Quotes About Ocean

Cherbourg was leaving Liverpool, the ship

White Star liner Megantic

most sailors still held the belief that there was no point in knowing how to swim, since it would only prolong your suffering. Turner

Unmistakable and invulnerable, a floating village in steel, the Lusitania glided by in the night as a giant black shadow cast upon the sea.

look as if they had been plucked from the Palace of Versailles or a Jacobean mansion—that you were aboard a ship being propelled far into the bluest reaches of the ocean.

Turner, that day, was master of one of the great greyhounds of the North Atlantic—and looked the part.

It is good that we do not have to try to kill the sun or the moon or the stars. It is enough to live on the sea and kill our true brothers.

But, thank God, [the fish] are not as intelligent as we who kill them; although they are more noble and more able.

I shouldn't have gone out so far, fish," he said. "Neither for you nor for me. I'm sorry, fish.

He spat into the ocean and said, "Eat that, galanos. And make a dream you've killed a man.

The setting of the sun is a difficult time for all fish.

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

The purple, formalized, iridescent, gelatinous bladder of a Portuguese man-of-war was floating close beside the boat. It turned on its side and then righted itself. It floated cheerfully as a bubble with its long deadly purple filaments trailing a yard behind in the water.

It was an hour before the first shark hit him.

The old man knew he was going far out and he left the smell of the land behind and rowed out into the clean early morning smell of the ocean.

The ocean is very big and a skiff is small and hard to see, the old man said. He noticed how pleasant it was to have someone to talk to instead of speaking only to himself and to the sea.

am as clear as the stars that are my brothers. Still I must sleep. They sleep and the moon and the sun sleep and even the ocean sleeps sometimes on certain days when there is no current and a flat calm.

The myriad flecks of the plankton were annulled now by the high sun and it was only the great deep prisms in the blue water that the old man saw now with his lines going straight down into the water that was a mile deep.

he knew no man was ever alone on the sea.

He was eighteen feet from nose to tail, the fisherman who was measuring him called.

You're with a lucky boat. Stay with them.

Quisiera ser el pez - pensó - con todo lo que tiene frente a mi voluntad y mi inteligencia solamente.

But it is good that we do not have to try to kill the sun or the moon or the stars. It is enough to live on the sea and kill our true brothers.

virada para cima. A ponta farpeada do arpão projetava-se em ângulo no dorso do peixe e o mar estava colorido com o sangue vermelho do seu coração. Primeiro a água se tornara muito escura naquele mar tão azul com mais de uma milha