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Quotes About Marine

A marine protozoan is an aqueous salty system in an aqueous salty medium, but a man is an aqueous salty system in a medium in which there is but little water and most of that poor in salts.
~ John Zachary Young
The Marine Corps ... took a boy and made him a man.
~ Ed Bearss
I think I'm going to cry, this is crazy." "No, you're just processing. Go ahead and cry." "I thought men got nervous around crying females." "I'm a Marine, remember? We're trained to handle anything.
~ Jayne Ann Krentz
My dad was a golden gloves boxer in the Marine Corps, then a deputy sheriff. My mom worked as an office assistant.
~ Susana Martinez
If by some fiat I had to restrict all this writing to one sentence, this is the one I would choose: The summit of Mt. Everest is marine limestone.
~ John McPhee
The most beautiful landscape cannot hold my fascinated attention as much as nature by the seaside and all that is connected with water.
~ Lyonel Feininger
The sea is the vast reservoir of Nature. The globe began with sea, so to speak; and who knows if it will not end with it?
~ Jules Verne
Explore the deep ocean.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
It's better to send in the Peace Corps than the Marine Corps.
~ Edward Kennedy
Retreat? We're coming out of here as a Marine division. We're bring ... our dead. Retreat hell! We're just advancing in another direction.
~ General Oliver Prince Smith
Naomi noted in closing that Britain had one of the "most staunchly conservation-oriented publics ... they are strongly antiwhaling ... they are an island nation who feel they must protect the marine environment." Yet there were zero cetacean displays left in the UK. "Clearly they are getting their marine education, their marine ethic, from some other source.
~ David Kirby
And once by God, I was a Marine!
~ Lee Marvin
With care and protection, with safe havens in the ocean, there is still a good chance that we can turn things around.
~ Sylvia Earle
There is good news. Scientists sent a probe down there in the Gulf of Mexico today and they found traces of seawater.
~ Bill Maher
We have a saying in the Marine Corps and that is 'no better friend, no worse enemy, than a U.S. Marine.' We always hope for the first, friendship, but are certainly more than ready for the second.
~ John F. Kelly
How much deeper would the ocean be if sponges didn't live there?
~ Steven Wright
I love shark week, all kids swim for free
~ Josh Stern
Penny was a very pretty, witty and brave girl, as bold as a Marine platoon storming Iwo Jima.
~ John C. Wright
There are 2, 500 kinds of sponges, all of them consist largely of holes.
~ Will Cuppy
We must plant the sea and herd its animals using the sea as farmers instead of hunters. That is what civilization is all about - farming replacing hunting.
~ Jacques Yves Cousteau
According to the local gossip," Gertie said, "Beulah was over the moon for this guy. She even mailed him a pair of her underwear." "If he was really a marine," Ida Belle said, "he could have used them as a parachute.
~ Jana Deleon
A hydroid colony no bigger than can be contained in one's cupped hands may be almost a whole universe in itself - a complete unit of life, with possibly dozens of units in one tide pool.
~ Edward F. Ricketts
Plastic waste is now found in the most remote areas of the planet. It kills marine life and is doing major harm to communities that depend on fishing and tourism.
~ Antonio Guterres
When I was in Marine training I memorised 'The Waste Land,' which was a significant experience in terms of really breaking apart language and thinking about how the different voices in that poem function.
~ Phil Klay