Ocean Quotes - Page 37

• This earth that we live on is full of stories in the same way that, for a fish, the ocean is full of ocean. Some people say when we are born we're born into stories. I say we're also born from stories.

  Ben Okri

  People, Stories, Earth

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• The ocean is a large drop; a drop is a small ocean.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred R. Ferguson (1965). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume V: 1835-1838”, p.169, Harvard University Press

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• To me the foundation of all life is in the ocean.

  Jean-Michel Cousteau

  Foundation, Life Is

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• Every breath of air we take is coming from the ocean.

  Jean-Michel Cousteau

  Air, Breaths

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• The Ocean Health Index is like the thermometer of the ocean. It will allow us to take the temperature to know what is going on at the global level, trying to integrate different impacts, including overfishing, invasive species, coastal development, and climate change.

  Enric Sala

  Impact, Trying, Climate

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• You are water, you understand - electrified water. The elements and balance of ocean water match the blood in your human body. Humans were made from the ocean. This is one of the greatest secrets of creation.

  Barbara Marciniak

  Blood, Water, Secret

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• One day I was meditating on a cliff overlooking the ocean in Southern California and I was absorbed in a state of high meditation. As I came out of the meditation and became aware of the sense world the world around me I knew that I had a new name. And the name, of course, was Rama.

  Frederick Lenz

  Names, California, Meditation

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• This villainous heterogenous mass of ocean highwaymen are the very ejectment of the four quarters of the globe.

  Peter Earle

  Four, Quarters, Mass

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• I was on the second helicopter and arrived moments before Marine One touched down at Brenton Point in Newport, R.I. I bet one of the advance staff that after landing, instead of walking to the motorcade the President would walk across the road to view the ocean at sunset. I won the bet.

  Pete Souza

  Sunset, Marine, Views

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• Mr. and Mrs. Smith. It's kind of a more of a comedic-actiony film. And then we just started Ocean's [12] Monday. Or I did anyways.

  Brad Pitt

  Monday, Kind, Film

  Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. May 10, 2004.

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• It is true what Rimbaud said; If you think a book is strong enough, try it at the ocean, in the wind, at the waves. If the book can resist the ocean, then it exists. Otherwise, throw it away.

  Klaus Kinski

  Strong, Book, Thinking

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• A person is made up of awarenesses. All the awarenesses that have ever been our will ever be exist like barges floating in the ocean.

  Frederick Lenz

  Floating, Awareness, Made

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• I know not how I seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now and then finding a small bright pebble to content myself with while the vast ocean of undiscovered truth lay before me.

  Isaac Newton

  Children, Atheism, Pebbles

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• I just love being on the ocean and being creative on the waves and the feeling you get when you're surfing. All around it's beautiful and fun.

  Bethany Hamilton

  Beautiful, Fun, Love Is

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I'm a homebody, as many writers are, and need to be by myself, and I like to be by the Atlantic Ocean.

  William Monahan

  Needs, Atlantic Ocean, Homebodies

  Source: collider.com

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• Consumerism is hard to describe when it's the ocean and we're the plankton.

  Geoffrey Miller

  Consumerism, Plankton, Hard

  Geoffrey Miller (2009). “Spent: Sex, Evolution, and Consumer Behavior”, p.8, Penguin

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• What is society but an individual? [] The ocean is not society; it is individuals. This was how I managed to gain a modicum of freedom from my terror at the illusion of the ocean called the world.

  Osamu Dazai

  World, Gains, Illusion

  Osamu Dazai (1973). “No Longer Human”, p.125, New Directions Publishing

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• I think sharks are beautiful creatures, and I don't think we should stop going in the ocean because of them. You drive down the road and you get in an accident, but most people end up driving down the road again. Surfing is you're going into their home and it's just a natural part of life.

  Bethany Hamilton

  Beautiful, Home, Thinking

  "SOUL SURFER Interview With Bethany Hamilton!". Interview with Mark Clark, whatculture.com. September 24, 2011.

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• I love the ocean and have a passion for surfing, even though I'm not very good at it. I like getting out there and paddling around.

  AnnaSophia Robb

  Passion, Surfing, Paddling

  Source: www.lasplash.com

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• Surfing is a huge passion of mine. I'm and addict to it in a sense. I think it is a good addiction. I spend about anywhere from two to eight hours a day in the water when I am home. I enjoy competing and traveling. I don't know, I just like being in the ocean and enjoying God's creation. Just the adrenaline you get and its good exercise you get at the same time.

  Bethany Hamilton

  Passion, Home, Exercise

  Source: yeticket.com

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• Every time I get a chance to be out in the ocean, it's like hitting a reset button for me where I just feel alive again, in perfect balance. Music can give me that, as well, but not as easily. The ocean is the way I know how to find it almost daily.

  Jack Johnson

  Reset Button, Giving, Perfect

  "Nature, Biofuels, Sustainable Food, New Album, Love, etc". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. September 1, 2013.

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• Ocean privilege does not exist anymore. The world is small. We cannot rely on distance anymore.

  Greg Gutfeld

  Distance, Doe, World

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I started with [Leo] Tolstoy and I was overwhelmed. Tolstoy writes like an ocean, in huge, rolling waves, and it doesn't look like it was processed through his thinking. It feels very natural. You don't question whether Tolstoy's right or wrong. His philosophy is housed in interrelating characters, so it's not up for grabs.

  Mel Brooks

  Philosophy, Writing, Character

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• The best way to contain China and make it the peaceful rise of China is for us to have an enormously robust navy that is the greatest navy in the world, that can patrol two oceans, that can fight two or three wars, and China will not challenge us because the Chinese are practical.

  Rudy Giuliani

  War, Fighting, Two

  "Is the Confederate flag controversy a Democratic problem?". "The Hannity Show", www.foxnews.com. June 25, 2015.

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• Watch the unending activity of the flowing stream or the growing tree. See the breakers of the ocean, the unceasing movements of the earth, the planets, the sun and the stars. All creation is life, movement, work.

  Maria Montessori

  Stars, Tree, Watches

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