Sea Quotes

All things on earth point home in old October; sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long voice of the hounds, the lover to the love he has forsaken.
Thomas Wolfe

Love, Home, Long

The autumn wind is a pirate. Blustering in from sea with a rollicking song he sweeps along swaggering boisterously. His face is weather beaten, he wears a hooded sash with a silver hat about his head... The autumn wind is a Raider, pillaging just for fun.
Steve Sabol

Fun, Weather, Song

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

Live, House, Bit

He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.
William Golding

Patience, Sails, Rides

He that will learn to pray, let him go to sea.
George Herbert

Him, Learn, Pray

The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
Joseph Conrad

Human, Friendly, Accomplice

At sea a fellow comes out. Salt water is like wine, in that respect.
Herman Melville

Respect, Wine, Water

You never enjoy the world aright, till the sea itself floweth in your veins, till you are clothed with the heavens and crowned with the stars.
Thomas Traherne

Enjoy, Stars, Heavens

To study the phenomena of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all.
William Osler

Study, While, Books

When the seagulls follow the trawler, it's because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea.
Eric Cantona

At night, when the sky is full of stars and the sea is still you get the wonderful sensation that you are floating in space.
Natalie Wood

Night, Wonderful, Stars

For all that has been said of the love that certain natures (on shore) have professed for it, for all the celebrations it has been the object of in prose and song, the sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
Joseph Conrad

Love, Human, Friendly

There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.
Joseph Conrad

Life, Nothing, Enslaving

A modern fleet of ships does not so much make use of the sea as exploit a highway.
Joseph Conrad

Modern, Ships, Highway

I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.
Miguel de Cervantes

Good, Water, Heard

Look! Don't be deceived by appearances - men and things are not what they seem. All who are not on the rock are in the sea!
William Booth

Men, Rock, Seem

A man who is not afraid of the sea will soon be drowned, he said, for he will be going out on a day he shouldn't. But we do be afraid of the sea, and we do only be drownded now and again.
John Millington Synge

Said, Afraid, Again

Though the terror of the sea gives to none security, in the secret of the shell. Self preserving we may dwell.
Muhammad Iqbal

Self, May, Secret

The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.
Vladimir Nabokov

Cannot, Whole, Explain

All rivers, even the most dazzling, those that catch the sun in their course, all rivers go down to the ocean and drown. And life awaits man as the sea awaits the river.
Simone Schwarz-Bart

Life, Down, Sun

My dreams were always small and puny. All I ever needed was a little house with a little picket fence by the sea. Little did I know that I would live in Malacanang Palace for 20 years and visit all the major palaces of mankind. And then also meet ordinary citizens and the leaders of superpowers.
Imelda Marcos

Dreams, Live, Small

There is no humane slaughter requirement for wild fish caught and killed at sea, nor, in most places, for farmed fish.
Peter Singer

Fish, Nor, Wild

It is a quiet and peaceful place - and a fitting place for the remains of this greatest of sea tragedies to rest.
Robert Ballard

Greatest, Place, Rest

One of the guys that used to run it - for some reason I've no idea why he used to call me the Sea Monster and I was just looking around for a name and thought that'll do. That lasted for a couple of years probably.
Jo Brand

Thought, Why, Around

I swam at school a lot. Long-distance swimming in pools, and diving, then when we moved to Hastings when I was 13 I used to swim in the sea all the time; I loved it out of season and when it was rough.
Jo Brand

Time, School, Used

The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek.
Henry Adams

American, President, Seek

I was at sea the other day and loads of meat floated past. It was a bit choppy.
Tim Vine

Past, Bit, Meat

The sea heaves up, hangs loaded o'er the land, Breaks there, and buries its tumultuous strength.
Robert Browning

Strength, Land, Breaks

I love the sea's sounds and the way it reflects the sky. The colours that shimmer across its surface are unbelievable. This, combined with the colour of the water over white sand, surprises me every time.
John Dyer

Love, Time, Water

Virtue could see to do what Virtue would by her own radiant light, though sun and moon where in the flat sea sunk.
John Milton

Sun, Light, Her

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