Ocean Quotes - Page 22

• The ocean, whose tides respond, like women's menses, to the pull of the moon, the ocean which corresponds to the amniotic fluid in which human life begins, the ocean on whose surface vessels (personified as female) can ride but in whose depth sailors meet their death and monsters conceal themselves... it is unstable and threatening as the earth is not; it spawns new life daily, yet swallows up lives; it is changeable like the moon, unregulated, yet indestructible and eternal.

  Adrienne Rich

  Moon, Monsters, Depth

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• For the water animals, the ocean is like a garden; for the land animals, it is death and pain.

  Rumi

  Pain, Animal, Garden

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• Simultaneously with the establishment of the Constitution, Virginia ceded to the United States her domain, which then extended to the Mississippi, and was even claimed to extend to the Pacific Ocean.

  William H. Seward

  Virginia, United States, Constitution

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• I was curious and hungry at a young age, and jazz was such a mystery to me, an ocean where you can express yourself in the moment. It represented freedom, it represented wearing wings and going somewhere with music.

  Paula Cole

  Wings, Age, Jazz

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• The novelist screws up his courage in order to invest another two or three years in another attempt to float a boat of original design upon an invented ocean.

  Edward Hoagland

  Order, Years, Two

  Edward Hoagland, HOAGLAND EDWARD. (1995). “Tugman's Passage”, Lyons Press

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• The ocean doesn't care about you. It makes your boat feel tiny. The oceans are great promoters of religion, or at least of humility-but not in everyone.

  Tracy Kidder

  Humility, Care, Tiny

  Tracy Kidder (1982). “The soul of a new machine”, Avon Books

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• Having made the trip from St. Louis to the Pacific Ocean myself going up up up against twenty-five hundred miles of the Missouri River, I can testify that it's one of the most arduous trips that anyone can make on this continent and yet I had a power boat to do it in.

  William Least Heat-Moon

  Rivers, Twenties, Boat

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• Geniuses are like ocean liners: they should never meet.

  Louis Aragon

  Genius, Should

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• Ocean people are very different from land people. The ocean never stops saying and asking into ears, which don't sleep like eyes.

  Maxine Hong Kingston

  Sleep, Eye, Land

  Maxine Hong Kingston (2011). “China Men”, p.107, Vintage

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• The secret of our success on planet Earth is space. Lots of it. Our solar system is a tiny island of activity in an ocean of emptiness.

  Paul Davies

  Islands, Space, Secret

  Paul Davies (2008). “The Last Three Minutes: Conjectures About The Ultimate Fate Of The Universe”, p.4, Basic Books

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• I've had people say to me, 'Look at the sky, the fields, the ocean, the beautiful sunset. Isn't that proof positive of God?' Following that line of thought, look at the magnificent rainbows after a big rainstorm. Isn't that proof positive that God is gay?

  Ray Romano

  Beautiful, God, Sunset

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• I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and ocean in the world, were united to support me in the task to which I have now been dedicated with such solemnity.

  Queen Elizabeth II

  Support, Tasks, World

  Queen Elizabeth II's Speech on her Coronation Day, www.royal.uk. June 2, 1953.

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• If you keep your heart immersed always in the depth of that holy love, your heart is sure to remain ever full to overflowing with the Divine fervour of sacred love.

  Ramakrishna

  Love, Heart, Water

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• The Hawaiian Islands were discovered by hardy Polynesian sailors, who crossed thousands of miles of open ocean in primitive canoes, braving violent storm-tossed seas for months at a time. My family and I arrived by modern commercial aviation, which was infinitely worse.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Humorous, Food

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Talks Back”, p.107, Crown Archetype

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• After creating the heaven, the earth, the ocean, and the entire animal kingdom, God created Adam and Eve. And the first thing He said to them was "Don't."

  Bill Cosby

  Funny, God, Humorous

  Bill Cosby (2002). “Bill Cosby on Fatherhood”, p.38, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• It must be those brief moments when nothing has happened - nor is going to. Tiny moments, like islands in the ocean beyond the grey continent of our ordinary days. There, sometimes, you meet your own heart like someone you've never known.

  Hans Børli

  Heart, Islands, Ordinary Days

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• Mental purity will come through constant chanting of the divine name. This is the simplest way. You are trying to cross the ocean of transmigration, the cycle of birth and death. The mantra is the oar of the boat; it is the instrument you use to cross the samsara of your restless mind, with its unending thought waves. The mantra can also be compared to a ladder that you climb to reach the heights of God realization.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Restless Mind, Names, Meditation

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• I like the fog that creeps over the whole city every night about five, and the warm protective feeling it gives...and lights of San Francisco at night, the fog horn, the bay at dusk and the little flower stands where spring flowers appear before anywhere else in the country...But, most of all, I like the view of the ocean from the Cliff House.

  Irene Dunne

  Country, Spring, Flower

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• Under his spurning feet, the road
  Like an arrowly alpine river flowed
  And the landscape sped away behind
  Like an ocean flying before the wind.

  Thomas Buchanan Read

  Wind, Rivers, Feet

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• It's hard to bullshit the ocean. It's not listening, you know what I mean.

  David Crosby

  Mean, Sea, Bullshit

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• Animals in general have always been my passion, project, crusade - whatever you want to call it! The ocean is such a huge, beautiful thing that I feel like we all take for granted.

  Aimee Teegarden

  Beautiful, Passion, Animal

  "Beautiful Wave Star Aimee Teegarden Talks Surfer Boys And More!". Interview with Kaitlin Menza, www.seventeen.com. May 12, 2012.

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• I like old tunes when I'm driving. They're fun and uplifting. Billy Ocean, that kind of thing.

  Jenson Button

  Uplifting, Fun, Tunes

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• It's very important that people realize: the air is being taken away, the oceans are being taken away, the room is being taken away, but we're so worried about gas prices that we don't even see this stuff.

  Bootsy Collins

  Taken, Air, People

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• Following the devastating India Ocean tsunami of 2004, I founded Chefs for Humanity, modeled after Doctors Without Borders, but comprised of chefs. There wasn't anything out there like it, and there was a definite need for chefs to be able to offer assistance and aid to those suffering from hunger and/or malnutrition worldwide.

  Cat Cora

  Doctors, Humanity, India

  "Climbing a Mountain for Hunger" by Cat Cora, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 8, 2011.

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• Some things are only capable of being done in space. Examples of that are looking at our Earth from that far away, and understanding the entire processes of storms and weather patterns, and oceans, and coastlines.

  Laurel Clark

  Weather, Space, Understanding

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