Ocean Quotes
2174 Ocean quotes by 1339 unique authors
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The Psalms offer us a way of joining in a chorus of praise and prayer that has been going on for millennia and across all…
— N. T. Wright
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Where else can you be as free as by yourself in the middle of nowhere, or in the middle of the ocean, or on the…
— Daniel Norris
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When skies are hanged and oceans drowned, the single secret will still be man
— E E Cummings
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In view of the immense power of natural weather and climate fluctuations and the great buffering capacity of the Earth, especially the ocean, it is…
— James Hansen
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What better way to learn about life in the ocean--and how we are changing it--than through stories of blind zombie worms, immortal jellyfish, and unicorns…
— Enric Sala
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Calumny crosses oceans, scales mountains and traverses deserts, with greater ease than the Scythian Abaris, and like him, rides upon a poisoned arrow.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Idleness is the grand Pacific Ocean of life, and in that stagnant abyss the most salutary things produce no good, the most noxious no evil.…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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We have surface time, which is the time we move through every day, but we need to reach the rhythms of deep time. Like the…
— John O'Donohue
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Celtic spirituality is awakening so powerfully now because it illuminates the fact that the visible is only one little edge of things. The visible is…
— John O'Donohue
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Zip codes might be great for sorting mail, but they should not determine the quality of a child s education or success in the future…
— Bob Wise
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I felt I was moving among two groups [literary intellectuals and scientists] comparable in intelligence, identical in race, not grossly different in social origin, earning…
— Carrie P Snow
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Being present. The mind is like a butterfly that flits from one flower to the next. Seldom do we find ourselves nestled in the excuisite…
— Denise Linn
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Science is an ocean. It is as open to the cockboat as the frigate. One man carries across it a freightage of ingots, another may…
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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Remember that you will derive strength by reflecting that the saints yearn for you to join their ranks; desire to see you fight bravely, and…
— Henry Suso
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Coral reefs are under assault. They are rapidly being degraded by human activities. They are over-fished, bombed and poisoned. They are smothered by sediment, and…
— Klaus Topfer
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I am standing on the seashore. A ship spreads her white sails to the morning breeze and starts for the ocean. I stand watching her…
— Henry Scott Holland
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Imagine a vast ocean. Feel that you are part of that ocean. Imagine that each wave in the ocean is slowly moving through you. Feel…
— Frederick Lenz
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Now imagine that you are going beneath the surface of the ocean. Below the surface all is calm, silent, and serene. As you visualize yourself…
— Frederick Lenz
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Our air, water, soil, forests, oceans, rivers, lakes, scenic beauty, wildlife habitat, minerals, that is the wealth of the country.
— Gaylord Nelson
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Reincarnation is the dissolution of the self. It's like going swimming in the ocean, no one ever comes out, because one has become the ocean.
— Frederick Lenz
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I could never swim in the ocean after seeing Jaws.
— Michael Fassbender
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There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what the winds are to…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Break, break, break, On thy cold gray stones, oh sea! And I would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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The chief character in this narrative is the Caribbean Sea, one of the world's most alluring bodies of water, a rare gem among the oceans,…
— James A. Michener
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Why does the sea moan evermore? Shut out from heaven it makes its moan, It frets against the boundary shore; All earth's full rivers cannot…
— Christina Rossetti
Who Wrote These Ocean Quotes
1,339 authors contributed a total of 2,174 Ocean Quotes, led by these top contributors: