Ocean Quotes · Page 21

“Shadows of deserts are as beautiful as the shining lights on the surface of oceans!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“Time is like the ocean; you can only hold a little in your hands.”

— Josh Pyke

No longer will you be a weird Robinson Crusoe, imprisoned on an island of night surrounded by oceans of death.

— Richard Matheson

Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.

— Gustave Flaubert

Superstition is a quality that seems indigenous to the ocean.

— James F. Cooper

“One day, they will wake up to an extremely unbearable ocean of sameness. (re: changing San Francisco)”

— Guillermo Gómez-Peña

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

— Swami Vivekananda

Time is a river of passing events and we are the fish searching for an ocean.

— Vikrant Parsai

I am involved in making measurements in polar oceans, and they are changing more than anything else. I think we have to…

— Walter Munk

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

— Sylvia Earle

“Khuda tujhe kisi toofaan se aashna karde, Ke tere behr ki maujon men iztiraab naheen May God grant you a storm! The…

— Muhammad Iqbal

I think there are two different oceans - the one that plays with you in the summer, and the one that gets…

— Jodi Picoult

Clean air and clean ocean, you can't translate that into money if you look at the cost to health, cost to fishery…

— Severn Cullis-Suzuki

One of the nicest things is that I still get, very ambiguously, people saying to me, "Oh, I'm just reading your book."…

— David Toop

If you compare NASA's annual budget to explore the heavens, that one year budget would fund NOAA's budget to explore the oceans…

— Robert Ballard

I had a lot of Bengali friends in Delhi. The bands there had Bengali musicians: for example, Indian Ocean. We use to…

— Mohit Chauhan

We humans have this idea that the ocean is so big, so vast, so resilient that it doesn't matter what we do…

— Sylvia Earle

“A dark shadow rose from the depth of the watercourse. Forced to crawl out of the oceans rolling waves, it struggled against…

— Alaina Stanford

Nationality started as something natural, but we should not be restrained by the old politics that make up these clear lines. It…

— Ai Weiwei

I couldn't help thinking that if I, by pure chance, had found a whole universe in a single unknown book, buried in…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Mental purity will come through constant chanting of the divine name. This is the simplest way. You are trying to cross the…

— Mata Amritanandamayi

I've always been more interested in organisms that can move on their own than in stationary plants. But when I canoe or…

— David Suzuki

Twas in heaven pronounced - it was muttered in hell, / And echo caught faintly the sound as it fell; / On…

— Catherine Maria Fanshawe

Be not afraid, though every stay Should fail, or be removed away, And thou be stript of all; But lose thyself in…

— Gerhard Tersteegen

I love the beach. I love the sea. All my life I live within - in front of the sea.

— Rafael Nadal

“To live on the beautiful blue ocean is a gift to be treasured, not an achievement to be measured.”

— Rick Page

I want to do everything I can in my own life to protect and preserve the ocean.

— Cody Simpson

I’m telling you, trouble is like the ocean. It covers two thirds of the world.

— Chris Cleave

The ocean does something to me that is unexplainable. Just being out there and realizing im alive.

— Nick Carter

On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.

— Alexander Pope

The boats outside the window were always still I wondered if one of them would take me to the ocean.

— Yoko Ono

We on Earth have just awakened to the great oceans of space and time from which we have emerged.

— Carl Sagan

I don't trust the ocean, either; it would kill me as soon as not. It doesn't mean I'm afraid of it.

— Maggie Stiefvater

Out here in California, in the Pacific Ocean, the sharks have a bad attitude.

— Katy Mixon

“I wash myself clean of guilt, of pain, of fear, of emotion. I am the ocean. I am empty. I am nothing.”

— Kiersten White

“if the ocean can calm itself, so can you. we are both salt water mixed with air.”

— Nayyirah Waheed

The big man in a small village is the big ship in a small lake! Let him sail to the vast oceans!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

I love staring out toward the ocean and away from anything manmade.

— Francis Chan

To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude.

— Jeanne Moreau

“Her eyes were a bottomless ocean that I would give up air to explore.”

— Cora Carmack