Sea Quotes

Climate change, in some regions, has aggravated conflict over scarce land, and could well trigger large-scale migration in the decades ahead. And rising sea levels put at risk the very survival of all small island states. These and other implications for peace and security have implications for the United Nations itself.

~ Ban Ki-Moon

I love Miami; I miss it so much. I miss the beach, the peace it brings you. I love the sound and smell of the sea.

~ Genesis Rodriguez

Aside from what it teaches you, there is simply the indescribable degree of peace that can be achieved on a sailing vessel at sea. I guess a combination of hard work and the seemingly infinite expanse of the sea - the profound solitude - that does it for me.

~ Billy Campbell

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.

~ William Shakespeare

Land is the secure ground of home, the sea is like life, the outside, the unknown.

~ Stephen Gardiner

I think the divine is like a huge smile that breaks somewhere in the sea within you, and gradually comes up again.

~ John O'donohue

I'm not romantic; I'm very practical. There are lots of fish in the sea; so whoever gets struck with your rod, one is as good as another.

~ Twinkle Khanna

Redwoods flourish in fog, but they don't like salt air. They tend to appear in valleys that are just out of sight of the sea. In their relationship with the sea, redwoods are like cats that long to be stroked but are shy to the touch.

~ Richard Preston

Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.

~ John Updike

I think the novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers. The novel receives streams of science, philosophy, poetry and contains all of these; it's not simply telling a story.

~ José Saramago

Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.

~ Saint Augustine

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.

~ Thomas Jefferson

The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.

~ Victor Hugo

Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones.

~ Pericles

Climate change is a global problem. The planet is warming because of the growing level of greenhouse gas emissions from human activity. If this trend continues, truly catastrophic consequences are likely to ensue from rising sea levels, to reduced water availability, to more heat waves and fires.

~ Malcolm Turnbull

The storm came. Lives were washed away. Ancient pains resurfaced. Now it is time for a sea of change.

~ Tavis Smiley

I don't see a sea change by 2020, but I see migration in the direction of modernization and more flexibility in the generating system going forward.

~ Lynn Good

And when the day arrives I'll become the sky and I'll become the sea and the sea will come to kiss me for I am going home. Nothing can stop me now.

~ Trent Reznor

The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make its home for life. For this task, it has a rudimentary nervous system. When it finds its spot and takes root, it doesn't need its brain anymore so it eats it!

~ Daniel Dennett

To me, the sea is like a person - like a child that I've known a long time. It sounds crazy, I know, but when I swim in the sea, I talk to it. I never feel alone when I'm out there.

~ Gertrude Ederle

Albania is located sixty miles across the Adriatic Sea from Italy. It borders Montenegro and Kosovo to the north, Macedonia to the east, and Greece to the south. If you know nothing about 'the Land of the Eagles,' relax. You're not alone.

~ Michael Paterniti

The North Pole will be ice-free during summer in years to come, and that itself will put the Arctic Sea basin on a very high risk of... environmental disasters that might be there.

~ Aleqa Hammond

Regardless of what society says, we can't go on much longer in the sea of immorality without judgment coming.

~ Billy Graham

Fifty percent of our country that we own, have all legal jurisdiction, have all rights to do whatever we want, lies beneath the sea and we have better maps of Mars than that 50 percent.

~ Robert Ballard

The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.

~ Thomas Jefferson

My dad, he was a construction worker. He was a butcher. He was a deep sea fisherman.

~ Aisha Tyler

Just as we have the power to harm the ocean, we have the power to put in place policies and modify our own behavior in ways that would be an insurance policy for the future of the sea, for the creatures there, and for us, protecting special critical areas in the ocean.

~ Sylvia Earle