Ocean Quotes

2174 Ocean quotes by 1339 unique authors

The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach -… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of… — John Locke
Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time. — H P Lovecraft
But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean. — H P Lovecraft
Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent. — H P Lovecraft
In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking. — James Russell Lowell
If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And… — Abraham Maslow
Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of… — H. L. Mencken
It isn't the oceans which cut us off from the world - it's the American way of looking at things. — Henry Miller
I'd heard that swimming feels so good when you're pregnant, and I love being in the ocean. I was even paddle boarding up until 17… — Marisa Miller
I'll tell you what me scares me is plastic. Plastic bags and plastic bottles and these things. Why does my water have to be in… — Helen Mirren
To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude. — Jeanne Moreau
The revolutionary breakthrough will come with rockets that are fully and rapidly reusable. We will never conquer Mars unless we do that. It'll be too… — Elon Musk
Whatever be the qualities of the man with whom a woman is united according to the law, such qualities even she assumes, like a river,… — Guru Nanak
I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on… — Isaac Newton
This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world… — Barack Obama
Every drop in the ocean counts. — Yoko Ono
It seems that half the point of being in Miami Beach - particularly the northern end of South Beach - is to be observed by… — Susan Orlean
Hostility comes from loneliness, from not seeing yourself like a drop falling into the ocean of humanity like everyone else. — Mehmet Oz
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble. — Blaise Pascal
Israel welcomes the wind of change, and sees a window of opportunity. Democratic and science-based economies by nature desire peace. Israel does not want to… — Shimon Peres
God speaks to me not through the thunder and the earthquake, nor through the ocean and the stars, but through the Son of Man, and… — William Lyon Phelps
I don't watch much telly, the telly hardly goes on, but the things I do watch are sort of nature programs, and something about the… — Karl Pilkington
Human evolution, at first, seems extraordinary. How could the process that gave rise to slugs and oak trees and fish produce a creature that can… — Steven Pinker

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