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Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones.


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Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.
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GREG CHALMERS For a longtime we crawl on this earth like caterpillars, waiting for the splendid, diaphanous butter...
BERNARD HOLLAND I've never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea...
ALAN BENNETT And surely We have honored the children of Adam, and We carry them in the land and the sea, and We h...
QURAN The little fishes of the sea, They sent an answer back to me. The little fishes' answer was ...
LEWIS CARROLL (PSEUDONYM OF REV. CHARLES L. DODGSON) And so castles made of sand fall in the sea, eventually.
JIMI HENDRIX Often extinctions in the ocean occur at the same time as those on land. Then again, the ice age exti...
ROBERT T. BAKKER All the Men will be sailors then, untill the sea shall free them.
LEONARD COHEN Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Poetry is a searc...
CARL SANDBURG The purported will states, 'Attack them on the sea. Attack them on the land. Attack them everywhere....
PETER BERGEN While the storm clouds gather far across the sea,Let us swear allegiance to a land that's free,Let u...
IRVING BERLIN The Supreme Lord God has unleashed the rain clouds. Over the sea and over the land - over all the ea...
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB There are 30,000 families whose land has been lost to the sea. And with the best will in the world d...
DOUGLAS KEATINGE Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON Delirium: You use that word so much. Responsibilities. Do you ever think about what that means? I me...
NEIL GAIMAN There would be no great men if there were no little ones.
GEORGE HERBERT If great men would have care of little ones, both would last long.
GEORGE HERBERT The men in my family are strong because the women in my family kill and eat the weak ones.
ROBERT JORDAN I will go back to the great sweet mother,/ Mother and lover of men, the sea.
ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Happiness is obtained, and sorrow runs far away, when the Saints chant the Lord's Name. The sea, the...
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB The sea is as near as we come to another world.
ANNE STEVENSON The sea being so deep and so large, I'm sure other mysteries lurk out there, unseen and unsolved.
RICHARD ELLIS To multiply the harbors does not reduce the sea.
EMILY DICKINSON Estuaries are where rivers meet the sea. Our freshwater here comes from 39 different creeks and stre...
TOM GASKILL To stand at the edge of the sea, to sense the ebb and flow of the tides, to feelthe breath of a mist...
RACHEL CARSON "yes i own a whaler boat, it slides across the sea some folks say im a part of it i know its part of...
JIMMY BUFFETT The fact that one of the activists fell in the sea is entirely their fault.
HIROSHI HATANAKA If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea; / Even there shall ...
BIBLE Anyone can hold the helm while the sea is calm
PUBLILIUS SYRUS Here I sit between my brother the mountain and my sister the sea. We three are one in loneliness, an...
KAHLIL GIBRAN Round the cape of a sudden came the sea, And the sun looked over the mountain's rim: And straight wa...
ROBERT BROWNING A ship on the beach is a lighthouse to the sea
DUTCH PROVERB There are no signposts in the sea.
VITA SACKVILLE-WEST And Ye take mine honour from me if Ye take away the sea!
RUDYARD KIPLING If you were queen of bloaters / And I were king of soles, / The sea we'd wag our fins in. / Nor heed...
THOMAS HOOD Little islands are all large prisons: one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a ...
RICHARD BURTON The American cemetery at Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer is a great lawn at the edge of the sea, white marble ...
JOHN VINOCUR And when distress afflicts you in the sea, away go those whom you call on except He; but when He bri...
QURAN To see the sea of all of the purple shirts coming, you just stand there in awe.
JIM HOUDEK When the great markets by the sea shut fast / All that calm Sunday that goes on and on: / When even ...
JAMES ELROY FLECKER No, of course not. But surely you know your affair couldn't go on forever."
"Forever has no mea...
ELLEN HOPKINS I promise myself that I will enjoy every minute of the day that is given me to live.
THICH NHAT HANH You can't go back to how things were. How you thought they were. All you really have is...now.
JAY ASHER Life is a journey, not a destination.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON When Luke had descended into the River Styx, he would've had to focus on something important that wo...
RICK RIORDAN Women are the ones who ask directions and men are the ones who never stop to ask directions, so they...
