Famous quotes containing the words sea, level and/or rise:
“To me, the sea is like a personlike a child that Ive known a long time. It sounds crazy, I know, but when I swim in the sea I talk to it. I never feel alone when Im out there.”
—Gertrude Ederle (b. 1906)
“Your mock saint who stands in a niche is not a woman if she have not suffered, still less a woman if she have not sinned. Fall at the feet of your idol as you wish, but drag her down to your level after thatthe only level she should ever reach, that of your heart.”
—Emmuska, Baroness Orczy (18651947)
“In man, the shedding of blood is always associated with injury, disease, or death. Only the female half of humanity was seen to have the magical ability to bleed profusely and still rise phoenix-like each month from the gore.”
—Estelle R. Ramey (b. 1917)