Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yasser Arafat

You are the generation that will reach the sea and hoist the flag of Palestine over Tel Aviv.

Rudyard Kipling

Never was isle so little, never was sea so lone, But over the scud and the palm-trees an English flag was flown.

Virginia Woolf

The word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into a sea of words and came up dripping.

Zane Grey

There was never an angler who lived but that there was a fish capable of taking the conceit out of him.

Zane Grey

Fishermen, no matter what supreme good fortune befalls them, cannot ever be absolutely satisfied. It is a fundamental weakness of intellect.

William Allingham

I have been an "Official" all my life, without the least turn for it. I never could attain a true official manner, which is highly artificial and handles trifles with ludicrously disproportionate gravity.

Washington Irving

Angling is an amusement peculiarly adapted to the mild and cultivated scenery of England

Hence a ship is said to head the sea, when her course is opposed to the setting or direction of the surges.

William Styron

In Vineyard Haven, on Martha's Vineyard, mostly I love the soft collision here of harbor and shore, the subtly haunting briny quality that all small towns have when they are situated on the sea

William Randolph Hearst

If you want to see the acceptable face of capitalism, go out to an oil rig in the North Sea.

William Irwin Thompson

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

William C. Bryant

Yet will that beauteous image make The dreary sea less drear And thy remembered smile will wake The hope that tramples fear

William Butler Yeats

For the good are always the merry, / Save by an evil chance,/ And the merry love the fiddle,/ And the merry love to dance: / And when the folk there spy me,/ They will all come up to me, / With,”Here is the fiddler of Dooney!” / And dance like a wave of the sea.

William Butler Yeats

It's certain there are trout somewhere - And maybe I shall take a trout - but I do not seem to care.

Walter Winchell

Good evening, Mr. and Mrs. America from border to border and coast to coast and all the ships at sea. Let's go to press.

Walter Savage Landor

Falsehood is for a season.

Winston Churchill

The British people are good all through. You can test them as you would put a bucket into the sea and always find it salt.

Winston Churchill

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

Rick Riordan

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

Rick Riordan

But how did you know where we were?" Annabeth asked. Advanced planning, my dear. I figured you would wash up near Miami if you made it out of the Sea of Monsters alive. Almost everything strange washes up near Miami.

Rick Riordan

lightning thief was good but the sea of monsters is better and has more action!

Rick Riordan

I will not have a sea creature destroyed, if I can help it. And I can help it.

Tracie Bennett

I am so scared of the sea, so what did I do? Learned to scuba in the Great Barrier Reef.

Rudyard Kipling

An angry skipper makes an unhappy crew.

Wendell Berry

Finally from the crease of the ravine I am following, there begins to come the trickling and splashing of water. There is a great restfulness in the sounds these small streams make; they are going down as fast as they can, but their sound seem leisurely and idle, as if produced like gemstones with the greatest patience and care.

Wendell Berry

The river is of the earth and it is free. It is rigorously embanked and bound, and yet it is free. To hell with restraint, it says, I have got to be going. It will grind out its dams. It will go over or around them. They will become pieces.

Wendell Berry

Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.

Walter Raleigh

Our shipping and sea service is our best and safest defence as being the only fortification and rampart of England.

Walter Raleigh

Whoever commands the sea, commands the trade; whosoever commands the trade of the world commands the riches of the world, and consequently the world itself.

Vladimir Nabokov

The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.

Yann Martel

I wish I could convey the perfection of a seal slipping into water or a spider monkey swinging from point to point or a lion merely turning its head. But language founders in such seas. Better to picture it in your head if you want to feel it.

Clint Bowyer

I need as much seat time as I can. Because most of these tracks I am going to, I have never been to before.

The issue, really, this year is the anomalously warm sea surface temperatures in the Atlantic,