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• “Never was there lovelier town Than our Falmouth by the sea. Tender curves of sky look down On her grace of knoll and lea.”

  Katharine Lee Bates (1859–1929) said by 1929 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Greetings to thee, ancient bell Of our Falmouth by the sea! Answered by the ocean swell, Ring thy centuried Jubilee! Like the white sails of the Sound, Hast thou seen the years drift by, From the dreamful, dim profound To a goal beyond the eye.”

  Katharine Lee Bates (1859–1929) said by 1929 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “By the promise of noon"s blue splendor in the dawn"s first silvery gleam, By the song of the sea that compelleth the path of the rockcleaving stream, I summon thee, recreant dreamer, to rise and follow thy dream.”

  Katharine Lee Bates (1859–1929) said by 1929 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “But I always return to my first opinion, that the truth and beauty of flesh in sunlight by the sea, is offered to you in a way impossible to secure in pictures built up from hasty sketches, at leisure, in one's studio. Because however much you may work indoors afterwards, whatever you add is with the outdoor impression upon you.”

  Henry Scott Tuke (1858–1929) said by 1929 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “there are all of these researchers who were looking at South Louisiana before Katrina, many people concerned about sea level rise and all of these things for a very long time, but it wasn’t common knowledge. It wasn’t information brought to the communities. The universities knew it, but the communities didn’t know.”

  Colette Pichon Battle wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “So ocean acidification for folks that work in, for example, fishing industries, storms for anybody that lives along the coast, sea level rise for folks that live along the coast as well and heat, which is pretty much everybody. So I think to think that anyone is immune to the impacts of climate change is delusional.”

  Nicole Hernandez Hammer wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “The list of places that have the largest and/or the fastest growing Latino populations are also the places that are most vulnerable to sea level rise. And practically speaking there’s a large portion of the Latino population that works outdoors in the environment whether it's agriculture or construction, and so we are more sensitive to environmental changes.”

  Nicole Hernandez Hammer wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “We’re dealing with multiple impacts… wet periods, dry periods, sea level rise, increased temperatues. That’s why there’s such a sense of urgency behind adaptation and mitigation, because the window for us to make decisions on how we’re going to prevent the worst is closing, and if we don’t take action now, then we’re going to be dealing with, in the words of the IPCC, “horrible” consequences.”

  Nicole Hernandez Hammer wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “He will remember his first sight of the open sea: a gray wrinkled vastness, like the residue of a dream.”

  Hilary Mantel (1952–2022) first seen 1500 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Part 1, Section 1, “Across the Narrow Sea. 1500” (p. 15)

• “The Whiteman told of another country beyond the sea where a powerful woman sat on a throne while men and women danced under the shadow of her authority and benevolence. She was ready to spread the shadow to cover the Agikuyu. They laughed at this eccentric man whose skin had been so scalded that the black outside had peeled off. The hot water must have gone into his head.”

  Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (1938–2025) said by 2025 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “The whiteman told of another country beyond the sea where a powerful woman sat on a throne while men and women danced under the shadow of her authority and benevolence. She was ready to spread the shadow to cover the [Gikuyu]. They laughed at this eccentric man whose skin had been so scalded that the black outside had peeled off.”

  Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (1938–2025) said by 2025 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Ivory soap prides itself in its rich ingredients namely; lemon grass, sea minerals, aloe vera, silk protein, and rose and milk purposely for a germ free, acne free, velvety, toned supple, moisturized and an even skin tone, which ultimately is the skin goal of every woman.”

  Tana Adelana (born 1984) first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Tana as New Ivory Woman in 2017.

• “Adrien had always considered cider a crude drink, flavoured like a highway underpass. The cider was bitter and salty both, like sea air cheering the senses just as it stung them. He had a lot of thinking to do, and thinking was always less daunting with a glass in hand.”

  Ali Shaw (author) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “My country's particular experience in Southeastern Europe and the wider Black Sea area reveals that meaningful cooperation between the U.N. and regional organizations is decisive both on conflict management, and in handling responses to transnational non-conventional threats.”

  Traian Băsescu (born 1951) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Address by H.E. Mr. Traian Băsescu, President of Romania at the High Level Plenary of the UN General Assembly" (14 September 2005)

• “The generals hate holidays. Others shoot up to chase the sun blues away. Another store front church is open. Sea of neon lights. A boxer, his shadow fights. Soldier tired and sailor broken. Winter's asleep at my window. Cold wind waits at my door. She asks me up to her place but I won't be down anymore.”

  Sixto Rodriguez (1942–2023) said by 2023 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “The New York Times called it a "mystery," but the United States executed a covert sea operation that was kept secret—until now”

  Seymour Hersh (born 1937) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Over the next few weeks, members of the CIA’s working group began to craft a plan for a covert operation that would use deep-sea divers to trigger an explosion along the pipeline....”

