Quotes with sea-water

Quotes 81 till 100 of 367.

  • Maya Angelou I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water.
    Maya Angelou
    African-American poet and writer (1928 - 2014)
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  • Anthony Doerr I do fish. I think there is a connection between thinking and fishing mostly because you spend a lot of time up to your waist in water without a whole lot to keep your mind busy.
    Anthony Doerr
    American author (1973 - )
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  • Bruce Forsyth I do lead a careful diet, I don't overeat, I have fruit and vegetables every day and I drink a lot of water. And my darling wife keeps me so young it is ridiculous. Being with her is an inspiration as well.
    Bruce Forsyth
    British presenter, actor, comedian, singer, dancer and screenwriter (1928 - 2017)
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  • Jacques Maritain I don't see America as a mainland, but as a sea, a big ocean. Sometimes a storm arises, a formidable current develops, and it seems it will engulf everything. Wait a moment, another current will appear and bring the first one to naught.
    Jacques Maritain
    French Catholic philosopher (1882 - 1973)
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  • Anne Morrow Lindbergh I feel we are all islands - in a common sea.
    Anne Morrow Lindbergh
    American Author (1906 - 2001)
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  • Benazir Bhutto I find that whenever I am in power, or my father was in power, somehow good things happen. The economy picks up, we have good rains, water comes, people have crops. I think the reason this happens is that we want to give love and we receive love.
    Source: As quoted in I never asked for power in The Guardian (15 August 2002)
    Benazir Bhutto
    Pakistani politician (1953 - 2007)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes I firmly believe that if the whole material medical could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind, and all the worse for the sea.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Antony Hewish I grew up in Newquay, on the Atlantic coast and there developed a love of the sea and boats.
    Antony Hewish
    British radio astronomer (1924 - )
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  • Assata Shakur I had to adjust to living in a Third World country, which means that things people in the U.S. take for granted-like hot running water whenever you turn on the tap-are not always available.
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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  • William Hazlitt I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it roaring and raging like a wild beast in its den. It puts me in mind of the everlasting efforts of the human mind, struggling to be free, and ending just where it began.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Miguel de Cervantes I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Emily Brontë I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.
    Emily Brontë
    British writer, poet (1818 - 1848)
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  • Tallulah Bankhead I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water: I hate to go to bed, I hate to get up, and I hate to be alone.
    Tallulah Bankhead
    American actress (1902 - 1968)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Victor Hugo I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes - and the stars through his soul.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • John Masefield I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky; and all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by.
    John Masefield
    English poet and writer (1878 - 1967)
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  • W. C. Fields I never drink water. I'm afraid it will become habit-forming.
    W. C. Fields
    American Actor (1880 - 1946)
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  • W. C. Fields I never drink water; that is the stuff that rusts pipes.
    W. C. Fields
    American Actor (1880 - 1946)
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  • Barry Cornwall I never was on the dull, tame shore,
    But I loved the great sea more and more.
    Source: The Sea, reported in Bartletts Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.
    Barry Cornwall
    English poet (pen name of Bryan Procter) (1787 - 1874)
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  • Bryan Procter I never was on the dull, tame shore, But I loved the great sea more and more.
    Bryan Procter
    English poet (1787 - 1874)
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