1,231 Quotes About Sea

Fishermen, no matter what supreme good fortune befalls them, cannot ever be absolutely satisfied. It is a fundamental weakness of intellect.

Far away Tongariro! Green - white thundering Athabasca river of New Zealand! I vowed I would come again down across the Pacific to fish in the swift cold waters of this most beautiful and famous of trout streams. It is something to have striven. It is much to have kept your word.

This high official, all allow, is grossly overpaid; there wasn't any Board, and now there isn't any Trade.

Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.

You got rid of them. Yes, that’s just like you. Getting rid of everything unpleasant instead of learning to put up with it. Whether ‘tis better 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… But you don’t do either. Neither suffer nor oppose. You just abolish the slings and arrows. It’s too easy.

I grew up in Newquay, on the Atlantic coast and there developed a love of the sea and boats.

Storms draw something out of us that calm seas don't.

The sea is nothing but a library of all the tears in history.

But the world did not match the picture in my head, and instead I was with a strange, uncombed person, overlooking a sea without water and a forest without trees.