Top 100 Sea And Land Quotes

#1. Cold be hand and heart and bone, and cold be sleep under stone: never more to wake on stony bed, never, till the Sun fails and the Moon is dead. In the black wind the stars shall die, and still on gold here let them lie, till the dark lord lifts his hand over dead sea and withered land.

J.R.R. Tolkien

Sea And Land Quotes #28218
#2. Here I stand on the brink of war again, a citizen of no place, no time, no country but my own ... and that a land lapped by no sea but blood, bordered only by the outlines of a face long-loved.

Diana Gabaldon

Sea And Land Quotes #28297
#3. Puff, the Magic Dragon, lived by the sea, and frolicked in the Autumn Mist in a land called Honah Lee, little Jacky Paper loved that rascal Puff, and gave him strings and sealing wax and other fancy stuff.

Peter Yarrow

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#4. There is at least one advantage to being an Indonesian citizen: With this country's expanse of land and even greater expanse of sea, it's not difficult finding space for one's grave.

Pramoedya Ananta Toer

Sea And Land Quotes #65177
#5. Rejoice, Florence, seeing you are so great that over sea and land you flap your wings, and your name is widely known in Hell!

Dante Alighieri

Sea And Land Quotes #76889
#6. A journey by Sea and Land, Five Hundred Miles, is not undertaken without money.

Lewis Hallam

Sea And Land Quotes #79490
#7. Happy he whoe'er, content with the common lot, with safe breeze hugs the shore, and, fearing to trust his skiff to the wider sea, with unambitious oar keeps close to the land.

Seneca The Younger

Sea And Land Quotes #88771
#8. Our ancestors took this land. They took it and made it and held it. We do not give up what our ancestors gave us. They came across the sea and they fought here, and they built here and they're buried here. This is our land, mixed with our blood, strengthened with our bone. Ours!

Bernard Cornwell

Sea And Land Quotes #92865
#9. We sack, we ransack to the utmost sands
Of native kingdoms, and of foreign lands:
We travel sea and soil; we pry, and prowl,
We progress, and we prog from pole to pole.

Francis Quarles

Sea And Land Quotes #106704
#10. A man without religion or spiritual vision is like a captain who finds himself in the midst of an uncharted sea, without compass, rudder and steering wheel. He never knows where he is, which way he is going and where he is going to land.

William J.H. Boetcker

Sea And Land Quotes #107854
#11. I can't imagine being sixty years of age and playing music I wrote when I was in my twenties. I would rather sail the sea of consequence to new lands. Laps around the shallow end of the pool, not for me.

Henry Rollins

Sea And Land Quotes #147631
#12. Palestine is Arab and must be liberated from the river to the sea and all the Zionists who emigrated to the land of Palestine must leave.

Saddam Hussein

Sea And Land Quotes #153915
#13. The fourth tee brings out a mixture of excitement and anticipation, for about 220 yards down the fairway you catch a glimpse of Stillwater Cove, and realize you'll be walking along this spectacular meeting of land and sea for the next two hours.

Doug Ferguson

Sea And Land Quotes #165036
#14. Isn't man but a blossom taken by the wind, and only the mountains and the sea and the stars and this Land of the Gods real and everlasting?

James Clavell

Sea And Land Quotes #169387
#15. With earth's burgeoning human population to feed we must turn to the sea with understanding and new technology. We need to farm it as we farm the land.

Jacques-Yves Cousteau

Sea And Land Quotes #172311
#16. Tall ships and tall kings Three times three, What brought they from the foundered land Over the flowing sea? Seven stars and seven stones And one white tree. (The Two Towers)

J.R.R. Tolkien

Sea And Land Quotes #179607
#17. Up rose the wild old winter-king, And shook his beard of snow; I hear the first young hard-bell ring, 'Tis time for me to go! Northward o'er the icy rocks, Northward o'er the sea, My daughter comes with sunny locks: This land's too warm for me!

