

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

I have a hobby. I have the world's largest collection of sea shells. I keep it scattered on beaches all over the world. Maybe you've seen some of it. — Steven Wright

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

So much is lost, he said, in the shipwreck. What remains are fragments, and if you don't hold on to them the sea will take them too. — Rachel Cusk

Summer Kingdom farthest west, Autumn next, then Winter, and finally the Spring Kingdom on the Destas Sea. — Sara Raasch

We live on a blue planet that circles around a ball of fire next to a moon that moves the sea ... and you don't believe in miracles? — Unknown

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 never was on the dull, tame shore, But I loved the great sea more and more. — Bryan Procter

They had eaten at a place called Terry's for lunch, Terry's Primo Subs in Hampton, which was back in New Hampshire, on the sea. — Joe Hill

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

Only I am clumsy, like drifting on the waves of the sea, without direction. — Laozi

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

With which stars do they go on speaking,the rivers that never reach the sea? — Pablo Neruda

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

When you grow up on an island, what matters is how you stand to the sea. — Roddy Doyle

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

You were only meant to be a stepping stone on my journey across the sea. — Sara Secora

Green how I love you green. Green wind. Green boughs. The ship on the sea And the horse on the mountain. — Federico Garcia Lorca

Here we go mother on the shipless ocean.
Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go. — Anne Carson

Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. — Carl Sandburg

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

As long as you are crawling like a snake on this earth do not hope to swim like fish in the sea of Spirit. — Rumi

He wishes to be far away, either at sea or on the shore. In between, he realizes, is the most difficult of all places to be. — Jane Yolen

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

Ah me son, we don't be takin' nothin' from the sea. We has to sneak up on what we wants and wiggle it away — Farley Mowat

Watching the sea as it carried to shore millions of fragments of the sun and cast them, cooled and foaming, on the sand. — Dean Koontz