Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.
Showing posts with label Water Quotes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Water Quotes. Show all posts
When the water of a place is b...
When the water of a place is bad it is safest to drink none that has not been filtered through either the berry of a grape, or else a tub of malt. These are the most reliable filters yet invented.
What makes the desert beautifu...
What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.
Though inland far we be, Our s...
Though inland far we be, Our souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither.
There is nothing so desperatel...
There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates.
There is indeed, perhaps, no b...
There is indeed, perhaps, no better way to hold communion with the sea than sitting in the sun on the veranda of a fishermen's cafe.
The true peace of God begins a...
The true peace of God begins at any spot a thousand miles from the nearest land.
The sea pronounces something, ...
The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper; I cannot quite make it out.
The sea has never been friendl...
The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
The only cure for seasickness ...
The only cure for seasickness is to sit on the shady side of an old brick church in the country.
The lakes are something which ...
The lakes are something which you are unprepared for; they lie up so high, exposed to the light, and the forest is diminished to a fine fringe on their edges, with here and there a blue mountain, like amethyst jewels set around some jewel of the first water, - so anterior, so superior, to all the changes that are to take place on their shores, even now civil and refined, and fair as they can ever be.
Rivers are roads which move, a...
Rivers are roads which move, and which carry us whither we desire to go.
Ocean: A body of water o...
Ocean: A body of water occupying two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.
Never a ship sails out of the ...
Never a ship sails out of the bay But carries my heart as a stowaway
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