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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
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.
- Nov 07, 2020
I love the sound of voices singing together, congregational singing, anything like gospel, or folk, or sea shanties.
- Crazy
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1997, clients balked at self-ordering. They thought it was beneath them. But in 1998, a sea change in perception came, thanks to the rise of the Net and online trading. The concept of doing it yourself was not crazy.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
Buonaparte has often made his boast that our fleet would be worn out by keeping the sea and that his was kept in order and increasing by staying in port; but know he finds, I fancy, if Emperors hear the truth, that his fleet suffers more in a night than ours in one year.
- Duty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Duty is the great business of a sea officer; all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every summer my husband and I pack our suitcases, load our kids into the car, and drive from tense, crowded New York City to my family's cottage in Maine. It's on an island, with stretches of sea and sandy beaches, rocky coasts, and pine trees. We barbecue, swim, lie around, and try to do nothing.
- Energy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I loved the energy of Dublin and the fact that it's so close to the sea, with beauty spots such as Howth so close to hand.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yes, a family is interesting. You can get a lot of drama in the conflicts there. It's like the sea. It seems calm, but inside there is conflict.
- Nov 07, 2020
Those who live by the sea can hardly form a single thought of which the sea would not be part.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the infinity of the sea may call out thus, perhaps when a man is growing old, calls come to him, too, from another infinity still darker and more deeply mysterious; and the more he is wearied by life the dearer are those calls to him.
- Ocean
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- Nov 07, 2020
A beach is not only a sweep of sand, but shells of sea creatures, the sea glass, the seaweed, the incongruous objects washed up by the ocean.
- Ice
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- Nov 07, 2020
A sea setting us upon the ice has brought us close to danger.
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- Nov 07, 2020