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Quotes About Ocean

The great sea makes one a great sceptic.
~ Richard Jefferies
Interesting fact: Most crabs don't have even a basic grasp of physics.
~ Richard Kadrey
I've seen all kinds of things done to dolphins in my travels around the world, but I have never seen anything as horrible as this dolphin drive hunt in Taiji.
~ Richard O'Barry
Your name like a song I sing to myself, your name like a box where I keep my love, your name like a boat in the sea of love—O now we're in the sea of love!
~ Richard Siken
and the dark blue over everything
~ Richard Siken
All that we do is touched with ocean, and yet we remain on the shore of what we know
~ Richard Wilbur
This morning from a halibut.
~ Roald Dahl
A dog barked further inland somewhere in Ghost Town, and Pike heard vehicles on nearby Pacific Boulevard, but here the houses slept. The smell of the sea was strong. The largest canal—Grand Canal—ran to the ocean through Marina del Rey, and fed the five inland canals with life. Small fish swam in the shallow water, and sea plants grew in wavy clumps. Pike
~ Robert Crais
of ocean, around the North Pole there is an ocean surrounded by a near-unbroken
~ Robert D. Kaplan
The heart can think of no devotion Greater than being shore to the ocean- Holding the curve of one position, Counting an endless repetition.
~ Robert Frost
What also happened, however, was that another DSRV-equipped submarine put to sea occasionally, except that this DSRV really was a saturation diving chamber designed to look like a DSRV. The job of these guys was no more and no less than to retrieve pieces of Soviet missile warheads from the ocean bottom at the splash zone of their test site in the Sea of Okhotsk, and to tap into the Soviet underwater communications cables snaking along the bottom through that area.
~ Robert G. Williscroft
Like a black pirate flag on the blue ocean of air, a hawk hung ominous; then, plummet-wise, dropped to the hedgerow, whence there rose, thin and shrill, a piteous voice of squealing. By
~ Kenneth Grahame
Those eyes were of the changing foam-streaked grey-green of leaping Northern seas; in the glass shone a hot ruby that seemed the very heart of the South, beating for him who had courage to respond to its pulsation. The twin lights, the shifting grey and the steadfast red, mastered the Water Rat and held him bound, fascinated, powerless.
~ Kenneth Grahame
I don't go to school, I don't have parents, I came from the sea to be your husband.
~ Kevin Canty
slithered across the slippery decks, which flew up and plunged down below their
~ Kevin Jackson
I pray the sea knows this. Inshallah.
~ Khaled Hosseini
I wonder if he's ever tasted salt water or got dizzy watching the tide pull away from his feet
~ Khaled Hosseini
waters, where I will soon drown. Before I march in, I leave this on the shore for you. I pray you find it, sister, so you will know what was in my heart as I went under.
~ Khaled Hosseini
Pray God steers the vessel true, when the shores slip out of eyeshot and wee are a flyspeck in the heaving waters, pitching and tilting, easily swallowed.
~ Khaled Hosseini
Below us, the ocean moved like a giant dish of blue Jell-O under the sweeping winds.
~ Kien Nguyen
Finally, the rain stopped. The sky draped like a large, starry blanket over the world. The moonlight painted the tiny waves around me the color of my grandfather's hair. I lifted my hands and laughed hysterically. My fingers dripped lustrous, metallic water like mercury. Specks of light danced on the ocean surface, beckoning me to join them. Time melted into space, letting me flow with it into oblivion.
~ Kien Nguyen
Once, this whole world had been hidden beneath a shallow sea.
~ Kim Edwards
Ah, Jenks? It's not a lake, it's a friggin' freshwater ocean. Did you see the size of the tanker going under the bridge when we came into town? The wake from it could tip us. I'm not canoeing it unless your name is Pocahontas.
~ Kim Harrison
If an ocean can be vanquished, Folsom asked, is any place safe?
~ Kim Heacox