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  • Love and anger are like land and sea: They meet at many different places.

    Sea   Land   Different  
    Patricia A. McKillip (2003). “The Changeling Sea”, p.59, Penguin
  • It must not be supposed that happiness will demand many or great possessions; for self-sufficiency does not depend on excessive abundance, nor does moral conduct, and it is possible to perform noble deeds even without being ruler of land and sea: one can do virtuous acts with quite moderate resources. This may be clearly observed in experience: private citizens do not seem to be less but more given to doing virtuous actions than princes and potentates. It is sufficient then if moderate resources are forthcoming; for a life of virtuous activity will be essentially a happy life.

  • Nature Boy There was a boy A very strange enchanted boy They say he wandered very far, very far Over land and sea A little shy And sad of eye But very wise Was he And then one day A magic day he passed my way And while we spoke of many things, fools and kings This he said to me “The greatest thing You’ll ever learn Is just to love And be loved In return

    Wise   Kings   Eye  
  • I have seen children starving. I have seen the agony of mothers and wives. I hate war.

    Mother   Children   Hate  
    Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1936, Volume 5”, p.289, Best Books on
  • I have sped by land and sea, and mingled with much people, but never yet could find a spot unsunned by human kindness.

    Kindness   Sea   Land  
    Martin Farquhar Tupper (1871). “Proverbial philosophy: in 4 ser., now first complete”, p.253
  • They say that man is mighty, He governs land and sea, He wields a mighty sceptre, O'er lesser powers that be.

    Mom   Men   Sea  
  • A mother and daughter are an edge. Edges are ecotones, transitional zones, places of danger or opportunity. House-dwelling tension. When I stand on the edge of the land and sea, I feel this tension, this fluid line of transition. High tide. Low tide. It is the sea's reach and retreat that reminds me we have been human for only a very short time.

    Terry Tempest Williams (2012). “When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice”, p.15, Macmillan
  • Fight on land and sea All men want to be free If they don't never mind we'll abolish all mankind

    Fighting   Men   Sea  
  • Further devastation of the air, land and sea is obviously a very real possibility, unless the attitudes of politicians and all who irresponsibly exploit our natural resources change significantly in the very near future and all collaborate and sacrifice for the good of the planet.

    "Apocalypse, and How: Viggo Mortensen’s Road Winds On". Interview with Scott Thill, www.wired.com. November 25, 2009.
  • I shall go the way of the open sea, To the lands I knew before you came, And the cool ocean breezes shall blow from me The memory of your name.

    Love   Memories   Ocean  
  • I have seen war. I have seen war on land and sea. I have seen blood running from the wounded. I have seen men coughing out their gassed lungs. I have seen the dead in the mud. I have seen cities destroyed. I have seen 200 limping, exhausted men come out of line—the survivors of a regiment of 1,000 that went forward 48 hours before. I have seen children starving. I have seen the agony of mothers and wives. I hate war.

    Speech at Chautauqua, NY, 14 Aug. 1936, in Public Papers (1936) vol. 5, p. 289
  • Why is it that some Christians cross land and sea, continents and cultures, as missionaries? What on earth impels them? It is not in order to commend a civilization, an institution or an ideology, but rather a person, Jesus Christ, whom they believe to be unique.

    John Stott (2012). “The Incomparable Christ”, p.9, SPCK
  • Nature, like a loving mother, is ever trying to keep land and sea, mountain and valley, each in its place, to hush the angry winds and waves, balance the extremes of heat and cold, of rain and drought, that peace, harmony and beauty may reign supreme.

    Beauty   Mother   Peace  
    Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage (1887). “History of Woman Suffrage”
  • No aquarium, no tank in a marine land, however spacious it may be, can begin to duplicate the conditions of the sea. And no dolphin who inhabits one of those aquariums or one of those marine lands can be considered normal.

    Ocean   Marine   Sea  
  • Ere land and sea and the all-covering sky Were made, in the whole world the countenance Of nature was the same, all one, well named Chaos, a raw and undivided mass, Naught but a lifeless bulk, with warring seeds Of ill-joined elements compressed together.

    Nature   Science   Sea  
    Ovid,, A. D. Melville, E. J. Kenney (2008). “Metamorphoses”, p.1, Oxford University Press
  • If you want to go anywhere in modern war, in the air, on the sea, on the land, you must have command of the air.

    War   Air   Sea  
  • Japan's beautiful seas and its territory are under threat, and young people are having trouble finding hope in the future amid economic slump. I promise to protect Japan's land and sea, and the lives of the Japanese people no matter what.

    Beautiful   Japan   Sea  
  • Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

    Death   Divorce   Sea  
    John Keats (2015). “Sonnets (Complete Edition): 63 Sonnets from one of the most beloved English Romantic poets, influenced by John Milton and Edmund Spenser, and one of the greatest lyric poets in English Literature, alongside William Shakespeare”, p.345, e-artnow
  • I promise to protect Japan's land and sea, and the lives of the Japanese people no matter what.

    Sea   Land   Japan  
    " Japanese nationalist tipped to be PM, raising fears of tensions with China" by Justin McCurry, www.theguardian.com. September 26, 2012.
  • Action and adventure on land and sea-you can't ask for more. But Robert Kurson raises the ante in Pirate Hunters with an array of mystery and a fleet of colorful characters spanning four centuries. This is a great summer read!

  • But unless some great revolution in nature modifies the present relative level between land and sea, it may safely be maintained that the present outer reef is the final southern boundary of the North American continent.

    Ocean   Sea   Land  
    Louis Agassiz (1882). “Report on the Florida Reefs”
  • So extraordinary is Nature with her choicest treasures, spending plant beauty as she spends sunshine, pouring it forth into land and sea, garden and desert. And so the beauty of lilies falls on angels and men, bears and squirrels, wolves and sheep, birds and bees.

    Fall   Angel   Sunshine  
  • In the past we have had a light which flickered, in the present we have a light which flames, and in the future there will be a light which shines over all the land and sea.

    Future   Past   Land  
    Sir Winston Churchill (1993). “The Churchill War Papers: The Ever-Widening War 1941”, William Heinemann
  • Chains tie us down by land and sea; And wishes, vain as mine, may be All that is left to comfort thee.

    Sea   Land   Ties  
    1804 'The Affliction of Margaret', stanza 8 (published 1807).
  • What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.

    Joseph Campbell, Bill D. Moyers (1988). “The Power of Myth”, Harmony
  • The true peace of God begins at any spot a thousand miles from the nearest land.

    Ocean   Sea   Land  
    Joseph Conrad (1962). “The Nigger of the 'Narcissus'”, p.25, Gottfried & Fritz
  • In our victory over Japan, airpower was unquestionably decisive. That the planned invasion of the Japanese Home islands was unnecessary is clear evidence that airpower has evolved into a force in war co-equal with land and sea power, decisive in its own right and worthy of the faith of its prophets.

    Military   War   Home  
  • Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.

    Ocean   Marine   Men  
    'Pericles, Prince Of Tyre' (1606-8) act 2, sc. 1, l. [29]
  • We need the tonic of wildness...At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature.

    Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Thoreau on Nature: Sage Words on Finding Harmony with the Natural World”, p.38, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
  • Out of sight of land the sailor feels safe. It is the beach that worries him.

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