Deep Blue Sea Quotes

• 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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• Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore.

  Lord Byron

  Beach, Ocean, Dark

  Childe Harold's Pilgrimage canto 4, st. 179 (1818)

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• Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of trauma, I will fear no concussion.

  Jim Butcher

  Bible, Shadow Of Death, Death Of A Loved One

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.997, Penguin

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• I'm not out to change the world. I'm out to change mine.

  Rodney White

  World, Mines, Changing The World

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• The sweet love between the moon and the deep blue sea.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Love, Sweet, Moon

  Song: SWEET ANGEL ANGEL, 1971

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• Man marks the earth with ruin - his control stops with the shore.

  Lord Byron

  Ocean, Men, Light Waves

  Childe Harold's Pilgrimage canto 4, st. 179 (1818)

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• Between my potential and the deep blue sea, There's a rock and a diamond either side of me. Between our potential and the break of day, There is nothing at all in our way.

  John Gorka

  Sea, Rocks, Blue

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• Joy to the world
  All the boys and girls now
  Joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea
  Joy to you and me

  Hoyt Axton

  Girl, Song, Boys

  Song: Joy To The World

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• With his back to us, Sean tugs the halter from the mare's head. She kicks out, but he steps out of the way as if it were nothing at all. With a shake of her mane, she leaps mightily into the water. For a moment she struggles over the waves, and then she is swimming. Just a wild black horse in a deep blue sea full of the ashes of other dead boys.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Horse, Struggle, Swimming

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “The Scorpio Races”, p.330, Scholastic UK

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• If Ford is to Chevrolet what Dodge is to Chrysler,
  what Corn Flakes are to Post Toasties,
  what the clear blue sky is to the deep blue sea,
  what Hank Williams is to Neil Armstrong -
  can you doubt we were made for each other?

  Lyle Lovett

  Corn Flakes, Blue, Sea

  Song: Here I Am

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• Modern women are squeezed between the devil and the deep blue sea, and there are no lifeboats out there in the form of public policies designed to help these women combine their roles as mothers and as workers.

  Sylvia Ann Hewlett

  Mother, Women, Sea

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