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My half-suppressed Canadian years, my whole childhood and youth, rose like a corpse from the bottom of the sea to confront me.

Quotes by Ross MacDonald

I grew up in New England at the edge of the Atlantic and have for many years been an avid rower. I've rowed in various places, including the Ganges in India, the River Shannon in Ireland, and the Sea of Galilee.

Quotes by Rosemary Mahoney

There are more than one hundred thousand ships at sea carrying all the solids, liquids and gases that we need to live.

Quotes by Rose George

We see the sea as this place of leisure and this place, you know, a blue patch on the map to fly over because we all go by plane these days, mostly. And we don't really see it as a place of industry anymore.

Quotes by Rose George

Usually, there is no equivalent of air traffic control at sea. Some busy areas operate 'traffic separation schemes,' but mostly, ships are treated like cars on roads where there are rules and codes of behavior, and successful, accident-free outcomes depend on everyone respecting them. As on roads, this doesn't always work.

Quotes by Rose George

Seafarers are used to being exploited. At sea, the captain moans at chandlers who supply ships with green bananas that will never ripen; at fruit that goes moldy obscenely fast; at sub-standard meat.

Quotes by Rose George

Trade carried by sea has grown fourfold since 1970 and is still growing. In 2011, the 360 commercial ports of the United States took in international goods worth $1.73 trillion, or eighty times the value of all U.S. trade in 1960.

Quotes by Rose George

After quitting my job with Sea Rock, I became a Mukta Arts flunky.

Quotes by Ronit Roy

There was a strange happening during a performance of Elgar's 'Sea Pictures' at a concert hall in Bermuda tonight, when the man playing the triangle disappeared.

Quotes by Ronnie Barker

For a thousand years after the Dead Sea Scrolls were written, the Jewish holy scriptures - the five parts of the Torah and 19 other holy books - were copied and passed down in the various Jewish communities from generation to generation.

Quotes by Ronen Bergman

Furthermore, even if ideas were gettable - say, stacked in a secluded cave like the Dead Sea scrolls - I wouldn't go there. An 'idea,' especially one adhered to from start to finish, can be disastrous for a compelling piece of fiction.

Quotes by Ron Rash

My wife and I just prefer Seattle. It's a beautiful city. Great setting. You open your front door in the morning and the air smells like pine and the sea, as opposed to bus exhaust.

Quotes by Ron Reagan

I love being on the sea and the rolling of the ship, and for me, it's not really happening until we get a little wave action going, I love that feeling.

Quotes by Roger McGuinn

I've always loved the songs of the sea. I was first introduced to them back in 1957, at the Old Town School of Folk Music. I used to go to Pete Seeger concerts, and he would do songs like 'Ruben Ranzo' and talk about how the sailors sang songs to do their work - to raise the anchors, pull up the sails and that sort of thing.

Quotes by Roger McGuinn

I had better cellular coverage on a ship in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea than I have in many parts of Silicon Valley.

Quotes by Roger McNamee

Any film I've made, I've only really begun to understand in the cutting room. That's when the story shows itself to you, like a wreck coming out of the sea.

Quotes by Roger Michell

The ethics of editorial judgement, however, began to go though a sea change during the late 1970s and '80s when the Carter and Reagan Administrations de-regulated the television industry.

Quotes by Roger Mudd

When you grow up on an island, what matters is how you stand to the sea.

Quotes by Roddy Doyle

I don't see things the way my parents do. They can look at a tree and see something amazing, whereas I just see a tree. That's not to say I don't appreciate its beauty. When I watch the sea in somewhere like Sardinia, I see the beauty in that.

Quotes by Robin Van Persie

Often extinctions in the ocean occur at the same time as those on land. Then again, the ice age extinctions lost many big animals, but not many sea faring ones.

Quotes by Robert T. Bakker

Books guided my life from high school, and the greatest, most interesting, most provocative, funniest, smartest people who ever lived in the last 200 or 300 years wrote those books. I would fall in love with Victor Hugo and read not just 'Les Miserables,' but 'Bug-Jargal' and 'The Toilers of the Sea' and so forth.

Quotes by Robert Loomis

Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.

