Quotes About Ocean

going to sea is like going to prison with the added possibility of drowning.

When sleep is not a sanctuary, darkness sometimes is. When the mess of human activity nags at you, the ocean can make you deaf with its rhythmic wash.

Careful, Sofia," said Don Lorenzo. "Don't teach a sailor to shit in the ocean," she muttered.

Wars, disease, taxes. Bowing heads and kissing boots. There's plenty of hungry damn things prowling on land, Orin. It's just that the ones at sea tend not to wear crowns.

Q: What did one ocean say to the other ocean? A: Nothing. They just waved.

Q: Why do fish live in salt water? A: Because pepper makes them sneeze.

Q: Why do seagulls fly over the sea? A: Because if they flew over the bay they'd be bagels.

Q: What do you call a witch who lives by the sea? A: A sandwitch.

More than anything, it was the blue dolphins that took me back home.

Over the waves, with the wind behind her and foam at her neck, she flew like a bird until her curved prow had covered the distance...

Instead, in the morning, mangled and sleeping the sleep of the sword, they slopped and floated like the ocean's leavings.

Ah, my dad's whistle. On holidays when I was a kid, we would all be off in the rock pools along the beach. When it came time to go, we'd hear the whistle and we'd all come running. Like dogs!

It struck me then how much the past - not just the past but history and family - was like the ocean tide. It was always the same ocean, but the waves made it fresh and new each time.

Time is a great ocean which, like the other ocean, overflows with our remains.

And Thou, vast Ocean! on whose awful face Time's iron feet can print no ruin-trace, By breezes lull'd, or by the storm-blasts driv'n, Thy majesty uplifts the mind to heaven.

It's easier to be healthy in Hawaii than it is, almost anywhere else I've lived. You spend a lot of time outside, in the ocean and on the beach.

She walked on, comforted by the surf, by the one perpetual moment of beach-time, the now-and-always of it.

Time and the Ocean and some guiding star and High Cabal have made us what we are.

Once a day, take some 'Beach Time.'

You should have seen the wave go to pieces and scatter! This was a finer sight than the other one.

April 10. The sea is a Mediterranean blue; and I believe that that is about the divinest color known to nature.

Torquelike, fear encircled her throat with its dull constant pressure.... ...give the newborn child fresh from his own salt sea a look at the bigger ocean he had crossed. p 20

Above, all was ocean brightness: against the flat blue sky the clouds had been sketched by an impressively swift and confident hand. What talent. I like the sky and often wonder where I'd be without it. I know: I'd be in England, where we don't have one.

The beach, the ocean, solitude—these are only a means to help you travel to the true peace and joy inside you. You must carry the magic in your heart, wherever you go.