Ocean Quotes

2174 Ocean quotes by 1339 unique authors

As to the fable that there are Antipodes, that is to say, men on the opposite side of the earth where the sun rises when… — Saint Augustine
There was a brisk northern wind, heavy and wet with the salt of the sea, and he felt, as he turned his face to it,… — Arthur Conan Doyle
Just as the great ocean has one taste, the taste of salt, so also this teaching and discipline has one taste, the taste of liberation. — Gautama Buddha
In the belly of the furnace of creativity is a sexual fire; the flames twine about each other in fear and delight. The same sort… — Gary Snyder
A small craft in an ocean is, or should be, a benevolent dictatorship. — Tristan Jones
One who is established in a comfortable posturewhile concentrating on the inner self alonenaturally becomes immersed in the spontaneousarising of the heart's ocean of bliss. — Unknown Author
Neither in the sky nor in mid-ocean, nor by entering into mountain clefts, nowhere in the world is there a place where one may escape… — Gautama Buddha
If anyone can overcome a fear for the ocean, you can, little lady. Courage is being scared to death and saddlin' up anyway. — Colleen Houck
My room was in one of those turrets and at night I could hear the sea and the faint rustle of eelgrass in the soft… — Unknown Author
I had fought on behalf of man against the sea, but I realized that it had become more urgent to fight on behalf of the… — Unknown Author
Ever since I was a child I've felt connected to water: lakes, rivers, streams--I love to jump in and swim around. But it's the ocean… — Susan Cohn Rockefeller
We are blessed with a magnificent and miraculous world ocean on this planet. But we are also stressing it in ways that we are not… — Carl Safina
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… — Fred Krupp
[The oyster] accepts algae and detritus in one end - and through this beautiful, glamorous set of stomach organs, out the other end comes cleaner… — Unknown Author
We put the murderer in charge of the crime scene. — Carl Safina
If you're overfishing at the top of the food chain, and acidifying the ocean at the bottom, you're creating a squeeze that could conceivably collapse… — Carl Safina
The ocean is not just blank blue space but rather the habitat for amazing wildlife, and we have to take care how we use it.… — Carl Safina
The sea is the source of water and the source of wind; for neither would blasts of wind arise in the clouds and blow out… — Xenophanes
For each of us, then, the challenge and opportunity is to cherish all life as the gift it is, envision it whole, seek to know… — Carl Safina
We carry oceans inside of us, in our blood and our sweat. And we are crying the oceans, in our tears. — Gregory David Roberts

Who Wrote These Ocean Quotes

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