Top ocean Quotes Collection - Page 25

Discover a curated collection of ocean quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category. Page 25 provides more ocean quotes.

Image of Thomas Huxley
The known is finite, the unknown infinite; spiritually we find ourselves on a tiny island in the middle of a boundless ocean of the inexplicable. It is our task, from generation to generation, to drain a small amount of additional land.
- Thomas Huxley
Collection: Ocean
Image of Gabriel Iglesias
I just like The Little Mermaid cartoon. Say what you want. I have a fish tank, it's a long story. I have a fascination with the ocean, and you put a hot chick in there, it just adds more to it! I liked The Little Mermaid. It's a cool movie. It's one of those I watch over and over again.
- Gabriel Iglesias
Collection: Ocean
Image of David Hume
Were a stranger to drop on a sudden into this world, I would show him, as a specimen of its ills, a hospital full of diseases, a prison crowded with malefactors and debtors, a field of battle strewed with carcasses, a fleet foundering in the ocean, a nation languishing under tyranny, famine, or pestilence. To turn the gay side of life to him, and give him a notion of its pleasures; whither should I conduct him? to a ball, to an opera, to court? He might justly think, that I was only showing him a diversity of distress and sorrow.
- David Hume
Collection: Ocean
Image of Zora Neale Hurston
Honey, de white man is de ruler of everything as fur as Ah been able tuh find out. Maybe it's some place way off in de ocean where de black man is in power, but we don't know nothin' but what we see.
- Zora Neale Hurston
Collection: Ocean
Image of John F. Kerry
The oceans themselves are threatened and life itself, therefore, and the planet is threatened because of it.
- John F. Kerry
Collection: Ocean
Image of Zora Neale Hurston
I thought that when they said Atlantic Charter, that meant me and everybody in Africa and Asia and everywhere. But it seems like the Atlantic is an ocean that does not touch anywhere but North America and Europe.
- Zora Neale Hurston
Collection: Ocean
Image of Michio Kaku
Our best shot at finding life in our solar system might be to look at the moons of Jupiter and Saturn. Mars, increasingly, looks like a dead planet. But the oceans beneath the ice cover of the moons of Jupiter and Saturn may actually have more liquid water than the oceans of Earth.
- Michio Kaku
Collection: Ocean
Image of Sue Monk Kidd
Everybody needs a seashell in her bathroom to remind her the ocean is her home.
- Sue Monk Kidd
Collection: Ocean
Image of Sue Monk Kidd
You can't stop your heart from loving, really -- it's like standing out there in the ocean yelling at the waves to stop.
- Sue Monk Kidd
Collection: Ocean
Image of Ansel Adams
The whole world is, to me, very much "alive" - all the little growing things, even the rocks. I can't look at a swell bit of grass and earth, for instance, without feeling the essential life - the things going on - within them. The same goes for a mountain, or a bit of the ocean, or a magnificent piece of old wood.
- Ansel Adams
Collection: Ocean
Image of D. H. Lawrence
It seems to me absolutely true, that our world, which appears to us the surface of all things, is really the bottom of a deep ocean: all our trees are submarine growths, and we are weird, scaly-clad submarine fauna, feeding ourselves on offal like shrimps. Only occasionally the soul rises gasping through the fathomless fathoms under which we live, far up to the surface of the ether, where there is true air.
- D. H. Lawrence
Collection: Ocean
Image of Lucy Larcom
The land is dearer for the sea, The ocean for the shore.
- Lucy Larcom
Collection: Ocean
Image of Jon Kabat-Zinn
Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, Tibetan, or other historical traditions, are all different streams in the same river, different currents in the same ocean. With the long view, we can trust that the seeds that we're planting are transforming the world.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Collection: Ocean
Image of Walter Lang
We really have dinosaurs today, without any question. You just need the right weather conditions, as I see it, to get huge creatures. And in the ocean, of course, we have huge creatures.... this is where the plesiosauruses seem to be today, and perhaps also this fire breathing dragon is still down there - very rare, but occasionally there.
- Walter Lang
Collection: Ocean
Image of Charles Lindbergh
It is about a period in aviation which is now gone, but which was probably more interesting than any the future will bring. As time passes, the perfection of machinery tends to insulate man from contact with the elements in which he lives. The 'stratosphere' planes of the future will cross the ocean without any sense of the water below. Like a train tunneling through a mountain, they will be aloof from both the problems and the beauty of the earth's surface.
