Ocean Quotes - Page 8

• I spent uncounted hours sitting at the bow looking at the water and the sky, studying each wave, different from the last, seeing how it caught the light, the air, the wind; watching patterns, the sweep of it all, and letting it take me. The sea.

  Gary Paulsen

  Light, Air, Wind

  Gary Paulsen (2007). “Caught by the Sea: My Life on Boats”, p.4, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• Even the upper end of the river believes in the ocean.

  William Stafford

  Beach, Believe, Sea

  William Stafford (1998). “The Way It Is: New and Selected Poems”, Graywolf Press

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• The hurricanes are following the tropical ocean temperature. The tropical ocean temperature is following the Northern Hemisphere. And it's very hard now to believe that there's anything natural about that.

  Kerry Emanuel

  Believe, Temperature, Hurricanes

  "Is It Too Late to Stop the Warming?" by Ned Potter, abcnews.go.com. March 26, 2006.

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• Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Blue, White, Black

  H. P. Lovecraft (2016). “H. P. LOVECRAFT äóñ The Ultimate Horror Collection: 60 Occult & Supernatural Mysteries in One Volume: The Greatest Spine-Chilling and Blood-Curdling Stories of Terror & Macabre: The Call of Cthulhu, The White Ship, The Dunwich Horror, At The Mountains Of Madness, The Whisperer in Darknessäó_”, p.60, e-artnow

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• American public opinion is like an ocean, it cannot be stirred by a teaspoon.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Public Opinion, Opinion, Teaspoons

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• Without water, our planet would be one of the billions of lifeless rocks floating endlessly in the vastness of the inky-black void.

  Fabien Cousteau

  Rocks, Sea, Water

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• Neither earth nor ocean produces a creature as savage and monstrous as woman.

  Euripides

  Savages, Earth, Produce

  Euripides (2013). “Euripides II: Andromache, Hecuba, The Suppliant Women, Electra”, p.125, University of Chicago Press

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• Praise the Sea, but keepe on land.

  George Herbert

  Sea, Land, Praise

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.340

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• If you live a life of make-believe, your life isn't worth anything until you do something that does challenge your reality. And to me, sailing the open ocean is a real challenge, because it's life or death.

  Morgan Freeman

  Real, Believe, Struggle

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You are so accustomed to think of yourselves as bodies having consciousness that you just cannot imagine consciousness as having bodies. Once you realize that bodily existence is but a state of mind, a movement in consciousness, that the ocean of consciousness is infinite and eternal, and that, when in touch with consciousness, you are the witness only, you will be able to withdraw beyond consciousness altogether.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Thinking, Mind, Movement

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• My gratitude for good writing is unbounded; I’m grateful for it the way I’m grateful for the ocean.

  Anne Lamott

  Gratitude, Grateful, Writing

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.15, Anchor

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• In life as in water, when we curl up or flail we sink. When we spread and go still, we are carried by the largest sea of all: the sea of grace that flows steadily beneath the turmoil of events. And just as fish can't see the ocean they live in, we can't quite see the spirit that sustains us.

  Mark Nepo

  Sea, Water, Grace

  Mark Nepo (2011). “The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have (Gift Edition)”, p.87, Conari Press

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• As the oceans go, so do we.

  David Doubilet

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

  Lord Byron

  Men, Light Waves, Sea

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

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• The ocean is worth writing about just as man is.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Men

  Source: www.kateyschultz.com

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• The ocean makes its music; the wind does its dance. We hold on. At first we hold on to one another, but then it starts to feel like we are holding on to something even bigger than that. Greater.

  David Levithan

  Wind, Doe, Firsts

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.15, Egmont UK

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• You cannot speak of the ocean to a frog that lives in a well.

  Bill Vaughan

  Understanding, Frogs, Speak

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• Don't cross oceans for people who wouldn't cross a puddle for you.

  Unknown

  Inspirational, People, Puddles

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• it is all ash and dry leaves and grief gone like an ocean liner.

  Charles Bukowski

  Grief, Ashes, Gone

  Charles Bukowski (2009). “What Matters Most is How Well You”, p.35, Harper Collins

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• We are all connected to the ocean. Without healthy oceans, no life, not even on land, can exist.

  Jean-Michel Cousteau

  Land, Healthy, Connected

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• What I mean by that is that the point of life, as I see it, is not to write books or scale mountains or sail oceans, but to achieve happiness, and preferably an unselfish happiness.

  Bernard Cornwell

  Inspirational, Funny, Book

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• The ocean is a supreme metaphor for change. I expect the unexpected but am never fully prepared.

  Tim Winton

  Nature, Unexpected, Metaphor

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• We humans have this idea that the ocean is so big, so vast, so resilient that it doesn't matter what we do to it. That may have been true 1,000 years ago. But in the last 100, especially the last 50 years, we have destroyed the assets that make our lives possible.

  Sylvia Earle

  Years, Ideas, May

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• No nation ever had two better friends that we have. You know who they are? The Atlantic and Pacific oceans.

  Will Rogers

  Two, Knows, Nations

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• What you have to get is a ocean of love within your heart and to seek that in others also.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

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