Ocean Quotes

We'd been trying to touch the sky from the bottom of the ocean.

And evermore the waters worship God;-- And bards and prophets tune their mystic lyres While listening to the music of the waves!

If you took all the sand from all the beaches, all the desserts, and all the oceans and called that the Universe, our whole solar system would be less than one grain of sand.

An ocean refuses no river.

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?

A wave in the ocean is a wave, only in so far as it is bound by name and form.

It is not easy to measure the ocean, but we can be measured by it, confront it, and be in it.

There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics none in which there is more need of good pilotage and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.

God will not be behind-hand in love to us: for our drop, we shall receive an ocean.

The jolt that Tony Blair received 35,000ft above the Pacific Ocean was not normal turbulence.

There's a much bigger picture beyond surfing, its part of an ocean culture. Everything comes back to Mother Nature. Surfing is a way of connecting, and saying thanks.

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

Of course Germany's media are heavily influenced by the country on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean.

Music is an ocean, but the repertory is hardly even a lake; it is a pond.

My familiarity with the successful use of very long steel ropes for mining purposes naturally suggested their adaptation to the new purpose of deep sea work.

The never-ceasing boom of the great ocean as it breaks on the beach, drowns all smaller sounds.

James loved Rhode Island, ... He loved the ocean. He would sit in his beach chair for hours and look out at the ocean.

Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.

When one longs for a drink, it seems as though one could drink a whole ocean-that is faith; but when one begins to drink, one can only drink altogether two glasses-that is science.

If radioactive waste were dissolved as water soluble compounds and then widely dispersed in the oceans, no health or other environmental risks would ever occur.

We have eco-friendly shrimp. We can make them; we have that technology. But we can never have an eco-friendly all-you-can-eat shrimp buffet. It doesn't work.

If I had the stars from the darkest night and the diamonds from the deepest ocean, I'd forsake them all for your sweet kiss, for that's all I'm wishin' to be ownin'.

Last year the [harp seal] pup mortality rate was 100 percent in parts of the Gulf of St. Lawrence.

Some 5 billion years from now, there will be a last perfect day on Earth... then the sun will begin to die, life will be extinguished, the oceans will boil and evaporate away.

My favorite hotel is the Villa Alilla in Bali. The setting is pure bliss, overlooking the ocean of Uluwatu; the eye line makes you feel as if you're floating on top of the ocean.

I love being by the ocean. It stills the voices in my head.

We may be tossed upon an ocean where we can see no land - nor, perhaps, the sun or stars. But there is a chart and a compass for us to study, to consult, and to obey. That chart is the Constitution.

Why don't I watch the ocean?My lover's gone.No earthly ships will ever bring him home againbring him home again.

Iowa City is okay as Midwestern cities go, but theres no food, no culture, no ocean.

It is beautiful in Vancouver; let's face it. I mean, you have the ocean. There's mountains.

I liked to use my face mask more than the diving helmet for most occasions. I was learning to hold my breath longer now and could go down almost as deep without the helmet which limited my movements.

Just as the great oceans have but one taste, the taste of salt, so too there is but one taste fundamental to all true teachings of the way, and this is the taste of freedom.

The fog lifted in the evening and a blue-black band at the horizon marked the end of the sea and the beginning of thought. Where does a beginning begin when nothing has gone on before?

There is an ocean of endless opportunities, and there are so many things that one can do. I'm so fortunate that I've grown up with this sort of a philosophy and mentality.

Talking to Francis gave me the sensation of settling slowly to the bottom of the ocean.

My spirits infallibly rise in proportion to the outward dreariness. Give me the ocean, the desert, or the wilderness!

I abstract it in my photographs: I like large planes and spaces, areas of texture and light, like deserts or oceans or monumental places.

How much do I love you? I'll tell you no lie. How deep is the ocean? How high is the sky?

Every animal that walks the earth, or swims, or flies is precious beyond description, something so rare and wonderful that it equals the stars or the ocean or the mind of man.

The profoundest facts in the earth's history prove that the oceans have always been oceans.

If people don't like your work, all the still pictures in the world can't help you and nothing written about you, even oceans of it, will make you popular.

Everything is made up of the exact same thing, whether it's your hand, the ocean, or a star.

A river continually fed by a living fountain may as soon end its streams before it come to the ocean, as a stop be put to the course and progress of grace before it issue in glory.

See her gentle sway, a wave on the ocean could never move that way.

The more familiar people are with the ecosystem that lives below the surface - invisible until you're actually in the ocean - the more likely they are to do what they can to protect it.

There are a lot of similarities between music and surfing. There's a rhythm to both of them and with sound waves and ocean waves, you see patterns, plus the breathing is all part of it.

The savor of wandering in the ocean of deathless life has rid me of all my asking: As the tree is in the seed, so all diseases are in this asking.

Listening to soft music and the sound of the ocean is quite relaxing to me.

Those who take refuge behind theological barbed wire fences, quite often wish they could have more freedom of thought, but fear the change to the great ocean of truth as they would a cold bath.

No one has the capacity to judge God. We are drops in that limitless ocean of mercy.