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We have flown the air like birds and swum the seas like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers.

Martin Luther King Jr.

The man who voyages strange seas must of necessity be a little unsure of himself. It is the man with the flashy air of knowing everything, who is always with it, that we should beware of.

Fred Hoyle

And soon, too soon, we part with pain, To sail o'er silent seas again.

Thomas Moore

Just have to be more cautious on days when the seas are rough and you have limited space to go through.

Nancy Young

The seas are the heart's blood of the earth.

Henry Beston

I do not know beneath what sky nor on what seas shall be thy fate; I only know it shall be high, I only know it shall be great.

Richard Hovey

Alaska's contribution to America's freedom isn't just the oil we provide or the food we harvest from the seas or our location which is the best in the world for our military. It is more than that. It begins with the fact that Alaskans are free-thinkers.

Lisa Murkowski

Not only are they magnificent creatures, but sea horses also represent a conversion of the world's most pressing conservation issues. The recovery of sea horses will indicate that our seas are becoming healthier.

Amanda Vincent

Our joint knowledge and experience will be crucial if we are to tackle the challenges in tough, Arctic seas.

Helge Lund

Right now as we speak, there are probably four vessels brought in by different companies that KPC has locked out in the high seas, and the ships are accruing demurrage of over $100,000 (Sh7 million) per day.

Jacob Segman

A tide like that prevents the normal drainage from all the creeks and streams that normally drain into the bay. It's like a dam. You combine a 7-foot tide with 15- to 20-foot seas, and you can see why people are worried. Luckily, it's not a commute morning.

Mike Pechner

Be not the slave of your own past. Plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep and swim far, so you shall come back with self-respect, with new power, with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Touch the earth, love the earth, honour the earth, her plains, her valleys, her hills, and her seas; rest your spirit in her solitary places.

Ernest Dimnet

Books are the compasses and telescopes and sextants and charts which othermen have prepared to help us navigate the dangerous seas of human life.

Jesse Lee Bennett

Our government has shipped a lot of the work over seas. Our work force in the U.S. is going down and it has been for a number of years.

Roger Hatch

Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, ease after war, death after life does greatly please.

Edmund Spenser

Back then (most everything we bought) was produced domestically. Now many of these products are made abroad. Some spend up to six months going over choppy seas, and they have to be protected.

Tod Marks

A billion dollars a year is a lot of money. You can't move that kind of oil out to the high seas without some pretty significant, high-level cooperation in the Nigerian government and the military.

Princeton Lyman

Brando clearly was imagining himself as that person. There are several aspects of it that fit with Brando very well; that kind of loner, interested in sailing and the South Seas, drawn to Asian women and eating and drinking.

David Thomson

We've been looking for evidence of oceans or seas on Titan for some time. This radar data is among the most telling evidence so far for a shoreline.

Steve Wall

He made the South Seas a great part of his life. Clearly this story comes out of the books he read and the things he learned about the seas during his time out there. He was also crazy about Asian women.

David Thomson

Civet of hare in the south China seas! 'Gosh, Gertrude, let's go have some civet of hare, it's really cold out there.

Tom Jaine

I hate that we ended up with 71 boats, but we did the right thing. I can understand why a lot of guys didn't want to go. We've got a lot of custom-built boats that cost several million dollars (and fishermen) who just didn't want to risk it in 11- to 14-foot seas forecast for later in the weekend.

Bobby Carter

West of these out to seas colder than the Hebrides I must go, / Where the fleet of stars is anchored and the young star-captains glow.

James Elroy Flecker

It is tragically ironic that while Lydia nests on one the world's most remote and pristine islands, she makes her living in some of the most degraded seas on the planet. Fishing pressure is huge and marine pollution is severe.

David James

Nothing is wasted, nothing is in vain: / The seas roll over but the rocks remain.

A. P. Herbert

Actually, it's also interesting to see the cut-throat competition among domestic holiday regions. Bavaria continues to reign supreme at the top of the list, followed by the Baltic and North Seas.

Horst Opaschowski

The reason we're investigating is potential violation of international piracy laws. We have jurisdiction on the high seas if it is a U.S. flag vessel or the victims are U.S. citizens.

Terry Nelson

They believe their son was murdered aboard the 'Brilliance of the Seas' and that Royal Caribbean has deliberately attempted to cover up what happened to George, and to portray this to the media and the public as some sort of unfortunate accident.

Brett Rivkind

This boarding on the high seas was done on the express permission of the Cambodian government, the flag state of the vessel.

Ian Macdonald

CORSAIR, n. A politician of the seas.

Ambrose Bierce

The seas are quite rough and it's quite difficult to detect anyone in the water.

John Dixon

This is an exciting moment as we embark upon uniting the exhilaration of a world class sporting event with what will certainly be one of the most anticipated films of next year, ... There will be plenty of high seas adventures both on screen and off for the next 10 months.

Robert Mitchell

The cool thing about being famous is traveling. I have always wanted to travel across seas, like to Canada and stuff.

Britney Spears

People would prefer to risk death rather than continue living there. People just get so fed up with the system they leave and risk their lives on the high seas.

Ramon Saul Sanchez

In both cases, you have these islands of trouble surrounded by seas of prosperity. The only way for either city, I think, to be pulled out of its problems is to be able to tap into the energy around it.

Tom Fiedler

Sometimes we look for those thunderous things to happen in our life for our lives to change or go in the other direction. We seek the miracle. We seek the parting of the seas, the moving of the mountains. But no, it's a quiet thing. At least for me it was.

Ben Vereen

On that day let us solemnly remember the sacrifices of all those who fought so valiantly, on the seas, in the air, and on foreign shores, to preserve our heritage of freedom, and let us reconsecrate ourselves to the task of promoting an enduring peace so that all their efforts shall not have been in vain.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

The key to all strange things is in thy heart..../ My spirit has come home, that sailed the doubtful seas.

Countee Cullen

A mind forever voyaging through strange seas of thought, alone.

William Wordsworth

Winds are gusting to 37 mph on Nantucket. And the seas are still looking a little rough out there. But we don't anticipate significant effects.

Charlie Foley

Sixty mile-an-hour winds, over five hours, will raise seas from dead calm to about 19 feet.

Walt Drag

Now there is distress of nations, with perplexity, the seas and the waves roaring, men's hearts failing them for fear.

Margaret Macdonald

I was a little disappointed that it didn't have a gate in the lifelines as we tried to get aboard in four-foot seas. It would've been helpful.

Ed Sherman