Ocean Quotes - Page 5

• I'm horrified of lobsters. And shrimp and lobsters are the cockroaches of the ocean.

  Brooke Burke

  Cockroaches, Lobster, Shrimp

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• Once more upon the waters! yet once more!
  And the waves bound beneath me as a steed
  That knows his rider.

  Lord Byron

  Sea, Water, Ships

  'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage' (1812-18) canto 3, st. 2

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

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Air, Aquariums, Water Of Life

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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, Thinking, Sea

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• The pleased sea on a white-breasted shore-- A shore that wears on her alluring brows Rare shells, far brought, the love-gifts of the sea, That blushed a tell-tale.

  Alexander Smith

  Sea, White, Shells

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• There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates.

  James Russell Lowell

  Sea, Pirate, Wonder

  James Russell Lowell (1864). “Fireside Travels”, p.157

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• The eternal principle, which never was born, never will die: it is in all things: it is in you now. You are the wave on the face of the ocean. When the wave is gone, is the water gone? Has anything happened? Nothing has happened. It is a play, a game, a dance.

  Joseph Campbell

  Games, Play, Water

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• The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Patience, Beach, Nature

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1975). “GIFT FROM THE SEA”

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• We may not be God, but we are of God, even as a little drop of water is of the ocean.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Water, May, Littles

  Mahatma Gandhi, M. S. Desphande, Arun Gandhi (1999). “The way to God”

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• Man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Men, Free Diving, Sea

  Time, March 28, 1960.

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• Crazy people who are productive are geniuses. Crazy people who are rich are eccentric. Crazy people who are neither productive nor rich are just plain crazy. Geniuses and crazy people are both out in the middle of a deep ocean; geniuses swim, crazy people drown. Most of us are sitting safely on the shore. Take a chance and get your feet wet.

  Michael J. Gelb

  Crazy, Feet, People

  Michael J. Gelb (2014). “Creativity on Demand: How to Ignite and Sustain the Fire of Genius”, p.90, Sounds True

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• Doesn't it seem to you," asked Madame Bovary, "that the mind moves more freely in the presence of that boundless expanse, that the sight of it elevates the soul and gives rise to thoughts of the infinite and the ideal?

  Gustave Flaubert

  Moving, Sight, Sea

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• The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Self, Sea, Rivers

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• The true peace of God begins at any spot a thousand miles from the nearest land.

  Joseph Conrad

  Sea, Land, Miles

  Joseph Conrad (1962). “The Nigger of the 'Narcissus'”, p.25, Gottfried & Fritz

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• Ocean energy can contribute a great deal toward the protection or our atmosphere - without damaging marine ecosystems that are equally vital to the planet's future.

  Fred Krupp

  Marine, Sea, Ecosystems

  Miriam Horn, Fred Krupp (2009). “Earth: The Sequel: The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming”, p.139, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.

  William Shakespeare

  Marine, Men, Sea

  'Pericles, Prince Of Tyre' (1606-8) act 2, sc. 1, l. [29]

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• The great obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents, and the oceans was not ignorance, but the illusion of knowledge.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Ignorance, Knowledge, Atheism

  "The Discoverers: A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself (Knowledge Trilogy, Book 1)". Book by Daniel J. Boorstin, 1983.

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• Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Inspirational, Life, Beach

  Albert Schweitzer (1929). “Civilization and Ethics”

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• Ever since I was a child I've felt connected to water: lakes, rivers, streams--I love to jump in and swim around. But it's the ocean where I go for rejuvenation, revelation, and solace.

  Susan Cohn Rockefeller

  Children, Lakes, Sea

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• I felt I was moving among two groups [literary intellectuals and scientists] comparable in intelligence, identical in race, not grossly different in social origin, earning about the same incomes, who had almost ceased to communicate at all, who in intellectual, moral and psychological climate had so little in common that instead of going from Burlington Hom or South Kensington to Chelsea, one might have crossed an ocean.

  C.P. Snow

  Moving, Science, Race

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• For now I stand as one upon a rock environed with a wilderness of sea, who marks the waxing tide grow wave by wave, expecting ever when some envious surge will in his brinish bowels swallow him.

  William Shakespeare

  Rocks, Sea, Waxing

  William Shakespeare (2011). “Titus Andronicus and Timon of Athens: Two Classical Plays”, p.57, Palgrave Macmillan

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• I am a citizen of the most beautiful nation on earth, a nation whose laws are harsh yet simple, a nation that never cheats, which is immense and without borders, where life is lived in the present. In this limitless nation, this nation of wind, light, and peace, there is no other ruler besides the sea.

  Bernard Moitessier

  Beautiful, Cheating, Peace

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• Ye waves That o'er th' interminable ocean wreathe Your crisped smiles.

  Aeschylus

  Wave

  Aeschylus (1819). “The Tragedies of Æschylus translated into English verse, with notes . By R. Potter”, p.9

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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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• A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.

  Bill Vaughan

  Funny, Freedom, Humorous

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