1,481 Quotes About Ocean

The ocean was one of the greatest things he had ever seen in his life—bigger and deeper than anything he had imagined. It changed its color and shape and expression according to time and place and weather. It aroused a deep sadness in his heart, and at the same time it brought his heart peace and comfort.

May yours be the sparkle of light on the ocean,The whisper of foam on the sea,The warm sand guiding your feet safely home,A pebble in your pocket from me.Some sea glass, a starfish, some driftwood, a whelk,Treasures washed up on the shore.A flower, a feather, an urchin, a pearl,Keep your eyes open for more.May you know yourself held in the palm of Her hand,Blessed by the waves wild and free,Blown by the wind, anointed with salt,Beloved of She of the Sea.

Something bashed against the submarine with such a tremendous force that the vessel rocked violently from side to side, throwing people back and forth. Jacob and Whistler weren't ready for the first of these, and they earned bruises as their medals, but the second time the creature shook the ship, they clung to pipes that rattled in their holdings, as if they themselves feared the larger beast that came to feast upon them all.

The only ship you can truly steer in this ocean is the one you're sailing. Quit trying to alter the winds; harness them.

There is an ocean of silence between us… and I am drowning in it.

Vast tracts of ocean, whether Polynesia, Micronesia or Melanesia, contain island populations that remain outside the modern world. They know about it, they may have traveled to it, they appreciate artifacts and medical help from it, but they live their daily lives much as hundreds of generations of ancestors before them, without money, electricity, phones, TV or manufactured food.

This boy wore the ocean in his eyes, green-gray-blue, ever shifting, and I recognized him immediately. Knew before he said another word that he was as dangerous as he was beautiful.

We all have a sea inside us; can you hear it? Can you hear the ocean roaring?

With no other choices open to us, we'd turned our gaze seaward. The oceans were our America: they reached farther than any prairie, untamed as on the first day of creation. Nobody owned them.