Ocean Quotes

2174 Ocean quotes by 1339 unique authors

Only yonder magnificent pine-tree... holds her unchanging beauty throughout the year, like her half-brother, the ocean, whose voice she shares; and only marks the flowing… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson
I look to the right as I cross the bridge and smile to see the tip of the Eiffel Tower soaring over rooftops in the… — Kristin Harmel
I find myself at the extremity of a long beach. How gladly does the spirit leap forth, and suddenly enlarge its sense of being to… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
We play in the ocean every day but for some reason we don’t make as much noise about the environment as we should. I believe… — Mark Price
The man who will follow precedent, but never create one, is merely an obvious example of the routineer. You find him desperately numerous in the… — Walter Lippmann
The improved American highway system isolated the American-in-transit. On his speedway he had no contact with the towns which he by-passed. If he stopped for… — Daniel J. Boorstin
What else is there to make life tolerable? We stand on the shore of an ocean, crying to the night and to emptiness. Sometimes a… — Bertrand Russell
But you have to understand, American democracy is not like the system you have. We're not an ocean liner that sails across the ocean from… — Colin Powell
Meditate. A few minutes of deep meditation will connect you with the ocean of intuition deep within you. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
The dance of the palm trees, the oceans calling, the first rays of sun and heaven is here. — Michael Dolan
What I deeply want... is for Rumi to become vitally present for readers, part of what John Keats called our soul-making, that process that is… — Coleman Barks
Tis said, fantastic ocean doth enfold The likeness of whate'er on land is seen. — William Wordsworth
We mortals cross the ocean of this world Each in his average cabin of a life; The bests not big, the worst yields elbowroom. — Robert Browning
Many, many steeples would have to be stacked one on top of another to reach from the bottom to the surface of the sea. — Hans Christian Andersen
Neither earth nor ocean produces a creature as savage and monstrous as woman. — Euripides
Some of us, regarding the ocean with understanding and affection, have seen it looking old, as if the immemorial ages had been stirred up from… — Joseph Conrad
The ocean, whose tides respond, like women's menses, to the pull of the moon, the ocean which corresponds to the amniotic fluid in which human… — Adrienne Rich
For the water animals, the ocean is like a garden; for the land animals, it is death and pain. — Unknown Author
The novelist screws up his courage in order to invest another two or three years in another attempt to float a boat of original design… — Edward Hoagland
Simultaneously with the establishment of the Constitution, Virginia ceded to the United States her domain, which then extended to the Mississippi, and was even claimed… — William H. Seward
I was curious and hungry at a young age, and jazz was such a mystery to me, an ocean where you can express yourself in… — Paula Cole
The ocean doesn't care about you. It makes your boat feel tiny. The oceans are great promoters of religion, or at least of humility-but not… — Tracy Kidder
Having made the trip from St. Louis to the Pacific Ocean myself going up up up against twenty-five hundred miles of the Missouri River, I… — William Least Heat-Moon
Geniuses are like ocean liners: they should never meet. — Louis Aragon
Ocean people are very different from land people. The ocean never stops saying and asking into ears, which don't sleep like eyes. — Maxine Hong Kingston

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