Quotes by Robert Henri

Almost the first thing you see after entering the Houdini exhibition at the Jewish Museum is a large-screen film of Harry Houdini hanging by his ankles upside-down from a tall building, high over a sea of men in fedoras, and thrashing his way out of a straitjacket.

Quotes by Robert Gottlieb

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.

Quotes by Robert Fitzgerald

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

Quotes by Robert Browning

It is a quiet and peaceful place - and a fitting place for the remains of this greatest of sea tragedies to rest.

Quotes by Robert Ballard

Fifty percent of our country that we own, have all legal jurisdiction, have all rights to do whatever we want, lies beneath the sea and we have better maps of Mars than that 50 percent.

Quotes by Robert Ballard

There are more active volcanoes beneath the sea than on land by two orders of magnitude.

Quotes by Robert Ballard

There's a long list of technologies that have now made it possible to carry out very precise search efforts in the deep sea.

Quotes by Robert Ballard

I am really dedicated to understanding the planet/creature on which we live and know that means I must go beneath the sea to see 72 percent of what is going on.

Quotes by Robert Ballard

I mean, there is amazing amount of oil and gas and other resources out beneath the sea. It's staggering.

Quotes by Robert Ballard

It's not a huge surprise that there are habitations at the bottom of the Black Sea.

Quotes by Robert Ballard

Calamari isn't too bad. That's what I thought cuttlefish was gonna be that. I've eaten octopus and eel and shark and sea urchin before, and - and those are good.

Quotes by RJ Cyler

On the other hand, if there's an underlying core of poetry that I go to, I go to the sea. I've lived on the sea all my life. I live on the sea in Cape Breton.

Quotes by Richard Serra

I tell my kids, 'Don't do well in school, and you, too, can end up at sea.'

Quotes by Richard Phillips

Not one foot will I fly, so long as breath bides within my breast; for, by Him that shaped both sea and land, this day shall end my battles or my life. I will die King of England.

Quotes by Richard III of England

Beauty - what is beauty, forsooth? Form and color; that is, surface only. Fortune - what is fortune? Nothing is ever a pleasure or a real profit to him who has to labour for it. Truth - you die in the pursuit, and the sea beats the beach as it did a thousand years ago. The stolid are alone happy.

Quotes by Richard Jefferies

I don't know if you saw the parting of the Red Sea with the chariots on the horses, I did stuff like that.

Quotes by Richard Farnsworth

Little islands are all large prisons: one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow.

Quotes by Richard Burton

Pier Angeli was in the movie called Sea of Sand that Guy Green directed where this idea came up.

Quotes by Richard Attenborough

I've gradually gained more confidence swimming for distance in the open sea, but I still return to the rock pools.

Quotes by Raymond Bonner

I grew up near the sea in British Columbia and San Francisco, and lived in Malibu and Fiji for years. I get uncomfortable being too far inland.

Quotes by Raymond Burr

When I wrote the song, I had the sea near Bombay in mind. We stayed at a hotel by the sea, and the fishermen come up at five in the morning and they were all chanting. And we went on the beach and we got chased by a mad dog - big as a donkey.

Quotes by Ray Davies

It is a fact that scientists have deposited dye in certain lakes around Orlando and tracked the effluent to Florida Bay. There is a lake near Everglades City, Deep Lake, and large tarpon show up in that lake, 30 miles from the sea.

Quotes by Randy Wayne White

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.

Quotes by Ralph Steadman

When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing - just sitting and looking at the sea, or watching the wind blowing the tree limbs, or waves rippling on a pond, a flickering candle or children playing in the park?

Quotes by Ralph Marston

When an American says that he loves his country, he means not only that he loves the New England hills, the prairies glistening in the sun, the wide and rising plains, the great mountains and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air, inner life in which freedom lives. In which a man can draw the breath of self-respect.

Quotes by Ralph Bellamy

Nothing prepares you for shooting in the sea. Some days the sea is choppy, some days the waves are long. When there is no wind, it's fantastic to shoot, but your brain is burning because of the heat. You are shooting hand-held and taking a crane on a boat, which is risky since you can get toppled over.

Quotes by Rajiv Menon

I love the beach. I love the sea. All my life I live within - in front of the sea.

Quotes by Rafael Nadal

I like fishing. Not actual fishing - I like the peace and quiet of being at sea. It's different.

