The Ocean Quotes

Being by the ocean is the greatest thing.

What shall we call this undetermin'd state, This narrow isthmus 'twixt two boundless oceans, That whence we came, and that to which we tend?

Writing a journal means that facing your ocean you are afraid to swim across it, so you attempt to drink it drop by drop.

I didn't grow up in the ocean -- as a matter of fact -- near the ocean -- I grew up in the desert. Therefore, it was a pleasant contrast to see the ocean. And I particularly like it when I'm fishing.

If fishes were wishes the ocean would be all of our desire.

People think that the ocean is big enough to sustain anything we throw at it - its hard to get into your head that it's actually finite.

I'm not a natural ocean person. I married into a family of swimmers, and I've slowly been drawn into the sea.

The ocean is this beautiful, unexplored place. Why on Earth everyone isn't down there, I don't know.

The crazy thing is we live on an ocean planet - nobody gets that yet.

Movies like 'The Abyss' and 'Jaws' make people think the ocean is threatening. It's not. It's very tranquil.

Scientists are always the ones who head into the ocean, but I want to take writers and politicians, people who can convey the beauty that is there and perhaps do something to take care of it.

Ocean privilege does not exist anymore. The world is small. We cannot rely on distance anymore.

...the larger world lay not across oceans but within the human mind and heart.

Marine scientists predict that by 2050 there will be no more large fish left in the ocean if we don't change our relationship with the sea.

You’re really cute, Midori,” I corrected myself. “What do you mean really cute?” “So cute the mountains crumble and the oceans dry up.

I was once stranded on a broken-down boat in shark-infested waters in the middle of the Indian Ocean for five days before we were rescued while doing a 'Vogue' shoot.

We do not associate the idea of antiquity with the ocean, nor wonder how it looked a thousand years ago, as we do of the land, for it was equally wild and unfathomable always.

This whole act's immutably decreed. 'Twas rehearsed by thee and me a billion years before this ocean rolled. Fool! I am the Fates' lieutenant; I act under orders.

No mercy, no power but its own controls it. Panting and snorting like a mad battle steed that has lost its rider, the masterless ocean overruns the globe.

There are so many issues in our oceans - like the near extinction of blue fin tuna - that should be taken more seriously worldwide.

Now from the smooth deep ocean-stream the sun Began to climb the heavens, and with new rays Smote the surrounding fields.

For I am yearning to visit the limits of the all-nurturing Earth, and Oceans, from whom the gods are sprung.

Society proceeds like the ocean. After a disaster, it resume its wonted level and rhythms; its devouring interests efface all traces of damage.

Surely oak and threefold brass surrounded his heart who first trusted a frail vessel to the merciless ocean.

Man ... has an inborn religious sentiment that whispers of a God to his inmost soul, as a shell taken from the deep yet echoes forever the ocean's roar.

I have dashed across continents and oceans as a fugitive and have matched my wits with the police and secret agents seeking to deprive me of one of the greatest blessings man can have-liberty.

I love Frank Ocean. I think he's so talented and his music is so great. So, I would love to do one of his songs like 'Bad Religion' or 'Pink Matter.'

I think people had somehow gotten the sense that we have explored everything, when that isn't the case. We so know so little about the ocean, and so much of it is being destroyed.

Climate change is a reality and if left unchecked, rising ocean tides will harm Georgia's Atlantic coast and threaten our state's robust tourism and shipping industries.

Most men make the voyage of life as if they carried sealed orders which they were not to open till they were fairly in mid-ocean.

I grew up flying over oceans and moving and sailing.

There's a lot of water in everything I've ever written. There's always oceans and pools.

I've had a lot of different responses to my films. I got a lot of support from 'The Piano,' the obvious one, but it feels like an ocean, with a lot going on - the goal is to keep alive.

You're an island of reality in an ocean of diarrhea.

In the United States, we do a pretty good job of protecting iconic landscapes and postcard views, but the ocean gets no respect.

Some studies suggest that the Arctic Ocean may be ice-free by the end of the century.

I am passionate about informing the world about our ocean - its complexity and beauty, its value to us, and the perils that it faces.

There is a gulf as wide as an ocean between should and want, and I am drowning in it.

Asking me to describe my son is like asking me to hold the ocean in a paper cup

Death is not the end. Death is an ocean on all sides of our lives. Deep and dark and cold, and anything but empty.

Then we upon our globe's last verge shall go, And view the ocean leaning on the sky: From thence our rolling Neighbours we shall know, And on the Lunar world securely pry.

There is something that happens when we leave the land and enter the ocean. It's unexpected, the environment feels strangely welcoming. The ocean almost feels like... home.

The oceans themselves are threatened and life itself, therefore, and the planet is threatened because of it.

A desert blessing, an ocean curse.

To be anywhere near an enormous ocean liner when you are just like a fish in the water is frightening.

Infinity is a dark illimitable ocean, without bound.

We've invested millions of dollars in tourism. Now they're trying to industrialize and pollute the ocean. It doesn't make any sense to me at all.

An ocean without unnamed monsters would be like sleep without dreams.

Don't you see, if when we die there's nothing, all your sun and fields and what not are all, ah, horror? It's just an ocean of horror.

I was a good surfer because we grew up a block from the water, and my father took us to the ocean the way other fathers take their kids to the park.