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“Being so young, I had not traveled widely and to see this beautiful country with the sea surrounding, it was a wonderful experience. I had not seen anything like that before.”
Ebere Orji (born 1992) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Nigeria stars reflect on U-17 introduction, FIFA, 22 September 2016.
“Puglia is our region where the East is most felt. The people of Bari remember as a recent fairy tale the years in which the Albanians crossed the sea laden with gold coins; since the Albanians then considered Bari their market and even went down there to buy a hat. (p. 767)”
Guido Piovene (1907–1974) said by 1974 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Poetry! My great comfort ... When As a shipwrecked woman on the High Seas Desparing... Overwhelmed by the Tempest ... I do not know from Which illumened Heavens You appeared ...Love ...Beauty I took refuge In your tenderness No longer a Flotsam on the Sea.”
Doria Shafik (1908–1975) said by 1975 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We don’t want to lose people to these desperate journeys across the Sahara and across the Mediterranean Sea. We’re losing brain power in Africa. We want young Africans to remain here and to build the continent,”
Yolande Makolo first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: RWANDA REMAINS A SAFE PLACE FOR REFUGEES, ASYLUM SEEKERS- GOV’T SPOKESPERSON KT Press (November 21, 2023)
“For us, climate change is primarily a water crisis,” she said. “Our people can feel its impacts in their daily lives, each year through worsening floods, rising sea levels, and severe drought.”
Kotchakorn Voraakhom (born 1981) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“This donation is a relief for you but that is not to say our problems are over. I am once again using this opportunity to call on President Nana Addo Dankwa Akudo-Addo to ensure that the Ada Sea Defence project continues in earnest .”
Comfort Doyoe Cudjoe-Ghansah (born 1967) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In the year 159 (AD 776) Al Mahdî sent an army by sea under ‘Abdul Malik bin Shahãbu’l Musamma’î to India… They proceeded on their way and at length disembarked at Barada. When they reached the place they laid siege to it… The town was reduced to extremities, and God prevailed over it in the same year. The people were forbidden to worship the Budd, which the Muhammadans burned.”
Ibn al-Athir (1160–1233) said by 1233 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“From Persia to the Chinese Sea, from the icy regions of Siberia to the islands of Java and Borneo, from Oceania to Socotra, India has propagated her beliefs, her tales and her civilization. She has left indelible imprints on one-fourth of the human race in the course of a long succession of centuries.”
Sylvain Lévi (1863–1935) said by 1935 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: quoted in Londhe, S. (2008). A tribute to Hinduism: Thoughts and wisdom spanning continents and time about India and her culture
“From Persia to the Chinese Sea, 'from the icy regions of Siberia to the islands of Java and Borneo, from Oceania to Socotra, India has propagated her beliefs, her tales and her civilization.”
Sylvain Lévi (1863–1935) said by 1935 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I love a sunburnt country, A land of sweeping plains, Of ragged mountain ranges, Of droughts and flooding rains. I love her far horizons, I love her jewel-sea, Her beauty and her terror— The wide brown land for me!”
Dorothea Mackellar (1885–1968) first seen 1908 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Core of My Heart" (1908); "My Country" (1911)
“The philosophy of Africanism holds out the hope of a genuine democracy beyond the stormy sea of struggle.”
Robert Sobukwe (1924–1978) said by 1978 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There was the boundless sea, the blue sky that stretched out endlessly, the waves, the wind, the clean fresh air, and the raucous ways of the healthy sailors.”
Kaneko Fumiko (1903–1926) said by 1926 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Why? is the boy's motto, why does, why is, why not? Food, weather, time, fires, sea and season, clothes and cars and people; it's all grist to the mill of why. (chapter 3, p94)”
Keri Hulme (1947–2021) said by 2021 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Thus said the rushing raven, Unto his hungry mate: ‘Ho! gossip! for Bude Haven: There be corpses six or eight. Cawk! cawk! the crew and skipper Are wallowing in the sea: So there’s a savoury supper For my old dame and me.’”
Robert Hawker (poet) first seen 1864 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A Croon on Hennacliff", st. 1 (1864)
“There is in fact no evidence for the gradual progression of an entire material culture from the shores of the Black Sea to those of the Atlantic or the Ganges—unless, of course, we drastically force the data.”
