Ocean Quotes - Page 27

• The temperature of the tropic oceans is warmer than it's been in 150 years

  Kerry Emanuel

  Years, Temperature

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• The Monmouth-Ocean area is . . . always in the best-areas-to-live lists.

  Brian Boyle

  Lists, Areas

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• The oceans of art are awash with people who can't paint. When those who can't paint notice those who can, they are sometimes not inclined to accept them as serious like themselves. It's an unfortunate quirk of human nature and ought not to be fretted over.

  Robert Genn

  Art, Acceptance, People

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• What we need is a cup of understanding, a barrel of love, and an ocean of patience.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Understanding, Saint, Needs

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• Those who take refuge behind theological barbed wire fences, quite often wish they could have more freedom of thought, but fear the change to the great ocean of truth as they would a cold bath.

  Luther Burbank

  Change, Truth, Freedom

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• We know less about the ocean's bottom than about the moon's back side.

  Roger Revelle

  Knowledge, Science, Moon

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• Thus, human beings are now carrying out a large scale geophysical experiment of the kind that could not have happened in the past...Within a few centuries we are returning to the atmosphere and oceans the concentrated organic carbon stored in sedimentary rocks over hundreds of millions of years.

  Roger Revelle

  Past, Rocks, Years

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• Is America a weakling, to shrink from the work of the great world powers? No! The young giant of the West stands on a continent and clasps the crest of an ocean in either hand. Our nation, glorious in youth and strength, looks into the future with eager eyes and rejoices as a strong man to run a race.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Running, Strong, Eye

  Theodore Roosevelt, Paul H. Jeffers (1998). “The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations”, p.10, Taylor Trade Publications

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• When winds are raging o'er the upper ocean And billows wild contend with angry roar, 'Tis said, far down beneath the wild commotion That peaceful stillness reigneth evermore. Far, far beneath, the noise of tempests dieth And silver waves chime ever peacefully, And no rude storm, how fierce soe'er it flyeth Disturbs the Sabbath of that deeper sea.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Peace, Wind, Sea

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1855). “Tales and Sketches of New England Life: Comprising "The Mayflower," and Other Miscellaneous Writings”, p.325

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• A day of grace is yet held out to us. Both North and South have been guilty before God; and the Christian Church has a heavy account to answer. Not by combining together, to protest injustice and cruelty, and making a common capital of sin, is this Union to be saved-but by repentance, justice and mercy; for, not surer is the eternal law by which the millstone sinks in the ocean, than that stronger law, by which injustice and cruelty shall bring on nations the wrath of Almighty God.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  God, Christian, Wrath

  "Uncle Tom's Cabin". Book by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Final lines, www.gutenberg.org. 1852.

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• If you wish to avoid foreign collision, you had better abandon the ocean.

  Henry Clay

  Political, Wish, Politics

  Speech in the House of Representatives, 22 January 1812

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• The Christian world, I discovered, was like the captain and crew of a vessel on the ocean without a compass, and tossed to and fro whithersoever the wind listed to blow them. When the light came to me, I saw that all the so-called Christian world was grovelling in darkness

  Brigham Young

  Christian, Blow, Light

  Brigham Young (1858). “Journal of Discourses”, p.73

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• Our ideals resemble the stars, which illumintate the night. No one will ever be able to touch them. But the men who, like the sailors on the ocean, take them for guides, will undoubtedly reach their goal.

  Carl Schurz

  Stars, Men, Night

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• Organic life beneath the shoreless waves
  Was born and rais’d in Ocean’s pearly caves
  First forms minute, unseen by spheric glass,
  Move on the mud, or pierce the watery mass;
  These, as successive generations bloom,
  New powers acquire, and larger limbs assume;
  Whence countless groups of vegetation spring,
  And breathing realms of fin, and feet and wing.

  Erasmus Darwin

  Spring, Moving, Glasses

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• I should study Nature's laws in all their crossings and unions; I should follow magnetic streams to their source and follow the shores of our magnetic oceans. I should go among the rays of the aurora, and follow them to their beginnings, and study their dealings and communications with other powers and expressions of matter.

  John Muir

  Travel, Nature, Communication

  John Muir, Edwin Way Teale, Henry Bugbee Kane (2001). “The Wilderness World of John Muir”, p.315, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In its mysterious past it encompasses all the dim origins of life and receives in the end, after, it may be, many transmutations, the dead husks of that same life. For all at last return to the sea - to Oceanus, the ocean river, like the ever-flowing stream of time, the beginning and the end.

  Rachel Carson

  Past, Rivers, Origin Of Life

  Rachel Carson (2011). “The Sea Around Us”, p.160, Open Road Media

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• Out here I had been putting what little money I had in Ocean Frontage, for the sole reason that there was only so much of it and no more, and that they wasent making any more.

  Will Rogers

  Real, Littles, Reason

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• Like driftwood spares which meet and pass Upon the boundless ocean-plain, So on the sea of life, alas! Man nears man, meets, and leaves again.

  Matthew Arnold

  Men, Sea, Driftwood

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• Enlightenment is an ocean of awareness that slides through the human part of us and dissolves it, and leaves us forever in eternity.

  Frederick Lenz

  Forever, Enlightenment, Slides

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• To encounter such a being is considered the ultimate karmic blessing in the sense that your life will be so configured that every single variant problematic karma will surface, which means you have the opportunity of passing through them all correctly, going over the ocean of the samsara and reaching nirvana yourself.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Teacher, Mean

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• It's a good idea to be in the physical presence of the enlightened teacher because it's not physical. You can hear the ocean from quite a ways away, but if you're standing right in front of it, it's easier.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Ideas, Way

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• You may not need a teacher or you may be drawn to one - everything is individual. But the main thing you need to do is meditate and learn to stop your thoughts and enter into the ocean of infinite awareness. You will be directed from there.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Needs, May

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• I asked Him to give me the prayers He wants me to pray and to give or withhold anything according to his plan for me. Nothing is too big to ask of Him, not even an ocean lot. It is God's business to decide if it is good for me. It is my business to obey Him.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Christian, Prayer, Giving

  Elisabeth Elliot (2004). “A Lamp unto My Feet: The Bible's Light for Your Daily Walk”, p.116, Gospel Light Publications

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• I thought Big Sur would be a great break after the tour. You'd walk down this rickety ladder to this not-very-pretty beach scene; crashing waves, moss-covered rocks, weird ocean life. It was scary. It summed up alot of things in my life, like 'I should be enjoying this, but I'm not.

  Trent Reznor

  Inspirational, Beach, Rocks

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• Set your sails now but the ocean is very rough and treacherous... if you keep going you will get there.

  Jesse Taylor

  Mma, Sail, Rough

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