  Seymour Hersh (born 1937) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Still, the interagency group was initially skeptical of the CIA’s enthusiasm for a covert deep-sea attack... Throughout "all of this scheming," the source said, "some working guys in the CIA and the State Department were saying, 'Don’t do this. It’s stupid and will be a political nightmare if it comes out.'"...”

  Seymour Hersh (born 1937) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “More recently, Victoria Nuland expressed satisfaction at the demise of the newest of the pipelines. Testifying at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing in late January she told Senator Ted Cruz, Like you, I am, and I think the Administration is, very gratified to know that Nord Stream 2 is now, as you like to say, a hunk of metal at the bottom of the sea.”

  Seymour Hersh (born 1937) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Seymour Hersh, How America Took Out The Nord Stream Pipeline, February 8, 2023

  Also quoted by: Victoria Nuland

• “Where and under what form life first appeared, whether at the bottom of the deep sea, as bathybius , or whether with the co-operation of the still excessive ultra-violet solar rays, with still higher pressure of carbonic acid in the atmosphere, who can tell?”

  Emil du Bois-Reymond (1818–1896) said by 1896 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “But our duties as naval men are not at all lightened for that reason. To preserve in perpetuity the fruits of this war; to promote to an ever greater height of prosperity the fortunes of the country, the navy, which, irrespective of peace or war, has to stand between the Empire and shocks from abroad, must always maintain its strength at sea and must be prepared to meet emergency.”

  Tōgō Heihachirō (1848–1934) first seen 1905 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Remarks by Admiral Togo at dispersal ceremony for the combined fleet" (1905)

• “[On the issue of sewage in rivers, lakes and the sea] I'm not denying its a big issue but it always has been. I remember as a child in south Wales swimming in sewage. Jackson's Bay in Barry used to be a sewage outlet where we all went and paddled and swam - it was regarded as acceptable.”

  Damian Green (born 1956) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: On Peston (17 May 2023), as cited in "Water pollution: Tory MP says he swam in sewage as a child" BBC News (17 May 2023)

• “Tossed in a sea of intellect with highly earnest students mitigate the dangers of the individualistic and capitalistic attitude gradual process of introducing people into a foreign country and to foreign life.”

  Kofoworola Ademola (1913–2002) said by 2002 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Instead of battling with Kenya over our eggs and sugar, we shall take our commodities to a bigger market (DRC). Kenya has about 40 million people while DRC has 90 million people. We have a bigger market in DRC than in Kenya. For Ugandans, it is a big plus for us to now have more than one route of access to the sea.”

  Rebecca Kadaga (born 1956) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Kadaga challenges Ugandans to prepare for the DR Congo market, Article by Samuel Muhindo, 27 April, 2022.

• “On the map she looked at, there was no place marker for Pate Island. No color brown or green to suggest her own existence within the sea. So she wanted to know about places that could be rendered invisible.”

  Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor (born 1968) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “In all his fleeing, seeking, tricking, escaping, negotiating, working, whoring, wondering, reading, lying, learning, wrestling, questioning, seeing, tasting, hearing, and journeying, nothing had suggested a vision of “home” or “belonging” until that light-splattered dawn when he glimpsed a little creature dancing with the sparkling Pate sea.”

  Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor (born 1968) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “The man inhabited his solitude fully, and everything else was extraneous:he and his ship and his sea. In that second, if Ayaana had craved anything in her life, it was this:to be of this replete mosaic as an element component.”

  Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor (born 1968) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “I simply cannot understand ... how one can think that "... its original may have been the Black Sea or Caspian, as known to dwellers on the steppe-lands to the North..."... it seems evident to me that the geographical horizon ... is the one we are familiar with by now: the central-southern areas of eastern Iran, south of the Hindukus.”

  Gherardo Gnoli (1937–2012) said by 2012 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “The only Ariana we know is Strabo's Ariana, whose Geography describes its limits precisely: to the east the Indus, to the south the Arabian Sea, and to the west an irregular line...”

  Gherardo Gnoli (1937–2012) said by 2012 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “The U.S. military’s been talking about rising sea levels on bases since the 1970s, if not earlier.”

  Calder Walton (born 2000) first seen 2021 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: 2021

• “The Punjab is thus omitted altogether from the list. The most western locality is the place where the Sarasouti disappears in the north-west, and the Arabian Sea, west of the southern line of the Vindhyas.”

  Edward Washburn Hopkins (1857–1932) said by 1932 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Salt cures. Sea washes. It cleans. Expanse enlivens the spirit, frees the mind.”

