Quotes About Ocean

I was a haenyeo—independent and resilient—but I'd missed my husband.

hers was just one of many loud voices, since the ears of all haenyeo are damaged over time by water pressure.

When she's in the sea, she's in the womb of the world.

Your tears will be added to the oceans of salty tears that wash in great waves across our planet. This I know. If you try to live, you can live on well.

It is our duty to be keepers and managers of the sea. If we protect our wet fields, they will continue to provide for us.

When she is in the sea, she's in the womb of the world.

Every woman who goes into the sea carries a coffin on her back. In this world, in the undersea world, we tow the burdens of this hard life." Then I added a few words of my own. "Please be careful today and every day.

Las haenyeo somos fuertes y nunca habíamos pedido ayuda para cargar peso.

How big can a giant Japanese spider crab grow?" "Ten feet," I said instantly. "Very good. Hm. What color is a banded butterfly fish?" "Black and silver. Too easy!" "Too pointless, more like," Mom said under her breath.

The ocean filled the footprints where a boy and cat had stood.

It was a sad tune," Eilonwy said. "But the odd thing about it is, you don't mind the sadness. It's like feeling better after you've had a good cry. It made me think of the sea again, though I haven't been there since I was a little girl.

It was a night when you might expect to stray into a dance of mermaids.

Ellen had said that her mother was frightened of the ocean, that it was too cold and too big. The sky was, too, thought Annemarie. The whole world was: too cold, too big. And too cruel.

It's as if the sea sucked away her past and left her empty.

I often have the fantasy that curly girls are mermaids who have had to adapt to life on dry land. We come from the sea. The ocean is in our blood. It sings through our heart and lungs, our skin and hair. Our curls require the nourishment only a watery environment can provide. Both ocean waves and curly hair are forces of nature that can't be tamed. We can only accept and admire their power and beauty.

Quite often the dolphins save the lives of those who are drowning, and sometimes they dolphins make a mistake and try to save those who are not drowning at all but are really diving for turtles. That is something that one just has to put up with from time to time, and it serves to prove how simpatico the animals are.

She sells seashells by the seashore.

He continued to slip into depressions that he couldn't shake, and his triumphs seemed only to deepen his gloom. The sea alone would lighten his mood.

A Woman's heart is a deep ocean of secrets by Rose- Titanic

There was nothing wrong with Southern California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.

dolphin-jump in the air

Remember, Mother, it is always the seventh wave that goes farthest up the beach.

threw his soul after his eye across the deep blue gulfs between range and range.

Three-hundred-pound turtles navigate the ocean and come ashore to be slaughtered for the five pounds of cartilage that gets sold to the soup-makers.