Ocean Quotes

I grew up next to the ocean, on the coast, and would dance the salsa all day, so I just learned those rhythms and knew how to move my body when I was very little.

I miss the ocean. I miss diving into the cold water and coming out a new man. On the road it's hard to get that feeling. Showers are okay, but there's nothing quite like being in the ocean.

My gratitude for good writing is unbounded; I’m grateful for it the way I’m grateful for the ocean.

Can one talk about the ocean to a frog in a well or about the divine to people who are restricted by their concepts?

For pure joy, I look at a small painting by Arbit Blatas. An ocean liner is at the center of the composition, perhaps ready to depart. It holds the promise of discovery.

Hope, that star of life's tremulous ocean.

When you read the history of the human family, it slowly comes to you that all the world's oceans once fell as tears.

I cried a river of tears but he was too heavy to float on them. So I dragged him with me these years across an ocean.

Shrimp are the insects of the ocean. They're bottom feeders. So they're delicious, but they're the bugs of the sea.

I'm a homebody, as many writers are, and need to be by myself, and I like to be by the Atlantic Ocean.

Swelling in anger or sparkling in glee.

We follow and race In shifting chase, Over the boundless ocean-space! Who hath beheld when the race begun? Who shall behold it run?

You know, there's a big world out there filled with desperate orphans who would gladly swim across an ocean of thumbtacks just to be eclipsed by the long shadow that is cast by my accomplishments.

Pouring forth its seas everywhere, then, the ocean envelops the earth and fills its deeper chasms.

Love the sea? I dote upon it--from the beach.

Because time is a drop in the ocean, and you cannot measure off one drop against another to see which one is bigger, which one is smaller.

I hate to compare anything, especially while I'm promoting. I feel that's another disrespect, but 'Ocean's 13' is the best movie I've ever done in my life. No question.

This all-pervading divine power of love is the ocean of knowledge, is the ocean of bliss and compassion, but above all it is the ocean of forgiveness.

As a surfer, I am interested in the ocean. And I am concerned and interested in all of these natural and cultural rumblings underfoot as well.

Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean, roll! Ten thousand blubber-hunters sweep over thee in vain.

The surface of the Earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean.

If I had a brick for every time I’ve repeated the phrase Quality, Service, Cleanliness and Value, I think I’d probably be able to bridge the Atlantic Ocean with them.

The big treasury is an ocean of infinite creativity. It's a creativity that creates everything that is a thing - it's mighty powerful creativity.

I met a genius on the train today about 6 years old, he sat beside me and as the train ran down along the coast we came to the ocean and then he looked at me and said, it’s not pretty.

The ocean is made of drops.

I am supposed to worry about oceans rising 70 years from now, on climate models that have already proven to be utterly flawed?

We are blessed with a magnificent and miraculous world ocean on this planet. But we are also stressing it in ways that we are not even close to bringing under control.

Knowledge is simply a terrible ocean we must cross, and hope that wisdom lies on the other side.

If you seek Him, God can raise you up, and replace the darkness of the ocean, with the light of His Sun.

Calumny crosses oceans, scales mountains and traverses deserts, with greater ease than the Scythian Abaris, and like him, rides upon a poisoned arrow.

We on Earth have just awakened to the great oceans of space and time from which we have emerged.

Suffering from dysentery at sea was no picnic.

Nothing's ever the same," she said. "Be it a second later or a hundred years. It's always churning and roiling. And people change as much as oceans.

New Zealand totally rejects Japan's proposals to double the number of whales slaughtered in the Southern Ocean

If Darwin could get into a submarine and see what I've seen, thousand of feet beneath the ocean, I am just confident that he would be inspired to sit down and start writing all over again.

Why does the sea moan evermore? Shut out from heaven it makes its moan, It frets against the boundary shore; All earth's full rivers cannot fill The sea, that drinking thirsteth still.

I was very much disappointed in the Atlantic Ocean.

To try to explain something as "I love it" and "It's fun" would be like describing the sunset over the middle of the ocean as "bright and pretty." It's just not that simple.

When the fishbowl gets too small, it's time to pack up and leave and jump into the lake or ocean.

Being out there in the ocean, God's creation, it's like a gift He has given us to enjoy.

Open all your pores and bathe in all the tides of nature, in all her streams and oceans, at all seasons.

Between being able to and actually doing something lies an ocean, and on its bottom rests all too often the wreck of willpower.

Such is the fate of simple Bard, On life's rough ocean luckless starr'd

The ocean is a place of skin, rich outer membranes hiding thick juicy insides, laden with the soup of being.

[W]e pity our fathers for dying before steam and galvanism, sulphuric ether and ocean telegraphs, photograph and spectrograph arrived, as cheated out of their human estate.

A spiritual person is vast, like an ocean - but very mighty, very powerful.

I like to dedicate myself wholeheartedly to a cause so that I have more impact. My goal is to shed light on the beauty of the ocean and how important it is for our planet.

According to Ferguson, grey things are invisible. Apparantly its just total luck that planes manage to find aircraft carriers in the middle of the ocean.

Don’t be offended, but you seem to be one of those people who just attract accidents like a magnet. So… try not to fall into the ocean or get run over or anything, all right?

... for the modern soul, for which it is mere child's play to bridge oceans and continents, there is nothing so impossible as to find the contact with the souls dwelling just around the corner.