Quotes About The Sea In The Odyssey

#1. Great things come out of being hungry and cold. Once you're pampered, you get lazy.

Rob Zombie

#2. There are men with guns up there. When they see me, they will kill me, if they can," I
tell my father quietly. I search his eyes. "Should I let them?"
He stares at me for a few seconds.
"Go," he says, "and God help you.

Veronica Roth

#3. And what if one of the gods does wreck me out on the wine-dark sea? I have a heart that is inured to suffering and I shall steel it to endure that too. For in my day I have had many bitter and painful experiences in war and on the stormy seas. So let this new disaster come. It only makes one more.

Homer

#4. I think it was lucky that during most of the work on the Odyssey I lived on Homer's sea in houses that were, in one case, shaken by the impact of the Mediterranean winter storms on the rocks below.

Robert Fitzgerald

#5. Never wear a top hat and tails and bring a saw to a funeral

Josh Stern

#6. It may be in seemingly unimportant things that a man expresses his passion for perfection, yet they will count heavily in the long run.

Charles M. Schwab

#7. The intelligent and efficient politician is a species virtually unknown in the galaxy,

George R R Martin

#8. Be that blind bard who on the Chian strand, By those deep sounds possessed with inward light, Beheld the Iliad and the Odyssey Rise to the swelling of the voiceful sea.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge