Ocean Quotes

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 sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay. (Isaac Newton)
How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean. View quote
Arthur C. Clarke
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
I'm an ocean, because I'm really deep. If you search deep enough you can find rare exotic treasures. View quote
Christina Aguilera
A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election. View quote
Bill Vaughan
People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering. View quote
Augustine of Hippo
Every drop in the ocean counts. View quote
Yoko Ono
Always keep your mind as bright and clear as the vast sky, the great ocean, and the highest peak, empty of all thoughts. Always keep your body filled with light and heat. Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment. View quote
Morihei Ueshiba
The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land, to add something to the extent and the solidity of our possessions. View quote
Thomas Henry Huxley
Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self. View quote
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar
To judge a man by his weakest link or deed is like judging the power of the ocean by one wave. (Elvis Presley)
We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop. View quote
Mother Teresa
Variants include "You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore." View quote
Christopher Columbus
We are imprisoned in the realm of life, like a sailor on his tiny boat, on an infinite ocean. View quote
Anna Freud
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble. View quote
Blaise Pascal
Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time. View quote
H. P. Lovecraft
Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent. View quote
H. P. Lovecraft
Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
The ocean is a mighty harmonist. View quote
William Wordsworth
Just as we have the power to harm the ocean, we have the power to put in place policies and modify our own behavior in ways that would be an insurance policy for the future of the sea, for the creatures there, and for us, protecting special critical areas in the ocean. (Sylvia Earle)
Just remember: If one bird carried every grain of sand, grain by grain, across the ocean, by the time he got them all on the other side, that would only be the beginning of eternity. View quote
Truman Capote
Embosom'd in the deep where Holland lies. Methinks her patient sons before me stand, Where the broad ocean leans against the land. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
Nothing wrong with Southern California that a rise in the ocean wouldn't cure. View quote
Ross Macdonald
If you wish to avoid foreign collision, you had better abandon the ocean. View quote
Henry Clay