Jean-Paul Demoule (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Εducation is a war industry. Teachers, especially those involved in higher education, produce a direct war material. Our product is not the cannon, or the shell, or the dive bomber, or the dreadnaught. Ours is the even more basic material-the target. Without the target, the soldier on land, sea, or air, no war could get to the shooting stage.”
Morris Schappes (1907–2004) said by 2004 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I turned and looked at the city. A sea of twinkling, multi-colored lights leaped to the eye. They threw up the outlines of buildings. They made the wide streets shine. They spelled out advertisements. I could map the city by its lights.”
Peter Abrahams (1919–2017) said by 2017 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Entering is stepping into a new Dark Age. The sea had once been here. In its retreat it had left a white, unyielding sand, grown dirty with time. It had left almost a desert.”
Peter Abrahams (1919–2017) said by 2017 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“One thing is clear: I shall marry Ihuoma. She is a human being, and if marrying a woman like her is a fatal mistake, I am prepared to make it. If I am her husband for a day before my death my soul will go singing happily to the spirit world. There also I shall be prepared to dare the wrath of four hundred Sea Kings for her sake.”
Elechi Amadi (1934–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Ihuoma is the sea-king’s main interest and her male admires are victims of circumstance and of their own misdeeds”
Elechi Amadi (1934–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“They do not like to be called squatters. How can we be squatters on our land, in our own country? Squatters are those who came from across the sea to steal our land”
“The ocean refused to be still; it took more, claimed more, and retreated less but paradoxically the hungry sea left behind more of its unwanted children, its vomit littering Scorpion’s little patch of beach-front: a seagull’s skull, uncapped beer bottles, horse scat, empty packets of cigarettes, the left foot of a size twelve shoe, a dead army of used condoms, and an old deflated football.”
Jude Dibia (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A conglomeration of roguishly built shanty homes, it flanked the Sambo creek, a torrid expanse of water twisting like loins to the sea.”
Jude Dibia (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A stone’s throw from the sea”
Meshack Asare (born 1945) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The usual lazy yawn of the sea turned into an angry howl. The coconut leaves flapped and rustled, swaying desperately in the wind.”
Meshack Asare (born 1945) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He is just one of the boys of the small village, somewhere between the sea and the lagoon.”
Meshack Asare (born 1945) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“This story deserves to be told; all stories do. Even the waves of the sea tell a story that deserves to be read. The stories that really need to be told are those that shake the very soul of you.”
Lee Maracle (1950–2021) first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Celia’s Song (2014) p7
“Sit here, now, and look. The water, the surf, the colors on the shore. You think they make the beauty of the tropical sea, aye, lad? They do not. 'Tis the knowledge of what lurks below the surface of it, that awful-looking thing, as you call it, that carries death with every move that it makes. So it is, so it is with all beauty. So it is with Mexico. I hope you never forget it.”
James M. Cain (1892–1977) said by 1977 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I love the sea, but so much water... so much water!...”
Eugène Labiche (1815–1888) first seen 1865 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Le Voyage en Chine (1865), act 3, sc. 2 (Alidor)
“A Holy Madness To say thou to the sun and call the wind brother; to be humble before a grain of sand and speak familiarly to the sea; to preach to the birds in earnest ...o holy love, sweet lunacy, which of us, seeing a child exhorting a deaf robin, does not bless that child for the paradise in his head? Be praised, my Lord, for Francis, brother to lilies...”
Lisel Mueller (1924–2020) said by 2020 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Tears She looked at the watchful gazelles and the heavy-lidded frogs; she looked at the glass-eyed birds and nervous, black-eyed mice. None of them wept, not even the fish ...Not even the man. Only she carried the sea inside her body.”
Lisel Mueller (1924–2020) said by 2020 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I do not crave the boon Of Immortality; I do not want the moon, Nor yet the rainbow's key.I do not yearn for wings, Or fins to swim the sea; I merely want the things That are not good for me.”
Victor Daley (1858–1905) said by 1905 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Moderation", in Victor Daley, ed. H. J. Oliver (1963)
“The pulse of our life is in tune with the rhythm of forces that beat In the surf of the farthest star's sea, and are spent and regathered to spend.”
