Ocean Quotes

We can produce imagery to share the beauty of the oceans and what is there to protect. We can also expose the truths about overharvest, climate change, and habitat loss to give oceans a voice.

The sea is the universal sewer.

My love, i would like even more; to be an ocean if you are the wave; to be a wave, if you are the ocean.

I could never swim in the ocean after seeing Jaws.

What is society but an individual? [] The ocean is not society; it is individuals. This was how I managed to gain a modicum of freedom from my terror at the illusion of the ocean called the world.

Rise up nimbly and go on your strange journey to the ocean of meanings.... Leave and don't look away from the sun as you go, in whose light you're sometimes crescent, sometimes full.

Just because the tide is out, doesn't mean there is less water in the ocean.

The green grass floweth like a stream Into the oceans's blue.

We may not be God, but we are of God, even as a little drop of water is of the ocean.

A life on the ocean wave! A home on the rolling deep, Where the scattered waters rave, And the winds their revels keep!

There is an ocean of pure vibrant consciousness inside each one of us.

As I am from Hawaiʻi, the ocean is part of my culture and who I am. My ancestors were great ocean explorers.

And Thou, vast Ocean! on whole awful face Time's iron feet can print no ruin trace.

I love sailing and water sports; whether it's water skiing, body boarding or surfing or simply swimming in the ocean.

The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper; I cannot quite make it out.

It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.

The future of nutrition is found in the oceans

The great obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents, and the oceans was not ignorance, but the illusion of knowledge.

The Lord has an ocean to give. Don't come with teaspoons.

In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.

The sea has now changed from its natural, to river coloured water, the probable consequence of some streams falling into the bay, or into the ocean to the north of it, through the low land.

Penetrate the heart of just one drop of water, and you will be flooded by a hundred oceans.

You and I have spoken all these words, but for the way we have to go,words are no preparation. I have one small drop of knowing in my soul. Let it dissolve in your ocean

The ocean makes its music; the wind does its dance. We hold on. At first we hold on to one another, but then it starts to feel like we are holding on to something even bigger than that. Greater.

There is an ocean of creativity within every human being.

The Ganga to me is the symbol of India's memorable past which has been flowing into the present and continues to flow towards the ocean of the future.

Why cross and ocean when you can cross a river? Why should we sail to Washington when we can meet right away 10 miles from here?

Simultaneously with the establishment of the Constitution, Virginia ceded to the United States her domain, which then extended to the Mississippi, and was even claimed to extend to the Pacific Ocean.

No matter how remote we feel we are from the oceans, every act each one of us takes in our everyday lives affects our planet's water cycle and in return affects us.

Mankind owns four things that are no good at sea: rudder, anchor, oars and the fear of going down.

Life began three and a half billion years ago, necessarily about as simple as it could be, because life arose spontaneously from the organic compounds in the primeval oceans.

Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

It is important to remember that the Pacific Ocean covers a quarter of the world's surface and that each Pacific country has its own cultural, historical and ethnic identity.

The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea.

Most of us, I suppose, are a little nervous of the sea. No matter what its smiles may be, we doubt its friendship.

NASA's annual budget for space exploration could fund NOAA's budget for ocean exploration for 1600 years.

Do you ever wonder how much deeper the ocean would be without sponges?

There is a powerful recognition that stirs within us when we see our little blue ocean planet in the skies of other worlds. In an instant we can see how small, fragile, and alone we all really are.

I said that the oceans were sick but they're not going to die. There is no death possible in the oceans - there will always be life - but they're getting sicker every year.

Seeking Why run around sprinkling holy water? There's an ocean inside you, and when you're ready you'll drink.

The moon upon the ocean is swept around in motion, but without ever knowing.

Break, break, break, On thy cold gray stones, oh sea! And I would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me.

Be quiet now and wait. It may be that the ocean one, the one we desire so to move into and become, desires us out here on land a little longer, going our sundry roads to the shore.

You never so touch the ocean of God's love as when you forgive and love your enemies.

I like it when you're under the ocean, and all you can feel is calm

Knowledge of the oceans is more than a matter of curiosity. Our very survival may hinge upon it.

Don't try to describe the ocean if you've never seen it.

Loving another person is not separate from loving God. One is a single wave, the other is the ocean.

One whispered yes becomes the wind song over an ocean of no's.

She watched the gap between ship and shore grow to a huge gulf. Perhaps this was a little like dying, the departed no longer visible to the others, yet both still existed, only in different worlds.