The Ocean Quotes

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I see an ocean that’s spilled out of a wineglass, its body clear and sparkling and folding over itself. I see a ribbon of sand.

If anyone can overcome a fear for the ocean, you can, little lady. Courage is being scared to death and saddlin' up anyway.

I could be blindfolded and dropped into the deepest ocean and I would know where to find you. I could be buried a hundred miles underground and I would know where you are.

This was charming, no doubt; but they shortly found out That the Captain they trusted so well Had only one notion for crossing the ocean, And that was to tingle his bell.

It is a pleasure for to sit at ease Upon the land, and safely for to see How other folks are tossed on the seas That with the blustering winds turmoiled be.

The land is dearer for the sea, The ocean for the shore.

It's a little-appreciated fact that most of the animals in our ocean make light.

The ocean is 20 minutes away. Nature surrounds me 24/7. I wake up to the sounds of birds chirping. I also love that I can go out to dinner in jeans and flip-flops.

Others may use the ocean as their road; Only the English make it their abode.

There are times when the ocean is not the ocean - not blue, not even water, but some violent explosion of energy and danger: fierceness on a scale only gods can summon.

Men really need sea-monsters in their personal oceans. An ocean without its unnamed monsters would be like a completely dreamless sleep.

Here I found those who had set out before me, both by sea and land, except those who have died.

If grace is an ocean, we're all sinking.

The naturalists of yore esteemed the ocean to be a treasury of wonders, and sought therein for monstrosities and organisms contrary to the law of nature, such as they interpreted it.

Meditation is a means to discover all the glories of the ocean of mind

The oceans are the planet's last great living wilderness, man's only remaining frontier on earth, and perhaps his last chance to produce himself a rational species.

... the ocean could not be swept back with a broom. The truth was out. It illuminated the world. Motherhood no longer cringed before the relentless laws of fecundity.

Oceans is about glamour. I can't go looking like a slob can I?

We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans - because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings.

Global warming has melted the polar ice caps, raised the levels of the oceans and flooded the earth's great cities. Despite its evident prosperity, New Jersey is scarcely Utopia.

We carry oceans inside of us, in our blood and our sweat. And we are crying the oceans, in our tears.

The history of American women is all about leaving home - crossing oceans and continents, or getting jobs and living on their own.

The soul of man is larger than the sky, Deeper than ocean, or the abysmal dark Of the unfathomed center.

Reincarnation is the dissolution of the self. It's like going swimming in the ocean, no one ever comes out, because one has become the ocean.

Ocean energy can contribute a great deal toward the protection or our atmosphere - without damaging marine ecosystems that are equally vital to the planet's future.

Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out of their course who set sail.

Hostility comes from loneliness, from not seeing yourself like a drop falling into the ocean of humanity like everyone else.

I love being in the ocean. I love the unpredictability of it- size of wave, animals you see, etc.

I hate the feeling when I'm overseas, away from Australia, that I'm trapped, blocked by an ocean from getting to the people I love. That gives me anxiety.

Her bikini - small; heels - tall She said she liked the ocean.

There's not a ship that sails the ocean, But every climate, every soil, Must bring its tribute, great or small, And help to build the wooden wall!

To me, Venice and Ocean Park were gaiety. I had not been allowed to go to those things as a youngster.

American public opinion is like an ocean, it cannot be stirred by a teaspoon.

Imagine spending four billion years stocking the oceans with seafood, filling the ground with fossil fuels, and drilling the bees in honey production - only to produce a race of bed-wetters!

Ive always been drawn to the ocean.

An ellipsis is a giant ocean of possibilities.

Help is even being offered from across the ocean, as over two dozen countries have stepped forward to offer financial and material support to the American people.

President Obama promised to begin to slow the rise of the oceans and heal the planet. My promise... is to help you and your family.

Mother Mother Ocean, I have heard your call.

Set your sails now but the ocean is very rough and treacherous... if you keep going you will get there.

I really feel that my body craves to be in the mountains or by the ocean or in the countryside.

I like old tunes when I'm driving. They're fun and uplifting. Billy Ocean, that kind of thing.

Government is like a vast ocean and politics is the six-inch layer on top.

Quoth the Ocean, "Dawn! O fairest, clearest, Touch me with thy golden fingers bland; For I have no smile till thou appearest For the lovely land.

Sometimes you feel like a very small drop in this huge ocean.

All authors know that any book is a casting of runes, a reading of cards, a map of the palm and heart. We make up the ocean - then fall in. But we also write the life raft.

Your surfing can get better on every turn, on every wave you catch. Learn to read the ocean better. A big part of my success has been wave knowledge.

The melancholiness of the ocean; the melancholiness of everything else.

The quickest way to destroy ocean science is to take human explorers out of the water