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Quotes About Ocean

The pub door swings open when a man enters. A window of moonlit sky and sea illuminates the darkened pub, and a surge of cold ocean air charges its way inside. It's as if Cuchulainn's raging soul had passed through the doorway.
~ Laura Treacy Bentley
A sea of dreams trapped in a span of pressed pages
~ Laura Whitcomb
because they knew the sea better than they knew land;
~ Laurence Bergreen
She flushed a becoming pink during the ceremony; her green eyes moistened and shimmered like the calm and prosperous ocean.
~ Laurence Shames
Odysseus had twenty years to shed his battle skin. My grandfather left the battlefield in France and rode home in a ship that crawled across the ocean slowly so he could catch his breath. I get on a plane in hell and get off, hours later, at home.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
Mother is the rock, I am the ocean. I have to pout and roll my eyes for hours until she finally wears down and crumbles into a thousand grains of beach sand. It takes a lot of energy. I don't think I have it in me.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
Odysseus had twenty years to shed his battle skin. My grandfather left the battle field in France and rode home in a ship that crawled across the ocean slowly so he could catch his breath. I get on a plane in hell and get off, hours later, at home. I try to ignore death, but she's got her arm around my waist waiting to poison everything I touch.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
boom! powering underwater, mermaid made real I felt my gills growing I could breathe without air.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
These are the moments which are not calculable, and cannot be assessed in words; they live on in the solution of memory, like wonderful creatures, unique of their kind, dredged up from the floors of some unexplored ocean.
~ Lawrence Durrell
The ocean doesn't want me today, But I'll come back tomorrow to play. The riptide is waging And the life guard's away But the ocean doesn't want me today
~ Tom Waits
If you're overfishing at the top of the food chain, and acidifying the ocean at the bottom, you're creating a squeeze that could conceivably collapse the whole system.
~ Carl Safina
If you ask the fish whether they'd rather have an oil spill or a season of fishing, I wouldn't be surprised if they'd vote for another blowout.
~ Carl Safina
An ocean traveler has even more vividly the impression that the ocean is made of waves than that it is made of water.
~ Arthur Stanley Eddington
Earth's sweat, the sea.
~ Empedocles
The body of the earth is of the nature of a fish... because it draws water as its breath instead of air.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
We know less about the ocean's bottom than about the moon's back side.
~ Roger Revelle
The ocean ... like the air, is the common birth-right of mankind.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Then we upon our globe's last verge shall go, And view the ocean leaning on the sky: From thence our rolling Neighbours we shall know, And on the Lunar world securely pry.
~ John Dryden
When you're thirsty and it seems that you could drink the entire ocean that's faith when you start to drink and finish only a glass or two that's science.
~ Anton Chekhov
Lailah Gifty Akita
~ Ocean is ocean.
Quoth the Ocean, "Dawn! O fairest, clearest, Touch me with thy golden fingers bland; For I have no smile till thou appearest For the lovely land.
~ Jean Ingelow
spluttering and gasping, coughing and retching, trying to clear the painfully burning fluid from his lungs. And suddenly, the dread that lurks in every Australian's mind brought panic. Sharks! But there were no sharks, he knew that. The protein-rich predators had been fished out all along the east coast, were virtually extinct. All
~ A. Bertram Chandler
The Bible is the perpetual motion of the spirit, an ocean of meaning, its waves beating against man's abrupt and steep shortcomings, its echo reaching into the blind alleys of his wrestling with despair.
~ Abraham Joshua Heschel
Dans cet océan blanc, où la vie Se recueille; et bientôt l'horizon Se couvrira de fleurs ... Chère maison amie Qui nous protège tous de la froide saison!
~ Adam Hochschild