Ocean Quotes - Page 39

• All authors know that any book is a casting of runes, a reading of cards, a map of the palm and heart. We make up the ocean - then fall in. But we also write the life raft.

  Erica Jong

  Book, Fall, Reading

  Erica Jong (2006). “Fear of Fifty”, p.235, Penguin

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• The whole difference between a man of genius and other men, it has been said a thousand times, and most truly, is that the first remains in great part a child, seeing with the large eyes of children, in perpetual wonder, not conscious of much knowledge--conscious, rather of infinite ignorance, and yet infinite power; a fountain of eternal admiration, delight, and creative force within him meeting the ocean of visible and governable things around him.

  John Ruskin

  Children, Ignorance, Eye

  John Ruskin (1907). “The stones of Venice”

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• Autumn comes to the sea with a fresh blaze of phosphorescence, when every wave crest is aflame. Here and there the whole surface may glow with sheets of cold fire, while below schools of fish pour through the water like molten metal.

  Rachel Carson

  School, Autumn, Fire

  Rachel Carson (2011). “The Sea Around Us”, p.32, Open Road Media

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Nowhere on the shore is the relation of a creature to its surroundings a matter of a single cause and effect; each living thing is bound to its world by many threads, weaving the intricate design of the fabric of life.

  Rachel Carson

  Fabric Of Life, Design, World

  Rachel Carson, Sue Hubbell (1998). “The Edge of the Sea”, p.14, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  19 Copy quote

  Show source

• Always the edge of the sea remains an elusive and indefinable boundary. The shore has a dual nature, changing with the swing of the tides, belonging now to the land, now to the sea.

  Rachel Carson

  Swings, Sea, Land

  Rachel Carson, Sue Hubbell (1998). “The Edge of the Sea”, p.1, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• The richness and endless variety of human relationships ... that's what authors, even the finest and greatest, only succeed in hinting at. It's a hopeless business, like trying to dip up the ocean with a tea-spoon.

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Tea, Trying, Spoons

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Mark J. Madigan (1993). “Keeping Fires Night and Day: Selected Letters of Dorothy Canfield Fisher”, p.94, University of Missouri Press

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Our desire must be like a slow and stately ship, sailing across endless oceans, never in search of safe anchorage. Then suddenly, unexpectedly, it will find mooring for a moment.

  Etty Hillesum

  Sailing, Desire, Safe

  Etty Hillesum, K. A. D. Smelik, Arnold Pomerans (2002). “Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943”, p.288, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  27 Copy quote

• Imported actors, like certain wines, sometimes do not stand the ocean trip. This can be as true of American actors in Europe as it is of European actors in America.

  Edna Ferber

  Wine, Europe, America

  Edna Ferber (1963). “A Kind of Magic”

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Sharks have swum the oceans for over 400 million years, but we're threatening this critically important species for the purpose of making soup - it's sad and wasteful.

  Ted Danson

  Sharks, Years, Important

  "Oceans Activist Ted Danson on California's Shark Fin Ban (Exclusive Q&A)". Interview with Degen Pener, www.hollywoodreporter.com. October 10, 2011.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• The biggest danger we face is overfishing. We literally could fish out our oceans, some scientists believe, in the next 40, 50, 60 years. We are fishing out the top of the food chain, and it's pretty crucial because about 200 million people depend on fish and fishing for their livelihood, and about a billion people, mostly in poorer countries, depend on fish for their protein. So this is a big problem. Good news is, it's fixable.

  Ted Danson

  Country, Believe, Years

  Source: www.pbs.org

  60 Copy quote

  Show source

• I try to surf everyday or at least go for a walk on the beach if the waves are flat. The more I travel, the more I appreciate where I live and the ocean.

  Jon Foreman

  Beach, Appreciate, Everyday

  4 Copy quote

• Once you experience being loved when you are unworthy, being forgiven when you did something wrong, that moves you into non-dual thinking. You move from what I call meritocracy, quid pro quo thinking, to the huge ocean of grace, where you stop counting or calculating.

  Richard Rohr

  Moving, Thinking, Grace

  Source: ryanthomasneace.com

  151 Copy quote

  Show source

• But, visiting Sea, your love doth press / And reach in further than you know, / And fills all these; and, when you go, / There's loneliness in loneliness.

