Sea Quotes

We must plant the sea and herd its animals using the sea as farmers instead of hunters. That is what civilization is all about - farming replacing hunting.
Jacques Yves Cousteau

Hunting, Using, Plant

He like a rock in the sea unshaken stands his ground.
Virgil

Rock, Ground, Stands

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

Knowledge, Live, Ignorance

Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Religion, Find, Place

There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath.
Herman Melville

Soul, Speak, Sweet

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I feel we are all islands - in a common sea.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Common, Islands

The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness - has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.
Joseph Conrad

Power, Truth, Courage

It must be remembered that the sea is a great breeder of friendship. Two men who have known each other for twenty years find that twenty days at sea bring them nearer than ever they were before, or else estrange them.
Gilbert Parker

Friendship, Great, Men

There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.
George Byron

Love, Music, Nature

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge in vain wishes.
Laurence J. Peter

Yourself, Water, Wishes

I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.
H. G. Wells

Confess, Crew, Refuses

The guerrilla must move amongst the people as a fish swims in the sea.
Mao Zedong

Fish, Move, Guerrilla

Niger is not an isolated island of desperation. It lies within a sea of problems across Africa - particularly the 'forgotten emergencies' in poor countries or regions with little strategic or material appeal.
Desmond Tutu

Poor, Problems, Lies

The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.
Ovid

Calm, Shipwreck

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
Publilius Syrus

Calm, Anyone, Hold

Shaw is like a train. One just speaks the words and sits in one's place. But Shakespeare is like bathing in the sea - one swims where one wants.
Vivien Leigh

Words, Place, Wants

The sea is the universal sewer.
Jacques Yves Cousteau

Universal, Sewer

Duty is the great business of a sea officer; all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be.
Horatio Nelson

Great, Business, May

There is nothing quite so good as burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.
Alfred Hitchcock

Good, Simple, Nothing

Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians.
Jacques Yves Cousteau

Act, Hunting, Farming

Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.
John Updike

Poetry, Writing, Criticism

Anybody can pilot a ship when the sea is calm.
Navjot Singh Sidhu

Calm, Anybody, Ship

We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.
Paul Tillich

Moving, Words, Through

A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea. If he tries to climb out into the air as inexperienced people endeavor to do, he drowns.
Joseph Conrad

Dream, Born, Air

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

Lonely, Down, Again

The question of armaments, whether on land or sea, is the most immediately and intensely practical question connected with the future fortunes of nations and of mankind.
Woodrow Wilson

Future, Question, Whether

I love San Francisco and Brighton has something of San Francisco about it. It's by the sea, there's a big gay community, a feeling of people being there because they enjoy their life there.
Brian Eno

Life, Love, Gay

Just under the surface I shall be, all together at first, then separate and drift, through all the earth and perhaps in the end through a cliff into the sea, something of me. A ton of worms in an acre, that is a wonderful thought, a ton of worms, I believe it.
Samuel Beckett

End, Together, Through

The sea hath fish for every man.
William Camden

It seemed that rebellion must have an unassailable base, something guarded not merely from attack, but from the fear of it: such a base as we had in the Red Sea Parts, the desert, or in the minds of the men we converted to our creed.
T. E. Lawrence

Men, Fear, Minds

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