1,481 Quotes About Ocean

  • Author Anna Quindlen
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    I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me.

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  • Author Maggie Q
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    Our life on earth cannot sustain without healthy oceans - and because of that, the beings who inhabit and allow that eco system to work need our help. Let's start with our wonderment, and go from there. Allow that, and it becomes easy.

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  • Author Adrienne Rich
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    The ocean, whose tides respond, like women's menses, to the pull of the moon, the ocean which corresponds to the amniotic fluid in which human life begins, the ocean on whose surface vessels (personified as female) can ride but in whose depth sailors meet their death and monsters conceal themselves... it is unstable and threatening as the earth is not; it spawns new life daily, yet swallows up lives; it is changeable like the moon, unregulated, yet indestructible and eternal.

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  • Author Andy Roddick
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    My backhand is definitely a lot more solid and consistent. There were times when I couldn't hit it into the ocean.

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  • Author Annasophia Robb
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    I love the ocean and have a passion for surfing, even though I'm not very good at it. I like getting out there and paddling around.

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  • Author Christina Rossetti
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    Why does the sea moan evermore? Shut out from heaven it makes its moan, It frets against the boundary shore; All earth's full rivers cannot fill The sea, that drinking thirsteth still.

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  • Author Galen Rowell
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    The most interesting parts of the natural world are the edges, places where ocean meets land, meadow meets forest, timberline touches the heights.

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