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Quotes About Ocean

From the shore, the ocean is forever. It's a beautiful, dangerous place. Music is tied to the sea, born from the struggle, looking for hope. Because hope belongs in the dark places.
~ Jon Foreman
I like a good story and I also like staring at the sea-- do I have to choose between the two?
~ David Byrne, How Music Works
The ocean makes its music; the wind does its dance. We hold on. At first we hold on to one another, but then it starts to feel like we are holding on to something even bigger than that. Greater.
~ David Levithan
We were made to enjoy music, to enjoy beautiful sunsets, to enjoy looking at the billows of the sea and to be thrilled with a rose that is bedecked with dew.
~ Desmond Tutu
And I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinking.
~ Bob Dylan
And evermore the waters worship God;-- And bards and prophets tune their mystic lyres While listening to the music of the waves!
~ Sarah Josepha Hale
Listening to soft music and the sound of the ocean is quite relaxing to me.
~ LaToya Jackson
The voice of the sea speaks to the soul.
~ Kate Chopin
The ocean stirs the heart, inspires the imagination and brings eternal joy to the soul.
~ Robert Wyland
The ocean . . . cold and wild the surf, rushing in to overwhelm the beach, the wind, stinging my cheeks, enveloping me in total freedom.
~ Scott Holman
The ocean is a supreme metaphor for change. I expect the unexpected but am never fully prepared.
~ Tim Winton
We are all gods, all forces of nature. We can destroy, we can build. We are like oceans and like fires.
~ Barry White
The use of sea and air is common to all; neither can a title to the ocean belong to any people or private persons, forasmuch as neither nature nor public use and custom permit any possession therof.
~ Elizabeth I
There is no drop of water in the ocean, not even in the deepest parts of the abyss, that does not know and respond to the mysterious forces that create the tide.
~ Rachel Carson
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
You wouldn't think you could kill an ocean, would you? But we'll do it one day. That's how negligent we are.
~ Ian Rankin, Blood Hunt
Mother is the home we come from. She is nature, soil, ocean.
~ Erich Fromm
The sea isn't a place but a fact, and a mystery.
~ Mary Oliver
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.
~ Frank Schätzing
There's a much bigger picture beyond surfing, its part of an ocean culture. Everything comes back to Mother Nature. Surfing is a way of connecting, and saying thanks.
~ Tristan Prettyman
This much is certain: We have the power to damage the sea, but no sure way to heal the harm.
~ Sylvia Earle
. . .for in natures, as in seas, depth answers unto depth
~ Charles Dickens, Hard Times
The tides are in our veins, we still mirror the stars, life is your child, but there is in meOlder and harder than life and more impartial, the eye that watched before there was an ocean.
~ Robinson Jeffers
One day, all your worries will set like the sun does and deserved happiness will come gushing like waves at the beach do. All you need to make sure is that your trips to beach never end.
~ Jasleen Kaur Gumber