Ocean Quotes - Page 24

• I wish America would spend even half as much time complaining about plastics in our oceans as we do about actresses' plastic surgery.

  Bette Midler

  America, Wish, Complaining

  Twitter post from Oct 22, 2014

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• The most interesting parts of the natural world are the edges, places where ocean meets land, meadow meets forest, timberline touches the heights.

  Galen Rowell

  Land, Interesting, World

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• It is chilling to think that the same people who persecuted the wise women and men of Europe, its midwives and healers, then crossed the oceans to Africa and the Americas and tortured and enslaved, raped, impoverished, and eradicated the peaceful, Christ-like people they found. And that the blueprint from which they worked, and still work, was the Bible.

  Alice Walker

  Wise, Men, Thinking

  Alice Walker (2012). “Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writer's Activism”, p.52, Ballantine Books

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• I want that love that moved the mountains.
  I want that love that split the ocean.
  I want that love that made the winds tremble.
  I want that love that roared like thunder.
  I want that love that will raise the dead.
  I want that love that lifts us to ecstasy.
  I want that love that is the silence of eternity.

  Rumi

  Wind, Silence, Mountain

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• It is easier to bridge the oceans that lie between continents than it is to bridge the gap between individuals or the peoples.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Lying, Bridges, Gaps

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• Books are islands in the ocean of time. They are also oases in the deserts of time.

  Lawrence Clark Powell

  Book, Islands, Oasis

  Lawrence Clark Powell (1987). “Next to Mother's Milk--: An Engelhard Lecture on the Book”

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• Each river is different, but they all eventually lead to the ocean. No matter what we’re doing or when, or whether it brings us happiness or remorse, gain or loss, we’re all on our individual paths to enlightenment. Even when we’ve done something we consider wrong, we’re still on our path to enlightenment.

  Chris Prentiss

  Loss, Rivers, Enlightenment

  Chris Prentiss (2007). “The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure: A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery”, p.243, BookBaby

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• Even kings and emperors, with mountains of property and oceans of wealth - these are not even equal to an ant, who does not forget God.

  Guru Nanak

  Kings, Mountain, Doe

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• As populations crowd toward the ocean's edge and the sea encroaches menacingly toward the land, John R. Gillis looks at the history of the world from a fresh perspective and enables readers to see it in a new light. That he has managed to do so in a single conceptual work is nothing short of astounding.

  Felipe Fernandez-Armesto

  Light, Sea, Land

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• Bad things are like waves. They're going to happen to you, and there's nothing you can do about it. They're part of life, like waves are a part of the ocean. If you're standing on the shoreline, you don't know when the waves are coming. But they'll come. You gotta make sure you get back to the surface, after every wave. That's all.

  Lisa Scottoline

  Wave, Surface, Shoreline

  Lisa Scottoline (2010). “Look Again”, p.218, Macmillan

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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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• Many of the tribal peoples of the world recognize that there are four places in nature where you can find deep peace and remember who you really are. One is in the deep woods; one is in the desert; one in the mountains and one near the ocean

  Angeles Arrien

  Mountain, Desert, World

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• Maharajji told me, 'Give up anger and I'll help you.' I found
  that love freed me back into the ocean of love and my righteous anger didn't do that. And I would rather be free than right.

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  Ram Dass

  Giving Up, Helping, Found

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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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• It's like all my life I've been this tower standing at the edge of the ocean for some obscure purpose, and only now, almost eighteen years in, has someone thought to flip the switch that reveals that I'm not a tower at all. I'm a lighthouse. It's like waking up. I am incandescent.

  Laini Taylor

  Years, Towers, Purpose

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• And if California slides into the ocean, as the mystics and statistics say it will, I predict this hotel will be standing until I've paid my bill.

  Warren Zevon

  Future, California, Statistics

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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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• This Maya is everywhere. It is terrible. Yet we have to work through it. The man who says that he will work when the world has become all good and then he will enjoy bliss is as likely to succeed as the man who sits beside the Ganga and says, "I will ford the river when all the water has run into the ocean."

  Swami Vivekananda

  Running, Men, Rivers

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.32, editionNEXT.com

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• 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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• It is easier to sail many thousand miles through cold and storm and cannibals, ina government ship, with five hundred men and boys to assist one, than it is to explore the private sea, the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean of one's being alone.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Boys, Sea

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.208, Cosimo, Inc.

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• A well-frog cannot imagine the ocean, nor can a summer insect conceive of ice. How then can a scholar understand the Tao? He is restricted by his own learning.

  Benjamin Hoff

  Summer, Ice, Frogs

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• Nowhere in space will we rest our eyes upon the familiar shapes of trees and plants, or any of the animals that share our world. Whatsoever life we meet will be as strange and alien as the nightmare creatures of the ocean abyss, or of the insect empire whose horrors are normally hidden from us by their microscopic scale.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Eye, Animal, Our World

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• In the aftermath of the recent wave action in the Indian Ocean, even the archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williamson [sic], proved himself a latter-day Voltairean by whimpering that he could see how this might shake belief in a friendly creator. Williamson is of course a notorious fool, who does an almost perfect imitation of a bleating and frightened sheep, but even so, one is forced to rub one's eyes in astonishment. Is it possible that a grown man could live so long and still have his personal composure, not to mention his lifetime job description, upset by a large ripple of seawater?

  Christopher Hitchens

  Atheist, Jobs, Eye

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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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• 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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