Ocean Quotes

• Right whales - so named because they were 'the right whale to kill' - grazed the waters off Nantucket as if they were seagoing cattle, straining the nutrient-rich surface of the ocean through the bushy plates of baleen in their perpetually grinning mouths.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Ocean
  • Through
  • Whales

• It is clear that if we are going to understand ocean ecosystems, we need to understand the part that bioluminescence plays in those ecosystems.

  

  Edith Widder
  • Understand
  • Need
  • Ocean

• She is made up of depths even the ocean couldn't fathom.

  

  Jessica Katoff
  • Ocean
  • Depths

• I've never stared out at the ocean while I've made a record before - that enhances things in a strange way.

  

  James Edward Olliges Jr.
  • Ocean

• When citizens believe that the elite care more about those across the ocean than those across the train tracks, insurance has broken down, we divide into factions, and those who are left behind become angry and disillusioned with a politics that no longer serves them.

  

  Angus Deaton
  • Believe
  • Broken
  • Angry

• I love the woods even more than the ocean.

  

  Steven Tyler Aerosmith
  • Ocean

• Baseball is the most perfect of games, solid, true, pure and precious as diamonds. If only life were so simple. Within the baselines anything can happen. Tides can reverse; oceans can open. That's why they say, "the game is never over until the last man is out." Colors can change, lives can alter, anything is possible in this gentle, flawless, loving game.

  

  W. P. Kinsella
  • Life
  • Why
  • True

• My backhand is definitely a lot more solid and consistent. There were times when I couldn't hit it into the ocean.

  

  Andy Roddick
  • Ocean
  • Consistent

• Jumping off that cliff in Jamaica.It was years ago. It was at this place called Rick's Cafe. Actually, it was two cliffs. They were pretty high, probably a good 40- 50-foot jump into the ocean. That was crazy.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Good
  • High
  • Pretty

• I love the ocean, wide-open space and trees, but I'm not a gardener or anything like that. I think I may be, eventually. I was raised in the city, so I don't have that skill set, but my heart is more with the dirt than the concrete. It's an unrequited love with nature - a one-way love affair.

  

  David Duchovny
  • Heart
  • May
  • Nature

• The industrial way we fish for seafood is harming the marine habitats that all ocean life depends upon. Indiscriminate commercial fishing practices that include miles of driftnets, long lines with thousands of lethal hooks and bottom trawls are ruining ocean ecosystems by killing non-seafood species, including sea turtles and marine mammals.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Life
  • Long
  • Sea

• According to Eshin's 'Essentials of Salvation,' the Ten Pleasures are but a drop in the ocean when compared to the joys of the Pure Land.

  

  Yukio Mishima
  • Ocean

• Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

  

  James Joyce
  • Good
  • Soul
  • Energy

• I feel, in 2015, when we see human beings and children dying to cross the ocean, trying to find safety, something more must be done to help them because refugees are just like me and you.

  

  Alek Wek
  • Children
  • Trying
  • Done

• We get twitted now and then on how we made this country. Well, we took the whole business, of course. It's not just that corner that we took from Mexico. When we got it all together, we got a very shapely country-the best continental cut in all the world, between the two oceans and in the right temperature zone.

  

  Robert Frost
  • World
  • Country
  • Business

• Life is like the ocean. You can either be the ball floating on the waves, or make your own waves.

  

  Oliver Gaspirtz
  • Life
  • Waves
  • Floating

• The Japanese people have a strong connection with nature and the ocean and a huge respect for them.

  

  Daniel Berehulak
  • People
  • Nature
  • Strong

• Finding animals that make light in the ocean is easy. Just drag a net through the water anywhere in the upper 3000 feet, and as many as 80-90% of the animals you catch can make light. The biomimetic lure that I developed imitates one of these - a common deep sea jellyfish called Atolla.

  

  Edith Widder
  • Light
  • Water
  • Deep

• We've built, drilled, and shipped indiscriminately across our oceans, with little consideration for the natural environment that is critical to the health of many of our other ocean uses, like food and recreation.

  

  Philippe Cousteau, Jr.
  • Food
  • Health
  • Environment

• Without sharks, you take away the apex predator of the ocean, and you destroy the entire food chain.

  

  Peter Benchley
  • Food
  • Ocean

• Under the big political umbrella, a man is just like a leaf in the ocean, with no control of his destiny and does not have any choice.

  

  Zhang Yimou
  • Man
  • Political
  • Control

• Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.

  

  Anne Carson
  • Mother
  • Ocean
  • Shipless

• I think there's a lot of people in their dingy boats in the middle of the ocean pining for the days of closed-ended narrative.

  

  Joe Russo
  • People
  • Ocean

• Thoughts come and go. It's impossible to stop your thoughts, but the idea is that the thoughts are kind of like waves on the ocean. That's Jon Kabat-Zinn's big analogy and that this is actually kind of diving under the waves. And you know it's kind of interesting.

  

  Anderson Cooper
  • Interesting
  • Stop
  • Kind

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