Best seasons & sea Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The natives of British Columbia live largely upon the fish which abound in their seas and rivers. If the fish do not come in due season, and the Indians are hungry, A Nootka wizard will make an image of a swimming fish and put it into the water in the direction from which the fish generally appear. This ceremony, accompanied by a prayer to the fish to come, will cause them to arrive at once.”

Ifs Causes Water Prayer Sea Rivers Seasons Fishes British Dues Hungry Swimming Ceremony Wizards Columbia British Columbia

Author:James G. Frazer

“The true fisherman approaches the first day of fishing season with all the sense of wonder and awe of a child approaching Christmas.”

Firsts Children Wonder Sea Approach Rivers Seasons Fishes Boat Awe Lakes Fishing Fisherman Sense Of Wonder

Author:John D. Voelker

“. . perhaps the greatest satisfaction on the first day of the season is the knowledge in the evening that the whole of the rest of the season is to come.”

Firsts Whole Sea Rivers Seasons Fishes Satisfaction Boat Evening Lakes Fishing

Author:Arthur Ransome

“... it takes several years of serious fishing before a man learns enough to go through a whole season with an unblemished record of physical and spiritual anguish.”

Men Years Enough Whole Spiritual Records Sea Serious Rivers Seasons Fishes Boat Lakes Fishing Anguish

Author:Ed Zern

“Not all the winds, and storms, and earthquakes, and seas, and seasons of the world, have done so much to revolutionize the earth as Man, the power of an endless life, has done since the day he came forth upon it, and received dominion over it.”

Men World Done Earth Power Sea Wind Seasons Storm Endless Over It Dominion Earthquakes Endless Life

Author:Horace Bushnell

“There is no answer to any of these questions. It's a matter of time and timing, of seas and seasons, of breathing in and breathing out. It's a matter of balance.”

Matter Answers Sea Balance Seasons Breathing Timing Matter Of Time

Book:Life 101: Everything We Wish We Had Learned about Life in School--but Didn't

Source: Life 101: Everything We Wish We Had Learned about Life in School--but Didn't

“I swam at school a lot. Long-distance swimming in pools, and diving, then when we moved to Hastings when I was 13 I used to swim in the sea all the time; I loved it out of season and when it was rough.”

Long School Used Sea Seasons Moved Distance Rough Swim Swimming Pool Long Distance Diving I Love Swimming

Author:Jo Brand

“If you are very lucky, you're allowed to be in certain places during just the right season of your life: by the sea for the summer when you're seven or eight and full of the absolute need to swim until dark and exhaustion close their hands together, cupping you in between.”

Ifs Needs Hands Together Certain Dark Sea Lucky Summer Seasons Absolutes Seven Eight Swim Exhaustion Lucky You Hands Together

Book:Sleeping in Flame

Source: Sleeping in Flame

“Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll! Leave thy low-vaulted past! Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, Till thou at length art free, Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea!”

Life Art Soul Lasts Past Heaven Sea Lows Seasons Leaving My Soul Thee Temples Length Shells Mansions Domes

Book:Autocrat Of The Breakfast Table

Source: Autocrat Of The Breakfast Table

“Time is more complex near the sea than in any other place, for in addition to the circling of the sun and the turning of the seasons, the waves beat out the passage of time on the rocks and the tides rise and fall as a great clepsydra.”

Fall Sun Sea Rocks Beats Seasons Complexes Wave Passages Tides Passage Of Time Rise And Fall

Book:Tortilla Flat

Source: Tortilla Flat

“Why? is the boy's motto, why does, why is, why not? Food, weather, time, fires, sea and season, clothes and cars and people; it's all grist to the mill of why.”

People Doe Boys Fire Sea Car Clothes Seasons Weather Why Not Motto Mills

Book:The Bone People: A Novel

Source: The Bone People: A Novel

“Come o'er the sea, Maiden with me, Mine through the sunshine, storms and snows; Seasons may roll, But the true soul Burns the same, where'er it goes.”

May Soul Sea Mines Seasons Storm Snow Sunshine Maidens

Book:The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore, Etc

Source: The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore, Etc

“It was true what Jim said, this wasn’t the end but the beginning. But the wars would end one day and Jim would come then, to the island they would share. One day surely the wars would end, and Jim would come home, if only to lie broken in MacMurrough’s arms, he would come to his island home. And MacMurrough would have it built for him, brick by brick, washed by the rain and the reckless sea. In the living stream they’d swim a season. For maybe it was true that no man is an island: but he believed that two very well might be.”

Ifs Men Wells Said Two War Ends Home Might Lying Sea Share Broken Arms One Day Built Rain Seasons Islands Streams Coming Home Swim Bricks Reckless

Author:Jamie O'Neill

“There are many things in the deep waters; and seas and lands may change. And it is not our part here to take thought only for a season, or for a few lives of Men, or for a passing age of the world. We should seek a final end of this menace, even if we do not hope to make one.”

Ifs Men World Should May Ends Age Water Sea Land Seasons Finals Passing Passings Menace Deep Water

Book:The Lord of the Rings: One Volume

Source: The Lord of the Rings: One Volume

“When you live by the sea, there are definite seasons when you can see the weather coming and going, which lends itself to photography.”

Sea Photography Seasons Weather Live By Definite

Author:Graeme Le Saux

“To cleave that sea [the Aegean] in the gentle autumnal season, murmuring the name of each islet, is to my mind the joy most apt to transport the heart of man into paradise.”

Men Mind Heart Joy Names Sea Seasons Gentle Paradise Transport Murmuring

Book:Zorba the Greek

Source: Zorba the Greek

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