Ocean Quotes
2174 Ocean quotes by 1339 unique authors
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During one new moon at perigee, I stood on high ground, watching salt ponds overflow, cover the beach, and meet the ocean. Because the moon…
— Luanne Rice
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My grandfather learned to swim in the Navy by getting thrown off a boat into the ocean. He had to learn fast. And I think…
— Benjamin Booker
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In my 30s, I wrote in the back house of a ramshackle Spanish Revival we rented across from the ocean in the Santa Monica Canyon.…
— Mona Simpson
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From the first time I heard Bob Marley or even Sublime, I wanted to move out to California and be near the ocean, start surfing,…
— Brendon Urie
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Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.
— Ryunosuke Satoro
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I saw also that there was an ocean of darkness and death, but an infinite ocean of light and love, which flowed over the ocean…
— George Fox
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To him it is an ocean, unfathomable, and without a shore.
— William Godwin
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If the workers took a notion they could stop all speeding trains; every ship upon the ocean they can tie with mighty chains.
— Joe Hill
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I shall go the way of the open sea, to the lands I knew before you came, and the cool ocean breezes shall blow from…
— Adela Florence Nicolson
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I enjoyed growing up part of my life in Virginia Beach. We had the ocean and the beach and a beautiful landscape. We were outdoors…
— Mark Ruffalo
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The offshore ocean area under U.S. jurisdiction is larger than our land mass, and teems with plant and animal life, mineral resources, commerce, trade, and…
— Tom Allen
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To be anywhere near an enormous ocean liner when you are just like a fish in the water is frightening.
— John C. Hawkes
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It is true what Rimbaud said; If you think a book is strong enough, try it at the ocean, in the wind, at the waves.…
— Klaus Kinski
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We made part of the record in Miami, and I would go down to the beach, and not 20 feet from the water I see…
— Michael Stipe
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I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary,…
— Isaac Newton
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All rivers, even the most dazzling, those that catch the sun in their course, all rivers go down to the ocean and drown. And life…
— Simone Schwarz-Bart
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If nations always moved from one set of furnished rooms to another - and always into a better set - things might be easier, but…
— Alexander Herzen
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Shy is the oyster, fervent is the clam, peaceful is the ocean floor rocked by the sands of time.
— Bradley Chicho
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As a surfer, I am interested in the ocean. And I am concerned and interested in all of these natural and cultural rumblings underfoot as…
— Brandon Boyd
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The vast Pacific Ocean has ample space for China and the United States. We welcome a constructive role by the United States in promoting peace,…
— Xi Jinping
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Millions upon millions of people came here full of hope and aspiration to this extraordinary land of liberty and opportunity, and helped build the United…
— Simon Winchester
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I come from a little island with the Caribbean Sea on one side and the Atlantic Ocean on the other. I come from, really, nowhere,…
— Jamaica Kincaid
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U.S. nuclear weapons that are available for presidential use are targeted against broad ocean areas.
— C. Robert Kehler
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Everyone is an ocean inside. Every individual walking the street. Everyone is a universe of thoughts, and insights, and feelings. But every person is crippled…
— Khaled Hosseini
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Like many kids, I used to pretend all sorts of things. I would climb into a tree and imagine that I was on an island,…
— Mohsin Hamid
Who Wrote These Ocean Quotes
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