Ocean Quotes

2174 Ocean quotes by 1339 unique authors

I think there are two different oceans - the one that plays with you in the summer, and the one that gets so mad in… — Jodi Picoult
I thought that the light-house looked lovely as hope, That star on life's tremulous ocean. — Thomas Moore
I love all things, not because they are passionate or sweet-smelling but because, I don't know, because this ocean is yours, and mine: these buttons… — Pablo Neruda
It is not easy to measure the ocean, but we can be measured by it, confront it, and be in it. — Terence McKenna
Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships. — Zora Neale Hurston
Though they live far from the coast, they retain a great fascination and passion for the ocean. The sound of crashing waves, the smell of… — Christopher Paolini
Those born to wealth, and who have the means of gratifying every wish, know not what is the real happiness of life, just as those… — Alexandre Dumas
It was a lone voice in the middle of the ocean, but it was heard at great depth and great distance. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Were the Soviet Union to sink tomorrow under the waters of the ocean, the American military-industrial establishment would have to go on, substantially unchanged, until… — George F. Kennan
I will sleep no more but arise, You oceans that have been calm within me! how I feel you, fathomless, stirring, preparing unprecedented waves and… — Walt Whitman
My skin prickled and I looked back at the ocean. None of us ask for the things we inherit; they are thrust upon us, willy-nilly.… — Aimee Friedman
Finding the occasional straw of truth awash in a great ocean of confusion and bamboozle requires intelligence, vigilance, dedication, and courage. But if we don't… — Carl Sagan
On our honeymoon we talked and talked. We stayed in a beachfront villa, and we drank rum and lemonade and talked so much that I… — Chris Cleave
Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs; Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes; Being vexed, a sea nourished with loving… — William Shakespeare
Don’t be offended, but you seem to be one of those people who just attract accidents like a magnet. So… try not to fall into… — Stephenie Meyer
I have inside me the winds, the deserts, the oceans, the stars, and everything created in the universe. We were all made by the same… — Paulo Coelho
We aren’t exactly emptying the oceans; it’s more like clear-cutting a forest with thousands of species to create massive fields with one type of soybean. — Jonathan Safran Foer
If men will permit themselves to think, as rational beings ought to think, nothing can appear more ridiculous and absurd, exclusive of all moral reflections,… — Thomas Paine
Listen, O drop, give yourself up without regret, and in exchange gain the Ocean. Listen, O drop, bestow upon yourself this honor, and in the… — Unknown Author
He that commends me to mine own content Commends me to the thing I cannot get. I to the world am like a drop of… — William Shakespeare
When the climbers in 1953 planted their flags on the highest mountain, they set them in snow over the skeletons of creatures that had lived… — John McPhee
But anything worth doing is worth doing badly. Like being there by that summer ocean on the other side of the island while love was… — Jack Gilbert
when we're married, can we go to the ocean? I've never been — Maggie Stiefvater
Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather the multitudinous seas incarnadine, making the green… — William Shakespeare
Sometimes friends do foolish things. My father told me that true friends are like gold coins. Ships are wrecked by storms and lie for hundreds… — Michael Robotham

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