Sea Life Quotes

There is a tide in the affairs of men

The world’s finest wilderness lies beneath the waves.

I’m always happy when I’m surrounded by water, I think I’m a Mermaid or I was a mermaid. The ocean makes me feel really small and it makes me put my whole life into perspective… it humbles you and makes you feel almost like you’ve been baptized. I feel born again when I get out of the ocean.

No love is Like an ocean with the dizzy procession of the waves’ boundaries.

The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.

It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose, should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. But the sea, though changed in a sinister way, will continue to exist: the threat is rather to life itself.

I went to sea from the most tender age and have continued in a sea life to this day. Whoever gives himself up to this art wants to know the secrets of Nature here below. It is more than forty years that I have been thus engaged. Wherever any one has sailed, there I have sailed.

I could never stay long enough on the shore; the tang of the untainted, fresh, and free sea air was like a cool, quieting thought.

All I ask is a tall ship and a star to sail her by.

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.

[Director] Peter Wallerstein does great work rescuing sea life along the shores of LA, and I helped raise money for sanctuaries such as Chimp Haven, who are now taking in over two hundred medical lab chimps released from government-funded medical testing labs.

There’s no such thing as bad weather, only inappropriate clothing

A ship in port is safe, but that’s not what ships are built for.

In still moments by the sea life seems large-drawn and simple. It is there we can see into ourselves.

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.

The sea will grant each man new hope, and sleep will bring dreams of home.

The sea is not a bargain basement.

There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

I am a citizen of the most beautiful nation on earth, a nation whose laws are harsh yet simple, a nation that never cheats, which is immense and without borders, where life is lived in the present. In this limitless nation, this nation of wind, light, and peace, there is no other ruler besides the sea.

When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.

Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.

Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Animal protection is education to the humanity.

One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.

Waves are the voices of tides. Tides are life.

The sea! The sea! The open sea!, The blue, the fresh, the ever free!

When … we realize the possibilities of deep sea life still unknown to us, every haul of the dredge should be welcomed by an expectant enthusiasm equaled in other fields only by the possible hope of communication with our sister planets.

Always remember that the ocean delights in feeling your feet in her eternal bath.

Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.

My boat is on the shore, And my bark is on the sea.

The cabin of a small yacht is truly a wonderful thing; not only will it shelter you from a tempest, but from the other troubles in life, it is a safe retreat.

To me the sea is a continual miracle; The fishes that swim – the rocks – the motion of the waves – the ships, with men in them, what stranger miracles are there?

My soul is full of longing for the secret of the sea, and the heart of the great ocean sends a thrilling pulse through me.

There is a time in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.

Life is life’s greatest gift. Guard the life of another creature as you would your own because it is your own. On life’s scale of values, the smallest is no less precious to the creature who owns it than the largest.

The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.

We must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.

later down the road of life, i made the discovery that salt water was also good for the mental abrasions one inevitably acquires on land.

Wind is to us what money is to life on shore.