Atlantic Quote by John Guare

I was very much disappointed in the Atlantic Ocean.

— Oscar Wilde

I thought that when they said Atlantic Charter, that meant me and everybody in Africa and Asia and everywhere. But it seems like the…

— Zora Neale Hurston

Millions upon millions of people came here full of hope and aspiration to this extraordinary land of liberty and opportunity, and helped build the…

— Simon Winchester

Let us suppose, that the Old and New worlds were formerly but one continent, and that, by a violent earthquake, the ancient Atalantis [sic]…

— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time.

— H. P. Lovecraft

“How early the American cause turned to the sea.”

— Dudley W. Knox

But the ocean was the grand fact there, which made us forget both bayberries and men.

— Anonymous

With no other choices open to us, we'd turned our gaze seaward. The oceans were our America: they reached farther than any prairie, untamed…

— Carsten Jensen

Could the waters of the Atlantic be drawn off, so as to expose to view this great sea-gash, which separates continents, and extends from…

— Matthew Fontaine Maury

The profoundest facts in the earth's history prove that the oceans have always been oceans.

— James Dwight Dana

“In the beginning was the sea, and the sea was the world”

— Chika Onyenezi

If it was Europe that gave us on the coast some idea of our history, it was Europe, I feel, that also introduced us…

— V. S. Naipaul