“I discovered that our clan included loads of cousins and uncles and aunts and animals of every shape. I was taught that chaos and competition were family values. And I learned that we all loved the sea. Somehow, the sea was about us-our past, our exuberance, our frailty, our longing.” PastValuesAnimalSeaTaughtShapesLongingCompetitionChaosLoadOur PastUnclesCousinAuntFrailtyFamily ValuesClansExuberance Author:Timothy Shriver
“Man's books are but man's alphabet, Beyond and on his lessons lie - The lessons of the violet, The large gold letters of the sky; The love of beauty, blossomed soil, The large content, the tranquil toil: The toil that nature ever taught, The patient toil, the constant stir, The toil of seas where shores are wrought, The toil of Christ, the carpenter; The toil of God incessantly By palm-set land or frozen sea.” MenBookLyingChristSeaSkyLandTaughtLessonsLettersGoldConstantPatientSoilShoreToilPalmsFrozenVioletTranquilAlphabetCarpenterIncessantly Author:Joaquin Miller
“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
“There is nothing so charming as the knowledge of literature; of that branch of literature, I mean, which enables us to discover the infinity of things, the immensity of Nature, the heavens, the earth, and the seas; this is that branch which has taught us religion, moderation, magnanimity, and that has rescued the soul from obscurity; to make her see all things above and below, first and last, and between both; it is this that furnishes us wherewith to live well and happily, and guides us to pass our lives without displeasure and without offence.” FirstsWellsMeanSoulEarthLastsLiteratureHeavenKnowledgeOur LivesSeaTaughtAll ThingsGuidesBranchesInfinityCharmingModerationObscurityTaught UsLive WellOffenceImmensityMagnanimityFirsts And LastsDispleasureAbove And Below Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero
“In the first seat, in robe of various dyes, A noble wildness flashing from his eyes, Sat Shakespeare: in one hand a wand he bore, For mighty wonders fam'd in days of yore: The other held a globe, which to his will Obedient turn'd, and own'd the master's skill: Things of the noblest kind his genius drew, And look'd through nature at a single view: A loose he gave to his unbounded soul, And taught new lands to rise, new seas to roll; Call'd into being scenes unknown before, And passing nature's bounds, was something more.” FirstsLooksKindSoulHandsEyeTurnsViewsWonderSeaLandTaughtMastersGeniusSceneSkillsBoundsVariousNoblePassingPassingsSatHis EyesSeatsBoresGlobesObedientRobesWildnessWands Book:Poems Source: Poems
“Sailing has given me some of the most pleasant and exciting moments of my life. It also has taught me something of the courage, resourcefulness, and strength of men who sail the seas in ships.” MenMomentsGivenSeaTaughtExcitingShipsPleasantSailSailingResourcefulness Book:The Letters of John F. Kennedy Source: The Letters of John F. Kennedy
“They went down to Egypt and provided food when famine reigned; they came to the obstinate sea, and taught it wisdom with a rod; they went out into the hostile desert and adorned it with a pillar; they entered the furnace, fiercely heated, and sprinkled it with their dew; into the pit where they had been thrown an angel entered and taught its wild beasts to fast.” ChristianSeaTaughtAngelDesertBeastThrownOrthodoxEgyptHostilePitsDewFaminePillarsObstinateFurnacesWild Beasts Author:Ephrem the Syrian
“Behold your little ones. Pray with them. Pray for them and bless them. The world into which they are moving is a complex and difficult world. They will run into heavy seas of adversity. They will need all the strength and all the faith you can give them while they are yet near you. While they are young, pray with them that they may come to know that source of strength which shall then always be taught of the Lord' and great shall be the peace of thy children.” KnowsWorldNeedsGivingMayChildrenLittlesRunningMovingYoungDifficultLordSeaTaughtSourcePrayingAdversityComplexesHeavyBlessSource Of Strength Author:Gordon B. Hinckley
“If September 11th has taught us anything, it's certainly that the world has never been so interdependent. It is impossible now to be an island of prosperity in a sea of despair.” IfsWorldImpossibleSeaTaughtDespairProsperityIslandsSeptemberTaught UsSeptember 11th Author:Bono
“1492. As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the year people began living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America. Actually, people had been living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America for hundreds of years before that. 1492 was simply the year sea pirates began to rob, cheat, and kill them.” PeopleYearsChildrenTruthAmericaJoySeaTaughtPrideContinentsCheatImaginativePirateNorth America Author:Kurt Vonnegut