Charles Godfrey Leland

Sea And Land Quotes #206179
#18. You shall find books and sermons everywhere, in the land and in the sea, in the earth and in the skies, and you shall learn from every living beast, and bird, and fish, and insect, and from every useful or useless plant that springs from the ground.

Charles Spurgeon

Sea And Land Quotes #209996
#19. 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,

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#20. On land, on sea, at home abroad, I smoke my pipe and worship God.

Johann Sebastian Bach

Sea And Land Quotes #221369
#21. Our last deed, like the young of the land crab, wends its way to the sea of cause and effect as soon as born, and makes a drop there to eternity.

Henry David Thoreau

Sea And Land Quotes #234722
#22. Who thinks, at night, that morn will ever be? Who knows, far out upon the central sea, That anywhere is land? And yet, a shore Has set behind us, and will rise before: A past foretells a future ...

Bayard Taylor

Sea And Land Quotes #240747
#23. I am an African. I owe my being to the hills and the valleys, the mountains and the glades, the rivers, the deserts, the trees, the flowers, the seas and the ever-changing seasons that define the face of our native land.

Thabo Mbeki

Sea And Land Quotes #242868
#24. He (Cato) used to say that in all his life he never repented but of three things. The first was that he had trusted a woman with a secret; the second that he had gone by sea when he might have gone by land; and the third, that had passed one day without having a will by him.

Plutarch

Sea And Land Quotes #244781
#25. If it is unpatriotic to tear down the flag, which is a symbol of the country, why isn't it more unpatriotic to desecrate the country itself-to pollute, despoil and ravage the air, land and sea.

Ralph Nader

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#26. The pool was but a stone's throw from the house, and I arrived there in a few minutes, only to find a boy disturbing the water by dredging it with a worm. Him I lured away with a cake of chocolate ... Every day I see the head of the largest trout I ever hooked, but did not land.

Theodore Gordon

Sea And Land Quotes #250274
#27. The moon grew full, then slowly pared itself down until it shriveled into a ghostly boat riding above the roiling dark. Then it fell out of the sky. They climbed into it, left land behind, and floated out to sea.

Patricia A. McKillip

Sea And Land Quotes #266573
#28. From the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli, We will fight our country's battles in the air, on land and sea. First to fight for right and freedom, and to keep our honor clean, We are proud to claim the title of United States Marines. - Marine Corps Hymn

Tom Clancy

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#29. Possibly a man who hates the land should dwell on shore forever. Alienation and the long voyages at sea will compel him once again to dream of it, torment him with the absurdity of longing for something that he loathes.

Yukio Mishima

Sea And Land Quotes #273335
#30. So extraordinary is Nature with her choicest treasures, spending plant beauty as she spends sunshine, pouring it forth into land and sea, garden and desert. And so the beauty of lilies falls on angels and men, bears and squirrels, wolves and sheep, birds and bees ...

John Muir

Sea And Land Quotes #284689
#31. The shore is an ancient world, for as long as there has been an earth and sea there has been this place of the meeting of land and water.

Rachel Carson

Sea And Land Quotes #306708
#32. On these sands and in the clefts of the rocks, in the depths of the sea, in the creaking of the pines, you'll spy secret footprints and catch far-off voices from the homecoming celebration. This land still longs for Odysseus.

Homer

Sea And Land Quotes #319965
#33. The land is numb. It stands beneath the feet, and one may come Walking securely, till the sea extends Its limber margin, and precision ends.

Yvor Winters

Sea And Land Quotes #320423
#34. I have observed, on board a steamer, how men and women easily give way to their instinct for flirtation, because water has the power of washing away our sense of responsibility, and those who on land resemble the oak in their firmness behave like floating seaweed when on the sea.

Rabindranath Tagore

Sea And Land Quotes #336303
#35. No country can hope to beat the Yanks off with conventional weapons - they've got air, sea and land completely covered. The only recourse is chemical, biological and nuclear weapons (the Yanks used them in Vietnam, and have not ruled out using them in this war).

