Ocean Water Quotes

• Limitless and immortal, the waters are the beginning and end of all things on earth.

  Heinrich Zimmer

  Beach, Ocean, Sea

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• With every drop of water you drink, every breath you take, you're connected to the sea. No matter where on Earth you live.

  Sylvia Earle

  Ocean, Sea, Breathing

  "My wish: Protect our oceans". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February 2009.

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• The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Beach, Nature, Ocean

  Jacques-Yves Cousteau (1978). “Life and death in a coral sea”

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  The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach.

  Henry Beston

  Beach, Nature, Rain

  Henry Beston, Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth (2001). “The Best of Beston: A Selection from the Natural World of Henry Beston from Cape Cod to the St. Lawrence”, p.19, David R. Godine Publisher

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• We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.

  Thomas Fuller

  Ocean, Sea, Oil And Water

  "Gnomologia". Book by Thomas Fuller, 1732.

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  Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.

  Robert Henri

  Beach, Ocean, Thinking

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• I'm always happy when I'm surrounded by water, I think I'm a Mermaid or I was a mermaid. The ocean makes me feel really small and it makes me put my whole life into perspective… it humbles you and makes you feel almost like you’ve been baptized. I feel born again when I get out of the ocean.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Beach, Ocean, Thinking

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• There's nothing wrong with enjoying looking at the surface of the ocean itself, except that when you finally see what goes on underwater,you realize that you've been missing the whole point of the ocean. Staying on the surface all the time is like going to the circus and staring at the outside of the tent.

  Dave Barry

  Beach, Ocean, Sea

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  We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Christian, Wisdom

  Mother Teresa (2010). “Where There Is Love, There Is God: A Path to Closer Union with God and Greater Love for Others”, p.213, Image

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• For whatever we lose (like a you or a me), It's always our self we find in the sea.

  e. e. cummings

  Inspirational, Beach, Ocean

  E. E. Cummings, “Maggie And Milly And Molly And May”

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• The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.

  Joseph Conrad

  Ocean, Men, Sea

  Joseph Conrad (2011). “The Mirror of the Sea”, p.147, The Floating Press

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• The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.

  Isak Dinesen

  Beach, Encouragement, Ocean

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• Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Sarcastic, Beach, Nature

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.152, 谷月社

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• If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.

  Loren Eiseley

  Garden, Rivers, Lakes

  The Immense Journey "The Flow of the River" (1957)

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• Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Ocean, Air, Aquariums

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• The sea is as near as we come to another world.

  Anne Stevenson

  Ocean, Sea, Water

  Anne Stevenson (2005). “Poems 1955-2005”, Bloodaxe Books Limited

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• The ocean is a place of skin, rich outer membranes hiding thick juicy insides, laden with the soup of being.

  Vera Nazarian

  Ocean, Sea, Skins

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• Praise the sea; on shore remain.

  John Florio

  Rain, Ocean, Sea

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• What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Beauty, Beautiful, Beach

  "The Little Prince". Book by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, April, 1943.

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• The sea hath no king but God alone.

  Dante Gabriel Rossetti

  Beach, Kings, Ocean

  Dante Gabriel Rossetti (2014). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti (Illustrated)”, p.329, Delphi Classics

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• Rivers are roads which move, and which carry us whither we desire to go.

  Blaise Pascal

  Moving, Rivers, Water

  Blaise Pascal (2016). “Pensées”, p.23, Open Road Media

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• How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Ocean, Interesting, Nautical

  "Blue Carbon: The Role of Healthy Oceans in Binding Carbon : a Rapid Response Assessment" by Christian Nellemann, Emily Corcoran, UNEP/Earthprint, (p. 23), 2009.

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• Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather the multitudinous seas incarnadine, making the green one red.

  William Shakespeare

  Ocean, Blood, Hands

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 2, sc. 2, l. 61

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• The ocean will take care of this on its own if it was left alone and left out there. It's natural. It's as natural as the ocean water is.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Stupid, Ocean, Water

  "Regime SWAT Teams Sent to Gulf". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. Apr 29, 2010.

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• You are water, you understand - electrified water. The elements and balance of ocean water match the blood in your human body. Humans were made from the ocean. This is one of the greatest secrets of creation.

  Barbara Marciniak

  Ocean, Blood, Water

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