Frederick George Scott (1861–1944) first seen 1897 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A Dream of the Prehistoric", st. 11, in The Unnamed Lake and Other Poems (Toronto, 1897), p. 14
“O hear us when we cry to Thee For those in peril on the sea.”
William Whiting (poet) first seen 1861 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Eternal Father, Strong to Save" (1861), refrain
“And I am not saying I won't fight anymore, indeed. I am saying that I don't want war anymore. I want the end of the siege. You walk to the beach at sunset, and you see all these teenagers on the shore chatting and wondering what the world looks like across the sea. What life looks like. It's breaking. And should break everybody. I want them free.”
Yahya Sinwar (1962–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He wants us to vote for him and become more powerful than God by providing a sea in Kumasi. You have to know that this is an insult to us. I pity him for insulting the entire country.”
Akua Donkor (1952–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“During the past six, and since the country signed the Paris Agreement that came out of the 2015 Paris Conference on Climate Change, Egypt has been fully invested in measures to protect its shores from rising sea levels.”
Laila Iskander (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“All South African troops going on peacekeeping missions must undergo a rigorous SEA training. There is not a single soldier who does not know what sexual exploitation and abuse is and what the consequences are,”
Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula (born 1956) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“that the world was dazzled by the brilliant organization of the fourth edition of the World Youth Forum, which concluded its activities in the Red Sea resort city of Sharm El Sheikh Thursday.”
Phoebe Fawzy wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Speed, bonnie boat, like a bird on the wing, ‘Onward,’ the sailors cry. Carry the lad that’s born to be king Over the sea to Skye.”
Harold Boulton (1859–1935) first seen 1884 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Skye Boat Song", st. 1, in Songs of the North (1884)
“Still . . . fair, though scarce less old than Rome. Now once again at rest from wandering Across the high Alps and the dreadful sea, In utmost England let it find a home.”
John William Mackail (1859–1945) first seen 1887 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: An Etruscan Ring", II; in T. S. Baynes and Lewis Campbell, eds., Alma Mater's Mirror (1887), p. 218
“O Muse, instruct me of the man who drew His changeful course through wanderings not a few After he sacked the holy town of Troy, And saw the cities and the counsel knewOf many men, and many a time at sea Within his heart he bore calamity, While his own life he laboured to redeem And bring his fellows back from jeopardy.”
John William Mackail (1859–1945) said by 1945 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My life is like water that has gone over the dam and turned no mill wheels. Here I am, not happy, but not unhappy, as my days run on to the sea, idly—but not too swiftly—for I love living.”
Zoe Akins (1886–1958) said by 1958 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“So much do I love wandering, So much I love the sea and sky, That it will be a piteous thing In one small grave to lie!”
Zoe Akins (1886–1958) said by 1958 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I always had an interest in the sea and an interest in marine organisms and things like that.”
Meave Leakey (born 1942) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I believe in little things that you can hardly see like honeycomb and spider webs and starfish in the sea. I believe in little things like icy drops of rain that melt into the morning mist when winds are warm again.”
Joe Raposo (1937–1989) first seen 1972 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Little Things" (1972) · 1998 performance by Tony Bennett
“She comes not when Noon is on the roses— Too bright is Day. She comes not to the Soul till it reposes From work and play. But when Night is on the hills, and the great Voices Roll in from Sea, By starlight and by candlelight and dreamlight She comes to me.”
Herbert Trench (1865–1923) said by 1923 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“But she, like sighing forests, Stole on me—full of rest, Her hair was like the sea's wave, Whiteness was in her breast,— (So does one come, at night, upon a wall of roses.)”
Herbert Trench (1865–1923) said by 1923 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Hurrah for the flag of the free! May it wave as our standard forever, The gem of the land and the sea, The banner of the right. Let tyrants remember the day When our fathers with mighty endeavor Proclaimed as they marched to the fray That by their might and by their right It waves forever.”
John Philip Sousa (1854–1932) first seen 1896 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Stars and Stripes Forever" (1896), trio
“… Wherever animals live, in fresh water, salt water, or on land, their body fluids are similar; all are salty. In marine invertebrates, whether es or s, the body fluids are practically filtered sea water.”
Ann Haven Morgan (1882–1966) said by 1966 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source