Quotes About Ocean

Space may seem like the final frontier for exploration and colonization but the ocean is a viable and more immediate destination for human colonization. - Kailin Gow, STEM Stage Talk

To look at waves and understand that when they break they start to re-form.

Every time I play 'Part of Your World,' a whole part of my life comes back to me. It's just inescapable - it was an innocent time, and a sense of discovery that we were all involved with.

Dominic Monaghan

The Jacques Cousteau shows actually got me very excited about the fact that there's an alien world here on Earth.

I was into Jacques Cousteau as a kid and started scuba-diving around 14, which blew my mind. It was all colour, another world.

Jacques Cousteau was my hero.

I grew up in Jersey. I've been to the Jersey Shore countless times. I've lived it.

My parents had a house on the Jersey shore - I grew up right there, going down there every summer and living there. It is home for me.

When I was 18 at the Santa Ana River Jetty is where I put my first board in the water that I ever got from Joe Quigg. I was just riding the whitewater in, and I was just in heaven.

He that commands the sea is at great liberty, and may take as much and as little of the war as he will.

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

I am moved by the multitudes of your intelligence and sometimes, returning, I become the sea— in love with your speed, your heaviness and breath.

You are the sick prince of my cerise innovations and in your drowning caresses I walk the sea

Averages might mean something to bureaucrats and engineers, but the sea had no struck with statistics: it was a succession of unpredictable circumstances and extremes.

The sea up close is enormous. I squeezed my eyes against it for a moment, which is ridiculous, like fighting a giant with a pin. It comes to you anyway, through your ears and nose and skin and tongue. It is a savage, muscular thing, a vast dim wetness battering at the land and the air and all your senses.

In Arabic linguistic usage, we are told, the interpretation of "water" as knowledge is confirmed by the common fi gure of speech that calls a man of vast knowledge an "ocean." Moreover, the comparison of water and knowledge suggests that just as those who would sail the sea without a ship would drown in it, those who look for knowledge among those who do not have it will perish.

No, Joss no confiaría en las cosas por nada en el mundo, como tampoco confiaba en los hombres ni en la mar. Las primeras os roban la razón, los segundos, el alma y la tercera, la vida.

È l'humus della vita, la banalità. Raramente ci piove addosso una perla, un granello di sabbia, un minuzzolo luccicante. E in questo oceano di onde qualunque, il potere è il vizio banale più comune nell'uomo.

Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean without the roar of its many waters. The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

I haven't the gift of the gab, my sons—because I'm bred to the sea.

Trying to understand the meaning of life in terms of the human brain's activities is like trying to understand the ocean by going to the shore and scooping out a bucket of water and analyzing it.

The amount of coal required to propel a single 10,000-ton ship across the ocean was far less than the amount required to drive two 5,000-ton ships across the same distance.

The sun peeked over the horizon like the head of a giant radioactive manatee.