Standard Sea Level

Famous quotes containing the words standard, sea and/or level:

    “A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.”
    —Edmund Burke (1729–1797)

    “I must down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky,
    And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by,”
    —John Masefield (1878–1967)

    “Alle fresh the level pasture lay,
    And not a shadowe mote by seene,
    Save where full fyve good miles away
    The steeple towered from out the greene,”
    —Jean Ingelow (1820–1897)