Ocean Quotes

A scientist said once that if the ocean were as clear as the sky, if we could see everything in it, ...

His mind has the clearness of the deep sea, the patience of its rocks, the force of its billows.

In the deepest places, where physical norms collapse under the crushing water, bodies still fall sof...

The sea is emotion incarnate. It loves, hates, and weeps. It defies all attempts to capture it with ...

Either you decide to stay in the shallow end of the pool or you go out in the ocean.

He rose and turned toward the lights of town. The tidepools bright as smelterpots among the dark roc...

For me, the sea was a great comfort, Pilar. But it made my children restless. It exists now so we ca...

The children had had an argument once about whether there was more grass in the world or more sand, ...

The sea, like a crinkled chart, spread to the horizon, and lapped the sharp outline of the coast, wh...

There's nothing wrong with enjoying looking at the surface of the ocean itself, except that when you...

I like a good story and I also like staring at the sea-- do I have to choose between the two?

In school I ended up writing three different papers on "The Castaway" section of Moby-Dick, the chap...

...I shall pledge myself to the Abolitionist cause, because I owe my life to a self-freed slave & be...

So to all Americans, in every city near and far, small and large, from mountain to mountain, and fro...

This level reach of blue is not my sea; Here are sweet waters, pretty in the sun,Whose quiet ripples...

The deep roar of the ocean.The break of waves on farther shores that thought can find.The silent thu...

One of my own stray childhood fears had been to wonder what a whale might feel like had it been born...

The sea answers all questions, and always in the same way; for when you read in the papers the inter...

all my life i have lived and behaved very much like the sandpiper just running down the edges of dif...

There were times, especially when I was traveling for 'Eat, Pray, Love,' when, I swear to God, I wou...

The revolutionary breakthrough will come with rockets that are fully and rapidly reusable. We will n...

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

All we can hope for is that he will fall into the ocean with a bar of soap in his pocket.

The old man knew he was going far out and he left the smell of the land behind and rowed out into th...

This unlikely story begins on a sea that was a blue dream, as colorful as blue-silk stockings, and b...

My soul is a black maelstrom, a great madness spinning about a vacuum, the swirling of a vast ocean ...

Praise the sea but keep on land.

Doesn't it seem to you," asked Madame Bovary, "that the mind moves more freely in the presence of th...

Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent.

But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.

One kernel is felt in a hogshead; one drop of water helps to swell the ocean; a spark of fire helps ...

Whenever I look at the ocean, I always want to talk to people, but when I'm talking to people, I alw...

I all of a sudden got to feeling like talking to people. Whenever I look at the ocean, I always want...

The ocean was one of the greatest things he had ever seen in his life—bigger and deeper than anythin...

Looking at the ocean makes me miss people, and hanging out with people makes me miss the ocean.

Never underestimate the power of the ocean.

During launch, the outside of the rocket is covered in a protective fairing, so we couldn't see outs...

The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wo...

I wonder what it's like to be from a state that is spread across a few islands way out in the Pacifi...

Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant vo...

At such times, under an abated sun; afloat all day upon smooth, slow heaving swells; seated in his b...

[T]hen all collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago...

Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my s...

There is, one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to spea...

Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.

When the ship approached the equator, I stopped going out on deck in the daytime. The sun burned lik...

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy pla...

It is said by the Eldar that in water there lives yet the echo of the Music of the Ainur more than i...

Every time you dive, you hope you'll see something new - some new species. Sometimes the ocean gives...

Every time you dive, you hope you'll see something new - some new species. Sometimes the ocean gives...

Every time you dive, you hope you'll see something new - some new species. Sometimes the ocean gives...

Every time you dive, you hope you'll see something new - some new species. Sometimes the ocean gives...

A girl stood before him in midstream, alone and still, gazing out to sea. She seemed like one whom m...

New Yorkers only cross water for visual culture if the water is an ocean. The East River throws us f...

Almost any American can connect on some level to a family background of having come across some ocea...

It was like trying to bail out an ocean of water with a teaspoon.

Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore...

I really don't know why it is that all of us are so committed to the sea, except I think it's becaus...

It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all...

The Pacific is my home ocean; I knew it first, grew up on its shore, collected marine animals along ...

The Pacific is my home ocean; I knew it first, grew up on its shore, collected marine animals along ...

And suddenly I rejoiced in the great security of the sea as compared with the unrest of the land, in...

[Jellyfish] are 97% water or something, so how much are they doing? Just give them another 3% and ma...

They keep saying that sea levels are rising an' all this. It's nowt to do with the icebergs melting,...

Most people new to a city on the ocean would probably go to the beach during the day when there are ...

I was always an unusual girl.My mother told me I had a chameleon soul, no moral compass pointing due...

The sea is a desert of waves,A wilderness of water.

The ocean filled the footprints where a boy and cat had stood.

It's easy to convince men to love you, Puck. All you have to do is be a mountain they have to climb ...

I don't trust the ocean, either; it would kill me as soon as not. It doesn't mean I'm afraid of it.

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirt...

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, th...

Through machinery, man can exert tremendous powers almost as fantastic as if he were the hero of a f...

Ocean people are different from land people. The ocean never stops saying and asking into ears, whic...

If you live a life of make-believe, your life isn't worth anything until you do something that does ...

We know only too well that what we are doing is nothing more than a drop in the ocean. But if the dr...

The ocean is a Turing machine, the sand is its tape; the water reads the marks in the sand and somet...

I could be blindfolded and dropped into the deepest ocean and I would know where to find you. I coul...

I would fall asleep with my face pressed into her fur, while her deep electrical purr vibrated softl...

Although I was an imaginative child, prone to nightmares, I had persuaded my parents to take me to M...

My alar is like the ocean in storm. (Devi)

How much time could you spend staring out the ocean, even if it was the ocean you'd loved since you ...

The winds, the sea, and the moving tides are what they are. If there is wonder and beauty and majest...

Eventually man, too, found his way back to the sea. Standing on its shores, he must have looked out ...

It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose should now be threatened by the ...

The next time you stand on a beach at night, watching the moon’s bright path across the water, and t...

And in her ears the little Seashells, the thimble radios tamped tight, and an electronic ocean of so...

Under the thinning fog the surf curled and creamed, almost without sound, like a thought trying to f...

Coastal people never really know what the ocean symbolizes to landlocked inland people—what a great ...

And finally the two of them plunged into the dark sea, a sea like a pack of wolves, and they dove ar...

The sea was surging among the pilings like the blithe mindless forces of dissolution.

The smell of the sea, of kelp and fish and bitter moving water, rose stronger in my nostrils. It flo...

It was the forty-fathom slumber that clears the soul and eye and heart, and sends you to breakfast r...

Jiko: "Surfer, wave, same thing.""That's just stupid, " I said. " A surfer's a person. A wave is a w...

Maketa,” I said, throwing myself down in the sand. “I lost. The ocean won.”She smiled. “Was it a goo...

Down dropt the breeze, the sails dropt down, 'Twas sad as sad could be; And we did speak only to bre...

I thought of you and how you love this beauty,And walking up the long beach all aloneI heard the wav...

Tell her thisAnd more,—That the king of the seasWeeps too, old, helpless man.The bustling fatesHeap ...

There was an ocean above us, held in by a thin sac that might rupture and let down a flood at any se...

Now and then, when I grow nostalgic about my ocean childhood - the wauling of gulls and the smell of...