Top 1200 Sea Voyage Quotes & Sayings - Page 12

I sang in my chains like the sea

It had not been a long journey, but the memory of it filled her like an infection. She had felt tethered by time to the city behind her, so that the minutes stretched out taut as she moved away, and slowed the farther she got, dragging out her little voyage.

There's never an end for the sea.

Eternity is the sun mixed with the sea

I wish we could spend July by the sea, browning ourselves and feeling water-weighted hair flow behind us from a dive. I wish our gravest concerns were the summer gnats. I wish we were hungry for hot dogs and dopes, and it would be nice to smell the starch of summer linens and the faint odor of talc in blistering summer bath houses ... We could lie in long citoneuse beams of the five o'clock sun on the plage at Juan-les-Pins and hear the sound of the drum and piano being scooped out to sea by the waves.

The sea is endless when you are in a rowboat.

I have always had the sea as my playground.

Venice is all sea and sculpture.

We are as near to heaven by sea as by land.

Praise the Sea, but keepe on land.

It's out there at sea that you are really yourself.

the sea is made of blood

The sea complains upon a thousand shores.

Smell the sea and feel the sky.

Praise the sea; on shore remain.

To place a man in a multi-stage rocket and project him into the controlling gravitational field of the moon where the passengers can make scientific observations, perhaps land alive, and then return to earth - all that constitutes a wild dream worthy of Jules Verne. I am bold enough to say that such a man-made voyage will never occur regardless of all future advances.

Over the wine-dark sea.

Love the sea? I dote upon it--from the beach.

The deep sea is a scary world.

It's not the sea that drowns you-it's the puddle.

Praise the sea, on shore remain.

My course is set for an uncharted sea.

The bottom of the sea is cruel.

Debt is a bottomless sea.

The sea is the universal sewer.

For the land, the sea is beautiful; for the sea, the land is beautiful!

The Person is a bubble on Time's sea.

That's why we sail. So our children can grow up and be proud of whom they are. We are healing our souls by reconnecting to our ancestors. As we voyage we are creating new stories within the tradition of the old stories, we are literally creating a new culture out of the old.

The sea is certainly common to all.

The sea lives in every one of us.

O you, who in some pretty boat, Eager to listen, have been following Behind my ship, that singing sails along Turn back to look again upon your own shores; Tempt not the deep, lest unawares, In losing me, you yourselves might be lost. The sea I sail has never yet been passed; Minerva breathes, and pilots me Apollo, And Muses nine point out to me the Bears. You other few who have neck uplifted Betimes to the bread of angels upon Which one lives and does not grow sated, Well may you launch your vessel Upon the deep sea.

The back windows looked out over the fields, then the Atlantic, maybe a hundred yards away. Actually, I'm just making that bit up. I had no idea how far away the sea was. Only men could do things like that. "Half a mile." "Fifty yards." Giving directions, that sort of thing. I could look at a woman and say "Thirty-six C." Or "Let's try it in the next size up." But I had no idea how far away Tim's sea was except that I wouldn't want to walk to it in high heels.

There is no new wave, only the sea.

I feel we are all islands - in a common sea.

To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years, and take rank, not as a prophet, but as an unteachable brat, well birched and none the wiser. It is as if a ship captain should sail to India from the Port of London; and having brought a chart of the Thames on deck at his first setting out, should obstinately use no other for the whole voyage.

Nobody with me at sea but myself.

The sea does not like to be restrained.

We are all swimmers in God's mighty sea.

The sea only drowns its lovers.

Suffering from dysentery at sea was no picnic.

The sea is an idiom I cannot decipher.

Dive into the sea, or stay away

The voice of the sea speaks to the soul.

The sea is not a bargain basement.

The sea hates a coward.

Life is as inexorable as the sea.

I love the sea because it is boundless.

My boat is on the shore, And my bark is on the sea.

When you are at sea, keep clear of the land.

Earth's sweat, the sea.

I consider Greeks the Jews of the sea.

All writing begins in the sea of experience.

I deep sea fish a lot.

And somewhat as in blind night, on a mild sea, a sailor may be made aware of an iceberg, fanged and mortal, bearing invisibly near, by the unwarned charm of its breath, nothingness now revealed itself: that permanent night upon which the stars in their expiring generations are less than the glinting of gnats, and nebulae, more trivial than winter breath; that darkness in which eternity lies bent and pale, a dead snake in a jar, and infinity is the sparkling of a wren blown out to sea; that inconceivable chasm of invulnerable silence in which cataclysms of galaxies rave mute as amber.

Consciousness is a sea ringed with visions.

I am not a man of the sea.

The sea is the sweat of the earth.

There's a sea of music out there, but there's no curation for it.

One thing I learned is that the park by the river in a recent story, 'Getting Closer,' is the same park by the river that appears for a moment near the end of 'The Eighth Voyage of Sinbad,' a story first published 23 years earlier. This echo at first irritated me, then pleased me deeply.

Understand that sexuality is as wide as the sea.