Ocean Quotes - Page 21

• See how peaceful it is here. The sea is everything. An immense reservoir of nature where I roam at will.... Think of it. On the surface there is hunger and fear. Men still exercise unjust laws. They fight, tear one another to pieces. A mere few feet beneath the waves their reign ceases, their evil drowns. Here on the ocean floor is the only independence. Here I am free.

  Earl Felton

  Fighting, Exercise, Men

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• To the naked eye, our oceans are beautiful. But scientists tell us that all of the world's fisheries will collapse by 2048, unless we change how we manage them. Help protect our oceans so the next generation can also enjoy their bounty.

  Ted Danson

  Beautiful, Eye, Water

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• A little criticism makes me angry, and a little rejection makes me depressed. A little praise raises my spirits, and a little success excites me. It takes very little to raise me up or thrust me down. Often I am like a small boat on the ocean, completely at the mercy of its waves. All the time and energy I spend in keeping some kind of balance and preventing myself from being tipped over and drowning shows my life is mostly a struggle for survival: not a holy struggle, but an anxious struggle resulting from the mistaken idea that it is the world that defines me.

  Henri Nouwen

  Struggle, Self, Ideas

  Henri Nouwen (2013). “The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming”, p.42, Image

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• Solitude is an ocean with wonderful places hidden in its depths.

  Isaac of Nineveh

  Wise, Wisdom, Clever

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• Behold, I have reached the peak of the mountain and my spirit has taken flight in the heavens of freedom and liberation. I have gone far, far away, O children of my mother; the hills beyond the mists are now hidden from my view, the last traces of the valleys have been flooded by the ocean of serenity, and the paths and trails have been erased by the hand of oblivion. The roar of ocean waves has faded. I no longer hear anything but the anthem of eternity, which harmonizes with the spirit.

  Khalil Gibran

  Mother, Children, Taken

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• WE CAN NOT LIVE ON THIS PLANET WITH DEAD OCEANS. IF OUR OCEANS DIE, WE DIE.

  Paul Watson

  Planets, Can Not, Dies

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• To lose your everyday life of surfing and being creative on waves, enjoying the ocean - that's scary to me. It was essential to at least try surfing again and get out there and see how it went.

  Bethany Hamilton

  Creative, Scary, Surfing

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• No one has the capacity to judge God. We are drops in that limitless ocean of mercy.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Judging, Limitless

  Mahatma Gandhi (2007). “Gandhi on Non-Violence”, p.93, New Directions Publishing

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• One little bird not larger than a sparrow, it may have been a Phalarope, would alight on the turbulent surface where the breakers were five or six feet high, and float buoyantly there like a duck, cunningly taking to its wings and lifting itself a few feet through the air over the foaming crest of each breaker, but sometimes outriding safely a considerable billow which hid it some seconds, when its instinct told it that it would not break. It was a little creature thus to sport with the ocean, but it was as perfect a success in its way as the breakers in theirs.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Sports, Air, Wings

  Henry David Thoreau (2008). “Cape Cod: Illustrated Edition of the American Classic”, p.102, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Twice in my lifetime the long arm of destiny has reached across the oceans and involved the entire life and manhood of the United States in a deadly struggle.There was no use in saying We don't want it; we won

  Winston Churchill

  Struggle, Destiny, Long

  Edmund Murray, Winston Churchill, Martin Gilbert (1995). “Proceedings of the International Churchill Societies 1992-1993”, Churchill Center

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• A drop in the ocean has no fear of a hurricane.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Water, Hurricanes, No Fear

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• Only yonder magnificent pine-tree... holds her unchanging beauty throughout the year, like her half-brother, the ocean, whose voice she shares; and only marks the flowing of her annual tide of life by the new verdure that yearly submerges all trace of last year's ebb.

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson

  Brother, Years, Voice

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson (2007). “Outdoor Studies, Poems”, p.73, Reprint Services Corporation

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• I look to the right as I cross the bridge and smile to see the tip of the Eiffel Tower soaring over rooftops in the distance on the other side of the river. I've seen it in photographs a thousand times, but seeing it in person for the first time that reminds me that I'm really, truly here, thousands of miles away, across an ocean from home.

