Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Paul Evans

Man has left footprints on the moon but still hasn't walked on the ocean floor.

Tupac Shakur

For quiet times disappear listen to the ocean

Tracy Kidder

The ocean doesn't care about you. It makes your boat feel tiny. The oceans are great promoters of religion, or at least of humility-but not in everyone.

Tracy Kidder

... "You may not see the ocean, but right now we are in the middle of the ocean, and we have to keep swimming.

Robinson Jeffers

Nature knows that people are a tide that swells and in time will ebb, and all their works dissolve ... As for us: We must uncenter our minds from ourselves. We must unhumanize our views a little and become confident as the rock and ocean that we are made from.

Robert E. Lee

Life processes take place in an aqueous medium. All organisms are composed mostly of water, whether they dwell in the oceans, lakes, and rivers, or on the land. Because the physical and chemical properties of water are well suited to the requirements of life, it is no accident that life is a water-based phenomenon.

Robert M. Fresco

Everything that ever walked or crawled on the face of the earth, swum the depths of the ocean or soared through the skies left its imprint here

Satish Kumar

Without the land, the rivers, the oceans, the forests, the sunshine, the minerals and thousands of natural resources we would have no economy whatsoever

Sarah McLachlan

I threw bitter tears at the ocean, but all that came back was the tide.

Chris Young

He could start for any team in the Blue Ridge, River Ridge or Seminole that I've seen.

Don Lucia

He'll also get some time on the blue line.

Cindy Sheehan

greeted with overwhelming support, in blue (Democratic) states and in red (Republican) states.

Aaron Hill

I think we had more Blue Jays fans than Yankees fans. I think we can compete with everybody.

David Johansen

I think we as a band, as individuals, understand that all popular music stems from blues and jazz and even pop, but rock 'n' roll especially comes from blues.

John Pistole

I did not want to provide a blueprint or roadmap for the terrorists, saying 'Here are our new security procedures'.

Bob Woodruff

He had forgotten our procedure for establishing the budget for the insurance fund, ... When we sit down with Blue Cross and Blue Shield, they give us a top and bottom range to use.

David Ansen

He has the body-fat content of a 20-year-old sprinter, the bone structure of a public monument and the eyes... well, we know about the blue eyes (which happen to be colorblind).

Tom Renney

He may not have been in the blue when the shots finally came in, but there were moments when he was in the blue paint.

Paul Watson

All of the great whales are endangered.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I suppose you could never explain to the most ingenous molusk that such a creature as a whale existed.

James Lovelock

The entire range of living matter on Earth from whales to viruses and from oaks to algae could be regarded as constituting a single living entity capable of maintaining the Earth's atmosphere to suit its overall needs and endowed with faculties and powers far beyond those of its constituent parts.

Bill Condon

We knew that there was a certain kind of interest in Whale among a genre crowd.

Bill Bryson

Absolute brain size does not tell you everything or possibly sometimes even much. Elephants and whales both have brains larger than ours, but you wouldn't have much trouble outwitting them in contract negotiations.

Bill Vaughan

The whale is endangered, while the ant continues to do just fine.

Herman Melville

It is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn of death, that mortals realise the silent, subtle, ever-present perils of life.

J. K. Rowling

Dudley had reached roughly the size and weight of a young killer whale.

Kurt Vonnegut

A great swindle of our time is the assumption that science has made religion obsolete. All science has damaged is the story of Adam and Eve and the story of Jonah and the Whale. Everything else holds up pretty well, particularly lessons about fairness and gentleness. People who find those lessons irrelevant in the twentieth century are simply using science as an excuse for greed and harshness. Science has nothing to do with it, friends.