Ocean Quotes

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...

Waves are the voices of tides. Tides are life," murmured Niko. "They bring new food for shore creatu...

The creative act is a letting down of the net of human imagination into the ocean of chaos on which ...

Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear.

They walked, and the long waves rolled and murmured rhythmically beside them; the fresh salty wind b...

Mr. Bird flung his food away and leaped to his feet, glaring around at no one in particular. 'I am n...

Shandy looked ahead. Blackbeard, apparently willing to get the explanation later, had picked up his ...

and I shall watch the ferry boats, and they'll get high, on a bluer ocean against tomorrow's sky. an...

hark, now hear the sailors cry, smell the sea, and feel the sky let your soul & spirit fly, into the...

He feels himself buried in those two infinities, the ocean and the sky, at one and the same time: th...

It's too short,' she said, 'ever so much too short.' Never did anybody look so sad. Bitter and black...

so that the monotonous fall of the waves on the beach, which for the most part beat a measured and s...

It is almost startling to hear this warning of departed time sounding among the tombs, and telling t...

at the press conference for the film he impressed everyone with his complete sincerity and innocence...

What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams.

But the seawhich no one tendsis also a garden

The ocean is a mighty harmonist.

The vast Pacific Ocean has ample space for China and the United States. We welcome a constructive ro...

Every drop in the ocean counts.

Again, there were maidens who cherished the firm belief that he had come from the sea. Because withi...

Possibly a man who hates the land should dwell on shore forever. Alienation and the long voyages at ...

Shearwater sighed, like a whale in the night.

You are the ocean, let the rivers come to you. You are the flower, let the bees come to you.

Be the ocean let the river come to you.

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

at the bottom of the ocean is a layer of water that has never moved…

If you don't die of thirst, there are blessings in the desert. You can be pulled into limitlessness,...

When you're thirsty and it seems that you could drink the entire ocean that's faith when you start t...

How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.

Something, most certainly, happens to a diver’s emotions underwater. It is not merely a side effect ...

The evening before I departed I stood on the rim of a lagoon on Isla Rabida. Flamingos rode on its d...

I watched the enormity of the clouds for several minutes. What I wanted to experience in the water, ...

Imagine a forty-five-year-old male fifty feet long, a slim, shiny black animal cutting the surface o...

I suppose because I grew up a thousand miles from the sea and missed the great age of passenger line...

There is good evidence that Venus once had liquid water and a much thinner atmosphere, similar to Ea...

The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.

Your heart is like the ocean, mysterious and dark.

In high seas or in low seas,I'm gonna be your friend...I'm gonna be your friend.In high tide or in l...

Each time I came crashing down into the ocean porpoiselike, water hit my face like the slap of a jil...

Let only the young come, Says the sea. Let them kiss my face And hear me. I am the last word And I t...

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...