Ocean Quotes

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Rest in natural great peace, this exhausted mind, beaten helpless by karma and neurotic thought, like the relentless fury of the pounding waves in the… — Unknown Author
You as a salt-being, made of salt, go to fathom the depth of the ocean, and in the process you yourself dissolve. A great maharishi… — Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche
It's too easy only to blame the militarists, racists, sexists and other pushers of violence for the mess we're in. What is harder is self-examination,… — Colman McCarthy
I've spoken of the shining city all my political life, but I don't know if I ever quite communicated what I saw when I said… — Ronald Reagan
Oh, it's home again and home again, America for me! I want a ship that's westward bound to plough the rolling sea To the blessed… — Henry Van Dyke
The equation of animal and vegetable life is too complicated a problem for human intelligence to solve, and we can never know how wide a… — George Perkins Marsh
When we can drain the Ocean into mill-ponds, and bottle up the Force of Gravity, to be sold by retail, in gas jars; then may… — Thomas Carlyle
As down in the sunless retreats of the ocean Sweet flowers are springing no mortal can see, So deep in my soul the still prayer… — Charles Lamb
Meanwhile the mind, from pleasure less, Withdraws into its happiness; The mind, that ocean where each kind Does straight its own resemblance find; Yet it… — Andrew Marvell
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.… — Unknown Author
The modern airplane creates a new geographical dimension. A navigable ocean of air blankets the whole surface of the globe. There are no distant places… — Wendell Willkie
Unlike the boundaries of the sea by the shorelines, the "ocean of air" laps at the border of every state, city, town and home throughout… — Unknown Author
Every flyer who ventures across oceans to distant lands is a potential explorer; in his or her breast burns the same fire that urged adventurers… — Jean Batten
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… — Unknown Author
My story starts at sea, a perilous voyage to an unknown land. A shipwreck. The wild waters roar and heave. The brave vessel is dashed… — William Shakespeare
One kernel is felt in a hogshead; one drop of water helps to swell the ocean; a spark of fire helps to give light to… — Hannah More
Despite our preparation, indeed, despite our age, [the death of a parent] dislodges things deep in us, sets off reactions that surprise us and may… — Joan Didion
The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, close embrace. — Kate Chopin
On the beach, you can live in bliss. — Dennis Wilson
To me the sea is a continual miracle; The fishes that swim - the rocks - the motion of the waves - the ships, with… — Walt Whitman

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