Ocean Quotes

• I really appreciate Frank Ocean's lyrical style, I appreciate the way that he can kind of draw you into this personal space, but it's still lyrical. It's almost poetic, in a way, but it's very personal at the same time.

  

  Alicia Keys
  • Time
  • Way
  • Space

• The seasick passenger on an ocean liner detests the good sailor who stalks past him 265 times a day grandly smoking a large, greasy cigar. In precisely the same way the democrat hates the man who is having a better time in the world. This is the origin of democracy. It is also the origin of Puritanism.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Time
  • World
  • Good

• And I shall watch the ferry boats, and they'll get high, on a bluer ocean against tomorrow's sky. and i will never grow so old again, and i will walk and talk, in gardens all wet with rain.

  

  Van Morrison
  • High
  • Sky
  • Rain

• His feelings for Adam were an oil spill; he'd let them overflow and now there wasn't a damn place in the ocean that wouldn't catch fire if he dropped a match.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Fire
  • Ocean

• Were I so tall as to reach the pole or grasp the ocean at a span, I must be measured by my soul. The mind is the standard of the man.

  

  William Ernest Henley
  • Men
  • Mind
  • Life Sol

• We are a blue planet and an ocean world.

  

  Nainoa Thompson
  • World
  • Blue
  • Ocean

• Love is like some fresh spring, first a stream and then a river, changing its aspect and its nature as it flows to plunge itself in some boundless ocean, where restricted natures only find monotony, but where great souls are engulfed in endless contemplation.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Love Is
  • Souls
  • Stream

• We've only explored about 5% of our ocean. There are great discoveries yet to be made down there - fantastic creatures representing millions of years of evolution and possibly bioactive compounds that could benefit us in ways we can't even imagine.

  

  Edith Widder
  • Great
  • Ocean
  • Evolution

• Way down below the ocean where I wanna be she may be.

  

  Donovan
  • May
  • She
  • Ocean

• A pearl in the shell does not touch the ocean. Be a pearl without a shell. a mindful flooding. a spark turned to flame. bird settling nest. love lived

  

  Rumi
  • Pearl
  • Shell
  • Flooding

• Looking out at the ocean, it's easy to feel small - and to imagine all your troubles, suddenly insignificant, slipping away. Earth's seven oceans seem vast and impenetrable, but a closer look tells another story.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Earth
  • Small
  • Looking

• 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

• Just imagine becoming the way you used to be as a very young child, before you understood the meaning of any word, before opinions took over your mind. The real you is loving, joyful, and free. The real you is just like a flower, just like the wind, just like the ocean, just like the sun.

  

  Don Miguel Ruiz
  • Mind
  • Real
  • Free

• I think people had somehow gotten the sense that we have explored everything, when that isn't the case. We so know so little about the ocean, and so much of it is being destroyed.

  

  James Cameron
  • People
  • Ocean

• 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

• To this day, I haven't seen 'Jaws.' Because I was always in the ocean, when I was a kid, my mom said, 'See the movies that you want to, but I'm telling you, do not ever see Jaws.'

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Day
  • Mom
  • Ocean

• I kind of quit surfing when I got out of high school, but then a few years ago I started to take it up again. I'm not an expert by any means, but it's so wonderful to get out in the ocean and get a different perspective on things.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • Up
  • Different
  • School

• So to all Americans, in every city near and far, small and large, from mountain to mountain, and from ocean to ocean, hear these words: You will never be ignored again. Your voice, your hopes, and your dreams will define our American destiny. And your courage and goodness and love will forever guide us along the way.

  

  Donald Trump
  • American
  • Words
  • Small

• Everything goes in waves. Evolution goes in waves. The ocean goes in waves. Energy goes in waves. Sound travels in waves.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Energy
  • Evolution
  • Waves

• Life on our planet is defined by the health of our ocean.

  

  Nainoa Thompson
  • Life
  • Health
  • Planets

• But now Americans, they felt a sense of peace and protection because they've been separated by so many thousands of miles of ocean. And you know, the fact that it's come to the U.S. like this is so sad, and yet you know, what can you do? It's here.

  

  Patty Hearst
  • Peace
  • Sad
  • Ocean

• The ocean is a central image. It is the symbolism of a great journey.

  

  Eithne Pádraigín Ní Bhraonáin
  • Great
  • Journey
  • Ocean

• 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

• I'm not a vegetarian by any means; I eat fish. But the problem with shark finning is they catch the shark, cut their fins and throw them back in the ocean, and to me, that's wrong. If you're going to kill an animal, you should use the entire animal and do it humanely. I'm definitely not a big fan.

  

  Bethany Hamilton
  • Animal
  • Ocean

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