Quotes by Rafael Nadal

Basically, I get paid to be crazy. I get paid to believe I'm someone else, live in a completely false reality, and believe it's real. And that's a little scary. And I do it to the best of my ability. But it's kind of like swimming out to sea. You have to leave enough energy to swim back, and sometimes you get scared you swam too far.

Quotes by Rachel Miner

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.

Rabindranath Tagore

The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.

Rabindranath Tagore

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.

Quotes by Publilius Syrus

Playing a room, it's a real dictator-type situation - you can really move the crowd the way you want to. In a festival, there's a sea of people, and it's harder to lock in on any one group.

Quotes by Pusha T

What is there more unruly than the sea, with its winds, its tornadoes, and its tempests? And yet in what department of her works has Nature been more seconded by the ingenuity of man than in this, by his inventions of sails and of oars?

Quotes by Pliny the Elder

Our forefathers regarded as a prodigy the passage of the Alps: first by Hannibal and, more recently, by the Cimbri; but at the present day, these very mountains are cut asunder to yield us a thousand different marbles; promontories are thrown open to the sea; and the face of Nature is being everywhere reduced to a level.

Quotes by Pliny the Elder

Of all wonders, this is among the greatest, that some fresh waters close by the sea spring forth as out of pipes: for the nature of the waters also ceaseth not from miraculous properties.

Quotes by Pliny the Elder

Don't eat shrimp - it's one of the most unsustainable fish. For every pound that's caught, 10 or 20 pounds of other stuff is killed and dumped back overboard. It's the number one killer of juvenile sea turtles in Mexico. Two good sustainable seafood guides that I'd recommend are from the Monterey Bay Aquarium and the Blue Ocean Institute.

Quotes by Philippe Cousteau, Jr.

I grew up in the west of Ireland, and Galway was our local seaside resort. We'd go for one day of the year during the summer, and I have enduring memories of the sand and the sea.

Quotes by Philip Treacy

We will build in Britain a cyber strike capability so we can strike back in cyber space against enemies who attack us, putting cyber alongside land, sea, air and space as a mainstream military activity.

Quotes by Philip Hammond

I think music is a big, big wide world, and I am voyager on this particular ship in this sea of wild music, and I'm gonna dive in and find as many fish as I can and catch them all. I love music.

Quotes by Phil Anselmo

The risks of piracy spreading beyond the Red Sea and Indian Ocean, off the Somali coast, and in the Straits of Malacca and Singapore and beyond are substantial.

Quotes by Peter Middlebrook

Church members in too many cases are like deep sea divers, encased in the suits designed for many fathoms deep, marching bravely to pull out plugs in bathtubs.

Quotes by Peter Marshall

Since writing JAWS, I've been lucky enough to do close to forty television shows about wildlife in the oceans, and yes, I have been attacked by sea creatures once in a while.

Quotes by Peter Benchley

I've never been hurt by a sea creature, except for jellyfish and sea urchins.

Quotes by Peter Benchley

It's never going to be hipster because you've got that smell that the sea gives out twice a day. That's why Margate will never be gentrified. However, there is art-led regeneration.

Quotes by Pete Doherty

The sea change that has come is the information age. We don't have to just read The New York Times anymore. We can pull up something on the Internet and get any news that we like.

Quotes by Pete du Pont

Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones.

Quotes by Pericles

I fell in love with the ocean when I was just a little kid, four or five years old, I was a junior ranger, I was going out and doing intertidal stuff, walking around and sticking my finger in my first sea anemone and picking up starfish and all that. It gripped me when I was young.

Quotes by Paul Walker

We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.

Quotes by Paul Tillich

The British are coming. One if by land, two if by sea.

Quotes by Paul Revere

The impact of our warming planet will likely lead to even stricter zoning and building codes to account for the rising sea levels visible in places like South Beach - even on days without a cloud in sky.

Quotes by Patrick Murphy

We must maintain strong building codes, strengthen flood insurance programs, and forcefully acknowledge the reality that rising sea temperatures caused by made-man climate change are negatively impacting our way of life. This should be a bipartisan task that finds support with bipartisan solutions.

Quotes by Patrick Murphy

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.

