Pacific Quotes
202 Pacific quotes by 176 unique authors
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These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a…
— Abigail Adams
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We have nothing to fear and a great deal to learn from trees, that vigorours and pacific tribe which without stint produces strengthening essences for…
— Marcel Proust
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It seemed like a matter of minutes when we began rolling in the foothills before Oakland and suddenly reached a height and saw stretched out…
— Jack Kerouac
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I don't think the real America is in New York or on the Pacific Coast; personally, I like the Middle West much better, places like…
— Charlie Chaplin
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When they first kiss, there on the beach, they will kneel at the edge of the Pacific and say a prayer of thanks, sending all…
— Francesca Lia Block
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I'm so alive. As I stand facing the beauty of the never-ending Pacific Ocean, a late afternoon breeze blows down from the hills behind. As…
— Dave Pelzer
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Japanese-owned cargo ship Tsimtsum, flying Panamanian flag, sank July 2nd, 1977, in Pacific, four days out of Manila. Am in lifeboat. Pi Patel my name.…
— Yann Martel
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Sometimes the wind along the Pacific shore blows so hard it steals your breath before you can inhale it.
— Timothy Egan
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I find I'm so excited I can barely sit still or hold a thought in my head. I think it is the excitement only a…
— Stephen King
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It's a little place on the Pacific Ocean. You know what the Mexicans say about the Pacific? They say it has no memory. That's where…
— Stephen King
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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
Who Wrote These Pacific Quotes
176 authors contributed a total of 202 Pacific Quotes, led by these top contributors: