Ocean Quotes

Shy is the oyster, fervent is the clam, peaceful is the ocean floor rocked by the sands of time.

The ocean is 20 minutes away. Nature surrounds me 24/7. I wake up to the sounds of birds chirping. I also love that I can go out to dinner in jeans and flip-flops.

If you live a life of make-believe, your life isn't worth anything until you do something that does challenge your reality. And to me, sailing the open ocean is a real challenge, because it's life or death.

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

I don't know if you can change things, but it's a drop in the ocean.

The movie that's had the most effect on me is Jaws. To this day when I'm in the ocean, I'm hearing that music.

Always keep your mind as bright and clear as the vast sky, the great ocean, and the highest peak, empty of all thoughts. Always keep your body filled with light and heat. Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment.

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

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

Do you want Columbus to go across the ocean, or do you want to put a message in a bottle and hope that it lands somewhere? I'd rather have actual people be there. Whether they look like Americans or like the inhabitants of some other country, depends on who has the most drive.

We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch - we are going back from whence we came.

Often extinctions in the ocean occur at the same time as those on land. Then again, the ice age extinctions lost many big animals, but not many sea faring ones.

We all have an edge. We all are floating our psyche on top with a great ocean underneath.

Pouring forth its seas everywhere, then, the ocean envelops the earth and fills its deeper chasms.

My favorite hotel is the Villa Alilla in Bali. The setting is pure bliss, overlooking the ocean of Uluwhatu; the eye line makes you feel as if you're floating on top of the ocean.

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

Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

If the workers took a notion they could stop all speeding trains; every ship upon the ocean they can tie with mighty chains.

I don't see America as a mainland, but as a sea, a big ocean. Sometimes a storm arises, a formidable current develops, and it seems it will engulf everything. Wait a moment, another current will appear and bring the first one to naught.

God speaks to me not through the thunder and the earthquake, nor through the ocean and the stars, but through the Son of Man, and speaks in a language adapted to my imperfect sight and hearing.

Can ye fathom the ocean, dark and deep, where the mighty waves and the grandeur sweep?

We also own a little boat and I'm like a kid with it. I take off early in the morning, fishing rod in tow, and just drift about the ocean all day.

I do an awful lot of scuba diving. I love to be on the ocean, under the ocean. I live next to the ocean.

Others may use the ocean as their road; Only the English make it their abode.

You can never turn your back on the ocean.

A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.

Apollo 13, as you may remember, gave us a reactor that is bubbling away right now somewhere in the Pacific. It's supposed to be bubbling away on the moon, but it's in the Pacific Ocean instead.

Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out of their course who set sail.

In the months leading up to World War II, there was a tendency among many Americans to talk absently about the trouble in Europe. Nothing that happened an ocean away seemed very threatening.

A woman's heart is a deep ocean of secrets.