When you grow up on an island, what matters is how you stand to the sea.
Roddy Doyle
SeaStandGrowYouIslandMatters
In the 'Revelation Space' books, the spaceships are a bit old and rusty, and things go wrong, and they don't work quite how they're meant to. And people asked why I did it this way, and groping around for an explanation, I said that I grew up in Barry, this post-industrial sea town full of rusting infrastructure.
Alastair Reynolds
WorkSeaSpacePeopleWrongSaid
You can measure the warming oceans with a thermometer. You measure sea level rise with a yardstick. You can measure the dramatic increase in acidification with a simple pH test, and you can replicate what excess CO2 does to seawater in a basic high school science lab.
Sheldon Whitehouse
SeaScienceSimpleSchoolYouRise
The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.
Carl Sandburg
SeaRespectPeopleLanguageNever
It's harder to take politics seriously, to understand the issues, than it is to drown it all in a sea of scorn. And while the world cries out for greater analysis and insight, we are distracted by bread and circuses, aka the 'Great British Bake-Off' and 'Tumble.' We should rediscover our tradition of satire. Of speaking truth unto power.
Rory Bremner
TruthSeaPowerGreatPolitics
God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.
William Cowper
GodSeaStormPlantsWayMysterious
After I retire, I have my own vision, which is not connected to the state of Israel. It's about me, living near the sea, and maybe writing something about the past.
Tzipi Livni
SeaVisionPastMeWritingLiving
But when I played Woodstock, I'll never forget that moment looking out over the hundreds of thousands of people, the sea of humanity, seeing all those people united in such a unique way. It just touched me in a way that I'll never forget.
Edgar Winter
SeaMomentPeopleMeLookingSeeing
Furthermore, even if ideas were gettable - say, stacked in a secluded cave like the Dead Sea scrolls - I wouldn't go there. An 'idea,' especially one adhered to from start to finish, can be disastrous for a compelling piece of fiction.
Ron Rash
SeaIdeasStartGoSayCave
He like a rock in the sea unshaken stands his ground.
Virgil
SeaRockGroundLikeHeHis
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.
Thomas Jefferson
SeaMenCalmLibertyTimidPrefer
The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion.
Barbara W. Tuchman
SeaHistoryWarGloryDiscretion
Down below the broad, roaring waves of the sea break against the deep foundation of the rock. But high above the mountain, the sea, and the peaks of rock the eternal ornamentation blooms silently from the dark depths of the universe.
Rudolf Otto
SeaMountainWavesFoundationDeep
The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Civil War - when I really think about them, they all seem about as likely as the parting of the Red Sea.
Sarah Vowell
SeaWarRedThinkIndependenceSeem
Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.
Thomas Fuller
SeaMenWineMoreThanDrowned
If Russia shuts off central Asia and the Caspian Sea from Europe, the European allies of the United States will be totally dependent on Russian gas and energy.
Mikheil Saakashvili
SeaEnergyWillRussiaEuropeOff
Weekends are about replenishment and rejuvenation. Time in Wales would definitely be part of my ideal weekend, at my own hotel, set in 72 acres of absolute gorgeousness. I can already feel the air working its magic, with the sea breeze drifting over us.
Neil Morrissey
SeaTimeFeelHotelWeekendMagic
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
RelationshipSeaCatsFogLongSalt
The Maldives, a string of islands off the coast of India whose highest point above sea level is eight feet, may be the first nation to drown. In Alaska, entire towns have begun to shift in the loosening permafrost.
Michael Specter
SeaFeetIndiaAlaskaFirstNation
The ball whizzes past like a bumblebee and the Indians are in the sea.
Navjot Singh Sidhu
SeaPastBallIndiansLike
The shores of the Black Sea lend themselves to the literary genre that may be classified as 'cultural pilgrimage,' which is not just a higher form of travel writing but which has the further mission of reporting on present conditions and supplying neglected knowledge.
Norman Davies
KnowledgeSeaTravelWritingPresent
There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.
Lord Byron
NatureLoveMusicSeaManSociety
The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.
Jacques Yves Cousteau
NatureSeaWonderForeverNetOnce
Sea World's killer whale collection needs constant replenishing. The average life span of the animals in captivity is less than half the average for killer whales in the ocean.
Nina Easton
LifeSeaOceanWorldAnimalsWhales
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