Blue Sea Quotes

• The sea! The sea! The open sea!, The blue, the fresh, the ever free!

  Bryan Procter

  Beach, Ocean, Marine

  Bryan Waller Procter, “The Sea”

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• I'm not out to change the world. I'm out to change mine.

  Rodney White

  World, Deep Blue Sea, Mines

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• Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of trauma, I will fear no concussion.

  Jim Butcher

  Bible, Shadow Of Death, Death Of A Loved One

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.997, Penguin

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• The sweet love between the moon and the deep blue sea.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Love, Sweet, Moon

  Song: SWEET ANGEL ANGEL, 1971

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• Between my potential and the deep blue sea, There's a rock and a diamond either side of me. Between our potential and the break of day, There is nothing at all in our way.

  John Gorka

  Sea, Rocks, Blue

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• Far clouds of feathery gold, Shaded with deepest purple, gleam Like islands on a dark blue sea.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Dark, Clouds, Islands

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (Illustrated)”, p.92, Delphi Classics

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• I would love to do orange and lemon trees silhouetted against the blue sea, but I cannot find them the way I want them.

  Claude Monet

  Orange, Blue, Sea

  John House, Claude Monet (1986). “Monet: Nature Into Art”

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• nights and days came and passed and summer and winter and the sun and the wind and the rain. and it was good to be a little island a part of the world and a world of its own all surrounded by the bright blue sea.

  Margaret Wise Brown

  Summer, Rain, Winter

  Golden MacDonald, Margaret Wise Brown (1946). “The little island”, Doubleday Books for Young Readers

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• MY river runs to thee: Blue sea, wilt welcome me? My river waits reply. Oh sea, look graciously! I ’ll fetch thee brooks From spotted nooks,— Say, sea, Take me!

  Emily Dickinson

  Running, Blue, Sea

  Emily Dickinson, Cristanne Miller (2016). “Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them”, p.107, Harvard University Press

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• Joy to the world
  All the boys and girls now
  Joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea
  Joy to you and me

  Hoyt Axton

  Girl, Song, Boys

  Song: Joy To The World

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• A certain man once lost a diamond cuff-link in the wide blue sea, and twenty years later, on the exact day, a Friday apparently, he was eating a large fish - but there was no diamond inside. That’s what I like about coincidence.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Friday, Men, Blue

  Vladimir Nabokov (2012). “Laughter in the Dark”, p.73, Penguin UK

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• If Ford is to Chevrolet what Dodge is to Chrysler,
  what Corn Flakes are to Post Toasties,
  what the clear blue sky is to the deep blue sea,
  what Hank Williams is to Neil Armstrong -
  can you doubt we were made for each other?

  Lyle Lovett

  Corn Flakes, Blue, Sea

  Song: Here I Am

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• Modern women are squeezed between the devil and the deep blue sea, and there are no lifeboats out there in the form of public policies designed to help these women combine their roles as mothers and as workers.

  Sylvia Ann Hewlett

  Mother, Women, Sea

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• If I had to pick one tribe to go back and live with permanently - and I hate doing this, it's not a contest - it would be the people of Anuta, in the South Pacific. It's got white beaches, blue seas, good food and gentle, friendly people who have a wonderful philosophy of sharing. And it's warm.

  Bruce Parry

  Beach, Hate, Philosophy

  "My hols: Bruce Parry". Times Online UK, September 16, 2007.

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• But the past is passed; why moralize upon it? Forget it. See, yon bright son has forgotten it all, and the blue sea, and the blue sky; these have turned over new leaves. Because they have no memory . . . because they are not human.

  Herman Melville

  Memories, Son, Past

  Herman Melville (1856). “The Piazza Tales”, p.267

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• With his back to us, Sean tugs the halter from the mare's head. She kicks out, but he steps out of the way as if it were nothing at all. With a shake of her mane, she leaps mightily into the water. For a moment she struggles over the waves, and then she is swimming. Just a wild black horse in a deep blue sea full of the ashes of other dead boys.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Horse, Struggle, Swimming

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “The Scorpio Races”, p.330, Scholastic UK

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