Ocean Quotes - Page 6

• Love the sea? I dote upon it--from the beach.

  Douglas William Jerrold

  Beach, Sea

  Douglas William Jerrold, Blanchard Jerrold (1859). “Specimens of Douglas Jerrold's wit: together with selections, chiefly from his contributions to journals, intended to illustrate his opinions”, p.72

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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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• This severe, ascetic music, calm and horizontal as the line of the ocean, monotonous by virtue of its serenity, anti-sensuous, and yet so intense in its contemplativeness that it verges sometimes on ecstasy.

  Charles Gounod

  Music, Serenity, Asceticism

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• Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Beach, Vacation, Guilt

  "The Beach Book". Book by Gloria Steinem, 1963.

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• The use of sea and air is common to all; neither can a title to the ocean belong to any people or private persons, forasmuch as neither nature nor public use and custom permit any possession therof.

  Elizabeth I

  Nature, Science, Air

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• I do an awful lot of scuba diving. I love to be on the ocean, under the ocean. I live next to the ocean.

  James Cameron

  Sea, Diving, Awful

  James Cameron, Brent Dunham (2012). “James Cameron: Interviews”, p.110, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• And Thou, vast Ocean! on whole awful face Time's iron feet can print no ruin trace.

  Robert Montgomery

  Iron, Feet, Awful

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• Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates.

  H. L. Mencken

  Missing You, Men, Mind

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• The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.

  Blaise Pascal

  Nature, Motivation, Garden

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• Many drops make a bucket, many buckets make a pond, many ponds make a lake, and many lakes make an ocean.

  Percy Ross

  Success, Lakes, Buckets

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• It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Sea, Law, Civilization

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Generation of Swine: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist”, p.87, Simon and Schuster

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• And I shall watch the ferry boats, and they'll get high, on a bluer ocean against tomorrow's sky. and i will never grow so old again, and i will walk and talk, in gardens all wet with rain.

  Van Morrison

  Rain, Garden, Sky

  Song: Sweet Thing, Album: Astral Weeks

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• When beholding the tranquil beauty and brilliancy of the ocean’s skin, one forgets the tiger heart that pants beneath it; and would not willingly remember that this velvet paw but conceals a remorseless fang.

  Herman Melville

  Beauty, Heart, Skins

  Herman Melville (1892). “Moby Dick”, p.459

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• I have felt a presence that disturbs me with the joy of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime of something far more deeply interfused, whose dwelling is the light of setting suns, and the round ocean, and the living air, and the blue sky, and in the mind of man.

  William Wordsworth

  Life, Men, Light

  'Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey' (1798) l. 88

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• So that the monotonous fall of the waves on the beach, which for the most part beat a measured and soothing tattoo to her thoughts seemed consolingly to repeat over and over again.

  Virginia Woolf

  Tattoo, Beach, Fall

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “To the Lighthouse”, p.15, Virginia Woolf

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• Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye, looking on, finds its own.

  Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

  Truth, Lying, Eye

  "Caxtoniana: Hints on Mental Culture" by Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton, 1862.

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• Just as an octopus may have his den in some ocean cave, and come floating out a silent image of horror to attack a swimmer, so I picture such a spirit lurking in the dark of the house which he curses by his presence, and ready to float out upon all whom he can injure.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Dark, Sea, Octopus

  Arthur Conan Doyle (1995). “The Lost World and Other Stories”, p.324, Wordsworth Editions

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• This long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead. Economists set themselves too easy, too useless a task if in tempestuous seasons they can only tell us that when the storm is long past the ocean is flat again.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Death, Running, Science

  1923 A Tract on Monetary Reform.

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• There is the life of the plankton in almost endless variety; there are the many kinds of fish, both surface and bottom living; there are the hosts of different invertebrate creatures on the sea-floor; and there are those almost grotesque forms of pelagic life in the oceans depths. Then there are the squids and cuttlefish, and the porpoises, dolphins and great whales.

  Alister Hardy

  Whales, Sea, Squids

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• The tradition of freedom of the high seas has its roots in an era when there were too few people to seriously violate the oceans - but in hindsight that era ended some 150 years ago.

  James Carlton

  Years, Sea, Roots

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• Why does the sea moan evermore? Shut out from heaven it makes its moan, It frets against the boundary shore; All earth's full rivers cannot fill The sea, that drinking thirsteth still.

  Christina Rossetti

  Drinking, Sea, Rivers

  Christina Rossetti (2008). “Poems and Prose”, p.92, OUP Oxford

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• Rich and various gems inlay The unadorned bosom of the deep.

  John Milton

  Rich, Various, Gems

  John Milton, Henry John Todd (1826). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors”, p.254

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• Quoth the Ocean, "Dawn! O fairest, clearest, Touch me with thy golden fingers bland; For I have no smile till thou appearest For the lovely land.

  Jean Ingelow

  Land, Lovely, Dawn

  Jean Ingelow (1873). “Poems”, p.300

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• Primeval forests! virgin sod! That Saxon has not ravish'd yet, Lo! peak on peak in stairways set- In stepping stairs that reach to God! Here we are free as sea or wind, For here are set Time's snowy tents In everlasting battlements Against the march of Saxon mind.

  Joaquin Miller

  Wind, Sea, Mind

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• We follow and race In shifting chase, Over the boundless ocean-space! Who hath beheld when the race begun? Who shall behold it run?

  Bayard Taylor

  Running, Space, Race

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