Ocean Quotes - Page 30

• [W]e pity our fathers for dying before steam and galvanism, sulphuric ether and ocean telegraphs, photograph and spectrograph arrived, as cheated out of their human estate.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Father, Science, Dying

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1871). “Society and Solitude and Other Essays”, p.142

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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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• Governments move armies, but only individuals can move hearts. And with every act of love that emanates from any of us, we are activating miracles, adding to a spiritual ocean that in time will purify our planet of all vestiges of fear. Love alone can triumph over hate, and if we give it the chance, it will.

  Marianne Williamson

  Spiritual, Hate, Moving

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• You don't have to touch the ocean for the ocean to touch you

  Sylvia Earle

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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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• Beauty is transcendent. It is our most immediate experience of the eternal. Think of what it's like to behold a gorgeous sunset or the ocean at dawn. Remember the ending of a great story. We yearn to linger, to experience it all our days. Sometimes the beauty is so deep it pierces us with longing. For what? For life as it was meant to be. Beauty reminds us of an Eden we have never known, but somehow our hearts were created for.

  Stasi Eldredge

  Heart, Sunset, Thinking

  John Eldredge, Stasi Eldredge (2005). “Captivating: A Guided Journal: Unveiling the Mystery of a Woman's Soul”, p.53, Thomas Nelson

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• Surely oak and threefold brass surrounded his heart who first trusted a frail vessel to the merciless ocean.

  Horace

  Heart, Firsts, Frail

  Horace (1863). “The Works of Horace”, p.5

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• Help is even being offered from across the ocean, as over two dozen countries have stepped forward to offer financial and material support to the American people.

  Jo Bonner

  Country, Two, People

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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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• 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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• The ship anchored in the harbor rots faster than the ship crossing the ocean; a still pool of water stagnates more rapidly than a running stream.

  Brownie Wise

  Running, Water, Ships

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• I love to cook, my husband and I collect wine, and in my head, I am always on Sullivan's Island, walking the beach listening to the song of the ocean.

  Dorothea Benton Frank

  Song, Beach, Husband

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• Some studies suggest that the Arctic Ocean may be ice-free by the end of the century.

  Jeff Goodell

  Ice, May, Study

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• As a species, we've always been discoverers and adventurers, and space and the deep ocean are some of the last frontiers.

  Paul Allen

  Space, Lasts, Species

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• The ocean, king of mountains and the mighty continents Are not heavy burdens to bear when compared To the burden of not repaying the world's kindness.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspirational, Motivational, Kings

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• See her gentle sway, a wave on the ocean could never move that way.

  Johnny Tillotson

  Moving, Way, Compliment

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• When the skies and the oceans are clean again. Then we shall be free.

  Garth Brooks

  Peace, Sky, Special

  Song: We Shall Be Free, Album: The Chase, 1992

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• I am terrified of flying. I am a wreck right before I get on an airplane. That, and the ocean. I can only get in there for 10 minutes, I have this strong urge to run out and I won't go back in for the rest of the day. I've always been like that.

  Kyle Gallner

  Running, Strong, Airplane

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I love the ocean, but I'm just not one to lie on the beach.

  Naomi Judd

  Beach, Lying

  "Naomi Judd Gets a Radio Talk Show on SiriusXM" by Chris Talbott, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 1, 2012.

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• The moon upon the ocean is swept around in motion, but without ever knowing.

  Enya

  Philosophy, Moon, Knowing

  Song: Anywhere Is

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• To live on the land we must learn from the ocean, to be true as the tide and free as the wind swell.

  John Denver

  Philosophy, Wind, Land

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• Pleasure unparalleled, into the ocean of love we fell. Swimming in the timeless currents of pure bliss, fantasies interchanging with every kiss.

  LL Cool J

  Romantic, Swimming, Kissing

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• And this sensitivity will create new friendships for you - friendships with trees, with birds, with animals, with mountains, with rivers, with oceans, with stars. Life becomes richer as love grows.

  Rajneesh

  Nature, Stars, Animal

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• There is no substitute for a real location when you're trying to shoot the jungle. You can't just go anywhere. You've got to go where it's lush and green and there really is those mountain ranges, the trees and the ocean.

  Rachelle Lefevre

  Real, Mountain Ranges, Tree

  "Rachelle Lefevre Interview Off the Map". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. Jaunuary 12, 2011.

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• What better way to learn about life in the ocean--and how we are changing it--than through stories of blind zombie worms, immortal jellyfish, and unicorns of the sea? The Extreme Life of the Sea is an insightful book that inspires awe and wonder about our ocean, and brilliantly shows us the immense possibilities of life on Earth.

  Enric Sala

  Book, Sea, Awe And Wonder

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