Quotes About Ocean

sure she's nearly ready," said Queen Coral. "Years. Lots more years,

When he resurfaced, she was floating beside him, ducking her head and splashing water over her scales like a beautiful overgrown fish. Clay felt like a gawky brown blob next to her.

The sea has receded!' cried Stephen. 'I am amazed.' 'They tell me it does so twice a day in these parts,' said Jack. 'It is technically known as the tide.

nunc et in hora mortis nostrae,' he repeated yet again, and felt the lap of water on his foot. He looked up. The people had gone; the pyre was no more than a dark patch with the sea hissing in its embers; and he was alone. The tide was rising fast.

schools of fishes, crossing and recrossing, all

Patrick O'Brian

There's something about Cape kids. Maybe it's the constant drumbeat of the ocean, like a clock reminding them how short the time is, or maybe it's just the loneliness of the long winters . . . but they party more than anyone else.

Floating below me were five-hundred-pound wallets with teeth.

This was the far western end of the frontier, which is marked by a tall, rust-colored, iron-slatted fence—paralleling an older, lower fence—blistered with corrosion, which extends below the tidemark, its end sunk in the Pacific Ocean.

Yet the days I spent in Mazatlán were peaceful, strolling on the malecón—thirteen miles of seafront promenade

EMBARKING on the spiritual journey is like getting into a very small boat and setting out on the ocean to search for unknown lands. With wholehearted practice comes inspiration, but sooner or later we will also encounter fear.

La vida es como subirse a un barco que está a punto de zarpar y hundirse en el océano. SHUNRYU SUZUKI ROSHI

Life is like stepping into a boat that is about to sail out to sea and sink. —SHUNRYU SUZUKI ROSHI A

A calm ocean is safer than a raging river.

Alas! in nature, as in art, we gain only according to our capacity. You cannot put an ocean in a pint pot.

The sea is greater than us - it has its rhythm, its art. It comes with our earliest memory, of respiration, breathing in and out.

The reward for being sensitive is that we're held by the Universe, the way the ocean in its buoyancy holds up a raft.

Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the same color as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated.

up shells, and waded at the water's edge

Pebble Beach. Jeff and

Though I'm tempted by the call of the sea, I resist. It can't claim me. In a way I'm stronger than the waves and I feel good about that.

There comes a time in a man's life when he hears the call of the sea. Hey, YOU! are the sea's exact words. If the man has a brain in his head, he will hang up the phone immediately.

The Mollusks—generous hosts when they weren't trying to kill you.

Molly happy see Ammm," she said. The Porpoise language has 237 words that mean "happy," and Molly had actually chosen the one denoting the happiness derived from having one's belly tickled by seaweed.