Quotes by Sea We’ll go where the air is pure, where all sounds are soothing, where, no matter how proud one may be, one feels humble and finds oneself small- in short, we’ll go to the sea. I love the sea as one loves a mistress and I long for her when I haven’t seen her for some time Alexandre Dumas humble air sea Well, father, in the shipwreck of life, for life is an eternal shipwreck of our hopes, I cast into the sea my useless encumbrance, that is all, and I remain with my own will, disposed to live perfectly alone, and, consequently, perfectly free. (Eugenie to her father) Alexandre Dumas useless sea father The legislator is like the navigator of a ship on the high seas. He can steer the vessel on which he sails, but he cannot alter its construction, raise the wind, or stop the waves from swelling beneath his feet. Alexis de Tocqueville sea feet wind There is nothing so good as a burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating. Alfred Hitchcock simple sea funny I wind about, and in and out, - With here a blossom sailing, - And here and there a lusty trout, - And here and there a grayling. Alfred Lord Tennyson sea lakes wind Break, break, break, On thy cold gray stones, oh sea! And I would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me. Alfred Lord Tennyson ocean stones sea There rolls the deep where grew the tree. O earth, what changes hast thou seen! There where the long street roars, hath been The stillness of the central sea. The hills are shadows, and they flow From form to form, and nothing stands; They melt like mist, the solid lands, Like clouds they shape themselves and go. Alfred Lord Tennyson sea clouds science By shaping some august decree, Alfred Lord Tennyson broads sea people A doubtful throne is ice on summer seas. Alfred Lord Tennyson ice sea summer There twice a day the Severn fills; The salt sea-water passes by, And hushes half the babbling Wye, And makes a silence in the hills. Alfred Lord Tennyson silence sea water For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself or invested with some novelty of application to the new world of new times. Knowledge does not keep any better than fish. You may be dealing with knowledge of the old species, with some old truth; but somehow it must come to the students, as it were, just drawn out of the sea and with the freshness of its immediate importance. Alfred North Whitehead successful sea doe There’s a magic in the distance, where the sea-line meets the sky. Alfred Noyes distance sea sky To cross the seas, to traverse the roads, and to work machinery by galvanism, or rather electro-magnetism, will certainly, if executed, be the most noble achievement ever performed by man. Alfred Smee sea men science Fate is a sea without a shore, and the soul is a rock that abides. Algernon Charles Swinburne rocks fate sea The loves and hours of the life of a man, Algernon Charles Swinburne sea men life At midnight the wind in the tress can sound like the ocean. The moonlight can make a road appear as endless as the sea. Alice Hoffman ocean sea wind We are at the mercy of time, and for all the ways we are remembered, a sea of things will be lost. But how much is contained in what lingers! Alice McDermott mercy sea way But, visiting Sea, your love doth press / And reach in further than you know, / And fills all these; and, when you go, / There's loneliness in loneliness. Alice Meynell ocean loneliness sea Hold still," my father would say, while I held the ship in the bottle and he burned away the strings he'd raised the mast with and set the clipper ship free on its blue putty sea. And I would wait for him, recognizing the tension of that moment when the world in the bottle depended, solely, on me. Alice Sebold sea blue father Was Daedalus really stricken with grief when Icarus fell into the sea? Or just disappointed by the design failure Alison Bechdel design grief sea «1234567891011»
