Seas Quotes

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"We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air. We shall defend our island whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing-grounds, we shall fight in the fields, we shall fight in the hills, we shall never surrender."

- Winston Churchill

I do like the ocean wave, actually. I`m born under the sign of Cancer - the sign of the crab - so I like coastal areas and sunny beaches and such - although not the wide-open and deep seas.

- Anjelica Huston

Brando clearly was imagining himself as that person. There are several aspects of it that fit with Brando very well; that kind of loner, interested in sailing and the South Seas, drawn to Asian women and eating and drinking.

- David Thomson

He made the South Seas a great part of his life. Clearly this story comes out of the books he read and the things he learned about the seas during his time out there. He was also crazy about Asian women.

- David Thomson

Be not the slave of your own past. Plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep and swim far, so you shall come back with self-respect, with new power, with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

We have a balanced, growing team just beginning to find its potential. Led by veterans Amanda Williams and Kelly Darby, who were joined by standout talent Susana Salazar, the Indians are looking forward to growing into a real contender by the end of this season. For the boys, we have a large crop of late arrivals that have recently come out, and we`re hoping they help us rebuild our boys program toward where it stood in the league a few years back.

- Steve Clark

I have vertigo. Vertigo makes it feel like the floor is pitching up and down. Things seem to be spinning. It`s like standing on the deck of a ship in really high seas.

- Laura Hillenbrand

It is tragically ironic that while Lydia nests on one the world`s most remote and pristine islands, she makes her living in some of the most degraded seas on the planet. Fishing pressure is huge and marine pollution is severe.

- David James

The flag that was the symbol of slavery on the high seas for a long time was not the Confederate battle flag, it was sadly the Stars and Stripes.

- Alan Keyes

). Dozens of nations have agreed to join in monitoring and, if necessary, intercepting and boarding ships on the high seas in the event they are suspected of engaging in one or both of these threatening activities.

- Frank Gaffney

I venture to allude to the impression which seemed generally to prevail among their brethren across the seas, that the Old Country must wake up if she intends to maintain her old position of pre-eminence in her colonial trade against foreign competitors.

- King George V

This land is a little land; too much shut up within the narrow seas, as it seems, to have much space for swelling into hugeness.

- William Morris

Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, ease after war, death after life does greatly please.

- Abbie Bates

Touch the earth, love the earth, honour the earth, her plains, her valleys, her hills, and her seas; rest your spirit in her solitary places.

- Abby White

Many millions of people across the seas, as well as our own people, must rely in large part upon the products of our fields and ranges.

- Alan Rupe

The seas are quiet when the winds give o`er; So calm are we when passions are no more!

- Albert Gray

Even in our day, science suspects beyond the Polar seas, at the very circle of the Arctic Pole, the existence of a sea which never freezes and a continent which is ever green.

- Alexander Alexeyev

Long ago, when moose roamed in the forest at the mountain of the Two Rivers, otters had followed eels migrating from ponds and swamps to the seas.

- Alexandra Jacobs

To compel the nation with challenge the traditional American doctrine of freedom of the seas, every man and every ship in the navy is solemnly pledged.

- Allan Wright

From where I stand, I do not see the lost people of the South Seas, the defeated and the despairing, shrunken shadows of those who went before.

- Allen Harris

We are a communicating nation which needs access to space, access to the seas.

- Alvin Lievsay

In my district of Staten Island and Brooklyn, residents joined together and raised money to help military families send these packages over seas.

- Andrew Jarvis

There are worlds out there where the skies are burning, where the seas asleep, and the rivers dream. People made of smoke, and cities made of song. Somewhere there`s danger, somewhere there`s injustice...and somewhere else the tea is getting cold. Come on Ace...we`ve got work to do!

- Andrew York

The United States lost more men from battle wounds and disease in the Civil War than in any other war of its history, including the Second World War. The battle front stretched from Pennsylvania to New Mexico, and included also the seven seas.

- Ann Donovan

Now there is distress of nations, with perplexity, the seas and the waves roaring, men`s hearts failing them for fear.

- Ashley Wilson

We pay little heed to our native spiritual resources and our own intellectual heritage; instead, we think first of importing foreign principles and methods, or borrowing customs and laws from across the deserts and beyond the seas... we turn our eyes to Europe, America, or Russia, and we expect to import from there solutions to our problems.

- Barbara Bettencourt

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

- Proverb