Quotes about ocean
ocean moon islands
I wish I could tell you about the South Pacific. The way it actually was. The endless ocean. The infinite specks of coral we called islands. Coconut palms nodding gracefully toward the ocean. Reefs upon which waves broke into spray, and inner lagoons, lovely beyond description. I wish I could tell you about the sweating jungle, the full moon rising behind the volcanoes, and the waiting. The waiting. The timeless, repetitive waiting. James A. Michener
ocean character jewels
The chief character in this narrative is the Caribbean Sea, one of the world's most alluring bodies of water, a rare gem among the oceans, defined by the islands that form a chain of lovely jewels to the north and east James A. Michener
ocean years america
About a billion years ago, long before the continents had separated to define the ancient oceans, or their own outlines had been determined, a small protuberance jutted out from the northwest corner of what would later become North America. James A. Michener
ocean
The melancholiness of the ocean; the melancholiness of everything else. Jaden Smith
ocean men hands
Buoyed by water, he can fly in any direction-up, down, sideways-by merely flipping his hand. Under water, man becomes an archangel. Jacques Yves Cousteau
ocean sea basements
The sea is not a bargain basement. Jacques Yves Cousteau
ocean men free-diving
Man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free, Jacques Yves Cousteau
ocean nutrition found
The future of nutrition is found in the oceans Jacques Yves Cousteau
ocean sea conservation
The sea is the universal sewer. Jacques Yves Cousteau
ocean years sick
I said that the oceans were sick but they're not going to die. There is no death possible in the oceans - there will always be life - but they're getting sicker every year. Jacques Yves Cousteau
ocean men animal
When we return wild animals to nature, we merely return them to what is already theirs. For man cannot give wild animals freedom, they can only take it away. Jacques Yves Cousteau
ocean sea people
A lot of people attack the sea, I make love to it. Jacques Yves Cousteau
ocean air aquariums
Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans. Jacques Yves Cousteau
ocean animal hunting
We must plant the sea and herd its animals using the sea as farmers instead of hunters. That is what civilization is all about - farming replacing hunting. Jacques Yves Cousteau
ocean marine sea
No aquarium, no tank in a marine land, however spacious it may be, can begin to duplicate the conditions of the sea. And no dolphin who inhabits one of those aquariums or one of those marine lands can be considered normal. Jacques Yves Cousteau
ocean men sea
The sea, the great unifier, is man's only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat. Jacques Yves Cousteau
ocean hands infinite
The future is in the hands of those who explore... and from all the beauty they discover while crossing perpetually receding frontiers, they develop for nature and for humankind an infinite love. Jacques Yves Cousteau
ocean men free-diving
From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free. Jacques Yves Cousteau
ocean quality looks
We have the same qualities as God, just like a drop of the ocean has the same qualities as the whole ocean. Everybody's looking for something and we are it. We don't have to look anywhere--it's right there within ourselves. George Harrison
ocean feet feelings
I love the feeling of putting my feet back on the sand after I've been out in the ocean for a while. I love that. I guess the adrenaline calms down when the sense of balance returns in a really grounded way. Jason Mraz
ocean rocks eagles
You are the mountain, you are the rock You are the cord and you’re the spark You are the eagle, you are the lark You are the world and you’re remarkable You’re the ocean eating the shore You are the calm inside the storm You’re every emotion, you can endure You are the world and the world is yours. ((The World as I See It)) Jason Mraz
ocean reality islands
You're an island of reality in an ocean of diarrhea. Jason Mraz
ocean impact
You don't have to live near the ocean for it to have an impact on you. And you don't have to live near the ocean for you to have an impact on it. Jason Mraz
ocean land promise
Had it not been for the Atlantic Ocean and the virgin wilderness, the United States would never have been the Land of Promise. Herbert Croly
ocean enormous-quantities blue
First, he realized that the sea was blue and that there was an enormous quantity of it, and that it roared and roared-really all the banalities about the ocean that one could realize, but if any one had told him then that these things were banalities, he would have gaped in wonder. F. Scott Fitzgerald
ocean mean cells
"Ask, and it is given" means that whether you are a full blossoming genius human, or whether you are the one-celled amoeba in the ocean, or a cell in one of your bodies, when it is concluded that something else is preferred (no matter how developed the consciousness is) every time a preference is noted, Nonphysical Energy rushes forth to answer it. It is the promise of our evolving beingness. Esther Hicks
ocean writing men
The ocean is worth writing about just as man is. Ernest Hemingway
ocean sea bird
Why did they make birds so delicate and fine as those sea swallows when the ocean can be so cruel? Ernest Hemingway
ocean sailing desire
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
ocean home glasses
Why are atoms so small? ... Many examples have been devised to bring this fact home to an audience, none of them more impressive than the one used by Lord Kelvin: Suppose that you could mark the molecules in a glass of water, then pour the contents of the glass into the ocean and stir the latter thoroughly so as to distribute the marked molecules uniformly throughout the seven seas; if you then took a glass of water anywhere out of the ocean, you would find in it about a hundred of your marked molecules. Erwin Schrodinger
ocean water syrup
You can't dump one cup of sugar into the ocean and expect to get syrup. If everybody sweetened her own cup of water, then things would begin to change. Florynce Kennedy
ocean tree want
I want my music to sound like throwing yourself out of a tree, or off a tall building, or as if you’re being sucked down into the ocean and you can’t breathe… It’s something overwhelming and all-encompassing that fills you up, and you’re either going to explode with it, or you’re just going to disappear. Florence Welch
ocean moon window
Moon like a large stainedglass window that breaks on the ocean. Federico Garcia Lorca