Sea Quotes - Page 11

• I only really and truly fully relax on my own. Give me a sun lounger, a pool and a sea view, and I'm happy.

  Miranda Hart

  Views, Giving, Relax

  Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2012.

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• A sailor's joys are as simple as a child's.

  Bernard Moitessier

  Children, Simple, Joy

  Bernard Moitessier (1995). “The Long Way”, p.13, Sheridan House, Inc.

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• I pass with relief from the tossing sea of Cause and Theory to the firm ground of Result and Fact.

  Winston Churchill

  Relief, Causes, Facts

  The Malakand Field Force ch. 3 (1898)

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• The sea is endless when you are in a rowboat.

  Adolfo Bioy Casares

  Endless

  Adolfo Bioy Casares, Ruth L. C. Simms (2003). “The invention of Morel”, New York Review of Books

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  The most alarming of all man's assaults upon the environment is the contamination of air, earth, rivers, and sea with dangerous and even lethal materials. This pollution is for the most part irrecoverable; the chain of evil it initiates not only in the world that must support life but in living tissues is for the most part irreversible. In this now universal contamination of the environment, chemicals are the sinister and little-recognized partners of radiation in changing the very nature of the world-the very nature of its life.

  Rachel Carson

  Nature, Men, Rivers

  Rachel Carson (2002). “Silent Spring”, p.6, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A long sea implies an uniform and steady motion of long and extensive waves; on the contrary, a short sea is when they run irregularly, broken, and interrupted; so as frequently to burst over a vessel's side or quarter.

  William Falconer

  Running, Long, Broken

  William Falconer (1784). “An Universal Dictionary of the Marine: Or, A Copious Explanation of the Technical Terms and Phrases Employed in the Construction, Equipment, Furniture, Machinery, Movements, and Military Operations of a Ship”, p.201

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• I never saw a moor, I never saw the sea; Yet know I how the heather looks, And what a wave must be. I never spoke with God, Nor visited in Heaven; Yet certain am I of the spot, As if a chart were given.

  Emily Dickinson

  Faith, Heaven, Heathers

  Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler (2010). “Dickinson”, p.343, Harvard University Press

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• Drifting, On a sea of forgotten teardrops, On a lifeboat, Sailing for Your love

  Jimi Hendrix

  Sadness, Sailing, Forgotten

  Song: Drifting

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• I believe in living, I believe in birth, I believe in the sweat of love and in the fire of truth and I believe that a lost ship, steered by tired, sea sick sailors, can still be guided home to port

  Assata Shakur

  Believe, Home, Tired

  Assata Shakur (1987). “Assata: An Autobiography”, p.17, Zed Books

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• What will the axemen do, when they have cut their way from sea to sea?

  James F. Cooper

  Cutting, Tree, Way

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• Civilization grew in the beginning from the minute that we had communication - particularly communication by sea that enabled people to get inspiration and ideas from each other and to exchange basic raw materials.

  Thor Heyerdahl

  Communication, Inspiration, Civilization

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• Not to sound too deep or weird, but I think that the times when you really appreciate surfing are the times you're really sort of becoming one with nature. Surfing's as raw of a sport as it gets.

  Kelly Slater

  Sports, Appreciation, Time

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• From inaccessible mountain range by way of desert untrod by human foot to the ends of the unknown seas, the breath of the everlasting creative spirit is felt, rejoicing over every speck of dust that hearkens to it and lives.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Life, Mountain Ranges, Dust

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1963). “Goethe's world view: presented in his reflections and maxims”

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• I am but one more drop in the great sea of matter, defined, with the ability to realize my existence.

  Sylvia Plath

  Matter, Realizing, Heredity

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.18, Anchor

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• We lived within two hundred yards of the sea, and its voice was in our ears night and day.

  Edward Carpenter

  Night, Two, Voice

  Edward Carpenter (1916). “My days and dreams: being autobiographical notes”

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

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Self, Giving, House

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• 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, Men, Years

  Gilbert Parker (1798). “Mrs. Falchion”, p.173

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• As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Strong, Food, Wine

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.425, Simon and Schuster

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• No compass has ever been invented for the high seas of matrimony.

  Heinrich Heine

  Marriage, Compass, Matrimony

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• Home is like the ship at sea, Sailing on eternally; Oft the anchor forth we cast, But can never make it fast.

  Charles Dickens

  Home, Anchors, Sailing

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• Ships are to little purpose without skillful Sea Men.

  Richard Hakluyt

  Men, Purpose, Littles

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• From the sun did I learn this, when it goeth down, the exuberant one: gold doth it then pour into the sea, out of inexhaustible riches, -So that the poorest fisherman roweth even with golden oars! For this did I once see, and did not tire of weeping in beholding it. - Like the sun will also Zarathustra go down: now sitteth he here and waiteth, old broken tables around him, and also new tables half-written.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Broken, Gold, Half

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1931). “The Works of Friedrich Nietzsche”

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• You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and not get wet.

  Norton Juster

  Ignorance, Knowledge, Swimming

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• Strong winds buffet the sea oats and tall dune grasses, tossing sand and seabirds where it will, winding my sister's golden hair into sunlit spirals of silk until it becomes the only good memory I have of her -- the only memory I allowed myself to keep.

  Karen White

  Strong, Memories, Hair

  Karen White (2008). “The Memory of Water”, p.11, Penguin

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• In Nature nothing; is mean or contemptible, and it is only pride, originating in a false idea of our superiority, which causes our contempt for some of her productions. In the eyes of Nature, however, the oyster that vegetates at the bottom of the sea is as dear and perfect as the proud biped who devours it.

  Baron d'Holbach

  Eye, Mean, Pride

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