Marine Life Quotes

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  Men do not fight for flag or country, for the Marine Corps or glory or any other abstraction. They fight for one another. And if you came through this ordeal, you would age with dignity.

  William Manchester

  Country, Fighting, Marine

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• No aquarium, no tank in a marine land, however spacious it may be, can begin to duplicate the conditions of the sea. And no dolphin who inhabits one of those aquariums or one of those marine lands can be considered normal.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Ocean, Marine, Sea

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• The world's finest wilderness lies beneath the waves.

  Robert Wyland

  Lying, Ocean, Marine

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• My soul is full of longing for the secret of the sea

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Beach, Ocean, Marine

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.189

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

  William Shakespeare

  Ocean, Marine, Men

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

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• Life is life's greatest gift. Guard the life of another creature as you would your own because it is your own. On life's scale of values, the smallest is no less precious to the creature who owns it than the largest.

  Lloyd Biggle, Jr.

  Ocean, Marine, Animal

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• The sea! The sea! The open sea!, The blue, the fresh, the ever free!

  Bryan Procter

  Beach, Ocean, Marine

  Bryan Waller Procter, “The Sea”

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• We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch - we are going back from whence we came.

  John F. Kennedy

  Beach, Ocean, Marine

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• This is my voice. There are many like it, but this one is mine.

  Shane Koyczan

  Voice, Rifles, Creeds

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• To me the sea is a continual miracle; The fishes that swim - the rocks - the motion of the waves - the ships, with men in them, what stranger miracles are there?

  Walt Whitman

  Beach, Ocean, Marine

  Walt Whitman (1861). “Leaves of Grass”, p.220

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• Animal protection is education to the humanity.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Ocean, Marine, Animal

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• Great attention gets paid to rainforests because of the diversity of life there. Diversity in the oceans is even greater.

  Sylvia Earle

  Ocean, Marine, Sea

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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 great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.

  William James

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Without discipline, there is no Marine Corp.

  R. Lee Ermey

  Marine, Discipline

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• Almost every Marine I've met says I portray a Marine dead-on, which is really, really flattering.

  Catherine Bell

  Marine, Mets, Flattering

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

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• I was stationed at a Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego from 1965 to 1967.

  R. Lee Ermey

  Marine, San Diego, Recruit

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• You'd be surprised how many kids and young people come to the website and send me email that they are actually going into the Marine Corps because of something that I said or did.

  R. Lee Ermey

  Kids, Marine, People

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

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• I could never stay long enough on the shore; the tang of the untainted, fresh, and free sea air was like a cool, quieting thought.

  Helen Keller

  Beach, Ocean, Air

  Helen Keller (2016). “The Story of My Life”, p.32, Om Books International

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• I wanted to be a marine biologist my whole life until I graduated high school. And even now, I'm still like, 'Maybe I'll just quit the biz and go to Santa Cruz and study marine biology and have my own research center in the Bahamas.' Yeah, I'm sure it would be just that smooth.

  Cobie Smulders

  School, Marine, Research

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• I wanted to be a marine biologist my whole life until I graduated high school.

  Cobie Smulders

  School, Marine, Bahamas

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• I want to get out in the water. I want to see fish, real fish, not fish in a laboratory.

  Sylvia Earle

  Real, Ocean, Marine

  "Ambassador for the World's Oceans". The Academy of Achievement, www.achievement.org. January 27, 1991.

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• It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose, should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. But the sea, though changed in a sinister way, will continue to exist: the threat is rather to life itself.

  Rachel Carson

  Life, Ocean, Sea

  Rachel Carson (2011). “The Sea Around Us”, p.9, Open Road Media

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• They are a fairly aggressive conservation organization that was started to protect the great whales particularly, but in general all marine life around the world. So those are the people I'm trying to attach my name to.

  Richard Dean Anderson

  Marine, Whales, Names

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

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• I'm not scared of very much. I've been hit by lightning and been in the Marine Corps for four years.

  Lee Trevino

  Sports, Marine, Years

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