- Charles Lindbergh
Collection: Ocean
Image of Martin Luther King, Jr.
As television beamed the image of this extraordinary gathering across the border oceans, everyone who believed in man's capacity to better himself had a moment of inspiration and confidence in the future of the human race.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Collection: Ocean
Image of David Levithan
It is its own form of conversation -- you can learn a lot about people from the stories they tell, but you can also know them from the way they sing along, whether they like the windows up or down, if they live by the map or by the world, if they feel the pull of the ocean.
- David Levithan
Collection: Ocean
Image of Walter Lippmann
The man who will follow precedent, but never create one, is merely an obvious example of the routineer. You find him desperately numerous in the civil service, in the official bureaus. To him government is something given as unconditionally, as absolutely as ocean or hill. He goes on winding the tape that he finds. His imagination has rarely extricated itself from under the administrative machine to gain any sense of what a human, temporary contraption the whole affair is. What he thinks is the heavens above him is nothing but the roof.
- Walter Lippmann
Collection: Ocean
Image of Walter Savage Landor
But I have sinuous shells of pearly hue Within, and they that lustre have imbibed In the sun's palace-porch, where when unyoked chariot-wheel stands midway in the wave: Shake one, and it awakens; then apply Its polisht lips to your attentive ear, And it remembers its august abodes, And murmurs as the ocean murmurs there.
- Walter Savage Landor
Collection: Ocean
Image of Ray Kroc
If I had a brick for every time I’ve repeated the phrase Quality, Service, Cleanliness and Value, I think I’d probably be able to bridge the Atlantic Ocean with them.
- Ray Kroc
Collection: Ocean
Image of Martin Luther King, Jr.
I" cannot reach fulfillment without "thou." The self cannot be self without other selves. Self-concern without other-concern is like a tributary that has no outward flow to the ocean.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Collection: Ocean
Image of Iain Banks
Any such inklings were like a few scattered grains of truth dissolved in an ocean of nonsense, and were anyway generally inextricably bound up with patently paranoid ravings which served only to devalue the small amounts of sense and pertinence with which they were associated.
- Iain Banks
Collection: Ocean
Image of Chuck Klosterman
If you can't swim, the idea of being in nine feet of water is terrifying, much less the ocean.
- Chuck Klosterman
Collection: Ocean
Image of Alan Lightman
Is it possible for a person to love without wanting love back? Is anything so pure? Or is love, by its nature, a reciprocity, like oceans and clouds, an evaporating of seawater and a replenishing by rain?
- Alan Lightman
Collection: Ocean
Image of Dean Koontz
I have a sofa on which I never nap, big windows with an ocean view that I rarely see because I keep the pleated shades down at all times while working. I know I'm a potential slacker, so I don't tempt myself.
- Dean Koontz
Collection: Ocean
Image of David Levithan
The ocean makes its music; the wind does its dance. We hold on. At first we hold on to one another, but then it starts to feel like we are holding on to something even bigger than that. Greater.
- David Levithan
Collection: Ocean
Image of David Levithan
tiny: but there is the word, this word phil wrayson taught me once: weltschmerz. it's the depression you feel when the world as it is does not line up with the world as you think it should be. i live in a big goddamned weltzschermz ocean, you know? and so do you.
- David Levithan
Collection: Ocean
Image of Martin Luther King, Jr.
No man (sic) has learned to live until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity. Length without breadth is like a self-contained tributary having no outward flow to the ocean. Stagnant, still and stale, it lacks both life and freshness. In order to live creatively and meaningfully, our self-concern must be wedded to other concerns.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Collection: Ocean
Image of Stanislaw Lem
For some time there was a widely held notion (zealously fostered by the daily press) to the effect that the 'thinking ocean' of Solaris was a gigantic brain, prodigiously well-developed and several million years in advance of our own civilization, a sort of 'cosmic yogi', a sage, a symbol of omniscience, which had long ago understood the vanity of all action and for this reason had retreated into an unbreakable silence.
- Stanislaw Lem
Collection: Ocean
Image of Honore de Balzac
Society proceeds like the ocean. After a disaster, it resume its wonted level and rhythms; its devouring interests efface all traces of damage.
