Top 1200 Sea Turtle Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

To young men contemplating a voyage I would say go. The tales of rough usage are for the most part exaggerations, as also are the tales of sea danger. To face the elements is, to be sure, no light matter when the sea is in its grandest mood. You must then know the sea, and know that you know it, and not forget that it was made to be sailed over.

I really have a passion for the sea, so I think it's important that whatever I do, I want to be near the sea.

You are absolutely free to describe me as a turtle or something.

I will tell you unequivocally, a wall from sea to shining sea is not the right direction to go.

I've never been hurt by a sea creature, except for jellyfish and sea urchins.

There are no footprints on the sea and no road-signs, not a single guard-stone or post, and no bends, only paths of light and dark from which to choose, the choice is always a difficult navigation and the storm's wingspan immeasurable as the depths and the horizon, but the sea holds you in its mighty hand your life is a sea-blue tale of love and death.

Whenever your preparations for the sea are poor; the sea worms its way in and finds the problems.

You can't get the taste of winning in a running competition with a turtle!

The Sea Will be the Sea Whatever the drop's philosophy.

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

Those who live by the sea can hardly form a single thought of which the sea would not be part.

Take a walk with a turtle. And behold the world in pause.

Be like the turtle. If he didn't stick his neck out, he wouldn't get anywhere at all.

Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.

....the sea changes color, but the sea does not change.

Turtle has just one plan at a time, and every cell buys into it.

We don't even know if we're in this room. We could be in a turtle's dream in outer space.

The legend of the parting of the Red Sea probably refers to tidal changes in the Sea of Reeds related to the Thera eruption.

On 15 July 2007, I swam across an open patch of sea at the North Pole to highlight the melting of the Arctic sea ice.

No turtle can be a revolutionist, because revolution requires high speed!

The problem is to find the time to write. That's why I go to sea. I couldn't be happier than when at 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.

The sea is the source of water and the source of wind; for neither would blasts of wind arise in the clouds and blow out from within them, except for the great sea, nor would the streams of rivers nor the rain-water in the sky exist but for the sea ; but the great sea is the begetter of clouds and winds and rivers.

A turtle does come in it's own bowl

Supporters of Osama bin Laden want to rename the Arabian Sea after bin Laden's death. They want to call it "Martyr's Sea." Please, hiding in your bedroom for six years with the blinds closed? How about "Chicken of the Sea?

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!

They say the sea is cold, but the sea contains the hottest blood of all, and the wildest, the most urgent.

My spirit animal... probably like a turtle, because I have no concept of time.

I would honestly say I'm in the turtle's race. My journey is a marathon.

We have lingered in the chambers of the sea By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown Till human voices wake us... and we drown.

Wow. Who would want a fish for a pet when they could have a turtle?!

The singing of sea shanties as working songs at sea is a lost art

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

Usually when I draw, I try to be in a contemplative mood. I try to keep my mind as empty, vacant and tranquil as possible. The outer mind is like the surface of the sea. On the surface, the sea is full of waves and surges; it is all restlessness. But when we dive deep below, the same sea is all peace, calmness and quiet, and there we find the source of creativity.

The sea calm is the Absolute; the same sea in waves is Divine Mother.

I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky; and all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by.

The sea possesses a power over one's moods that has the effect of a will. The sea can hypnotize. Nature in general can do so.

The sea is the vast reservoir of Nature. The globe began with sea, so to speak; and who knows if it will not end with it?

I don't like the beach. I think we have no business at the beach at all, as a species. We don't belong in the sea. The sea is full of things that bite us, sting us, hurt the soles of our feet, and it's extremely cold. When are we gonna take the hint that the things that live in the sea don't like us?

The sea with an end can be Greek or Roman: the endless sea is Portuguese.

Turtles are greater than baby nephews, because it's ok to drop a turtle.

The twilight is sad and cloudy, The wind blows wild and free, And like the wings of sea-birds Flash the white caps of the sea.

In fact, building a wall from sea to shining sea would be the most expensive and least effective way to secure the border.

In the South China Sea and underneath the South China Sea, of course, there's a lot of raw materials. There are very rich fishing grounds there, so there are some economic concerns in the South China Sea as well.

We could all be in a turtle's dream, in outer space!

I learn as much from a turtle as from a religious text.

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.

repression, however, is not the most obvious characteristic of the sea; the sea is a collector, quick to return a rapacious look.

Watch the turtle. He only moves forward by sticking his neck out.

The turtle only makes progress when it's neck is stuck out.

Like the turtle, you need to stick your neck out to make progress.

My favorite Christmas gift as a child was - I had a ninja turtle skateboard.

The sea was indistinguishable from the sky, except that the sea was slightly creased as if a cloth had wrinkles in it.

This ego business has come from various sources, you know that, but it has to be cleansed out. Like when the river flows all kinds of dirt, filth flows into it, but when it meets the sea it becomes the sea. In the same way you have to become that. To become the sea what you have to do is to forget all these tributaries which were coming into you, and all these wrong ideas which came to you.

Unfortunately, I am not like a snail or a turtle, and I can't take my houses with me when I move.

Turtle makes all men equal.

Try to be like the turtle - at ease in your own shell.

Turtles don't feel, stupid," said Jem. "Were you ever a turtle, huh?

Like bubbles on the sea of matter borne, They rise, they break, and to that sea return.

A singular disadvantage of the sea lies in the fact that after successfully surmounting one wave you discover another behind it just as important and just as nervously anxious to do something effective in the way of swamping boats. In a ten-foot dinghy one can get an idea of the resources of the sea in the line of waves that is not probable to the average experience, which is never at sea in a dinghy.