Ocean Quotes

• 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 energy sources.

  

  Tom Allen
  • Energy
  • Animal
  • Plant

• Imagine that foreign development is not done to our standards and a spill occurs. Neither geology nor ocean currents will respect our national boundaries.

  

  Lisa Murkowski
  • Done
  • Respect
  • Ocean

• In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.

  

  James Russell Lowell
  • Ocean

• One of my dreams was always to have a piano - a room with a piano overlooking the ocean or a lake.

  

  Paul Rodgers Bad Company
  • Ocean
  • Lake

• Favorite Bat-gadget was probably the Batboat, because it was fun to get out on the ocean and run that thing around at high speed.

  

  Adam West
  • Fun
  • High
  • Ocean

• Blackness is an ocean, a universe, a possibility that can never be exhausted. And so we have to constantly reaffirm the necessity of excavation, of archiving and curating, but also exploring, and understanding afresh and learning for the first time what it is that we need to know, and what the limits and boundaries are, and what the themes and preoccupations should be, and what the redemptive character of that erudition is. I find myself in the exciting position of doing all that, and at the same time having the obligation to explain to white people what the deal is.

  

  Michael Eric Dyson
  • People
  • Character
  • Understanding

• We all know what the moon does to the ocean in the form of tides. Well, we are about 85% salt water; don't you think it is also affecting you? Maybe you cannot quantify that effect along with zillions of other effects, but certainly you are being affected.

  

  Bryan Kest
  • Moon
  • Ocean
  • Tides

• As long as there's a body of water nearby, I'm happy. Pools don't count. I like diving into the ocean and coming out refreshed.

  

  Sarah Carter
  • Happy
  • Water
  • Pools

• Within an hour I can be at the ocean, the forest, the mountains in San Francisco...But really, I fell in love with the city the first time I came out here in 2003. In addition to the natural beauty, this is ground zero for the food justice movement.

  

  Bryant Terry
  • Forest
  • Mountains
  • San Francisco

• You need boundaries... Even in our material creations, boundaries mark the most beautiful of places, between the ocean and the shore, between the mountains and the plains, where the canyon meets the river.

  

  William P. Young
  • Beautiful
  • Mountain
  • Creation

• My love, i would like even more; to be an ocean if you are the wave; to be a wave, if you are the ocean.

  

  Nicolas Guillen
  • Love
  • Ocean
  • Wave

• For pure joy, I look at a small painting by Arbit Blatas. An ocean liner is at the center of the composition, perhaps ready to depart. It holds the promise of discovery.

  

  Antonio Damasio
  • Small
  • Joy
  • Painting

• I'm a homebody, as many writers are, and need to be by myself, and I like to be by the Atlantic Ocean.

  

  William Monahan
  • Ocean
  • Atlantic
  • Homebodies

• If you seek Him, God can raise you up, and replace the darkness of the ocean, with the light of His Sun.

  

  Yasmin Mogahed
  • Up
  • God
  • Light

• Arrive at knowledge over small streamlets, and do not plunge immediately into the ocean, since progress must go from the easier to the more difficult.

  

  Thomas Aquinas
  • Knowledge
  • Difficult
  • Ocean

• An ellipsis is a giant ocean of possibilities.

  

  Jami Attenberg
  • Ocean

• The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Nature
  • Ocean
  • Movement

• I do an awful lot of scuba diving. I love to be on the ocean, under the ocean. I live next to the ocean.

  

  James Cameron
  • Live
  • Ocean

• I am not from east or west not up from the ground or out of the ocean my place is placeless a trace of the traceless I belong to the beloved

  

  Rumi
  • West
  • Beloved
  • East

• The depth of the ocean is calm, but on the surface, there are always waves. If you dive deep in your life, your life can be bliss.

  

  Agapi Stassinopoulos
  • Life
  • Ocean
  • Waves

• Hostility comes from loneliness, from not seeing yourself like a drop falling into the ocean of humanity like everyone else.

  

  Mehmet Oz
  • Humanity
  • Ocean

• I see nothing but Becoming. Be not deceived! It is the fault of your limited outlook and not the fault of the essence of things if you believe that you see firm land anywhere in the ocean of Becoming and Passing. You need names for things, just as if they had a rigid permanence, but the very river in which you bathe a second time is no longer the same one which you entered before.

  

  Heraclitus
  • Ocean
  • Fault
  • Passing

• The health of life on Earth depends on its oceans. But unless we save our seas from the growing mounds of pop bottles, cigarette butts and plastic trash, soon there won't be much healthy sea left.

  

  Zoe Helene
  • Earth
  • Healthy
  • Cigarette

• Surely a woman who picked a spot so close to the ocean didn't automatically hide from the rain.

  

  Eileen Wilks
  • Ocean
  • Rain
  • Spots

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