Quotes by Patricia Cornwell

At the age of 18, I made up my mind to never have another bad day in my life. I dove into a endless sea of gratitude from which I've never emerged.

Quotes by Patch Adams

To get Xi Jinping to help with our Pyongyang problem, Trump has dropped all talk of befriending Taiwan, backed off Tillerson's warning to Beijing to vacate its fortified reefs in the South China Sea, and held out promises of major concessions to Beijing in future trade deals.

Quotes by Pat Buchanan

We have a long history with Japan. When South Korea play against Japan, the fans tell us that if we lose, they are going to throw the players into the sea.

Quotes by Park Ji-sung

Suffering from dysentery at sea was no picnic.

Quotes by Pamela Stephenson

The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.

Quotes by Ovid

If we could get the corporate tax rate down to, let's say, a maximum of 25 percent, it would be a sea change for this country. It would be great.

Quotes by Orrin Hatch

I had it calcified inside me that that was the ultimate state of composing. Being Brian Wilson. Being simultaneously a genius and sort of lost at sea - not really knowing what you're doing but reaching for the stars.

Quotes by Oneohtrix Point Never

Blackpool is a hilarious place. It's kind of like the Las Vegas of the U.K. It's by the sea and there's a lot of casinos and resorts.

Quotes by Olly Alexander

When I go to farms or little towns, I am always surprised at the discontent I find. And New York, too often, has looked across the sea toward Europe. And all of us who turn our eyes away from what we have are missing life.

Quotes by Norman Rockwell

What a lot of the public doesn't know, and I'm sure my fans aren't aware of, orcas have died living at Sea World, and that has not been from old age.

Quotes by Noah Cyrus

The human being is a self-propelled automaton entirely under the control of external influences. Willful and predetermined though they appear, his actions are governed not from within, but from without. He is like a float tossed about by the waves of a turbulent sea.

Quotes by Nikola Tesla

Countless as the sands of the sea are human passions.

Nikolai Gogol

The late 20th century sea level rise rate lacks any sign of acceleration. Satellite altimetry indicates virtually no changes in the last decade.

Quotes by Nils-Axel Morner

It has been popular to threaten 'small islands and low-lying coasts' with scenarios of disastrous future flooding. The Maldives has been the most utilised target. We have undertaken a careful analysis of actual sea level changes in the Maldives. No rise has been recorded either in the present or the past centuries.

Quotes by Nils-Axel Morner

All handling by IPCC of the Sea Level questions have been done in a way that cannot be accepted and that certainly not concur with modern knowledge of the mode and mechanism of sea level changes.

Quotes by Nils-Axel Morner

The sea is not rising. It hasn't risen in 50 years.

Quotes by Nils-Axel Morner

When I'm not working, as a family we are obsessed with jumping off rocks into the sea and doing dangerous things.

Quotes by Nicola Walker

I love being in London, where I live, for the shops, the bars and the clubs - but I equally enjoy going to my mum's house in Ayrshire and being able to sit on a cliff by the sea.

Quotes by Neve McIntosh

I traveled to Israel in a small party assembled by Marty Peretz, the editor-in-chief of 'The New Republic.' Other guests included Senator Al Gore and his wife, Tipper. Like every tourist group, we climbed Masada, floated in the Dead Sea, and visited a kibbutz.

Quotes by Nell Scovell

Anybody can pilot a ship when the sea is calm.

Quotes by Navjot Singh Sidhu

The ball whizzes past like a bumblebee and the Indians are in the sea.

Quotes by Navjot Singh Sidhu

At night, when the sky is full of stars and the sea is still you get the wonderful sensation that you are floating in space.

Quotes by Natalie Wood

I grew up outside of Boston in a town called Manchester by the Sea, and we spent our summers in Nantucket.

Quotes by Nat Faxon

For someone with a background of economic justice, what scared me about climate change is not just that the sea level will rise and we'll have more storms - it's how this intersects with that cocktail of inequality and racism.

Quotes by Naomi Klein

Instead of passing on choppy waters to the next generation, we should endeavor to leave them a calmer sea.

Quotes by Najib Razak

I have no religion, and at times I wish all religions at the bottom of the sea. He is a weak ruler who needs religion to uphold his government; it is as if he would catch his people in a trap.

Quotes by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

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