Quotes of Sea - somelinesforyou

“ There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics — none in which there is more need of good pilots and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high. ”

- Thomas H. Huxley

“ 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. ”

- John Masefield

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

- Hermann Broch

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

- King Solomon

“ Because their planes were destroyed on Saipan, he was taken into the Marines which had aircraft. ”

- Ron Meyer

“ Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ It was unlike any feeling I've ever had,... because we're so close to these Marines. ”

- Robert Anderson

“ What would we say if the Chinese sent a gunboat with their marines up the Mississippi River claiming they were protecting their laundries in Memphis? ”

- Will Rogers

“ We're waist deep in the Big Muddy and the big fool says to push on singing about an incident in which marine recruits died driven to their deaths by an officer. ”

- Pete Seeger

“ He that will learn to pray, let him go to sea. ”

- George Herbert

“ We have a wretched motley Crew, in the Fleet; the Marines the Refuse of every Regiment, and the Seamen, few of them, ever wet with salt Water. ”

- Benedict Arnold

“ You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing. ”

- Alan Watts

“ O God, thy sea is so great, and my boat is so small. ”

- Unknown

“ Praise the sea; on shore remain. ”

- John Florio

“ The cure for anything is salt water — sweat, teats, or the sea. ”

- Isak Dinesen

“ The most foolish kind of a book is a kind of leaky boat on the sea of wisdom; some of the wisdom will get in anyhow. ”

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

“ The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness. ”

- Joseph Conrad

“ The sea is mother-death and she is a mighty female, the one who wins, the one who sucks us all up. ”

- Anne Sexton

“ The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect. ”

- Carl Sandburg

“ There are no signposts in the sky to show a man has passed that way before. There are no channels marked. The flier breaks each second into new uncharted seas. ”

- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“ There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea. ”

- Joseph Conrad

“ There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates. ”

- James Russell Lowell

“ When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ Wide sea, that one continuous murmur breeds along the pebbled shore of memory! ”

- John Keats

“ Honor the ocean of love. ”

- George De Benneville

“ Get off your butt and join the Marines. ”

- John Wayne

“ The Owl and the Pussy-Cat went to sea In a beautiful pea-green boat. ”

- Edward Lear

“ The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give… ”

- Harry Emerson Fosdick

“ To study the phenomenon of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all. ”

- Sir William Osler

“ Good seamanship is recovering from an incident at sea. Great seamanship is avoiding an incident at sea. ”

- Unknown
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