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Sea Quotes
"When the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea."
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"In a still hot morning, the tide went out and didn't come back in. This was not a spectacular event. The sea did not roll up like a scroll, like the sky in Revelations. It quietly withdrew."
23
"The sea is not rising. It hasn't risen in 50 years."
22
"Suffering from dysentery at sea was no picnic."
20
"The late 20th century sea level rise rate lacks any sign of acceleration. Satellite altimetry indicates virtually no changes in the last decade."
Sea,
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"A modern fleet of ships does not so much make use of the sea as exploit a highway."
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"Shaw is like a train. One just speaks the words and sits in one's place. But Shakespeare is like bathing in the sea - one swims where one wants."
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"I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea."
17
"The interior of Mexico consists of a mass of volcanic rocks, thrust up to a great height above the sea-level."
Sea,
16
"Sunrise offered a very beautiful spectacle; the water was quite unruffled, but the motion communicated by the tides was so great that, although there was not a breath of air stirring, the sea heaved slowly with a grand and majestic motion."
16
"A long sea implies an uniform and steady motion of long and extensive waves; on the contrary, a short sea is when they run irregularly, broken, and interrupted; so as frequently to burst over a vessel's side or quarter."
Sea,
16
"One of the unique things is that whether we were out at sea or in the middle of the water tank, a lot of times you just couldn't leave. Especially when we were out at sea."
15
"Many a calm river begins as a turbulent waterfall, yet none hurtles and foams all the way to the sea."
Sea,
15
"The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever."
15
"Let me state what the official IPCC prediction is: Sea levels could go up as much as three-quarters of a meter in this century, but there is a reasonable probability it could be much higher than that."
15
"I once saw a lump of Greenland breaking off into the sea and moving south, which of course will affect the atmosphere and us generally, and it'll happen more and more."
15
"Beautiful isle of the sea, Smile on the brow of the waters."
14
"Look at that sea, girls--all silver and shadow and vision of things not seen. We couldn't enjoy its loveliness any more if we had millions of dollars and ropes of diamonds."
13
"The populace is like the sea motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze."
13
"The rest of my days I'm going to spend on the sea. And when I die, I'm going to die on the sea. You know what I shall die of? I shall die of eating an unwashed grape. One day out on the ocean I will die--with my hand in the hand of some nice looking ship's doctor, a very young one with a small blond moustache and a big silver watch. "Poor lady," they'll say, "The quinine did her no good. That unwashed grape has transported her soul to heaven."
13
"Throughout the ages, stories with certain basic themes have recurred over and over, in widely disparate cultures; emerging like the goddess Venus from the sea of our unconscious."
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