“And there I saw in the night the vision of a man....coming as it were from Ireland, with countless letters. And he gave me one of them, and I read the opening words of the letter, which were, The voice of the Irish...and as I read the beginning of the letter I thought that at the same moment I heard their voice - they were those beside the Wood of Voclut, which is near the Western Sea - and thus did they cry out as with one mouth: We ask thee, boy, come and walk among us once more.” MenMomentsInspirationNightFaithAsksVoiceWalksVisionBoysSawsHeardSeaCryMouthsLettersWesternWoodsOpeningTheeIreland Author:Saint Patrick
“If Bacchus ever had a color he could claim for his own, it should surely be the shade of tannin on drunken lips, of John Keat's 'purple-stained mouth,' or perhaps even of Homer's dangerously wine-dark sea.” IfsShouldDarkSeaColorMouthsClaimsWineLipsColourShadePurpleBacchus Author:Victoria Finlay
“I get all the truth I need in the newspaper every morning, and every chance I get I go fishing, or swap stories with fishermen to get the taste of it out of my mouth.” NeedsStoriesChanceMorningSeaTasteMouthsRiversFishesNewspapersBoatLakesFishingEvery MorningFisherman Author:Ed Zern
“Living at a beach, near a river mouth, taught him the impotence of impatience at events moving at nature's pace.” MovingSeaEventsTaughtMouthsRiversFishesBoatBeachLakesFishingPaceImpatienceImpotence Author:Tony Bishop
“It is easy to tell tourists from tarpon. Tarpon have a narrow, bony plate inside the mouth of their lower jaw. Tourists have both upper and lower plates.” EasySeaMouthsRiversFishesBoatLakesFishingPlatesTourists Author:Ed Zern
“It is what we imagine knowledge to be: dark, salt, clear, moving, utterly free, drawn from the cold hard mouth of the world, derived from the rocky breasts forever, flowing and drawn, and since our knowledge is historical, flowing, and flown.” WorldHardMovingDarkKnowledgeForeverClearImagineSeaColdMouthsHistoricalBreastsSaltSymbolism Book:Poems Source: Poems
“With flowing tail and flying mane, Wide nostrils never stretched by pain, Mouth bloodless to bit or rein, And feet that iron never shod, And flanks unscar'd by spur or rod, A thousand horses - the wild - the free - Like waves that follow o'er the sea, Came thickly thundering on.” PainBitsSeaFeetThousandMouthsHorseWaveWideFlyingIronTailsSpursReinsWild HorsesInspirational Horse Author:Lord Byron
“I am a futility. The life of prayer begins with that. And God is not a comfort, to be offered like Kleenex. God is a poisoned sea, with broken syringes washing up on the beach. God is shopping malls stretching to the horizon and warplanes in the sky. God is a flat tire in a rainstorm and beer cans in the ditch, a bottle shattered on a highway and the taste of gunmetal in your mouth.” PrayerSeaSkyBrokenComfortTasteMouthsBeerBeachFlatsHorizonBottlesShoppingTireHighwaysWashingShatteredStretchingFutilityMallsRainstormsFlat TiresKleenex Author:Tim Farrington
“Marco Polo had seen the inhabitants of Zipangu place rose-colored pearls in the mouths of the dead. A sea-monster had been enamoured of the pearl that the diver brought to King Perozes, and had slain the thief, and mourned for seven moons over its loss.” LossSeaKingsMoonMouthsRoseSevenMonstersOver ItThievesPearlsJewelryMarcosPoloMarco Polo Book:Complete Writings of Oscar Wilde Source: Complete Writings of Oscar Wilde
“Undaunted faith can stop the mouths of lions, make ineffective the fiery flames, make dry corridors through beds of rivers and seas. Unwavering faith can protect against deluge, terminate droughts, heal the sick, and bring heavenly manifestations. Indomitable faith can help us live the commandments and thereby bring blessings unnumbered with peace, perfection, and exaltation in the kingdom of God.” HelpingSeaBlessingBedProtectMouthsRiversPerfectionSickHealKingdomsFlamesManifestationDryHeavenlyLionsCommandmentsKingdom Of GodFieryDroughtCorridorsExaltationUnwaveringIndomitableDelugeUndauntedUnwavering Faith Author:Spencer W. Kimball