Sea Nettle

Famous quotes containing the words sea and/or nettle:

    “Everywhere, spread all over in characters of living light, blazing on all its ample folds, as they float over the sea and over the land, and in every wind under the whole heavens, that other sentiment, dear to every true American heart,—Liberty and Union, now and for ever; one and inseparable!”
    —Daniel Webster (1782–1852)

    “The comic spirit is given to us in order that we may analyze, weigh, and clarify things in us which nettle us, or which we are outgrowing, or trying to reshape.”
    —Thornton Wilder (1897–1975)