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- Nov 07, 2020
Sea Quotes
The pull of open water.
Some entries here use the sea literally, diving trips through the Red Sea and Pacific, a household still run by a grandfather's old ship discipline long after he'd come ashore, echoing themes found in Great quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 10 years, I'd love to live near the sea, in a warmer climate. I could see myself with three dogs... and it'd be great to share them with someone else.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another's great tribulation; not because any man's troubles are a delectable joy, but because to perceive you are free of them yourself is pleasant.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember how beautiful the Merrimac looked to me in childhood, the first true river I ever knew; it opened upon my sight and wound its way through my heart like a dream realized; its harebells, its rocks, and its rapids, are far more fixed in my memory than anything about the sea.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sea Hunt was the first time anyone tackled a show that took place underwater. The stories were sort of exciting for kids, like cops and robbers underwater.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The populace is like the sea motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze.
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the past, Britons were scathing about the cruelties of the old Roman empire and the excesses of Catholic empire builders such as the Spanish and the French. They convinced themselves that their empire was different and benign because it rested on sea power and trade rather than on armies.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do not yet know why plants come out of the land or float in streams, or creep on rocks or roll from the sea. I am entranced by the mystery of them, and absorbed by their variety and kinds. Everywhere they are visible yet everywhere occult.
- Ice
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- Nov 07, 2020
On 15 July 2007, I swam across an open patch of sea at the North Pole to highlight the melting of the Arctic sea ice.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
A journey by Sea and Land, Five Hundred Miles, is not undertaken without money.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
We live in a dancing matrix of viruses; they dart, rather like bees, from organism to organism, from plant to insect to mammal to me and back again, and into the sea, tugging along pieces of this genome, strings of genes from that, transplanting grafts of DNA, passing around heredity as though at a great party.
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- Nov 07, 2020
To an outsider, Abilene was like a small landfall in the Sargasso Sea - remote, laconic, and forever closed to strangers.
- Lost
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- Nov 07, 2020
The actual teaching itself becomes lost in a sea of paperwork and teachers soon realise that the very reason they entered this profession constitutes only a fraction of their working day.
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- Nov 07, 2020