  Alice Meynell

  Loneliness, Sea, Visiting

  4 Copy quote

• You write a book and it's like putting a message in a bottle and throwing it in the ocean. You don't know if it will ever reach any shores. And there, you see, sometimes it falls in the hands of the right person.

  Isabel Allende

  Book, Fall, Writing

  4 Copy quote

• The sea can swallow ships, and it can spit out whales like watermelon seeds. It will take what it wants, and it will keep what it has taken, and you may not take away from it what it does not wish to give.

  Natalie Babbitt

  Taken, Whales, Sea

  Natalie Babbitt (2010). “The Eyes of the Amaryllis”, p.5, Macmillan

  22 Copy quote

  Show source

• A cockle-fish may as soon crowd the ocean into its narrow shell, as vain man ever comprehend the decrees of God!

  William Beveridge

  Men, Shells, Crowds

  William Beveridge (1847). “Ecclesia Anglicana Ecclesia Catholica: Or, The Doctrine of the Church of England Consonant to Scripture, Reason, and Fathers : in a Discourse Upon the Thirty Nine Articles Agreed Upon in the Convocation Held at London MDLXII”, p.344

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• A black-crowned night heron stood on an apron of wet sand, looking across the channel. The feather plume at the back of his head lifted in a faint breeze. Out there the channel churned its cyclonic eddies counterclockwise. Schools of anchovies, halibut, and sea bass came and went: silver flashes, small storms that well up from the inside of the sea but are short-lived, like lightning.

  Gretel Ehrlich

  School, Night, Sea

  Gretel Ehrlich (1995). “A Match to the Heart: One Woman's Story of Being Struck By Lightning”, p.67, Penguin

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• Fog rolled in like a form of sorrow. To live exiled from a place you have known intimately is to experience sensory deprivation. A wide-awake coma. ... The sea was a memory bank into which everything fell and was lost. I dove in but came out empty-handed.

  Gretel Ehrlich

  Memories, Fog, Sea

  Gretel Ehrlich (1995). “A Match to the Heart: One Woman's Story of Being Struck By Lightning”, p.51, Penguin

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• He that has no present Christ has a future, dark, chaotic, heaving with its destructive ocean; and over it there goes forever--black-pinioned winging its solitary and hopeless flight, the raven of his anxious thoughts, and finds no place to rest, and comes back again to the desolate ark with its foreboding croak of evil in the present and evil in the future.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Dark, Anxious Thoughts, Ravens

  Alexander Maclaren (1859). “Sermons preached in Union chapel, Manchester”, p.289

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• the wealthy white western minority of the world could not hope to prosper if most of the rest of mankind were foundering in hopeless poverty. Islands of plenty in a vast ocean of misery never have been a good recipe for commercial success.

  Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

  White, Islands, Recipes

  7 Copy quote

• 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

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• The impulse of humanity toward social progress is like the movement in the currents of a great water system, from myriad sources and under myriad circumstances and conditions, beating onward, ever onward toward its eternity, the Ocean.

  Anna Julia Cooper

  Water, Humanity, Progress

  Anna Julia Cooper, Charles C. Lemert, Esme Bhan (1998). “The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper: Including A Voice from the South and Other Important Essays, Papers, and Letters”, p.339, Rowman & Littlefield

  37 Copy quote

  Show source

• None can comprehend eternity but the eternal God. Eternity is an ocean, whereof we shall never see the shore; it is a deep, where we can find no bottom; a labyrinth from whence we cannot extricate ourselves and where we shall never lose the door.

  Thomas Boston

  Doors, Labyrinth, Eternity

  Thomas Boston (1830). “Human Nature in Its Fourfold State: Of Primitive Integrity, Entire Depravation, Begun Recovery, and Consummate Happiness Or Misery, in the Parents of Mankind in Paradise, the Unregenerate, the Regenerate, All Mankind in the Future State, in Several Practical Discourses”, p.391

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• How much do I love you? I'll tell you no lie. How deep is the ocean? How high is the sky?

  Irving Berlin

  Lying, Love You, Sky

  Song: How Deep Is the Ocean?

  7 Copy quote

  Show source