Sea Facing Quotes

#1. Looking' his last' upon the scene of his former joys and his later sufferings, and wishing 'she' could see him now, abroad on the wild sea, facing peril and death with a dauntless heart, going to his doom with a grim smile on his lips.

Mark Twain

#2. The English have a proverb, 'Conscience makes cowboys of us all'.

Saki

#3. This tune goes manly.
Come, go we to the King. Our power is ready;
Our lack is nothing but our leave. Macbeth
Is ripe for shaking, and the powers above
Put on their instruments. Receive what cheer you may.
The night is long that never finds the day.
They exit.

William Shakespeare

#4. Sometimes I need
only to stand
wherever I am
to be blessed.

Mary Oliver

#5. The first few feet of sea-level rise alone will displace more than 100 million people worldwide and turn all our major Gulf and Atlantic coast cities into pre- Katrina New Orleans - below sea level and facing super-hurricanes.

Joseph J. Romm

#6. Life on this earth first emerged from the sea. As the polar ice melts and sea level rises, we humans find ourselves facing the prospect that once again we may quite literally become ocean.

John Luther Adams

#7. Like a good Indian, he knew when to talk and when to remain silent. Like a good Indian, he knew there was never a good time to talk.

Sherman Alexie

#8. When your chair is positioned facing the wall, you see the wall. When it is positioned facing the sea, you see the sea. The same is true for us. Perspective is everything. Align with the divine.

Tehya Sky

#9. My boyfriend is a rock god baby
(and not kiss-of-death(sorry))

Rachel Caine

#10. Opinions scattered indiscriminately about leave the mark of egotism.

William Strunk Jr.

#11. I began to write short pieces when I was living in a room too small to write a novel in.

Angela Cartwright

#12. My personal definition of rock'n'roll is people attempting to do something that's beyond their ability to do it well. And whatever the outward contradictions, I do call us a rock'n'roll band.

David First

#13. I think that when Lady Tamarind looks at you, she feels as the cathedral might if it suddenly remembered that once it had been a grim little church facing down musket fire and a cruel sea wind.

Frances Hardinge

#14. When I was a kid, I used to play marbles. I know some of you think I've lost mine.

Jimy Williams

#15. On the last morning of Virginia's bloodiest year since the Civil War, I built a fire and sat facing a window of darkness where at sunrise I knew I would find the sea.

Patricia Cornwell