“I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.”
Isaac Newton
“Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.”
Robert Henri
“Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air…”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I never saw a moor, I never saw the sea; Yet know I how the heather looks, And what a wave must be. I never spoke with God, Nor visited in Heaven; Yet certain am I of the spot, As if a chart were given.”
Emily Dickinson
“The sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to each other, and children cling to us. The moment we cease to hold each other, the moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.”
James Arthur Baldwin
“And so castles made of sand fall in the sea, eventually.”
Jimi Hendrix
“Let's drink to California, way out by the sea, Where a woman's ass, and a whiskey glass, Made a horse's ass of me”
Anonymous Toast