Sea Quotes

The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, close embrace.

Stop running after the waves. Let the sea come to you.

The sea lives in every one of us.

If Britain must choose between Europe and the open sea, she must always choose the open sea.

In the deep space of the sea I have found my moon

But never have I been a blue calm sea I have always been a storm.

For before this I was born once a boy, and a maiden, and a plant, and a bird, and a darting fish in the sea.

He who serves a revolution ploughs a sea.

The oceans deserve our respect and care, but you have to know something before you can care about it.

We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.

The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.

We with our lives are like islands in the sea... The islands also hang together through the ocean's bottom.

We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch - we are going back from whence we came.

Sea Hunt was the first time anyone tackled a show that took place underwater. The stories were sort of exciting for kids, like cops and robbers underwater.

Our past, our present, and whatever remains of our future, absolutely depend on what we do now.

A politician complaining about the media is like a sailor complaining about the sea.

Emerald as heavy as a golf course, ruby as dark as an afterbirth, diamond as white as sun on the sea.

I like the sea: we understand one another. It is always yearning, sighing for something it cannot have; and so am I.

Puberty for a girl is like floating down a broadening river into an open sea.

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.

Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.

The journey of life is a mental one, which is taking place in the sea of illusion.

The flag that was the symbol of slavery on the high seas for a long time was not the Confederate battle flag, it was sadly the Stars and Stripes.

The cyclone ends. The sun returns; the lofty coconut trees lift up their plumes again; man does likewise. The great anguish is over; joy has returned; the sea smiles like a child.

Estuaries are coastal bays, harbors, sounds and lagoons, places where rivers meet the sea.

The Egyptians could run to Egypt, the Syrians into Syria. The only place we could run was into the sea, and before we did that we might as well fight.

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.

I - do I believe in evolution? I embrace the view that God created the heavens and the earth, the seas and all that's in them.

There are plenty of fish in the sea, if I run out of women.

The sea from Dunkirk to Dover during these days of the evacuation looked like any coastal road in England on a bank holiday. It was solid with shipping.

When first you enter Wisdom's sea, beware-A wave of indecision floods you there.

When one is building a ship, one does not begin with gathering timber and cutting planks, but rather by arousing in people the yearning for the great wide sea.

Is this chicken what I have or is this fish? I know it's tuna. But it says chicken. By the sea.

No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace is going to shoot Santa Claus just before a hard Christmas.

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.

Land was created to provide a place for boats to visit.

Water adopts the shape of its receptacle, it is sometimes a trickle and sometimes a wild sea.

Even in our day, science suspects beyond the Polar seas, at the very circle of the Arctic Pole, the existence of a sea which never freezes and a continent which is ever green.

It is an old dream: To travel on the back of a benevolent sea beast down to some secret underwater garden.

There is one spectacle grander than the sea, That is the sky.

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

From the shore, the ocean is forever. It's a beautiful, dangerous place. Music is tied to the sea, born from the struggle, looking for hope. Because hope belongs in the dark places.

It isn't that life ashore is distasteful to me. But life at sea is better.

I was born and raised on a Carolina sea island and I carried the sunshine of the low-country, inked in dark gold, on my back and shoulders.

The idea of seeing the sea - of being near it - watching its changes by sunrise, sunset, moonlight, and noonday - in calm, perhaps in storm - fills and satisfies my mind.

Hark, now hear the sailors cry, smell the sea, and feel the sky let your soul & spirit fly, into the mystic.

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.

When I'm old and gray, I want to have a house by the sea. And paint. With a lot of wonderful chums, good music, and booze around. And a damn good kitchen to cook in.

Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.

Maybe your stature as a fly fisherman isn't determined by how big a trout you can catch, but by how small a trout you can catch without being disappointed.