Ocean Quotes
2174 Ocean quotes by 1339 unique authors
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The Arctic is a place that historically, during all preceding human history, has largely been an icy realm with an impact on ocean currents. That,…
— Sylvia Earle
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The Arctic is an ocean. The southern pole is a continent surrounded by ocean. The North Pole is an ocean, or northern waters. It's an…
— Sylvia Earle
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Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed…
— Loren Eiseley
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The fact that one can lose one's sense of self in an ocean of tranquility does not mean that one's consciousness is immaterial or that…
— Sam Harris
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I was privileged to grow up in Mexico at a time when you could play in the streets. We lived not too far from the…
— Salma Hayek
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Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.
— Robert Henri
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Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness.
— Werner Herzog
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American public opinion is like an ocean, it cannot be stirred by a teaspoon.
— Hubert H. Humphrey
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The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in…
— Thomas Huxley
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There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics none in which there is more need of good pilotage and of a…
— Thomas Huxley
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Listening to soft music and the sound of the ocean is quite relaxing to me.
— LaToya Jackson
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
— Immanuel Kant
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We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch - we are…
— John F. Kennedy
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Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease,…
— John F. Kennedy
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I really feel that my body craves to be in the mountains or by the ocean or in the countryside.
— Miranda Kerr
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No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.
— Charles Kettering
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I really appreciate Frank Ocean's lyrical style, I appreciate the way that he can kind of draw you into this personal space, but it's still…
— Alicia Keys
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The positive heuristic of the programme saves the scientist from becoming confused by the ocean of anomalies.
— Imre Lakatos
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If you don't die of thirst, there are blessings in the desert. You can be pulled into limitlessness, which we all yearn for, or you…
— Anne Lamott
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You know, I do speak the Queens English. It's just the wrong Queens that's all. It's over the 59th Street Bridge. It's not over the…
— Cyndi Lauper
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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.
— D. H. Lawrence
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How many whales do we really need? I figure five. One for each ocean.
— Denis Leary
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He didn't come out of my belly, but my God, I've made his bones, because I've attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and…
— John Lennon
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There are cities that get by on their good looks, offer climate and scenery, views of mountains or oceans, rockbound or with palm trees. And…
— Elmore Leonard
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We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we…
— Aldo Leopold
Who Wrote These Ocean Quotes
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