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Quotes About Ocean

An ocean could not explain the distance we have traveled.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
There were those who suspected that he was not pinned under his wagon but swept out to sea, with the secrets of his life kept forever inside him, like a love note in a bottle, to be found one morning by an unsuspecting couple on a romantic beach stroll.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Tu ausencia me rodea como la cuerda a la garganta, el mar al que se hunde.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Algo de sacerdote había en él y también de marino.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
The dawn, the dusk, centuries, arms, and the binding and sundering sea.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
I leaned way back to gaze at the blanket of blue sky where a few small clouds hung, white as the fleece of a new lamb. "Even out on the ocean," Bill said, "Father Sky will be above us. We will never be forgotten by the sky.
~ Joseph Bruchac
On the rocks of a bay so blue, it made her gray eyes glow.
~ A. LaFaye
You wouldn't know it had claimed so many hopeful, thrashing, gasping lives, but that's the thing with the sea, it never looks guilty.
~ A.A. Gill
I never view the ocean without being filled with ideas of the sublime, and am ready to break forth with the Psalmist, "Great and marvellous are thy works, Lord God Almighty; in wisdom hast thou made them all."
~ Abigail Adams
someone I could hold up to my ear and hear the ocean, something I could say my name into, and have it returned in the inky waves.
~ Ada Limón
I once had a record of whale sounds, I swear I understood.
~ Ada Limón
I relied on a Miracle Fish, once, in New York City, to tell me my fortune. That was before I knew it was my body's water that moved it, that the massive ocean inside me was what made the fish swim.
~ Ada Limón
White lined the swells of water. A light, constant drizzle seemed to conspire with the ocean spray to soak everything onboard. It was not a particularly large vessel, which made it all the worse for everyone. For the crew of hardened fishermen, Cornishmen all, this posed no great discomfort. The crewmen at their work looked like gray mice scurrying over a large, wet, wheat barrel.
~ Adam Copeland
and I said it is the nature of love to be infinite and in such an ocean any fear and jealousy is washed away
~ Adam Roberts
Only whispers can tell of the sweet dreams we knew so well. I'll see you around our dear ocean town.
~ Adam Young
I shall go the way of the open sea, to the lands I knew before you came, and the cool ocean breezes shall blow from me the memory of your name.
~ Adela Florence Nicolson
I couldn't see the ocean from my condo, but I could hear it, and the rhythm of the waves lapping at the shore made it seem like the world itself was breathing.
~ Adrienne Brodeur
I came to explore the wreck.
~ Adrienne Rich
These garbage patches won't go away by themselves.
~ Boyan Slat
For me personally, snorkeling in a cove in Hawaii, floating along, and looking at all the animals and the colors - I mean, that's pretty peaceful.
~ Stephen Hillenburg
We go by the lighthouse; paddle out. After we got out, we paddled way down to get the biggest peak.
~ George Downing
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
~ Blaise Pascal
Nothing beats a jog, and perhaps a push-up or two, by the ocean on a beautiful day.
~ Ser'Darius Blain
For the life of me, I can't understand why BP couldn't go in at the ocean floor, maybe 10 feet lateral to the - around the periphery, drill a few holes, and put a little ammonium nitrate, some dynamite, in those holes and detonate that dynamite and seal that - seal that leak. And seal it permanently.
~ Phil Gingrey