Ocean Quotes

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

In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.

Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.

Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates.

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.

Every drop in the ocean counts.

Life is like the ocean, it goes up and down.

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

On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.

I filmed underwater for two days in the open ocean with dolphins.

When you're connected to the ocean, you really don't think about what's going on with your email or texts or any of that. You're just a lot more liberated.

If you're overfishing at the top of the food chain, and acidifying the ocean at the bottom, you're creating a squeeze that could conceivably collapse the whole system.

Several groups have information evaluating seafood sustainability. I wrote the first such guide, and seafood pocket-guides and detailed evaluations of different seafoods are available for download from the group I founded, Blue Ocean Institute.

New Yorkers only cross water for visual culture if the water is an ocean. The East River throws us for a huge loop. If we started going to Queens and the Bronx for visual culture, many of our rent, space, and crowding problems would be over indefinitely.

Everything that's realistic has some sort of ugliness in it. Even a flower is ugly when it wilts, a bird when it seeks its prey, the ocean when it becomes violent.

The sea has now changed from it's natural, to river coloured water, the probable consequence of some streams falling into the bay, or into the ocean to the north of it, through the low land.

The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.

Surfing soothes me, it's always been a kind of Zen experience for me. The ocean is so magnificent, peaceful, and awesome. The rest of the world disappears for me when I'm on a wave.

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

You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.

The ocean is a mighty harmonist.

Sponges grow in the ocean. That just kills me. I wonder how much deeper the ocean would be if that didn't happen.

You're not a wave, you're a part of the ocean.

The ocean moans over dead men's bones.

As a species, we've always been discoverers and adventurers, and space and the deep ocean are some of the last frontiers.

The offshore ocean area under U.S. jurisdiction is larger than our land mass, and teems with plant and animal life, mineral resources, commerce, trade, and energy sources.

My favorite place to vacation is anyplace by the ocean.

Some of them profess to be well acquainted with all the principal waters of the Columbia, with which they assured me these waters had no connection short of the ocean.

I pray to be like the ocean, with soft currents, maybe waves at times. More and more, I want the consistency rather than the highs and the lows.

I'm concerned about the ocean and the environment. And I love whales.

As a surfer, I am interested in the ocean. And I am concerned and interested in all of these natural and cultural rumblings underfoot as well.

There's a lot to be said about what's happening to our ocean, big companies polluting it with their oil and all the raw garbage that's being spilled in there.

I'm horrified of lobsters. And shrimp and lobsters are the cockroaches of the ocean.

I like old tunes when I'm driving. They're fun and uplifting. Billy Ocean, that kind of thing.

I've always been drawn to the ocean.

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

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

If you wish to avoid foreign collision, you had better abandon the ocean.

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.

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

Had it not been for the Atlantic Ocean and the virgin wilderness, the United States would never have been the Land of Promise.

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

Man can now fly in the air like a bird, swim under the ocean like a fish, he can burrow into the ground like a mole. Now if only he could walk the earth like a man, this would be paradise.

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

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

We are imprisoned in the realm of life, like a sailor on his tiny boat, on an infinite ocean.

To him it is an ocean, unfathomable, and without a shore.

I love the ocean. Boats, not so much.

Some studies suggest that the Arctic Ocean may be ice-free by the end of the century.

Hawaii was beautiful of course, we played at Turtle Bay an amazing resort right on the ocean.

To be anywhere near an enormous ocean liner when you are just like a fish in the water is frightening.

If nations always moved from one set of furnished rooms to another - and always into a better set - things might be easier, but the trouble is that there is no one to prepare the new rooms. The future is worse than the ocean - there is nothing there.

Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness.

Iowa City is okay as Midwestern cities go, but there's no food, no culture, no ocean.

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

The frozen ocean... of Boston life.

I do like the ocean wave, actually. I'm born under the sign of Cancer - the sign of the crab - so I like coastal areas and sunny beaches and such - although not the wide-open and deep seas.

I love the ocean, but I'm just not one to lie on the beach.

When I was little I had this notion of being a marine biologist. I grew up by the ocean so I was always in the water but realistically, I don't think I would make the best marine biologist.

I really feel that my body craves to be in the mountains or by the ocean or in the countryside.

No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.

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.

Cut down on your use of plastic shopping bags because many end up in the ocean.

I don't want to live in a world where I could say to my daughter, 'There used to be turtles that swam in the ocean.'

You know, I do speak the Queens English. It's just the wrong Queens that's all. It's over the 59th Street Bridge. It's not over the Atlantic Ocean.

Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

There is no substitute for a real location when you're trying to shoot the jungle. You can't just go anywhere. You've got to go where it's lush and green and there really is those mountain ranges, the trees and the ocean.

If I swim in the ocean, I have a shark thought. Not a bad one, but just a little one.

Sydney in general is eclectic. You can be on that brilliant blue ocean walk in the morning and then within 20 minutes you can be in a completely vast suburban sprawl or an Italian or Asian suburb, and it's that mix of people, it's that melting pot of people that give it its vital personality.

Doo never actually made moonshine, but he hauled about an ocean of it.

If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up.

My son walked up to Nicole on the beach and I was throwing the ball for the dogs in the ocean. I was like, 'Max, you get the dogs. I'll talk to the hot blondes.'

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.

Kidney transplants seem so routine now. But the first one was like Lindbergh's flight across the ocean.

I shall go the way of the open sea, to the lands I knew before you came, and the cool ocean breezes shall blow from me the memory of your name.

It seems that half the point of being in Miami Beach - particularly the northern end of South Beach - is to be observed by people-watchers like me, and the display along Ocean Drive during my visit was, as always, sublime.

Well, I am a giant pansy and freak out if seaweed touches my leg in the ocean.

Human evolution, at first, seems extraordinary. How could the process that gave rise to slugs and oak trees and fish produce a creature that can fly to the moon and invent the Internet and cross the ocean in boats?