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“A sea of forces flowing and rushing together, eternally changing.”
Jane Bennett (born 1957) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In future, nothing should be impossible. I long to build a center for optics and photonics for African research scientists in Tunisia, just like the Trieste center. But I also have wilder dreams – of using science to control the climate, to create rain, make deserts fertile, and to get drinking water cheaply from sea water.”
Zohra ben Lakhdar (born 1943) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The practical component of oceanography required long periods at sea, but the boats weren’t equipped for women, and the crew were not ready to accept a person of colour as a professional... By actively sharing my journey, I’ve become a tangible example for female students to explore careers based on capability, not stereotypes”
Priscilla Baker wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“...contrary to popular (and largely ethnocentric) beliefs, the revolution could happen only because women’s roles in Egyptian society—and Arab societies as a whole—have already been undergoing a sea change.”
Azza Karam (born 1968) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The site is located on eastern arm of the Rift Valley (01.39077 S, 36.72365 E), with an elevation of 1746 meters above sea level. Although the presence of bone bed was noted in the geological survey of the Nairobi area in 1991, no systematic research had been conducted in this area prior to 2009.”
Emma Mbua (born 1961) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He takes satisfaction in having quite lived by his stoic creed: give what you can and take what comes. Concession not freely given is in the end forcibly extracted anyway. For we are all swimmers ephemerally buoyed by what will engulf us at the last; still dreaming of islands though the mainland has been lost; swept remorselessly out to sea while we spread our arms to the beautiful shore.”
Peter De Vries (1910–1993) first seen 1986 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Peckham's Marbles (1986), final lines (of De Vries's last book)
“The ability to deny to the enemy the use of the sea for the movement of armies and supplies, while enjoying it for your own, would continue to be the most vital factor until the distant day when troops and supplies could be carried over its surface without interference. Like Napoleon, Hitler was thwarted by a few miles of salt water.”
Arthur Bryant (1899–1985) first seen 1947 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 'A Historians View of the War', lecture delivered at the Royal United Service Institution (22 January 1947), quoted in 'Sea Power in the War', The Times (23 January 1947), p. 2
“Oh. Mari has a temper?” “In the same way that the sea has water, yes.”
John G. Hemry (born 1956) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Have you heard that the sea is like a woman? There’s truth to that. One moment tranquil, the next moment furious, and all men can do is try to read the weather, ride the storm, and hope for the best.”
John G. Hemry (born 1956) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He was born in 1770, in what he thought the best of all lands— Ireland; and he came home from the sea in 1802, but he did not take his pen in hand until 1836, during which time his memory had purged itself of inessentials. He wrote them not for the cold eye of a publisher's reader but (like a gentleman) for his own family's entertainment.”
E. V. Lucas (1868–1938) said by 1938 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I could go on indefinitely thus, calling forth from their graves these hard-bitten sea dogs; but that is enough. It is literature in its way, is it not? Are there the same or kindred characters in the Navy to-day, one wonders. Let us hope so.”
E. V. Lucas (1868–1938) said by 1938 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Just like the sun coming up yonder out of the sea, pushing rays of light ahead of it.”
Esther Forbes (1891–1967) said by 1967 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Sea-like in billowy distance, far away The half-broke prairies stretch on every hand; How wide the circuit of their summer day— What measureless acres of primeval land, Treeless and birdless, by no eyesight spanned!”
Joel Benton (1832–1911) said by 1911 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It was when I started observing and connecting with what’s under the sea that made me realize there’s no going back — there’s no way you’re throwing a plastic straw in a river after you’ve seen what’s there,”
Angelique Pouponneau first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: She's Seen Coral Reefs Turn to Graveyards. Now She's Fighting to Save the Oceans;By Joe McCarthy, retrieved on June 6, 2019
“As I am reaching the halfway mark in my life she says, I am full of projects and hope to bring them to fruition in my land of birth. Africa is looking forward... but for the time being, serenely, I cherish the pleasure to be back home, looking at the silvery sea like Ulysses after his long, eventful journey home”
Katoucha Niane (1960–2008) said by 2008 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Dans ma chair,16 July 2010,Book review by Jean-Marie Violet https://aflit.arts.uwa.edu.au/revieweng_katoucha10.html
“Creolization ... is a new and original dimension allowing each person to be there and elsewhere, rooted and open, lost in the mountains and free beneath the sea, in harmony and in errantry. ("Poetics," p. 34)”
Édouard Glissant (1928–2011) said by 2011 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When a whale gets harpooned, it's not a big deal to anyone. But we figure if humans risk their lives for it, then it can become a big deal. So our job is to shine a spotlight on what's happening at sea . We're whistleblowers. If the ocean dies, we die . We don't have a choice about whether or not to act, so we have to do it.”
