Ocean Quotes

• There is enough energy in a single cubic meter of space to boil all the oceans in the world.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • World
  • Energy
  • Enough

• We sat looking out at the ocean. There was just so much of it, and it never failed to take my breath away. Looking at the ocean gave me the same sensation I'd get staring at a sky full of stars- that I was small. Like the way a math problem reveals its undeniable truth, I knew when I stared into this sort of endlessness that my life didn't count for much of anything. And knowing that, that I was nothing but a speck, I felt pretty lucky for all that I had.

  

  Dana Reinhardt
  • Problem
  • Lucky
  • Knowing

• The ocean asks for nothing but those who stand by her shores gradually attune themselves to her rhythm.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Ocean
  • Rhythm
  • Attune

• All authors know that any book is a casting of runes, a reading of cards, a map of the palm and heart. We make up the ocean - then fall in. But we also write the life raft.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Writing
  • Heart
  • Book

• Fishermen own the fish they catch, but they do not own the ocean.

  

  Etienne Schneider
  • Ocean
  • Fishermen

• Where else can you be as free as by yourself in the middle of nowhere, or in the middle of the ocean, or on the peak of a mountain. Adventure is freedom.

  Daniel Norris
  • Ocean
  • Adventure
  • Mountain

• The US government is like an ocean liner, not like a speed boat. It's harder to turn around than people might think.

  

  Willie Parker
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Government

• Nature is out there, and we can do what we like to it. We can cut down the rain forest. We can put animals in factory farms and slaughter them as we like. We can over-fish the oceans. We can pollute the rivers. We can pollute the water and change climate. We are somehow superior to nature. We are somehow rulers of nature.

  

  Satish Kumar
  • Water
  • Animal
  • Cutting

• It is not easy to measure the ocean, but we can be measured by it, confront it, and be in it.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Easy
  • Ocean

• I abstract it in my photographs: I like large planes and spaces, areas of texture and light, like deserts or oceans or monumental places.

  

  Herb Ritts
  • Light
  • Desert
  • Photograph

• You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.

  

  Rumi
  • You
  • Ocean
  • Drop

• Twas in heaven pronounced - it was muttered in hell, / And echo caught faintly the sound as it fell; / On the confines of earth 'twas permitted to rest, / And the depth of the ocean its presence confessed. / Yet in shade let it rest, like a delicate flower, / Ah, breathe on it softly, it dies in an hour.

  

  Catherine Maria Fanshawe
  • Earth
  • Heaven
  • Flower

• Whatever you have committed wrong in the past or whatever you used to think of the future, the present becomes divine. And that divine present is the ocean of joy of which you are the part and particle. Just enjoy that.

  

  Nirmala Srivastava
  • Love
  • Wisdom
  • Ocean

• The jolt that Tony Blair received 35,000ft above the Pacific Ocean was not normal turbulence.

  

  Tony Blair
  • Ocean
  • Normal
  • Blair

• If I could reach from pole to pole or grasp the ocean with a span, I would be measured by the soul The mind's the standard of the Man.

  

  Isaac Watts
  • Men
  • Mind
  • Soul

• We know that when we protect our oceans we're protecting our future.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Future
  • Ocean

• The whole difference between a man of genius and other men, it has been said a thousand times, and most truly, is that the first remains in great part a child, seeing with the large eyes of children, in perpetual wonder, not conscious of much knowledge--conscious, rather of infinite ignorance, and yet infinite power; a fountain of eternal admiration, delight, and creative force within him meeting the ocean of visible and governable things around him.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Knowledge
  • Wonder
  • Child

• Living submerged at the bottom of an ocean of air.

  

  Evangelista Torricelli
  • Air
  • Ocean
  • Living

• If we don't save the oceans, if we don't do something about what we're doing to the oceans, as well as the planet at large, we're going to be really sorry.

  

  Morgan Freeman
  • Ocean
  • Planet

• Honor the ocean of love.

  

  George de Benneville
  • Love
  • Honor
  • Ocean

• On the surface of the ocean, men wage war and destroy each other; but down here, just a few feet beneath the surface, there is a calm and peace, unmolested by man.

  

  Jules Verne
  • War
  • Ocean
  • Calm

• There was a magic about the sea. People were drawn to it. People wanted to love by it, swim in it, play in it, look at it. It was a living thing that was as unpredictable as a great stage actor: it could be calm and welcoming, opening its arms to embrace it's audience one moment, but then could explode with its stormy tempers, flinging people around, wanting them out, attacking coastlines, breaking down islands.

  

  Cecelia Ahern
  • People
  • Ocean
  • Swim

• 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 as on the first day of creation. Nobody owned them.

  

  Carsten Jensen
  • Choices
  • Travel
  • Creation

• The creative act is a letting down of the net of human imagination into the ocean of chaos on which we are suspended, and the attempt to bring out of it ideas.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Imagination
  • Ideas
  • Humans

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