Famous Quotes & Sayings

Fritz Sauckel

It so happened that I was on a German sailing vessel on the way to Australia when the ship was captured, and on the high seas I was made prisoner by the French.

Making comparisons can spoil your happiness.

Happiness often comes when least expected.

George Herbert

He complaines wrongfully on the sea that twice suffers shipwrack.

George Herbert

God strikes not with both hands, for to the sea he made heavens, and to rivers foords.

Christopher Columbus

Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.

Christina Rossetti

O Lord, I cannot plead my love of Thee: I plead Thy love of me: - the shallow conduit hails the unfathomed sea.

Chris Pratt

I have a pet lizard named Puff, five goldfish - named Pinky, Brain, Jowels, Pearl and Sandy, an oscar fish named Chef, two pacus, an albino African frog named Whitey, a bonsai tree, four Venus flytraps, a fruit fly farm and sea monkeys.

George R. R. Martin

The sea is never weary. I must be as tireless.

Friedrich Nietzsche

One must be a sea, to receive a polluted stream without becoming impure.

Friedrich Nietzsche

What do you plan to do in the land of the sleepers? You have been floating in a sea of solitude, and the sea has borne you up. At long last, are you ready for dry land? Are you ready to drag yourself ashore?

Jeanette Winterson

…I noticed a woman whose face was a sea voyage I had not the courage to attempt.

Jethro Tull

Her legs went on forever, like staring at infinity through a wisp of cotton panty along a skin of satin sea.

Georges Duhamel

The swimmer adrift on the open seas measures his strength, and strives with all his muscles to keep himself afloat. But what is he to do when there is no land on the horizon, and none beyond it?

Georges Cuvier

The lowest and most level land areas show us, especially when we dig there to very great depths, nothing but horizontal layers of material more or less varied, which almost all contain innumerable products of the sea.

Georges Cuvier

But the revolutions and changes which are responsible for the present state of the earth are not limited to the upsetting of the ancient strata and to the ebbing of the sea after the formations of new layers.

Jean Racine

He who ruleth the raging of the sea, knows also how to check the designs of the ungodly. I submit myself with reverence to His Holy Will. O Abner, I fear my God, and I fear none but Him.

Jerry Falwell

AIDS is the wrath of a just God against homosexuals. To oppose it would be like an Israelite jumping in the Red Sea to save one of Pharaoh's charioteers ... AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals; it is God's punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals.

Jeremy Clarkson

Why is the forecast so bland? Why instead of 'stormy' don't they just say the sea's 'a frothing maelstrom of terror and hopelessness'?

Jean Rhys

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

Huey Newton

To die for the racists is lighter than a feather, but to die for the people is heavier than any mountain and deeper than any sea.

Horace

He who studies to imitate the poet Pindar, O Julius, relies on artificial wings fastened on with wax, and is sure to give his name to a glassy sea.

Horace

Caelum non animum mutant qui trans mare currunt. (They change their sky, not their soul, who rush across the sea.)

Fernando Pessoa

God gave the sea the danger and the abyss, but it was in it that He mirrored the sky.

Fernando Pessoa

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

Fernando Pessoa

Oh salty sea, how much of your salt Is tears from Portugal?

Fernando Pessoa

It's in an inland sea that the river of my life ended.

Ezra Pound

Your mind and you are our Sargasso Sea.

Francis Drake

It isn't that life ashore is distasteful to me. But life at sea is better.

I do swimming, but that's only two seasons out of the year.

Gustavo Kuerten

I am 29 and if by the end of the season I haven't rediscovered my top form, I will stop playing.

Jim Gerlach

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

Jim Harrison

It is utterly soothing to fly fish for trout. All other considerations or worries drift away and you couldn't keep them close if you wanted. Perhaps it's standing thigh deep in a river with the water passing at the exact but varying speed of life. You easily recognize this mortality and it dissipates into the landscape.