Quotes About The Sea Hemingway

#1. People always seek to compare. They can take the new, but only if it is somehow connected to the familiar. We need that in our lives, the mix of the new and the old. But of course I'm flattered about the comparison with Old man and the sea. Hemingway is a great writer.

Yann Martel

#2. Teachers who don't pull their weight drag down the profession and their colleagues with it.

Andy Hargreaves

#3. Then there is the other secret. There isn't any symbolysm [sic]. The sea is the sea. The old man is an old man. The boy is a boy and the fish is a fish. The shark are all sharks no better and no worse. All the symbolism that people say is shit. What goes beyond is what you see beyond when you know.

Ernest Hemingway,

#4. No good book has ever been written that has in it symbols arrived at beforehand and stuck in ... I tried to make a real old man, a real boy, a real sea and a real fish and real sharks. But if I made them good and true enough they would mean many things

Ernest Hemingway,

#5. The sea is the same as it has been since before men ever went on it in boats.

Ernest Hemingway,

#6. Unless you really understand the water, and understand the reason for being on it, and understand the love of sailing and the feeling of quietness and solitude, you don't really belong on a boat anyway. I think Hemingway said one time that the sea is the last free place on earth.

Humphrey Bogart

#7. Whenever a party tells you national identity matters more than anything else in politics, that nationalism can sort out all the other problems, then watch out, because you're on a road that can end with fascism.

C.J. Sansom

#8. The setting of the sun is a difficult time for all fish.

Ernest Hemingway,

#9. It is silly not to hope, besides I believe it is a sin. The Old Man and the Sea

Ernest Hemingway,

#10. The clouds were building up now for the trade wind and he looked ahead and saw a flight of wild ducks etching themselves against the sky over the water, then blurring, then etching again and he knew no man was ever alone on the sea.

Ernest Hemingway,

#11. Plants die off when their roots have no water to sustain them. May your tears feed the roots of love in your heart and bring healing to your soul. May God grant you the strength to move on, knowing there's so much ahead of you.

Kemi Sogunle

#12. Before we take to the sea, we walk on land ... Before we create, we must understand ...

Ernest Hemingway,

#13. You will meet happiness on your way if you just stop looking for happiness desperately! Live your life without looking for anything!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#14. Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the same color as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated.

Ernest Hemingway,

#15. My big fish must be somewhere.

Ernest Hemingway,

#16. Rob Hardy is such a great director.

Jussie Smollett

#17. Why did they make birds so delicate and fine as those sea swallows when the ocean can be so cruel?

Ernest Hemingway,

#18. Because someone is a lama or is part of a monastic order or claims to be part of a succession, doesn't really mean they know anything. Always examine the individual's consciousness, their ability to transmit light.

Frederick Lenz

#19. Anyone is to be pitied who has just sense enough to perceive his deficiencies.

William Hazlitt

#20. [When asked how many husbands she had had:] My own, or other people's?

Peggy Guggenheim

#21. The old man knew he was going far out and he left the smell of the land behind and rowed out into the clean early morning smell of the ocean.

Ernest Hemingway,

#22. and he knew no man was ever alone on the sea. He

Ernest Hemingway,

#23. A man is never lost at sea and it is a long island. It

Ernest Hemingway,

#24. Up the road, in his shack, the old man was sleeping again. He was still sleeping on his face and the boy was sitting by him watching him. The old man was dreaming about the lions.

Ernest Hemingway,

#25. I remember having to read 'The Old Man and the Sea,' and I didn't want to read it; I didn't want to like Ernest Hemingway. I was being a stubborn teenager.

Dree Hemingway

#26. People who regularly abuse power don't like being laughed at'.

Pieter-Dirk Uys

#27. Hopefully someone on their team addresses it, because, uh, I'm not saying I'm going to do it, but something might happen to him if he continues to be that cocky.

Mike Richards

#28. The house was built on the highest part of the narrow tongue of land between the harbor and the open sea. It had lasted through three hurricanes and it was built solid as a ship.

Ernest Hemingway,

#29. Anglers have a way of romanticizing their battles with fish.

Ernest Hemingway,

#30. ... Her lips an island in the sudden white sea of pain that came in a shining, unbearable, rising, blinding wave and swept him clean.

Ernest Hemingway,

#31. It was considered a virtue not to talk unnecessarily at sea ...

Ernest Hemingway,