Quotes About Ocean

He was bursting with enthusiasms. He probably loved many things: the hawk in flight, the god-damned ocean, full moon, Balzac, bridges, stage plays, the Pulitzer Prize, the piano, the god-damned Bible.

About 3.5 percent of the weight of seawater consists of dissolved salts, most of it table salt. The most common way of removing the salt is known as "reverse osmosis.

If it wasn't for seasickness, all the world would be sailors!

Ever since I was two, I've loved octopuses, monsters, abandoned buildings.

I've got a fetish about motors on sail boats. Sailboats were meant to sail.

My memories begin in a fragrant California backyard, when I was two years old. The yard remains, infinitely smaller than it once seemed but still heady with eucalyptus oil and sudden gusts of ocean air, just as it was in 1956.

A man with the right kind of power can be immortal by means of it, if he takes care to live on the sea.

The sea is one rare wild card left in the homogenous suburban life.

Your blood is the sea continued in your veins. We are the ocean - walking on the land

Go, he said; in peace. And sing with the whales.

The wound lies deep, like the ocean floor. The sin is red, growing paler in death.

But there is nothing to beat what the City can make of a nightsky. It can empty itself of surface, and more like the ocean than the ocean itself, go deep, starless.

But there is nothing to beat what the City can make of a nightsky. It can empty itself of surface, and more like the ocean than the ocean itself, go deep, starless. … It can go purple and keep an orange heart so the clothes of the people on the streets glow like dance-hall costumes.

Besides, no one can keep me away from my fish. Thank you, by the way, for the crate of fish you left for me. They are a delight. Come, let us go down to the sea.

I know about me. I am the moons sister, a tidal child stranded on land. The sea always in my ear, a surf of eternal discontent in my blood.

Sometimes, the waves grow hushed, but the sea is always there, touching, caressing, eating the earth...

The sky was full - of blue and sun. The ocean reflected it and was flat and glossy like a fancy ballroom floor. To Martha, this was the most beautiful sight, a miracle. The ocean made her feel insignificant and slightly afraid, but in an exhilarating way. Her inclination was not to walk or dance across the water's surface. Nor to swim through it. She wanted to *be* the ocean

On the beach, they took turns burying one another up to their necks in the sand and then chased each other with jellyfish hanging on the ends of sticks. They stood in the ocean as waves gently broke across their legs while they ate cotton candy that held the slight tang of salt water. If told this kind of happiness was something that could be attained by everyone, the Fangs would not have believed it.

In one drop of water are found all the secrets of the oceans.

But for many long days and nights I pondered over the words in the Mahabharata: 'As two pieces of wood floating on the ocean come together at one time and are again separated, even such is the union of living creatures in this world.

The largest of the Bermudas is only about fourteen miles long and about a mile wide at its widest point. The highest point of land in Bermuda, now known as Town Hill, has an elevation of just 250 feet. It is much easier to miss a Bermuda-sized target in the middle of the ocean than it is to hit it.

It soon became clear that the ships of the fleet could not maintain contact. Somers ordered the little ketch cut free, knowing that he was almost certainly sentencing all on board to death when he did so, but also knowing it was just too risky to continue towing the smaller ship. At any moment, the ketch could be pooped or broached by a wave, devoured by the ocean, and she would drag the flagship and all her passengers and crew with her to the bottom.

And each one swam in the ocean of herself and her world for her whole life.

Her legs are as limp as seaweed.