Top 1200 Mediterranean Sea Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

What of the souls already released from their bodies? We believe that they are overwhelmed in that vast sea of eternal light and of luminous eternity

Wherever love is, I want to be, I will follow it as surely as the land-locked salmon finds the sea.

The rumble of the life outside was like the sound of the sea which was rising gradually around her.

Many live in the ivory tower called reality; they never venture on the open sea of thought.

Why did they make birds so delicate and fine as those sea swallows when the ocean can be so cruel?

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

Little islands are all large prisons: one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow.

You oil field workers, come and listen to me I'm goin' to tell you a story about old John D. That company union made a fool out of me. That company union don't charge no dues It leaves you a-singing them Rockefeller blues. That company union made a fool out of me. Takes that good ole C.I.O., boys To keep that oil a-rollin', rollin' over the sea. Takes that good ole C.I.O., boys To keep that oil a-rollin' over the sea.

That shoreline where the island of knowing meets the unfathomable sea of our own being is the landscape of myth.

Some loves come unbidden like winds from the sea, and others grow from the seeds of friendship.

The philosophy of Africanism holds out the hope of a genuine democracy beyond the stormy sea of struggle

The first western gardens were those in the Mediterranean basin. There in the desert areas stretching from North Africa to the valleys of the Euphrates, the so-called cradle of civilization, where plants were first grown for crops by settled communities, garden enclosures were also constructed. Gardens emphasized the contrast between two separate worlds: the outer one where nature remained awe-inspiringly in control and an inner artificially created sanctuary, a refuge for man and plants from the burning desert, where shade trees and cool canals refreshed the spirit and ensured growth.

I think of my pile of old paperbacks, their pages gone wobbly, like they'd once belonged to the sea.

wert thou as far As that vast shore washed with the farthest sea, I would adventure for such merchandise.

Very few people know what it's like being onstage looking out at a sea of bodies.

I mean, there is amazing amount of oil and gas and other resources out beneath the sea. It's staggering.

Moses probably danced a little, right? You don't part the Red Sea without having some moves.

If I had my will, I would live in a ship on the sea and never come nearer to humanity than that!

God went out of me as if the sea dried up like sandpaper, as if the sun became a latrine.

It is pleasant, when the sea is high and the winds are dashing the waves about, to watch from the shores the struggles of another.

I have a very nice garden and extraordinary markets, where there are products from the earth and the sea, in the French Basque country.

Our minds are a lot like the sea...you wake up some days and its rough and stormy.

The colors that show best by candlelight are white, carnation, and a kind of sea-water green.

The desert is a spiritual place, we vaguely understand, and the sea the mere playground of our hedonism.

The most memorable is always the current one. The rest just merge into a sea of blondes. (On wives)

Estuaries are coastal bays, harbors, sounds and lagoons, places where rivers meet the sea.

I'm from an island, so I've always been near the water. I don't think I could live somewhere far from the sea.

The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence. It is nothing but love and emotion; it is the 'Living Infinite.

Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precisely what he is seeking.

Emerald as heavy as a golf course, ruby as dark as an afterbirth, diamond as white as sun on the sea.

Like black hulks the shadows of the great trees ride at anchor on the billowy sea of grass.

Mariner, do not ask whose tomb this may be, but go with good fortune: I wish you a kinder sea.

The most ordinary conditions for observing sailing birds are then the wind and sea are both aft.

tears have a purpose. they are what we carry of the ocean, and perhaps we must become the sea, give ourselves to it, if we are to be transformed.

Politics is like navigation in a sea without charts, and wise men live the lives of pilgrims.

The future is a fog that is still hanging out over the sea, a boat that floats home or does not.

Ah me son, we don't be takin' nothin' from the sea. We has to sneak up on what we wants and wiggle it away

Some people say there are plenty of fish in the sea - until you find love - then there is only one.

The sea of pleasures may drown its owner and the swimmer fears to open his eyes under the water.

I'm a bit claustrophobic, I don't like crowds, I live by the sea - that's what I see when I come out of my house in Bridlington.

To Meath of the pastures, From wet hills by the sea, Through Leitrim and Longford, Go my cattle and me.

So on this windy sea of land, the Fiend Walked up and down alone bent on his prey.

Life is like stepping onto a boat which is about to sail out to sea and sink.

When we talk about GOD, we’re like a school of fish, discussing the possible existence of the sea.

I imagined loading the God of the Sea into a taxi and taking him to the Upper East Side.

And I have asked to be Where no storms come, Where the green swell is in the havens dumb, And out of the swing of the sea.

I love looking out at a sea of people. It's mind-blowing. But I also like playing clubs.

When I play a gig and look out at the audience, you're literally looking at a sea of Joy Division T-shirts.

Seek not the depths of your knowledge with staff or sounding line. For self is a sea boundless and measureless.

Life is a big sea full of many fish. I let down my nets and pulled. I'm still pulling.

All artists dream of a silence which they must enter, as some creatures return to the sea to spawn.

I laugh, for hope hath a happy place with me; If my boat sinks, 'tis to another sea.

I felt like time was a great sea, and I was floating on the back of a turtle, and no sails broke the horizon.

If I had my will I would live in a ship on the sea, and never come nearer to humanity than that!

Bad cooking is responsible for more trouble at sea than all other things put together.

There're been sort of a sea change in my work in general, in that the more personal, the universal it's become.

The sea heaves up, hangs loaded o'er the land, Breaks there, and buries its tumultuous strength.

In Mumbai, the air is saltier. The sea is roilier. The traffic is snarlier. The pinks are pinker. The ostentation is crazier.

What though the sea be calm? trust to the shore, Ships have been drown'd, where late they danc'd before.

It would be better to drown these prisoners in the Dead Sea if possible, since that's the lowest point in the world.