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Quotes About Ocean

It's time to end the cruel slaughter of whales and leave these magnificent creatures alone.
~ Paul McCartney
My mother's side of the family is from the Bahamas, and I spent time there on and off when I was growing up. It's the place where I feel at peace.
~ Lenny Kravitz
It is dark now. The snow is deep blue and the ocean nearly black. It is time for some music.
~ May Sarton
Thou shoreless flood, which in thy ebb and flow claspest the limits of mortality.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
Because time is a drop in the ocean, and you cannot measure off one drop against another to see which one is bigger, which one is smaller.
~ Elif Safak
When I'm not acting, I'm at the beach. I like to spend a lot of time in the water, surfing.
~ Brenton Thwaites
When I was a kid, Jacques Cousteau was my hero and the person who inspired me to become an underwater explorer. I have many other people who inspired me after him, but he is still my all-time hero.
~ Enric Sala
The sea where living creatures were at one time immersed is now enclosed within their bodies.
~ Italo Calvino
The sea drowns out humanity and time. It has no sympathy with either, for it belongs to eternity; and of that it sings its monotonous song forever and ever.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
There is this sweet spot in time when we have an opportunity to stop killing sharks and tunas and swordfish and other wildlife in the sea before it's too late.
~ Sylvia Earle
Oh as I was young and easy in the mercy of his means, Time held me green and dying Though I sang in my chains like the sea.
~ Dylan Thomas
Finally he hears something: he thinks it is the ebb and flow of the sea, the water crashing back into the abyss of salt.
~ Marguerite Duras
Une gamme en do majeur couvrit la rumeur de la mer.
~ Marguerite Duras
Y en este vasto continente humano, la infinita variedad de las razas no destruye la unidad misteriosa del conjunto, del mismo modo que la diversidad de las olas no rompe la majestuosa monotonía del mar.
~ Marguerite Yourcenar
there is no ocean big enough to protect us from the Lord's judgment when we decide to hammer our plowshares into swords and our pruning hooks into spears, in contempt of the will and the grace of God.
~ Marilynne Robinson
He wanted the world to believe that he was a horse rider. So let him ride his horses at the bottom of the ocean.
~ Mario Puzo
Secrets —even in hardened criminals, they were just air pockets lodged under debris at the bottom of an ocean. It might take an earthquake, or you scuba diving down there, sifting through the sludge, but their natural proclivity was always to head straight to the surface— to get out .
~ Marisha Pessl
through to the living room to watch one of my Blue Planet videos about life in the deepest parts of the ocean.
~ Mark Haddon
And then I went out to the ocean. Do you know what it was like? The waves broke, and each time they did, as they slapped against the sand, I could feel it all through my body. And each time they broke, and each time they thudded down, they said, you have only one life, you have only one life.
~ Mark Helprin
Newfoundlanders debated over when the cod was coming back. Few dared ask if. Or what happens to the ocean if they don't come back?
~ Mark Kurlansky
Marine ecology is complex and tightly interwoven.
~ Mark Kurlansky
A world without fishing would be sad.
~ Mark Kurlansky
The reward for being sensitive is that we're held by the Universe, the way the ocean in its buoyancy holds up a raft.
~ Mark Nepo
Don't be frightened, Fishboy
~ Mark Richard