  Patricia Grace (born 1937) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Tory Brexiteers promised that leaving the EU would allow Britain to "take back control" of its waters, and enable our fishermen to feast on a "sea of opportunity".”

  Sherelle Jacobs wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “, , and... abrupt non-linear ... ... verified that even if every human being went extinct tonight, stopping emissions immediately, we'd still see 25 to 40 ft of sea level rise in the next two centuries.”

  Michael Dowd (1958–2023) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Refs: YouTube video, John Englander: Post Doom with Michael Dowd, or "Unstoppably Rising Seas," plus Englander's books, High Tide on Main Street: Rising Sea Level and the Coming Coastal Crisis (2011) and Moving to Highe…

• “[B]eing at sea during the , when it arrived in the UK... back in 2013. I was on the in the North Atlantic and the swell... the during that storm was 10 meters during the middle of it.”

  Helen Czerski (born 1978) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “It wasn't my first time at sea. It was my first time in waves that big.”

  Helen Czerski (born 1978) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “The day they carried... [the surface following buoy] down to the beach... and I had never thought about what really might be underneath [the ocean]... [T]hen I understood the context for them and... became an ocean scientist by the back door. ...Then I had opportunities to go to sea and I continued the research...”

  Helen Czerski (born 1978) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “[W]e're past the point now where we say you have to go to sea to be an oceanographer, because it's not true, and it's actually very important that it isn't true.”

  Helen Czerski (born 1978) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “It was one of those blessedly beautiful afternoons at Brighton Beach, when the sky is so distinctly clear, it was as if it had been washed with a heavenly blue, and the sea looked exactly as if a choirmaster had given the waves their tempo, so that they ebbed and flowed in a harmonious murmur. In short, it was a very beautiful afternoon. (first lines of "The Rafalovitches" 1947 story)”

  Kadia Molodowsky (1894–1975) said by 1975 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “We deplore China's military actions which have raised tensions in the Taiwan Strait as well as its unfriendly action against partners in the South China Sea. Any disputes or contentious issues must be solved peacefully. Any potential armed conflict in the region would have negative consequences on the whole world.”

  Petr Pavel (born 1961) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Petr Pavel (2023) cited in "Allies call for Taiwan's U.N. inclusion during General Debate" on Focus Taiwan, 20 September 2023.

• “As in my sea of thoughts | of which I am shipwrecked in my serious moments, | I think of the rivers, who grow fat like pigs, | then they overflow, and the walls of the houses collapse, | under the lightning catastrophes of a few moments | which have the price of a life, | waiting for clear weather to come. (from Damned rainy day, n. 4)”

  Caparezza (born 1973) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “He Says he was a handsome man and came, | he came from the sea, | he spoke another language, | but he knew how to love | and that day he took my mother | on a beautiful meadow, | the sweetest hour before being killed. (from 4/3/1943, side B, n. 3)”

  Lucio Dalla (1943–2012) said by 2012 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “She was turning sixteen | that day my mother, | the tavern verses | she sang her the lullaby. | And holding me to her chest that she knew, | she smelled of the sea, | she played at being a woman | with the baby to be swaddled. (from 4/3/1943, side B, n. 3)”

  Lucio Dalla (1943–2012) said by 2012 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Who knows, who knows tomorrow | what will we get our hands on, | if we can still count the waves of the sea | and raise your head. | Don't be so serious, | stay. (from Futura, side B, n. 4)”

  Lucio Dalla (1943–2012) said by 2012 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Here where the sea glitters | and the wind blows strong | on an old terrace | in front of the gulf of Sorrento | a man hugs a girl | after she had cried | then he clears his throat | and the singing begins again. (from Caruso, n. 1)”

  Lucio Dalla (1943–2012) said by 2012 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “All this sea of ​​song of art needs not only the spectacular moment (stage, exhibition, reproduction) but also codification, interpretation, exegetical insertion into culture.”

  Roberto Vecchioni (born 1943) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “And the greatest conquered nation after nation | and when he was in front of the sea he felt like an idiot | because nothing further could be conquered | and a long way to see a desperate sun | and always the same and always as when he left . (from Stranamore (this too is love), Side A, nº 1)”

  Roberto Vecchioni (born 1943) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “All that great sea of ​​youth | it's not worth the bed that you warm." (from La donna della sera, n. 6)”

  Angelo Branduardi (born 1950) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Can you imagine a sailor who spends six, seven months at sea, gets off the ship, arrives in the historic center and no longer finds the whores? (p. 94)”

  Andrea Gallo (1928–2013) said by 2013 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Don't you know what kind of love I love? I love as the sea loves the shore: softly and furiously!”

  Federico De Roberto (1861–1927) said by 1927 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

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