  Kristin Harmel

  Distance, Home, Bridges

  Kristin Harmel (2012). “The Sweetness of Forgetting”, p.119, Simon and Schuster

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• I find myself at the extremity of a long beach. How gladly does the spirit leap forth, and suddenly enlarge its sense of being to the full extent of the broad, blue, sunny deep! A greeting and a homage to the Sea! I descend over its margin, and dip my hand into the wave that meets me, and bathe my brow. That far-resounding roar is the Ocean’s voice of welcome. His salt breath brings a blessing along with it.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Beach, Blessing, Blue

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (1982). “Tales and Sketches”, p.561, Library of America

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• We play in the ocean every day but for some reason we don’t make as much noise about the environment as we should. I believe the average surfer needs to do a lot more to become a greater catalyst for change

  Mark Price

  Believe, Average, Catalyst For Change

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• The man who will follow precedent, but never create one, is merely an obvious example of the routineer. You find him desperately numerous in the civil service, in the official bureaus. To him government is something given as unconditionally, as absolutely as ocean or hill. He goes on winding the tape that he finds. His imagination has rarely extricated itself from under the administrative machine to gain any sense of what a human, temporary contraption the whole affair is. What he thinks is the heavens above him is nothing but the roof.

  Walter Lippmann

  Men, Thinking, Justice

  Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). “The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy”, p.454, Harvard University Press

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• The improved American highway system isolated the American-in-transit. On his speedway he had no contact with the towns which he by-passed. If he stopped for food or gas, he was served no local fare or local fuel, but had one of Howard Johnson's nationally branded ice cream flavors, and so many gallons of Exxon. This vast ocean of superhighways was nearly as free of culture as the sea traversed by the Mayflower Pilgrims.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Ice Cream, Sea, Culture

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• What else is there to make life tolerable? We stand on the shore of an ocean, crying to the night and to emptiness. Sometimes a voice of one drowning, and in a moment the silence returns. The world seems to me quite dreadful, the unhappiness of many people is very great, and I often wonder how they all endure it. It is usually the central thing around which their lives are built, and I suppose if they did not live most of their lives in the things of the moment, they would not be able to go on.

  Bertrand Russell

  Life, Night, Voice

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• But you have to understand, American democracy is not like the system you have. We're not an ocean liner that sails across the ocean from point A to point B at 30 knots. That's not American democracy. American democracy is kind of like a life raft that bobs around the ocean all the time. Your feet are always wet. Winds are always blowing. You're cold. You're wet. You're uncomfortable -- but you never sink.

  Colin Powell

  Wind, Feet, Democracy

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• The dance of the palm trees, the oceans calling, the first rays of sun and heaven is here.

  Michael Dolan

  Nature, Tree, Heaven

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• What I deeply want... is for Rumi to become vitally present for readers, part of what John Keats called our soul-making, that process that is both collective and uniquely individual, that happens outside time and space and inside, that is the ocean we all inhabit and each singular droplet-self.

  Coleman Barks

  Self, Space, Soul

  Coleman Barks (2010). “The Soul of Rumi: A New Collection of Ecstatic Poems”, p.14, Harper Collins

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• Tis said, fantastic ocean doth enfold The likeness of whate'er on land is seen.

  William Wordsworth

  Sea, Land, Fantastic

  William Wordsworth (1849). “The poetical works of William Wordsworth”, p.121

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• We mortals cross the ocean of this world Each in his average cabin of a life; The bests not big, the worst yields elbowroom.

  Robert Browning

  Yield, Average, Cabins

  Richard Cronin, Robert Browning, Dorothy McMillan (2015). “Robert Browning”, p.265, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Many, many steeples would have to be stacked one on top of another to reach from the bottom to the surface of the sea.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Sea, Steeples, Surface

  Hans Christian Andersen (2016). “Best Fairy Tales”, p.35, Pan Macmillan

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• Some of us, regarding the ocean with understanding and affection, have seen it looking old, as if the immemorial ages had been stirred up from the undisturbed bottom of ooze. For it is a gale of wind that makes the sea look old.

  Joseph Conrad

  Wind, Sea, Understanding

  Joseph Conrad (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Joseph Conrad (Illustrated)”, p.5273, Delphi Classics

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