Robert Erskine Childers: Quotes about the sea

Robert Erskine Childers was Irish nationalist and author. Explore interesting quotes on sea.

Robert Erskine Childers: 60 quotes 0 likes

“I leapt into my boots, trousers and jacket, tumbled all my gear, lying ready laid out, into my bag, donned helmet and goggles, seized charts and rushed to the upper deck…. the sea was calm under a heaving swell. Engadine towered above my cockle-shell.”

Robert Erskine Childers

"Written aboard HMS Engadine in 1916, cited in " The Riddle Of Erskine Childers " By Andrew Boyle , Hutchinson, London, (1977), pg. 205.
Literary Years and War (1900-1918)

Lying , Sea

“…the Dulcibella had begun to move in her sleep, as it were, rolling drowsily to some faint send of the sea, with an occasional short jump, like the start of an uneasy dreamer.”

Robert Erskine Childers

Source: Literary Years and War (1900-1918), The Riddle Of The Sands (1903), p. 35.

Sleep , Sea

“It was devotion to the sea, wedded to a fire of pent-up patriotism struggling incessantly for an outlet in strenuous physical expression; a humanity, born of acute sensitiveness to his own limitations, only adding fuel to the flame.”

Robert Erskine Childers

Source: Literary Years and War (1900-1918), The Riddle Of The Sands (1903), p. 91.

Wedding , Sea