Sea sayings

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◆ The sea does not like to be restrained.

- Rick Riordan99

◆ We need the tonic of wildness...At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature.

- Henry David Thoreau99

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

- Winston Churchill99

◆ The sea always filled her with longing, though for what she was never sure.

- Cornelia Funke99

◆ Look at that sea, girls--all silver and shadow and vision of things not seen. We couldn't enjoy its loveliness any more if we had millions of dollars and ropes of diamonds.

- L.M. Montgomery99

◆ She loves the serene brutality of the ocean, loves the electric power she felt with each breath of wet, briny air.

- Holly Black99

◆ I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air.

- Bram Stoker99

◆ It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. But the sea, though changed in a sinister way, will continue to exist; the threat is rather to life itself.

- Rachel Carson99

◆ There was a single blue line of crayon drawn across every wall in the house. What does it mean? I asked. A pirate needs the sight of the sea, he said and then he pulled his eye patch down and turned and sailed away.

- Brian Andreas99

◆ The sea, the snotgreen sea, the scrotumtightening sea.

- James Joyce99

◆ There was a magic about the sea. People were drawn to it. People wanted to love by it, swim in it, play in it, look at it. It was a living thing that as as unpredictable as a great stage actor: it could be calm and welcoming, opening its arms to embrace it's audience one moment, but then could explode with its stormy tempers, flinging people around, wanting them out, attacking coastlines, breaking down islands. It had a playful side too, as it enjoyed the crowd, tossed the children about, knocked lilos over, tipped over windsurfers, occasionally gave sailors helping hands; all done with a secret little chuckle

- Cecelia Ahern99

◆ A fragrant breeze wandered up from the quiet sea, trailed along the beach, and drifted back to the sea again, wondering where to go next. On a mad impulse it went up to the beach again. It drifted back to sea.

- Douglas Adams99

◆ We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep.

- William James99

◆ The road to Manderley lay ahead. There was no moon. The sky above our heads was inky black. But the sky on the horizon was not dark at all. It was shot with crimson, like a splash of blood. And the ashes blew towards us with the salt wind from the sea.

- Daphne du Maurier99

◆ Darwin may have been quite correct in his theory that man descended from the apes of the forest, but surely woman rose from the frothy sea, as resplendent as Aphrodite on her scalloped chariot.

- Margot Datz99