Ocean Quotes - Page 4

• Praise the sea; on shore remain.

  John Florio

  Rain, Sea, Rivers

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• A lot of people attack the sea, I make love to it.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Sea, People, Making Love

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• Swelling in anger or sparkling in glee.

  Bayard Taylor

  Glee, Swelling, Sparkling

  BAYARD TAYLOR (1855). “POEMS OF HOME AND TRAVEL.”, p.123

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• I pray to be like the ocean, with soft currents, maybe waves at times. More and more, I want the consistency rather than the highs and the lows.

  Drew Barrymore

  Beach, Wave Of Life, Light Waves

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• He wanders, like a day-appearing dream, Through the dim wildernesses of the mind; Through desert woods and tracts, which seem Like ocean, homeless, boundless, unconfined.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Dream, Mind, Desert

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1840). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.321

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• With every drop of water you drink, every breath you take, you're connected to the sea. No matter where on Earth you live.

  Sylvia Earle

  Sea, Breathing, Water

  "My wish: Protect our oceans". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February 2009.

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• One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach.

  Anne Spencer

  Inspirational, Sad, Beautiful

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• I am the daughter of Earth and Water, And the nursling of the Sky; I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores; I change, but I cannot die. For after the rain when with never a stain The pavilion of Heaven is bare, And the winds and sunbeams with their convex gleams Build up the blue dome of air, I silently laugh at my own cenotaph, And out of the caverns of rain, Like a child from the womb, like a ghost from the tomb, I arise and unbuild it again.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Change, Mother, Daughter

  'The Cloud' (1819)

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• The sea appears all golden. Beneath the sun-lit sky.

  Heinrich Heine

  Sea, Sky, Golden

  Heinrich Heine (1859). “The Poems of Heine, complete: Translated in the original Metres: With a Sketch of Heine's Life. By Edgar Alfred Bowring”, p.89

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• The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper; I cannot quite make it out.

  Annie Dillard

  Beach, Sea, Ocean Sea

  Annie Dillard (2016). “Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters”, p.67, Canongate Books

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• In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth.

  Rachel Carson

  Beach, Nature, Memorable

  Rachel Carson (2011). “Lost Woods: The Discovered Writing of Rachel Carson”, p.114, Beacon Press

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• Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war.

  Loren Eiseley

  Beach, War, Sea

  Loren Eiseley (2016). “The Unexpected Universe: A Library of America eBook Classic”, p.45, Library of America

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• It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose, should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. But the sea, though changed in a sinister way, will continue to exist: the threat is rather to life itself.

  Rachel Carson

  Life, Sea, Environmental

  Rachel Carson (2011). “The Sea Around Us”, p.9, Open Road Media

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• The sea complains upon a thousand shores.

  Alexander Smith

  Sea, Complaining, Thousand

  Alexander Smith (1856). “Poems ... Third edition”, p.241

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• Break, break, break, On thy cold gray stones, oh sea! And I would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Sea, Stones, Tongue

  "Break, Break, Break" l. 1 (1842)

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• Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste.

  William C. Bryant

  Waste, Melancholy, Gray

  William Cullen Bryant, “Thanatopsis”

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• Sponges grow in the ocean. That just kills me. I wonder how much deeper the ocean would be if that didn't happen.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Would Be

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• One should turn towards the main ocean of the-beautiful-in-the-world so that one may by, contemplation of this Form, bring forth in all their splendor many fair fruits of discourse and meditation in a plenteous crop of philosophy.

  Plato

  Beautiful, Philosophy, Meditation

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• I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

  Isaac Newton

  Inspirational, Success, Trust

  Quoted in Christian Monitor, and Religious Intelligencer, 4 July 1812. An almost identical quotation by Newton, said to have been uttered "a little before he died," appears in Joseph Spence, Anecdotes, Observations, and Characters of Books and Men, published in 1820 but extant in manuscript form from around 1730. A paraphrase of Newton's words was printed in a note in a 1797 edition of TheWorks of Alexander Pope.

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• Your heart is like the ocean, mysterious and dark.

  Bob Dylan

  Heart, Dark, Sea

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• There lies within each person a huge reservoir of untapped potential for achievement, success, happiness,
  health and greater prosperity. It's like an ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities
  waiting to be released and channelled toward some great good.

  Jim Rohn

  Lying, Waiting, Achievement

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• To me, the sea is like a person - like a child that I've known a long time. It sounds crazy, I know, but when I swim in the sea I talk to it. I never feel alone when I'm out there.

  Gertrude Ederle

  Beach, Children, Crazy

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• Whilst breezy waves toss up their silvery spray.

  Thomas Hood

  Toss, Wave, Breezy

  Thomas Hood (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Hood (Illustrated)”, p.313, Delphi Classics

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• The land is dearer for the sea, The ocean for the shore.

  Lucy Larcom

  Sea, Land, Shore

  Lucy Larcom (1869). “Poems”, p.8

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• The ocean is a wilderness reaching round the globe, wilder than a Bengal jungle, and fuller of monsters, washing the very wharves of our cities and the gardens of our sea-side residences.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Garden, Sea, Cities

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.826, Delphi Classics

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