Quotes About Ocean

That summer, there was a Name the Babies contest, an annual event organized by the Whale Museum on San Juan Island. A young girl from Bellingham submitted the winning entry. The little orca should be named "Luna", she wrote, because "the whale explores the ocean like the moon explores the Earth.

There's an amazing release that comes when you drive coast to coast, when you plug one ocean into another in your mind. And the wake of your travel fills with a kind of awe and love for everyone and everything and every animal and every roadside diner you've seen between the two.

We sat on the terrace and talked as the sun slipped into the western sea and the stars filled the sky above us.

Seasick," Scatty mumbled. "That's exactly what it feels like. Only worse.

the humanity of whales.

Ninety-eight percent of the blue whales killed globally after the ban in 1966 were killed by Soviet whalers," wrote a historian, "as were 92 percent of the 1,201 humpbacks killed commercially between 1967 and 1978."99

We used to go to the sea to discover the world: now we go to the sea to discover ourselves.

On beach holidays, as perhaps in life more generally, the only truly enjoyable time of the day is breakfast.

to found a new home in the western continent beyond the ocean, a new fatherland free from tyranny . . . guided by firm convictions and upright motives, not by the whim of the moment.

Si en el primer instante sintió vaciarse sus pupilas para abarcar la inmensidad, ahora la inmensidad se las llenaba. Era el regreso de la marea hasta sus ojos.

My connection to the earth is reinforced through the rhythm of the waves.

I have heard it said that there are no such things as exceptional waves, but I believe that it might also be said about the sea as about the weather, that the only thing constant about it is its inconstancy.

If I could get any animal it would be a dolphin. I want one so bad. Me and my mom went swimming with dolphins and I was like, 'How do we get one of those?' and she was like, 'You can't get a dolphin. What are you gonna do, like, put it in your pool?'

I could have Matthew McConaughey baptize Kit into the Church of Alright Alright Alright in the Pacific Ocean outside his Malibu compound and people would be like, "Oh, I love that guy, cool choice.

Doesn't the expansiveness of this make you think of the good Lord? Except we know the ocean ends while He goes on forever.

I'd had to cross the ocean to discover myself, and now I was ready to return in faith, knowing God had something planned for me and I would simply need to trust.

It was a real whale, a photograph of a real whale. I looked into its tiny wise eye and wondered where that eye was now. Was it alive and swimming, or had it died long ago, or was it dying now, right this second? When a whale dies, it falls down through the ocean slowly, over the course of a day. All the other fish see it fall, like a giant statue, like a building, but slowly, slowly.

Deasupra, cerul trandafiriu era atât de melancolic, de transparent, m?t?sos, c? p?rea burta unui uriaÈ™ animal de mare care ar fi traversat neregularit??ile unui fund de ocean.

Erano in fondo a un oceano e le stelle non erano altro che riflessi delle onde sotto la luna di un altro mondo.

Fish are always eating other fish. If fish could scream, the ocean would be loud as shit. You would not want to submerge your head, nothing but fish going "Ahhh, fuck! I thought I looked like that rock!

Irish fishermen's prayer: "Dear God, be good to me. The sea is so wide and my boat is so small.

La mer qui, avec sa clémence, demeure seule capable de nous faire voir clair dans nos propres sentiments. Sans lever les yeux sur ce qui se passe au dehors, j'écoute le chuchotement de plus en plus rapproché, haletant, de ses vagues. Entre ce passé et ma vie actuelle, j'avais la certitude que plus un lien ne subsistait, que tous les fils étaient rompus, et je n'éprouvais aucun désir de voir ressusciter ce qui avait sombré dans l'oubli.

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.