Lamya Essemlali (born 1979) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Hail, Holy Day! the blessing from above Brightens thy presence like a smile of love, Smoothing, like oil upon a stormy sea, The roughest waves of human destiny— Cheering the good, and to the poor oppressed Bearing the promise of their heavenly rest.”
Sarah Josepha Hale (1788–1879) first seen 1845 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Sabbath and its Rest", st. 3; Godey's Lady's Book, vol. 31, no. 4 (October 1845), p. 144
“We'll sport and be free with Moll, Betty, and Dolly, Have oysters and lobsters to cure melancholy: Fish-dinners will make a lass spring like a flea, Dame Venus, love's lady, Was born of the sea.”
Thomas Jordan (poet) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“They might have moved several times, perhaps by sea, from the Western Pontic steppes to south-eastern Europe to western Anatolia to Greece, making their trail hard to find.”
David W. Anthony (born 2000) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: (Anthony, 2007, p. 369), quoted in : Wheels, Languages and Bullshit (Or How Not To Do Linguistic Archaeology) Jonathan Sherman Morris. Philology, vol. 3/2017, pp. 57–108
“At sea the most insignificant events seem to amuse everybody, and become the topic of the day.”
Caspar Henry Borgess (1826–1890) said by 1890 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My heart shall keep the child I knew, When you are really gone from me, And spend its life remembering you As shells remember the lost sea.”
Aline Murray Kilmer (1888–1941) first seen 1919 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Prevision", st. 4. Candles that Burn (1919), p. 19
“The migration was under way. ... Its great days were just around the turn of spring — and an April restlessness, a stirring in the blood, a wind from beyond the oak openings, spoke of the prairies, the great desert, and the western sea.”
Bernard DeVoto (1897–1955) first seen 1835 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ch. 1: 1835. The New Jerusalem (p. 11)
“The first person who attempted to correlate the textual descriptions of Sarasvati with empirical paleogeology was C. F. Oldham, in 1874. He surmised that "the waters of the Sarasvati [are] continuous with the dry bed of a great river [Hakra], which, as local legends assert, once flowed through the desert to the sea".”
Charles Frederick Oldham (1832–1913) first seen 1893 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: C.F. Oldham 1893, 54) in Bryant, E. F. (2001). The Quest for the Origins of Vedic Culture : the Indo-Aryan migration debate. Oxford University Press. chapter 9
“Thinking of you this evening, I think of mystery; I think of umbrellas of crystal Shading a cinnamon sea;”
William Jay Smith (1918–2015) first seen 1966 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Poem", l. 1. George Garrett (ed.) The Girl in the Black Raincoat (New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1966), p. 77
“Neptune. Long Branch. Navesink. Sea Girt. Manasquan. Atlantic Highlands. Pinball. Boardwalks. Salt-water taffy. "Don't dwell on the past so.”
Michelle Cliff (1946–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Cease, rude Boreas, blustering railer! List, ye landsmen, all to me; Messmates, hear a brother sailor Sing the dangers of the sea.”
George Alexander Stevens (1710–1780) first seen 1754 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Song ("The Storm") st. 1. Attributed to "Mr. Stevens" in The Muses Delight (Liverpool, 1754) p. 291. Attributed to William Falconer by Stanier Clarke. See also The Songs of England and Scotland, 2 vols. (1835) vol. 1, p…
“He that goes to sea, must smel of the ship; and he that sayles into Poets wil savour of Pitch.”
Stephen Gosson (1554–1624) said by 1624 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I believe that art involves reaching into the sea of possibility, the void, and coming back with ideas in order to then build those ideas into things, so I’m going to use similar tools, similar building blocks, similar themes, regardless of the medium. As I come up with ideas, I have to figure out which format is best for those ideas.”
Margaret Killjoy (born 1982) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If all fairy tales begin "Once upon a time," then all graduation speeches begin "When I was sitting where you are now." We may not always say it, at least not in those exact words, but it's what graduation speakers are thinking. We look out at the sea of you and think, Isn't there some mistake? I should still be sitting there. I was that young fifteen minutes ago, I was that beautiful and lost.”
Ann Patchett (born 1963) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: (112 pages; 1st edition 2008)
“By ones and by twos, by scores and by legions we will drive the enemy into the sea. Through our blood and God's will, the land promised to our fathers of old will become the land of our children to be.”
Robert Jay Mathews (1953–1984) said by 1984 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“High and miraculous skies bless and astonish my eyes; All my dead secrets arise, all my dead stories come true. Here is the Gate to the Sea. Once you unlocked it for me; Now, since you gave me the key, shall I unlock it for you?”
Stella Benson (1892–1933) first seen 1918 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Titled "Song". Twenty (1918), p. 22
“Some spirit lute touched on a spirit sea.”
Stephen Phillips (born 1970) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“So still it is that we might almost hear The sigh of all the sleepers in the world. And all the rivers running to the sea.”
Stephen Phillips (born 1970) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“O death, thou hast a beckon to the brave, Thou last sea of the navigator, last Plunge of the diver, and last hunter's leap.”
Stephen Phillips (born 1970) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When the wind is in the tree, It makes a noise just like the sea, As if there were not noise enough To bother one, without that stuff.”
Samuel Hoffenstein (1890–1947) said by 1947 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The voice of the Russias has spoken; Each serf in the Russias is free! Ring, bells, on the Neva and Volga, Ring, bells, on the Caspian Sea!”
Hezekiah Butterworth (1839–1905) first seen 1878 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Anniversary", st. 8. The Christian Union, vol. 17, no. 11 (March 13, 1878) p. 220. Revised in Zigzag Journeys in the Orient (Boston: Estes and Lauriat, 1881) ch. 10, p. 220
“(Q: How do the stories come to you?) A: Sometimes in a hazy and ambiguous form. An image, a memory, even the movement of a hand, whatever that inspires my imagination...Storms, the sea and its waves always bring me stories.”
Moniro Ravanipour (born 1952) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It’s only something I’m aware of when I’m doing interviews or when I’m at an industry event and suddenly you see a sea of men staring back at you,”
Poppy Gustafsson, Baroness Gustafsson (born 1982) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“They chatter her weakness through the two bazaars Who was so strong to love me. And small men That buy and sell for silver being slaves Crinkle the fat about their eyes; and yet No Prince of the Cities of the Sea has taken her, Leading to his grim bed. Little lonely one, You clung to me as a garment clings; my girl.”
Bilhana (born 1000) first seen 1921 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Chauraspanchasika, st. 21 (tr. E. Powys Mathers, 1921)
“It's fascinating how we or rather I know so little about microorganisms in the oceans or their interactions with sea creatures.”
Pascale Guiton wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Let us speak of Plato, and the picture he paints of people and their inability to rule themselves,” Ampharete began. This drew Heron’s attention from the sea. Mobs often make stupid decisions, on the basis of emotion rather than reason. Do you think Plato is wrong?” “Plato’s view that only the most wise should rule can justify any tyrant or group of tyrant who happen to be in power.”
Paul Levinson (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Obviously, terrestrial mining does have very serious and significant impacts. But, largely speaking, they are much more controllable in a terrestrial setting. They are much more visible — so that third parties can verify them and make sure that mining companies are adhering to . Whereas, they would be far harder to see and verify and attribute to individual mines in the deep sea.”
Callum Roberts (biologist) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Timpanists must tune the instrument, hear the notes they need either by having absolute pitch, or knowing the music well enough to use relative pitch for chordal structure […] while singing and tuning the note at the same time, I must keep the count of where I am […] I am kept extremely busy and for the most part I am all alone like swimming in a sea of sharks waiting to devour me.”
Elayne Jones (1928–2022) said by 2022 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In 2020, sustainment will continue to play a vital role, from service aircraft, ground and sea systems sustainment, to military housing and supporting military PCSs.”
Ellen Lord wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Since I left MBGN, my sister and I started a beauty business. We are rebranding so I cannot release the full details now. I also wrote an anthology, ‘Woman like the Sea’ it is about the struggles women go through. I also have a podcast titled 'Feminine Expressions' coming out soon”
Debbie Collins (born 1992) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Between 1793 and 1797, the French would lose 125 warships to Britain’s 38, including 35 capital vessels (ships-of-the-line) to Britain’s 11, most of the latter the result of fire, accidents and storms rather than French attack. The maritime aspect of grand strategy was always one of Napoleon’s weaknesses: in all his long list of victories, none was at sea.”
Andrew Roberts, Baron Roberts of Belgravia (born 1963) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Wellington, with its hills and fault lines and glittering sea, is like a perfect espresso cup of culture and energy. It’s also home to a lot of quiet minorities, like the Greek community I come from, who carry stories that might be less well known than others. I can’t wait to return”
Michalia Arathimos wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If I go down in the sea...no one must fly out to look for me.”
Jean Batten (1909–1982) said by 1982 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As stated in RNZ's "100 Nasty Women: Jean Batten," an excerpt from Hannah Jewell's 100 Nasty Women of History RNZ. Published 27 December 2017.
“Listen to me: Is he the only Gambian who died? Is he better than Gambians who die in accidents, Gambians who die at sea, Gambians who die on their way to Europe?”
Yahya Jammeh (born 1965) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source