Top 1200 Mediterranean Sea Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

The peoples of the Mediterranean began to emerge from barbarism when they learned to cultivate the olive and the vine.

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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

I am irrationally irritated by those who cast the Mediterranean in a balmy, Augustan perma-glow.

A fragrant breeze wandered up from the quiet sea, trailed along the beach, and drifted back to the sea again, wondering where to go next. On a mad impulse it went up to the beach again. It drifted back to sea.

All around the Mediterranean you'll find cultures that believe men can't control themselves and shouldn't have to try.

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.

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.

There in the windy flood of morning Longing lifted its weight from me, Lost as a sob in the midst of cheering, Swept as a sea-bird out to sea.

As a student I travelled around the Mediterranean - the Greek islands and Salerno on the south coast of Italy.

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?

A beach is not only a sweep of sand, but shells of sea creatures, the sea glass, the seaweed, the incongruous objects washed up by the ocean.

The sea, the sea, the sea. It rolled and rolled and called to me. Come in, it said, come in.

There is no need for a wall from sea to shining sea.

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.

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

I find the presence of the sea quite inspiring, and sometimes I do just get out and walk around and take in the sea breeze to try and clear my mind.

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.

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

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.

In Morocco, it's possible to see the Atlantic and the Mediterranean at the same time.

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.

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

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.

The sea drinks the air and the sun the sea.

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.

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

Coming, as I do, from mountain folk on one side and sea followers on the other, there are few old songs of the hills or the sea with which I am not familiar.

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

If you've ever seen the film In Which We Serve, but it was about a destroyer in the Mediterranean.

Death is a meeting place of sea and sea.

I am longing to see Libya rejoin the world as the internationalist Mediterranean country that it was.

I don't like lakes generally. It's a glorified pond, isn't it? I live by the sea, so for me I need to taste salt. I prefer the mystery, the majesty of the sea.

I love the Mediterranean for the fact that winter is over in a minute, and the almond blossom arrives in January.

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.

We hope relevant countries will work together in the same direction to build the South China Sea into a sea of peace, friendship and co-operation.

Beautifully Bleak. I likened the hills encircling Canberra to the sea. They, like the sea, could be a sunny beguiling blue, or deep and inky. They could be distant and mysterious, or beautifully bleak as the wind tore across the plains from their snowy peaks. The hills were ever changing like the sea.

All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Laurels grow in the Bay of Biscay, I hope a bed of them may be found in the Mediterranean.

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

Arak means 'sweat' in Arabic, and it is the perfect Mediterranean after-dinner drink, in my opinion.

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.

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.

The darkness that had come in from the Mediterranean covered the city so detested by the procurator.

I have watched the river and the sea for a lifetime. I have seen rivers rob soil from the roots of trees until the giants came foundering down. I have watched shores slip and perish, the channels silt and change; what was beach become a swamp and a headland tumble into the sea. An island has eroded in silent pain since my boyhood, and reefs have become islands. Yet the old people used to say, People pass away, but not the land. It remains forever. Maybe that is so. The land changes. The land continues. The sea changes. The sea remains.

I grew up on a pretty Mediterranean diet, so that's what I try to stick to.

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

My preference is swimming in the sea. I find the sea is more liberating, wild and good fun rather than plodding up and down a pool.

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

My parents are artists and they decided they would prefer to paint in the Mediterranean rather than in Scotland.