Margo Kingston

Sea And Land Quotes #351650
#36. A fish pitched up By the angry sea, I gasped on land, And I became me. He

Kurt Vonnegut

Sea And Land Quotes #351682
#37. When the sky is clear, when the sea is calm and the full moon is rising, whatever you are doing, leave it; go to the seaside; sit and watch it! You will then reach the land where there is no thinking; the land of pure wisdom!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

Sea And Land Quotes #368718
#38. Sea and land may lie between us, but my heart is always there with you.

Nancy B. Brewer

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#39. A rising nation, spread over a wide and fruitful Land, traversing all the seas with the rich production of their Industry.

Thomas Jefferson

Sea And Land Quotes #375054
#40. It is only the pathetic shortness of human life that gives each individual a sense of the permanence of his background. The land we all walk upon has been under the sea many times, and it will be submerged again.

Jacquetta Hawkes

Sea And Land Quotes #383192
#41. First in France, first in Romania - by land and sea to the English and Paris. Marvellous deeds by that great alliance. The violent brute will lose Lorraine.

Nostradamus

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#42. If I am the land,

and Josh is the sea, then

Tommy is the shore that completes us.

Jay McLean

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#43. All that is told of the sea has a fabulous sound to an inhabitant of the land and all its products have a certain fabulous quality, as if they belonged to another planet.

Henry David Thoreau

Sea And Land Quotes #417147
#44. America was still a land of wonder. The ancient spell still hung unbroken over the wild, vast world of mystery beyond the sea,-a land of romance, adventure, and gold.

Francis Parkman

Sea And Land Quotes #417197
#45. If you are in love with your job, you never get tired, you never want to stop! You work and work and work ... you continue flapping with an eternal joy like a bird flying over the sea and never wanting to land!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

Sea And Land Quotes #417879
#46. They paddled easily, in unison, the paddles turning in their hands so that they did not leave the water on the forward stroke. The small waves slapped softly against the bows. Otherwise they made no noise. It was dark. Nobody saw them go. They just left the land and went off across the sea.

Ian Fleming

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#47. The sudden death of the leading man will cause change, making another man leader. Soon, but too late, the young man will attain high office. By land and sea, he will be feared.

Nostradamus

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#48. Here I found those who had set out before me, both by sea and land, except those who have died.

Junipero Serra

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#49. The sea, washing the equator and the poles, offers its perilous aid, and the power and empire that follow it ... 'Beware of me,' it says, 'but if you can hold me, I am the key to all the lands.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sea And Land Quotes #463118
#50. 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,

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#51. So on this windy sea of land, the Fiend Walked up and down alone bent on his prey.

John Milton

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#52. if you can speak of a center in a city whose tongues of land stretch through hills and lick the sea. Seen

Umberto Eco

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#53. This is the land of Narnia,' said the Faun, 'where we are now; all that lies between the lamp-post and the great castle of Cair Paravel on the eastern sea.

C.S. Lewis

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#54. Love and anger are like land and sea: They meet at many different places.

Patricia A. McKillip

Sea And Land Quotes #551145
#55. We need the tonic of wildness ... At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature.

Henry David Thoreau

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#56. Septon Barth's claim that the Valyrians came to Westeros because their priests prophesied that the Doom of Man would come out of the land beyond the narrow sea can safely be dismissed as nonsense, as can many of Barth's queerer beliefs and suppositions.

George R R Martin

Sea And Land Quotes #556583
#57. The Killer is never hunted. I never heard what sort of oil he has. Exception might be taken to the name bestowed upon this whale, on the ground of its indistinctness. For we are all killers, on land and on sea; Bonapartes and Sharks included.

Herman Melville

Sea And Land Quotes #559571
#58. As the fisherman depends upon the rivers, lakes and seas and the farmer upon the land for his existence, so does mankind in general depend upon the beauty of the world about him for his spiritual and emotional existence.

Ansel Adams

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#59. Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.

Carl Sandburg

Sea And Land Quotes #593578
#60. Such a sky. The widest she'd ever seen. Even more than the long bow of the shoreline and the eternal spread of the sea, it was the sky Betsy could not fold into her understanding, the cliffs and hillocks of the land overturned, sculpted into the stony clouds and softened with the promise of light.

