Ocean Quotes

2174 Ocean quotes by 1339 unique authors

Some men of a secluded and studious life, have sent forth from their closet or their cloister, rays of intellectual light that have agitated courts,… — Charles Caleb Colton
You cannot speak of the ocean to a frog that lives in a well. — Bill Vaughan
The soul of man is larger than the sky, Deeper than ocean, or the abysmal dark Of the unfathomed centre. — Hartley Coleridge
Thoughts come and go. It's impossible to stop your thoughts, but the idea is that the thoughts are kind of like waves on the ocean.… — Anderson Cooper
If you've ever swum in the ocean, and you go underneath the waves, you know, you're kind of moved by the currents, but you're not… — Anderson Cooper
If you live a life of make-believe, your life isn't worth anything until you do something that does challenge your reality. And to me, sailing… — Morgan Freeman
We are imprisoned in the realm of life, like a sailor on his tiny boat, on an infinite ocean. — Anna Freud
In the case of 'Ocean at the End of the Lane,' it's a book about helplessness. It's a book about family, it's a book about… — Neil Gaiman
Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but… — John Kenneth Galbraith
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become… — Mahatma Gandhi
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. — Andre Gide
There were times, especially when I was traveling for 'Eat, Pray, Love,' when, I swear to God, I would feel this weight of my female… — Elizabeth Gilbert
The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore. — Vincent Van Gogh
Life began three and a half billion years ago, necessarily about as simple as it could be, because life arose spontaneously from the organic compounds… — Stephen Jay Gould
Cultures have long heard wisdom in non-human voices: Apollo, god of music, medicine and knowledge, came to Delphi in the form of a dolphin. But… — Jay Griffiths
Hawaii was beautiful of course, we played at Turtle Bay an amazing resort right on the ocean. — Natalie Gulbis
The history of American women is all about leaving home - crossing oceans and continents, or getting jobs and living on their own. — Gail Collins
It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to… — Charles Caleb Colton
The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness. — Joseph Conrad
What I mean by that is that the point of life, as I see it, is not to write books or scale mountains or sail… — Bernard Cornwell
The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever. — Jacques Yves Cousteau
From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has only to sink beneath the surface… — Jacques Yves Cousteau
No aquarium, no tank in a marine land, however spacious it may be, can begin to duplicate the conditions of the sea. And no dolphin… — Jacques Yves Cousteau
Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans. — Jacques Yves Cousteau
The sea, the great unifier, is man's only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the… — Jacques Yves Cousteau

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