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quotes by topic Sea

" Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering. "

Saint Augustine

Men , Ocean , Sea , stars

" The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human. "

Men , Sea

" The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion. "

Barbara Tuchman

Glory , War , Sea

" Calm seas never made a good sailor "

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Sea , Sailor , Calm

" I no longer know If I wish to drown myself in love, vodka or the sea. "

Sea , Wish

" Great sea captains are made in rough waters and deep seas. "

Kathryn Kuhlman

Water , Sea , Captains

" God just doesn't throw a life preserver to a drowning person. He goes to the bottom of the sea, and pulls a corpse from the bottom of the sea, takes him up on the bank, breathes into him the breath of life and makes him alive. "

Breathe , Sea , Alive

" Sky and sea, keep harm from me. Earth and fire, bring my desire. "

Sky , Fire , Sea

" The selective winnowing of time leaves only a few recognizable individuals behind for the historian to light on. Thus the historian who finds the human being more interesting than what the human being has done must inevitably endow the comparatively few individuals he can identify with too great an importance in relation to their time. Even so, I prefer this overestimate to the opposite method which treats developments as though they were the massive anonymous waves of an unhuman sea or pulverizes the fallible surviving records of human life into the grey dust of statistics. "

Light , Sea

" Puberty for a girl is like floating down a broadening river into an open sea. "

G. Stanley Hall

Sea , Girl , Rivers

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