Reaching The Ocean

Where there is a sea there are pirates. - Greek Proverb

A roof stretching over the Atlantic Ocean. - Ernest Bevin

When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick. - George Burns

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm. - Publilius Syrus

The best cure for sea sickness, is to sit under a tree. - Spike Milligan

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth. - Ludwig Borne

You can't cross the sea merely by staring at the water. - Rabindranath Tagore

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. - Albert Einstein

Mother is the home we come from. She is nature, soil, ocean. - Erich Fromm

If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion. - Noam Chomsky

They who dive in the sea of affliction, bring up rare pearls. - Charles H. Spurgeon

Nervous Wreck: What lies at the bottom of the ocean and twitches - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Illusion is the dust the devil throws in the eyes of the foolish. - Minna Antrim

If you don't become the ocean you'll be seasick every day. - Leonard Cohen

She's a skeleton in the sand right now. She comes and she goes. - Annalies Corbin

Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships. - Zora N Hurston

The landlocked sea is Greek or Roman, the boundless sea is Portuguese. - Fernando Pessoa

The biggest sin in the world would be if I lost my love for the ocean. - Laird Hamilton

Our separation from each other is an optical illusion of consciousness. - Albert Einstein

A man loses his illusions first, his teeth second, and his follies last. - Helen Rowland

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea. - Honore de Balzac

Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure. - Ross MacDonald

You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore. - Christopher Columbus

If I swim in the ocean, I have a shark thought. Not a bad one, but just a little one. - Tea Leoni

I could never learn to like her, except on a raft at sea with no other provisions in sight. - Mark Twain

No one would have ever crossed the ocean if they could have gotten off the ship in the storm. - Charles F. Ketterling

Language is our meeting place, the sea we live in... it is the common ground of our humanity. - Toby Wolfe

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it. - Niccolo Machiavelli

Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea. - John Updike

How do we persevere when we're adrift at sea, severed from wherever or whomever is our 'home'? - Lois Anderson

It is our art that has an opportunity to leave a footprint in the sand. They don't wrap fish in our work. - Hugh N Jacobsen

Love one another, but make not a bond of love. Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. - Kahlil Gibran

I don't trust the ocean, either; it would kill me as soon as not. It doesn't mean I'm afraid of it. - Maggie Stiefvater

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand. - Milton Friedman

My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops? - David Mitchell

The Duchess smashed the bottle against the bow and amid the applause of the crowd she slid on her greasy bottom into the sea. - Unknown

It's better to swim in the sea below
Than to swing in the air and feed the crow,
Says jolly Ned Teach of Bristol. - Benjamin Franklin

God moves in a mysterious way
His wonders to perform;
He plants His footsteps in the sea
And rides upon the storm. - William Cowper

My bounty is as boundless as the sea,
My love as deep; the more I give to thee,
The more I have, for both are infinite. - William Shakespeare

Clay. It's rain, dead leaves, dust, all my dead ancestors. Stones that have been ground into sand. Mud. The whole cycle of life and death. - Martine Vermeulen