Alison Atlee

Sea And Land Quotes #594158
#61. It is a pleasure for to sit at ease Upon the land, and safely for to see How other folks are tossed on the seas That with the blustering winds turmoiled be.

Lucretius

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#62. The whole earth is full of His glory. Sky, land, and sea, heavy and saturated with God
why do I always forget?

Ann Voskamp

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#63. The message from all quarters is the same: our undisciplined consumption must end. If we continue to gobble up our resources without any regard to stewardship and to spew out our deadly wastes over land, sea, and air, we may well be drawing down the final curtain upon ourselves.

Richard J. Foster

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#64. At sea, sometimes, if you take a ship too far from land and the wind rises and the tide sucks with a venomous force and the waves splinter white above the shield-pegs, you have no choice but to go where the gods will.

Bernard Cornwell

Sea And Land Quotes #630905
#65. Welcome, welcome to Caraval! The grandest show on land or by sea. Inside you'll experience more wonders than most people see in a lifetime. You can sip magic from a cup and buy dreams in a bottle. But before you fully enter into our world, you must remember it's all a game.

Stephanie Garber

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#66. Mankind is nothing more than a parasitic tick gorging himself on temporary plenty while the seas are low and the climate is clement. But the present arrangement of land and sea will change, and with it our brief supremacy.

Richard Fortey

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#67. There is no chronic disease to be found
among fish and animal life in the sea that
compares to those on land.
It is also known that all land animals
develop arteriosclerosis, yet sea animals
have never been diagnosed as
arteriosclerotic.

Maynard Murray

Sea And Land Quotes #685519
#68. The Navy-Marine Corps team is unique in history because its mobility and versatility permit it to make a contribution in virtually every medium of warfare: land, sea and air.

John S. McCain Jr.

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#69. The Mediterranean Sea with its various branches, penetrating far into the great Continent, forms the largest gulf of the ocean, and, alternately narrowed by islands or projections of the land and expanding to considerable breadth, at once separates and connects the three divisions of the Old World.

Theodor Mommsen

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#70. I have sped by land and sea, and mingled with much people, but never yet could find a spot unsunned by human kindness.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

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#71. There are many wild beasts on land and in the sea, but the beastliest of all is woman.

Menander

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#72. They say that man is mighty,
He governs land and sea,
He wields a mighty sceptre,
O'er lesser powers that be.

William Ross Wallace

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#73. Good night; ensured release, Imperishable peace, Have these for yours. * While sky and sea and land And earth's foundations stand And heaven endures. *These three lines are on the tablet over Housman's grave in the parish church at Ludlow, Shropshire, England

A.E. Housman

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#74. The pewter sea lay behind, while ahead of him was all the land that led to Berwick, where once again there would be sea. He had started; and in doing so Harold could already see the end.

Rachel Joyce

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#75. Into the bosom of the one great sea Flow streams that come from the hills on every side, Their names are various as their springs And thus in every land do men bow down To one great God, though known by many names.

Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

Sea And Land Quotes #784392
#76. We believe we will raise the sky, we got to fly over the land, over the sea. Fate unwinds and if we die, souls arise. God, do not seize me please.

Patti Smith

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#77. The deep sea is the largest museum on earth, it contains more history than all the museums on land combined, and yet we're only now penetrating it.

Robert Ballard

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#78. Always the edge of the sea remains an elusive and indefinable boundary. The shore has a dual nature, changing with the swing of the tides, belonging now to the land, now to the sea.

Rachel Carson

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#79. The sea heaves up, hangs loaded o'er the land, Breaks there, and buries its tumultuous strength.

Robert Browning

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#80. Legends flourish in these borders between land and sea.

Sophia Kingshill

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#81. Poetry is a diary kept by a sea creature who lives on land and wishes he could fly.

