Ocean Sea Quotes

• The great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

  Isaac Newton

  Trust, Truth, Ocean

  Quoted in Christian Monitor, and Religious Intelligencer, 4 July 1812. An almost identical quotation by Newton, said to have been uttered "a little before he died," appears in Joseph Spence, Anecdotes, Observations, and Characters of Books and Men, published in 1820 but extant in manuscript form from around 1730. A paraphrase of Newton's words was printed in a note in a 1797 edition of TheWorks of Alexander Pope.

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• How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Ocean, Interesting, Nautical

  "Blue Carbon: The Role of Healthy Oceans in Binding Carbon : a Rapid Response Assessment" by Christian Nellemann, Emily Corcoran, UNEP/Earthprint, (p. 23), 2009.

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

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Ocean, Men, Free Diving

  Time, March 28, 1960.

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• What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams.

  Werner Herzog

  Dream, Ocean, Sleep

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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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• 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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• The sea complains upon a thousand shores.

  Alexander Smith

  Ocean, Sea, Complaining

  Alexander Smith (1856). “Poems ... Third edition”, p.241

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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

  Ocean, Sea, Diving

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

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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

  Ocean, Sea, Pirate

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

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• But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Ocean, Book, Men

  H. P. Lovecraft (2016). “H. P. LOVECRAFT äóñ The Complete Fiction in One Volume: The Call of Cthulhu, The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, At the Mountains of Madness, The Shadow over Innsmouth, The Dunwich Horror and Many More: The Whisperer in Darkness, Beyond the Wall of Sleep, The Rats in the Walls, The Shunned House, The Shadow Out of Time, The Alchemist, The Dreams in the Witch House, The Silver Key, The Templeäó_”, p.198, e-artnow

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

  William Stafford

  Beach, Believe, Ocean

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

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  The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides.

  Jules Verne

  Lonely, Ocean, Men

  Jules Verne (2015). “Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea: Science Fiction Stories”, p.49, 谷月社

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• Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "P.S. I Love You: When Mom Wrote, She Always Saved the Best for Last". Book by H. Jackson Brown, Jr., March 1, 1991.

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• Hark, now hear the sailors cry, smell the sea, and feel the sky let your soul & spirit fly, into the mystic.

  Van Morrison

  Beach, Ocean, Sea

  "Song: 'Into the Mystic'". 1970.

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• I really don't know why it is that all of us are so committed to the sea, except I think it is because in addition to the fact that the sea changes and the light changes, and ships change, it is because we all came from the sea. And it is an interesting biological fact that all of us have, in our veins the exact same percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean, and, therefore, we have salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears. We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch it we are going back from whence we came.

  John F. Kennedy

  Ocean, Thinking, Light

  Remarks in Newport at the Australian Ambassador's Dinner for the America's Cup Crews on September 14, 1962. "Public Papers of the Presidents: John F. Kennedy", 1962.

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• We set sail on this new sea because there is new knowledge to be gained, and new rights to be won, and they must be won and used for the progress of all people. For space science, like nuclear science and technology, has no conscience of its own. Whether it will become a force for good or ill depends on man, and only if the United States occupies a position of preeminence can we help decide whether this new ocean will be a sea of peace or a new terrifying theater of war.

  John F. Kennedy

  War, Ocean, Knowledge

  Address at Rice University on the Nation's Space Program, delivered 12 September 1962, Rice Stadium, Houston, Texas

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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, Ocean, Science

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• The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper; I cannot quite make it out.

  Annie Dillard

  Beach, Ocean, Sea

  Annie Dillard (2016). “Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters”, p.67, Canongate Books

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  The sea will grant each man new hope, and sleep will bring dreams of home.

  Larry Ferguson

  Dream, Ocean, Home

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• I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it roaring and raging like a wild beast in its den. It puts me in mind of the everlasting efforts of the human mind, struggling to be free, and ending just where it began.

  William Hazlitt

  Hate, Struggle, Sea

  William Hazlitt, William Ernest Henley (1904). “The Collected Works of William Hazlitt: Fugitive writings”

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• The sea is as near as we come to another world.

  Anne Stevenson

  Ocean, Sea, Water

  Anne Stevenson (2005). “Poems 1955-2005”, Bloodaxe Books Limited

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• God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.

  William Cowper

  God, Beach, Moving

  Olney Hymns "Light Shining Out of Darkness" l. 1 (1779)

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• Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war.

  Loren Eiseley

  Beach, War, Ocean

  Loren Eiseley (2016). “The Unexpected Universe: A Library of America eBook Classic”, p.45, Library of America

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• Though inland far we be, Our souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither.

  William Wordsworth

  Ocean, Sight, Sea

  'Ode. Intimations of Immortality' (1807) st. 9

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• Smell the sea and feel the sky.

  Van Morrison

  Beach, Ocean, Sea

  Song: Introduction: Into the Mystic

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