- Honore de Balzac
Collection: Ocean
Image of Jack Kornfield
If you put a spoonful of salt in a cup of water it tastes very salty. If you put a spoonful of salt in a lake of fresh water the taste is still pure and clear. Peace comes when our hearts are open like the sky, vast as the ocean.
- Jack Kornfield
Collection: Ocean
Image of Maxine Hong Kingston
I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes. Petals are bone marrow; pearls come from oysters. The dragon lives in the sky, ocean, marshes, and mountains; and the mountains are also its cranium. Its voice thunders and jingles like copper pans. It breathes fire and water; and sometimes the dragon is one, sometimes many.
- Maxine Hong Kingston
Collection: Ocean
Image of Maxine Hong Kingston
Ocean people are very different from land people. The ocean never stops saying and asking into ears, which don't sleep like eyes.
- Maxine Hong Kingston
Collection: Ocean
Image of Jon Kabat-Zinn
It's the nature of the mind to drift away. The mind is like the Pacific Ocean, it waves. And mindfulness has been shown to drop underneath the waves. If you drop underneath the agitation in the mind, into your breath deep enough calmness, gentle undulations.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Collection: Ocean
Image of Stanislaw Lem
How do you expect to communicate with the ocean, when you can’t even understand one another?
- Stanislaw Lem
Collection: Ocean
Image of Harper Lee
Talking to Francis gave me the sensation of settling slowly to the bottom of the ocean.
- Harper Lee
Collection: Ocean
Image of Anne Lamott
This is what separates artists from ordinary people: the belief, deep in our hearts, that if we build our castles well enough, somehow the ocean won't wash them away. I think this is a wonderful kind of person to be.
- Anne Lamott
Collection: Ocean
Image of Nicole Krauss
When we went into the ocean, I watched his body as he dove into the waves, and it gave me a feeling in my stomach that wasn't an ache but something different.
- Nicole Krauss
Collection: Ocean
Image of Dalai Lama
Soul is at home in the deep, shaded valleys. Heavy torpid flowers saturated with black grow there. The rivers flow like warm syrup. They empty into huge oceans of soul.
- Dalai Lama
Collection: Ocean
Image of Stephen King
Might as well try to drink the ocean with a spoon as argue with a lover.
- Stephen King
Collection: Ocean
Image of Rush Limbaugh
Barack Obama and his followers and his adorers have decided he can bring us all together, that he can reach across aisles, he can reach across oceans. Who knows, he might be able to reach across galaxies, bring people together, to find common ground from the mountaintop, and so, my friends.
- Rush Limbaugh
Collection: Ocean
Image of Terence McKenna
What is happening, I think, it's really bigger than psychedelics, it's bigger than human evolution. We are not making the waves in this ocean. We are corks, riding the waves of the ocean. But we are privileged, by perhaps chance alone, to occupy a unique moment in the history of the universe. A moment when the universe goes through some kind of self-transforming, evolutionary, inflationary expansion. That's what's happening.
- Terence McKenna
Collection: Ocean
Image of James Russell Lowell
There is a law of neutralization of forces, which hinders bodies from sinking beyond a certain depth in the sea; but in the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.
- James Russell Lowell
Collection: Ocean
Image of Dave Barry
Entire new continent can emerge from the ocean in the time it takes for a Web page to show up on your screen. Contrary to what you may have heard, the Internet does not operate at the speed of light; it operates at the speed of the DMV.
- Dave Barry
Collection: Ocean
Image of Robert Adams
Of all the sacred places on the coast, none is more comforting than where rivers join the sea. By the river's disappearance we are reminded of life's passing, while by the ocean's beauty we accept it, in a hope we cannot explain.
- Robert Adams
Collection: Ocean
Image of Ramana Maharshi
The grace of the Guru is like an ocean. If one comes with a cup he will only get a cupful. It is no use complaining of the niggardliness of the ocean. The bigger the vessel the more one will be able to carry. It is entirely up to him.
- Ramana Maharshi
Collection: Ocean
Image of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight, Stand like Druids of eld, with voices sad and prophetic, Stand like harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms. Loud from its rocky caverns, the deep-voiced neighboring ocean Speaks, and in accents disconsolate answers the wail of the forest.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Collection: Ocean