Sea Birds

Famous quotes containing the words sea and/or birds:

    When the sea dries up you can see its depths, but when a person dies you will still not know his mind.
    Chinese proverb.

    It is not a piece of fine feminine Spitalfields silk—but is of the horrible texture of a fabric that should be woven of ships’ cables & hausers. A Polar wind blows through it, & birds of prey hover over it. Warn all gentle fastidious people from so much as peeping into the book—on risk of a lumbago & sciatics.
    Herman Melville (1819–1891)