Quotes and Sayings About Sea
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Good night; ensured release, Imperishable peace, Have these for yours. * While sky and sea and land And earth's foundations stand And heaven endures. *These three lines are on the tablet over Housman's grave in the parish church at Ludlow, Shropshire, England
-- A. E. Housman -
I sought them far and found them, The sure, the straight, the brave, The hearts I lost my own to, The souls I could not save They braced their belts about them, They crossed in ships the sea, They sought and found six feet of ground, And there they died for me.
-- A. E. Housman -
This high official, all allow, is grossly overpaid; there wasn't any Board, and now there isn't any Trade.
-- A. P. Herbert -
The terrifying physics of going up-mast in heavy seas are inescapable.
-- Abby Sunderland -
All the ingenuity, all the high-tech gear, all the jury-rigging sometimes the sea would rip it all away until there was only you, the Creator, and His mercy.
-- Abby Sunderland -
Being at sea is like watching the whole world in high-definition.
-- Abby Sunderland -
Terror ripped through me as I was falling, falling, falling toward the sea.
-- Abby Sunderland -
The things that happen on the sea take you beyond yourself, beyond human capability.
-- Abby Sunderland -
When Israel was from bondage led,Led by the Almighty's handFrom out of foreign land,The great sea beheld and fled.
-- Abraham Cowley -
The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
I would that with sleepy, soft embraces The sea would fold mewould find me rest In luminous shades of her secret places, In depths where her marvels are manifest; So the earth beneath her should not discover My hidden couchnor the heaven above her As a strong love shielding a weary lover, I would have her shield me with shining breast.
-- Adam Lindsay Gordon -
Sun and wind and beat of sea, Great lands stretching endlessly... Where be bonds to bind the free? All the world was made for me!
-- Adelaide Crapsey -
The sea is endless when you are in a rowboat.
-- Adolfo Bioy Casares -
once upon a time all the rivers combined to protest against the action of the sea in making their waters salt. "When we come to you," sad they to the sea, "we are sweet and drinkable; but when once we have mingled with you, our waters become as briny and unpalatable as your own." The sea replied shortly, "Keep away from me, and you'll remain sweet.
-- Aesop -
When the sea goes down, there will come from the mainland boats and men. And they will find ten dead bodies and an unsolved problem on Indian Island.
-- Agatha Christie -
Turkey is a European country, an Asian country, a Middle Eastern country, Balkan country, Caucasian country, neighbor to Africa, Black Sea country, Caspian Sea, all these.
-- Ahmet Davutoglu -
The climate crisis is the greatest challenge humanity has ever faced. From not only the warming of the earth with higher global temperatures, but also from strengthening storms and expanding droughts to melting ice and rising seas, the costs of carbon pollution are already being felt by governments, corporations, taxpayers and families around the world. The climate crisis will affect everything that we love and alter the course of our future. Now, more than ever, we must come together to solve this global crisis. We must act decisively, rise to the occasion and solve this monumental challenge.
-- Al Gore -
Winston Churchill aroused this nation in heroic fashion to save civilisation in World War Two. We have everything we need except political will, but political will is a renewable resource.
-- Al Gore -
I wanted freedom, open air and adventure. I found it on the sea.
-- Alain Gerbault -
I've never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none.
-- Alan Bennett -
Strictly speaking, the land does not exist; it is merely dehydrated sea.
-- Alan Coren -
On a clear day, rise and look around you and you'll see who you are on a clear day, how it will astound you that the glow of your being outshines every star! You feel part of every mountain, sea and shore. You can hear from far and near a world you've never heard before And on that clear day you can see forever more
-- Alan Jay Lerner -
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.
-- Alan Keyes -
The singing of sea shanties as working songs at sea is a lost art
-- Alan Villiers -
It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it-just as the world reproduces itself in the course of its eternal gyrations. The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore.
-- Albert Camus -
We [Raymond and Meursault] stared at each other without blinking, and everything came to a stop there between the sea, the sand, and the sun, and the double silence of the flute and the water. It was then that I realized that you could either shoot or not shoot.
-- Albert Camus -
The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore.
-- Albert Camus -
There is a sea of consciousness that is universal, even though we each perceive it from our own shores, an awareness and a world that we all share, that can be experienced by every living being, yet is seldom seen by any.
-- Alberto Villoldo -
Like all real treasures of the mind, perception can be split into infinitely small fractions without losing its quality. The weeds in a city lot convey the same lesson as the redwoods; the farmer may see in his cow-pasture what may not be vouchsafed to the scientist adventuring in the South Seas.
-- Aldo Leopold
