Pacific Quotes
202 Pacific quotes by 176 unique authors
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The metaphor is so obvious. Easter Island isolated in the Pacific Ocean — once the island got into trouble, there was no way they could…
— Jared Diamond
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No one who claims this to be a small world has ever flown across the Pacific.
— J. Maarten Troost
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Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love—but sometimes it was so hard to love.…
— Yann Martel
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Such beauty, he thought, was too perfect to have come about by mere chance. That day in the center of the Pacific was, to him,…
— Laura Hillenbrand
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You can have the courage to climb the mountain, swim the lakes, go on a raft to the other side of the Atlantic or Pacific.…
— U.G. Krishnamurti
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Trying to figure out God is like trying to catch a fish in the Pacific Ocean with an inch of dental floss.
— Matt Chandler
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The winds that blow through the wide sky in these mounts, the winds that sweep from Canada to Mexico, from the Pacific to the Atlantic…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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The secret point of money and power in America is neither the things that money can buy nor power for power's sake... but absolute personal…
— Joan Didion
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Even the cleanest air, at the centre of the South Pacific or somewhere over Antarctica, has two hundred thousand assorted bits and pieces in every…
— Lyall Watson
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I grew up with white friends, Asian friends - Vietnamese, Chinese, Pacific Islanders. I had Hispanic friends, not just Mexican friends, but Guatemalan friends, Honduran…
— Ryan Coogler
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At the end of October 4 in 1957, when I was coming back from sea duty in the South Pacific, Sputnik went up. I realized…
— Edgar Mitchell
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All of my Polynesian counterparts in the NFL with roots in American Samoa understand how the values embedded in our South Pacific culture - community,…
— Troy Polamalu
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The Pacific is the best toilet for satellites.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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What we have seen of recent American action in the Pacific, the bombing of Tokyo and the engagements in the Coral Sea, off Midway Island…
— Chiang Kai-shek
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The more expensive and/or exclusive a sport, the whiter it tends to be: the fact almost has the force of a law. That is the…
— Martin Jacques
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Both President Obama and I shared the conviction that territorial and maritime disputes in the Asia Pacific region should be settled peacefully based on international…
— Benigno Aquino III
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I started collecting aerial photographs of Native American and South Pacific architecture; only the African ones were fractal. And if you think about it, all…
— Ron Eglash
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Pacific Islands are among those that contribute least to global warming, yet suffer most.
— Ban Ki-moon
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For where Kingman is located, the coral cover is unique in the world. I refer to it as a universe of hard corals. You are…
— Brian Skerry
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I want to initiate a bilateral agenda that helps Mexico and the U.S. together compete with the world better, especially with the economies of Asia…
— Enrique Pena Nieto
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Perhaps the great American Republic, whose interests lie in the Pacific and who has no hand in the spoliation of Africa, may someday dream of…
— Jose Rizal
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I always think of the Pacific Northwest as giant trees and rain and clouds and dampness, like the Native American art from that area. That…
— Kyle MacLachlan
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Whether our forebears were strangers who crossed the Atlantic or the Pacific or the Rio Grande, we are here only because this country welcomed them…
— Barack Obama
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My Sunday mornings are spent in a recovery meeting in Pacific Palisades.
— Buzz Aldrin
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Alaska Airlines and I have a lot in common, so coming together to delight travelers with savory, high quality food from the Pacific Northwest made…
— Tom Douglas
Who Wrote These Pacific Quotes
176 authors contributed a total of 202 Pacific Quotes, led by these top contributors: