Ocean Quotes - Page 14

• Every animal that walks the earth, or swims, or flies is precious beyond description, something so rare and wonderful that it equals the stars or the ocean or the mind of man.

  James A. Michener

  Stars, Animal, Men

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• We live in an ocean of words, but like a fish in water we are often not aware of it.

  Stuart Chase

  Water, Awareness, Fishes

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• The most rapturous delights you have ever had - in the beauty of a landscape, or in the pleasure of food, or in the fulfillment of a loving embrace - are like dewdrops compared to the bottomless ocean of joy that it will be to see God face-to-face (1 John 3:1-3). That is what we are in for, nothing less. And according to the Bible, that glorious beauty, and our enjoyment of it, has been immeasurably enhanced by Christ's redemption of us from evil and death.

  Timothy Keller

  God, Pain, Evil

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• If they don't have that extreme addict personality, you can never understand how a guy can blow 300 or 400 million dollars. If I have to live at the top of the world, I also have to live at the bottom of the ocean. I don't know how to live in the middle of life.

  Mike Tyson

  Motivation, Fear, Blow

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• Saltwater heals, healing referring to its various forms; tears, cleanses and heals the soul; sweat, cleanses through labor; the ocean, heals in all its forms.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Healing, Sweat, Soul

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• For the life of me I can't understand why BP couldn't go in at the ocean floor, maybe 10 feet lateral to the - around the periphery, drill a few holes, and put a little ammonium nitrate, some dynamite in those holes, and detonate that dynamite, and seal that leak. Seal it permanently.

  Phil Gingrey

  Feet, Environmental, Littles

  The Monday Show, www.today.com. June 22, 2010.

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• There is a gyre of discarded floating plastic the size of the continental USA in the ocean. In it, plastic trash outweighs plankton 40 to 1.

  David Suzuki

  Usa, Environmental, Floating

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• Can we afford clean water? Can we afford rivers and lakes and streams and oceans which continue to make possible life on this planet? Can we afford life itself? Those questions were never asked as we destroyed the waters of our nation, and they deserve no answers as we finally move to restore and renew them. These questions answer themselves.

  Edmund Muskie

  Moving, Lakes, Rivers

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• Rivers are the primal highways of life. From the crack of time, they had borne men's dreams, and in their lovely rush to elsewhere, fed our wanderlust, mimicked our arteries, and charmed our imaginations in a way the static pond or vast and savage ocean never could.

  Tom Robbins

  Dream, Men, Rivers

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates”, p.62, Bantam

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• If someone were to ask me whether I believed in God, or saw God, or had a particular relationship with God, I would reply that I don't separate God from my world in my thinking. I feel that God is everywhere. That's why I never feel separated from God or feel I must seek God, any more than a fish in the ocean feels it must seek water. In a sense, God is the "ocean" in which we live.

  Robert Fulghum

  God, Thinking, Water

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• Writing fiction, especially a long work of fiction, can be a difficult, lonely job; it's like crossing the Atlantic Ocean in a bathtub. There's plenty of opportunity for self-doubt.

  Stephen King

  Lonely, Jobs, Writing

  Stephen King (2002). “On Writing”, p.210, Simon and Schuster

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• Tundra is a huge, forever frozen wetland covering the entire coast of the Arctic Ocean.

  Palmer Cox

  Forever, Covering, Wetlands

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• Bringing up teenagers is like sweeping back ocean waves with a frazzled broom-the inundation of outside influences never stops. Whatever the lure-cars, easy money, cigarettes, drugs, booze, sex, crime-much that glitters along the shore has a thousand times the appeal of a parent's lecture.

  Mary Ellen Snodgrass

  Sex, Teenager, Car

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• We do not need to plan or devise a "world of the future"; if we take care of the world of the present, the future will have received full justice from us. A good future is implicit in the soils, forests, grasslands, marshes, deserts, mountains, rivers, lakes, and oceans that we have now, and in the good things of human culture that we have now; the only valid "futurology" available to us is to take care of those things. We have no need to contrive and dabble at "the future of the human race"; we have the same pressing need that we have always had - to love, care for, and teach our children.

  Wendell Berry

  Children, Lakes, Race

  Wendell Berry (2010). “What Are People For?: Essays”, p.188, Counterpoint Press

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• The ocean was waiting with grand and bitter provocations, as if it invited you to think how deep it was, how much colder than your blood or saltier, or to outguess it, to tell which were its feints or passes and which its real intentions, meaning business.

  Saul Bellow

  Real, Thinking, Blood

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• Life is islands of ecstasy in an ocean of ennui, and after the age of thirty land is seldom seen.

  Luke Rhinehart

  Life, Islands, Age

  Luke Rhinehart (1998). “Dice Man”, p.10, The Overlook Press

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• She wishes her grandmother had not been so protective, and that she understood better what passes between a man and woman. As it is, she simply enjoys the feelings and wonders if they are what lightning is made of, for everything comes back to the weather. Tears like rain. Smiles like the sun. Hair as dry as sand and fear like the dark ocean.

  Sara Sheridan

  Rain, Grandmother, Dark

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• I am a tiny seashell
  that has secretly drifted ashore
  and carries the sound of the ocean
  surging through its body.

  Edward Hirsch

  Sound, Body, Tiny

  Edward Hirsch (2008). “Lay Back the Darkness: Poems”, Knopf

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• When all is lost, when all is let go of, when all is abandoned, what you are left with is an ocean of bliss.

  Robert Thurman

  Letting Go, Bliss, Abandoned

  FaceBook post by Robert Thurman from May 02, 2017

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• My kids that's their backyard. I think when they're adults, their memories will be mostly of spending time at beach, the exploration, the freedom that you have. You take care of your house that you live in and we make our bed and we clean our cars and we do all that stuff, but yet we neglect sort of the place that really provides us with the greatest form of sustainability, which is the ocean.

  Gabrielle Reece

  Beach, Memories, Kids

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• I was moving among two groups... who had almost ceased to communicate at all, who in intellectual, moral, and psychological climate had so little in common that... one might have crossed the ocean.

  C.P. Snow

  Moving, Two, Intellectual

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• How beautiful is night! A dewy freshness fills the silent air; No mist obscures; nor cloud, nor speck, nor stain, Breaks the serene of heaven: In full-orbed glory, yonder moon divine Rolls through the dark blue depths; Beneath her steady ray The desert circle spreads Like the round ocean, girdled with the sky. How beautiful is night!

  Robert Southey

  Beautiful, Dark, Moon

  Robert Southey, Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1884). “The Poetical Works of Robert Southey: With a Memoir ...”

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• We are born for a higher destiny than that of earth; there is a realm where the rainbow never fades, where the stars will be spread before us like islands that slumber on the ocean, and where the beings that pass before us like shadows will stay in our presence forever.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Death, Stars, Destiny

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• A wave in the ocean is a wave, only in so far as it is bound by name and form.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Names, Wave, Form

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3732, Manonmani Publishers

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• Sea Change was so specific. From the beginning it was set what it was going to be. All the other ideas that I had at the time I had to put to the side.

  Beck

  Sea, Ideas, Sides

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