Ocean Quotes

• 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, stability and prosperity in the region. We also hope that the United States will fully respect and accommodate the major interests and legitimate concerns of Asia-Pacific countries.

  

  Xi Jinping
  • Hope
  • Respect
  • Peace

• There is an ocean of Gods love available-there is plenty for everyone. May God grant you never to doubt that victorious love-whatever the circumstances.

  

  Corrie Ten Boom
  • God
  • May
  • Doubt

• My story starts at sea... a perilous voyage to an unknown land... a shipwreck... The wild waters roar and heave... The brave vessel is dashed all to pieces, and all the helpless souls within her drowned... all save one... a lady... whose soul is greater than the ocean... and her spirit stronger than the sea's embrace... Not for her a watery end, but a new life beginning on a stranger shore. It will be a love story... for she will be my heroine for all time. And her name will be... Viola.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Soul
  • Water
  • Brave

• If I were an animal, I would be a fish or a bird. It's the peace and beauty of ocean, the silent language of it. It seems like a womb, protective. The sky too. I love all colors, but blue mainly, because it's transparent like the water and the sky.

  Nastassja Kinski
  • Peace
  • Water
  • Animal

• The ocean-bordered southern part of California has always been a place of Hollywood make-believe, casual opulence, suntans and jewelry.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Believe
  • Place
  • California

• Out of the huts of history's shame I rise Up from a past that's rooted in pain I rise I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide, Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Up
  • History
  • Black

• We provoke a shark every time we enter the water where sharks happen to be, for we forget: The ocean is not our territory - it's theirs.

  

  Peter Benchley
  • Time
  • Water
  • Ocean

• Ocean acidification is often referred to as osteoporosis of the oceans because as acidity rises, shell building creatures such as lobster, oyster, crab, shrimp, and coral are unable to extract the calcium carbonate from the water that they need to build their shells and are thus unable to survive.

  

  Philippe Cousteau, Jr.
  • Water
  • Ocean

• We uploaded 'Ocean Eyes' to SoundCloud, and it started getting a lot of plays pretty much immediately.

  

  Billie Eilish
  • Pretty
  • Eyes
  • Ocean

• I always say that people are like peanut shells on the ocean: the waves will take them everywhere.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • People
  • Ocean
  • Waves

• You know, I do speak the Queens English. It's just the wrong Queens that's all. It's over the 59th Street Bridge. It's not over the Atlantic Ocean.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • English
  • Knows
  • Speak

• One of the things that's frustrated me as a deep-sea explorer is how many animals there probably are in the ocean that we know nothing about because of the way we explore the ocean.

  

  Edith Widder
  • Deep
  • Sea
  • Explore

• 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. If the book can resist the ocean, then it exists. Otherwise, throw it away.

  

  Klaus Kinski
  • Book
  • True
  • Strong

• Without water, our planet would be one of the billions of lifeless rocks floating endlessly in the vastness of the inky-black void.

  

  Fabien Cousteau
  • Black
  • Water
  • Sea

• I want to stay in the ocean. I'm not going to be able to do that from some holding cell in Japan.

  

  Paul Watson
  • Ocean

• We can see cities during the day and at night, and we can watch rivers dump sediment into the ocean, and see hurricanes form.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Night
  • Day
  • Ocean

• I've got nothing against L.A. I think it is a really beautiful place. To be able to surf and get out in the Pacific Ocean every once in a while. The hiking, all of that is amazing. I love it there.

  

  Liev Schreiber
  • Beautiful
  • Amazing
  • Los Angeles

• Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Men
  • Long
  • Wonder

• In Reykjavik, Iceland, where I was born, you are in the middle of nature surrounded by mountains and ocean. But you are still in a capital in Europe. So I have never understood why I have to choose between nature or urban.

  

  Bjork
  • Why
  • Nature
  • Ocean

• If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Up
  • Land
  • Thousand

• You can either see yourself as a wave in the ocean or you can see yourself as the ocean.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Yourself
  • See
  • Ocean

• He who crosses the ocean twice without washing is a dirty double crosser.

  

  Confucius
  • Ocean
  • Crosses
  • Washing

• 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 a fish that is at least seven feet long swimming close to the shore. I did not go back in the ocean the entire month.

  

  Michael Stipe R.E.M.
  • Long
  • Water
  • Beach

• My father Lloyd Bridges worked on a TV show called 'Sea Hunt.' He impressed upon me as a child the importance of taking care of the ocean and working together to do our part to reduce human pollution.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • Together
  • Father
  • Sea

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