Sea Quotes - Page 30

The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek.

When I write "paradise" I mean not only apple trees and golden women but also scorpions and tarantulas and flies, rattlesnakes and Gila monsters, sandstorms, volcanoes and earthquakes, bacteria and bear, cactus, yucca, bladderweed, ocotillo and mesquite, flash floods and quicksand, and yes - disease and death and the rotting of flesh.

Let us solemnly remember the sacrifices of all those who fought so valiantly, on the seas, in the air, and on foreign shores, to preserve our heritage of freedom, and let us reconsecrate ourselves to the task of promoting an enduring peace so that their efforts shall not have been in vain.

This wasn't the sea of the inexorable horizon and smashing waves, not the sea of distance and violence, but the sea of the etenally leveling patience and wetness of water. Whether it comes to you in a storm or in a cup, it owns you--we are more water than dust. It is our origin and our destination.

It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.

I am like a moon that shines on an immense, unknown sea where ships never pass

The task is not to search for meaning, but to bring meaning to every situation you are in.

A voice so thrilling ne'er was heard... Breaking the silence of the seas Among the farthest Hebrides.

The ocean is a mighty harmonist.

Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them?

Excessive animal protein is at the core of many chronic diseases.

At the beginning of meditation training thoughts will arrive one on top of another, uninterrupted, like a steep mountain waterfall. Gradually, as you perfect meditation, thoughts become like the water in a deep, narrow gorge, then a great river slowly winding its way down to the sea; finally the mind becomes like a still and placid ocean, ruffled by only the occasional ripple or wave.

Their monument sticks like a fishbone in the city's throat.

One cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow.

Hopes are always accompanied by fears, and, in scientific research, the fears are liable to become dominant.

tears have a purpose. they are what we carry of the ocean, and perhaps we must become the sea, give ourselves to it, if we are to be transformed.

If we had better hearing, and could discern the descants of sea birds, the rhythmic tympani of schools of mollusks, or even the distant harmonics of midges hanging over meadows in the sun, the combined sound might lift us off our feet.

Many of the most highly publicized events of my presidency are not nearly as memorable or significant in my life as fishing with my daddy.

How is it, one fine morning, Duchenne discovered a disease which probably existed in the time of Hippocrates.

Touch the earth, love the earth, honour the earth, her plains, her valleys, her hills, and her seas; rest your spirit in her solitary places.

By the Grace of God, I am cured of the disease of egotism, and Death no longer terrifies me.

The sea finds out everything you did wrong.

The colors that show best by candlelight are white, carnation, and a kind of sea-water green.

One's ships come in over a calm sea.

I feel I must fight for [my music], because I want women to turn their minds to big and difficult jobs; not just to go on hugging the shore, afraid to put out to sea.