Carl Sandburg

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#82. No aquarium, no tank in a marine land, however spacious it may be, can begin to duplicate the conditions of the sea. And no dolphin who inhabits one of those aquariums or one of those marine lands can be considered normal.

Jacques-Yves Cousteau

Sea And Land Quotes #948150
#83. Summer Stoltz had taken a cruise to Insanity Sea, and now I was docked back on land. And I felt the shit. I was the shit. Shithead Summer - that was my new name. I groaned, catching my head in my hands. "Oh, no.

Tijan

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#84. For I fear not to declare, that what I have here given may be regarded as a summary of the very doctrine which, they vociferate, ought to be punished with confiscation, exile, imprisonment, and flames, as well as exterminated by land and sea.

John Calvin

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#85. But unless some great revolution in nature modifies the present relative level between land and sea, it may safely be maintained that the present outer reef is the final southern boundary of the North American continent.

Louis Agassiz

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#86. Though Fin couldn't see it, she felt the closeness of land around her. From beyond the grey veil she could sense the oppressive weight of two great continents crowding down to the sea, each to kneel and contemplate the nearness of an ancient earthen brother.

A.S. Peterson

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#87. Recognize and respect Earth's beautiful systems of balance, between the presence of animals on land, the fish in the sea, birds in the air, mankind, water, air, and land. Most importantly there must always be awareness of the actions by people that can disturb this precious balance.

Margaret Mead

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#88. Chains tie us down by land and sea; And wishes, vain as mine, may be All that is left to comfort thee.

William Wordsworth

Sea And Land Quotes #1048696
#89. Japan's beautiful seas and its territory are under threat, and young people are having trouble finding hope in the future amid economic slump. I promise to protect Japan's land and sea, and the lives of the Japanese people no matter what.

Shinzo Abe

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#90. Like the land joining the sea,
Happiness it followed me.

Marina And The Diamonds

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#91. Ere land and sea and the all-covering sky Were made, in the whole world the countenance Of nature was the same, all one, well named Chaos, a raw and undivided mass, Naught but a lifeless bulk, with warring seeds Of ill-joined elements compressed together.

Ovid

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#92. Cursed be all those on land and sea who eat their fill, cursed be all those who starve yet raise no hand in protest, cursed be all the bread, the wine, the meat which day by day descends deep in the entrails of the exploited man and turns not into freedom's cry, the murderer's ruthless knife!

Nikos Kazantzakis

Sea And Land Quotes #1106614
#93. Yon Sun that sets upon the sea We follow in his flight; Farewell awhile to him and thee, My native land-Good Night!

Lord Byron

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#94. I have to acknowledge that the sea is a cup of death, and the land is a stained altar stone. We the living are survivors huddled on flotsam, living on jetsam. We are escapees. We wake in terror, eat in hunger, sleep with a mouth full of blood.

Annie Dillard

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#95. I am driven out of fatherlands and motherlands. Thus I now love only my children's land, yet undiscovered, in the farthest sea; for this I bid my sails search and search.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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#96. Feet, she thought. Sea legs. When you pass the last spit of land and commit to the ocean, you are taking a step into the infinite and might set your foot down anywhere.

Morgan Llywelyn

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#97. Brother will kill brother, spill blood across the land. Killing for religion, something I don't understand. Fools like me who cross the sea and come to foreign lands, ask the sheep for their beliefs; 'Do you kill on God's command?'

Dave Mustaine

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#98. I believe that Palestine is an occupied land from the Mediterranean Sea to the Jordan River, and this is the right of the entire Palestinian people, this land.

Hassan Nasrallah

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#99. Eternal Father, faithful friend, Be quick to answer those we send In brotherhood and urgent trust, On hidden missions dangerous, O hear us when we cry to Thee, For SEALs in air, on land, and sea.

Marcus Luttrell

Sea And Land Quotes #1147967
#100. The future is the one thing you can count on not abandoning you, kid, he'd said. The future will always finds you. Stand still, and it will find you. The way the land just has run to sea.

Marianne Wiggins

Sea And Land Quotes #1152156

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