DEBORAH FALLOWS There would bee no great ones if there were no little ones.
GEORGE HERBERT We repeat the good quote, but we live the great ones.
DOMINIC C. HOWARTH The Bible is God's chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show yo...
HENRY WARD BEECHER Savor the moment. Set a goal that you value and plan the steps to of getting there in a way that you...
TERENCE T. GORSKI A clever person turns great troubles into little ones and little ones into none at all.
CHINESE PROVERB A clever person turns great troubles into little ones and little ones into none at all
CHINESE PROVERBS Great thieves punish little ones.
PROVERB Great change in ones self can be as little as breaking the chain of cycles one link at a time
JEFFREY LEE GIBSON JR. Little persons try to be perfect while great ones do not know they are great.
VIKRANT PARSAI People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a she...
EZRA POUND To have the time to reminisce is one of the futures gifts. Don't think to much, don't live to fast, ...
CALVIN WILSON We are the masters of our own destinies we shape and mould our lives into to the circumstances surro...
GARY F EVANS... While the storm clouds gather far across the sea,
Let us swear allegiance to a land that's free,...
IRVING BERLIN These are the days that must happen to you.
WALT WHITMAN If there's one thing I learned, it's that nobody is here forever. You have to live for the moment, e...
SIMONE ELKELES The point is to be in the moment, not miss the moment while trying to capture it.
SHERALYN PRATT What day is it?"
It's today," squeaked Piglet.
My favorite day," said Pooh.
A.A. MILNE Be present in all things and thankful for all things.
MAYA ANGELOU Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is yo...
BETTY SMITH Do not look back and grieve over the past, for it is gone; and do not be troubled about the future, ...
IDA SCOTT TAYLOR MCKINNEY Life is a preparation for the future; and the best preparation for the future is to live as if there...
ALBERT EINSTEIN The only way to survive eternity is to be able to appreciate each moment.
LAUREN KATE Live today. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Just today. Inhabit your moments. Don't rent them out to to...
JERRY SPINELLI Mindfulness is like that—it is the miracle which can call back in a flash our dispersed mind and r...
THICH NHAT HANH The guerrilla must move amongst the people as a fish swims in the sea.
MAO TSE-TUNG A ship, an isle, a sickle moon - / With few but with how splendid stars / The mirrors of the sea are...
JAMES ELROY FLECKER I must down to the sea again, for the call of the running tide / Is a wild call and a clear call tha...
JOHN MASEFIELD As I look out into the sea of everyone here, I see my brother. He is my hero. I admire him so much.
BETHANY PARKER The sun was shining on the sea, Shining with all his might: He did his very best to make The billows...
LEWIS CARROLL Sex ran in him like the sea
JOHN MASEFIELD The river is within us, the sea is all about us; The sea is the land's edge also
T.S. ELIOT I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky; and all I ask is a tall ship and a s...
JOHN MASEFIELD Follow the river and you will find the sea
FRENCH PROVERB As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tende...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm
PUBLILIUS SYRUS I have seen the sea when it is stormy and wild; when it is quiet and serene; when it is dark and moo...
MARTIN BUXBAUM The loneliness you get by the sea is personal and alive. It doesn't subdue you and make you feel abj...
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH [The set has a strong Crescent City tilt, with Harry Connick Jr.'s] City Beneath the Sea ... When th...
KIRK WHALUM He knows the secrets of the sea, of the woods and of the vineyard. They are simple and natural world...
DIANA VREELAND I liked the bit about quarter to eleven. (on Debussy's "Dawn to Noon on the Sea")
ERIK SATIE The gray silence, the gray waves, the gray wastes of the sea.
WILLIAM SHARP Voice of the Sea Dogs.
JERRY GREEN I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these...
VINCENT VAN GOGH Life is a bridge over the sea of changes. Do not build a house on it.
SRI SATHYA SAI BABA The river seeking for the seaConfronts the dam and precipice,Yet knows it cannot fail or miss;You wi...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.
WILLIAM G. GOLDING The sea behind me has claimed a piece of your hearts and a lifetime of your tears. Something in your...
GEORGE PATAKI Many corpses will be floating in the sea,
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