Ocean Quotes

Absolute calm is not the law of ocean. And it is the same with the ocean of life.

We're [Ocean Conservancy group] trying to convince people it's a bad idea to catch fish faster than they can reproduce. That should be a duh, but it's still going on.

My sister was drowning in the ocean once, and my brother and I dove in and saved her. True story. She owes us her life. Its great leverage; we abuse it all the time!

I'm concerned about the ocean and the environment. And I love whales.

Seek truth! Seek truth in the darkness, under the oceans, above the clouds; seek it everywhere and every time! Stop deceiving yourself with the untruth, seek the truth!

I realized that if I wanted to truly talk about vastness and the sublime and scale and the West - recurrent themes in my overall work - I needed to engage with the vast ocean that is Los Angeles.

I think it's awesome. I miss it so much. That ocean has something on me.

That's what I think people sense when they get hooked by surfing - hooked by their relationship with the ocean. All of a sudden, they're part of something that's bigger than them.

As a species, we've always been discoverers and adventurers, and space and the deep ocean are some of the last frontiers.

The secret of our success on planet Earth is space. Lots of it. Our solar system is a tiny island of activity in an ocean of emptiness.

Life as we call it, is nothing but the edge of the boundless ocean of existence when it comes upon soundings.

The ego is an island in the ocean of Hell. You want to get rid of the Hell but you don't want to get rid of that island. Then there is trouble.

I am really dedicated to understanding the planet/creature on which we live and know that means I must go beneath the sea to see 72 percent of what is going on.

Unfathomable oceans of grace are in Christ for you. Dive and dive again, you will never come to the bottom of these depths.

...like a grain of sand that gets into an oyster's shell. What if the grain doesn't want to become a pearl? Is it ever asked to climb out quietly and take up its old position as a bit of ocean floor?

I am not from east or west not up from the ground or out of the ocean my place is placeless a trace of the traceless I belong to the beloved

There goes a river dragging an ocean behind it.

Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river.

The ocean of the body crashes against the ocean of the heart. Between them is a barrier they cannot cross.

Like the birds of the sea, men come from the ocean-the ocean of the soul. How could this bird, born from that sea, make his dwelling here?

Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.

Certain countries are dumping nuclear waste directly into the ocean, making fish flesh even more poisonous.

In the middle of an ocean on board a ship, one can get a sense of vastness.

Christ, Buddha, and Krishna are but waves in the Ocean of Infinite Consciousness that I am!

The ocean is our life support system. No blue, no green. It's really a miracle that we have got a place that works in our favor.

All work of man is as the swimmer's: a vast ocean threatens to devour him; if he front it not bravely, it will keep its word.

We are like icebergs in the ocean: one-eighth part consciousness and the rest submerged beneath the surface of articulate apprehension.

I also derive a great deal of pleasure from horses and dogs... the ocean... and love.

According to Eshin's Essentials of Salvation, the Ten Pleasures are but a drop in the ocean when compared to the joys of the Pure Land.

I was happy anywhere I could see the ocean.

The sea in all its vastness is its own, real world. Man is nature's sci-fi.

A broken heart, too much cold beer, ocean waves and a willing man were never a good combination, no matter what the country songs said.

With no other choices open to us, we'd turned our gaze seaward. The oceans were our America: they reached farther than any prairie, untamed as on the first day of creation. Nobody owned them.

If so, then it was also here where I came to know I can survive what hurts. I believed in my capacity to stand back up and run into the waves again and again, no matter the risk.

It was like trying to bail out an ocean of water with a teaspoon.

Water seeks its own level. Look at them. The Tigris, the Euphrates, the Mississippi, the Amazon, the Yangtze. The world's great rivers. And every one of them finds its way to the ocean.

An ocean which thinks there is nothing to learn from a lake is not a wise ocean!

If you ever want to see how small you are in the plan of God, just stand at the edge of an ocean.

It is almost startling to hear this warning of departed time sounding among the tombs, and telling the lapse of the hour, which, like a billow, has rolled us onward towards the grave.

Should you ever feel too lonely...listen for the roar of the sea- for in it are all those who've been and all those who are to come.

Health to the ocean means health for us.

The Deep Flight Challenger technology is a game-changer for ocean exploration.

The Atlantic Ocean was something then.

Writing fiction, especially a long work of fiction, can be a difficult, lonely job; it's like crossing the Atlantic Ocean in a bathtub. There's plenty of opportunity for self-doubt.

The ocean is the lifeblood of our world.

I have always had a very natural connection to the water, and that connection stems from the ocean itself.

We can still maintain our coasts and oceans for the generations to come, who deserve what we have.

I'm one-hundred-fifty miles off Cape Horn, both autopilots are broken, and my boat is drifting toward one of the nastiest chunks of ocean on the face of the earth.

I will never forget the feeling of walking into my home, a place that while drifting helpless in the middle of the Indian Ocean I wondered if I would ever see again.

The depth of the ocean is calm, but on the surface, there are always waves. If you dive deep in your life, your life can be bliss.