Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out of their course who set sail.
~By Franz Grillparzer ~
Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don't go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won't laugh at you.
~By Jim Rohn ~
I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
~By Isaac Newton ~
The offshore ocean area under U.S. jurisdiction is larger than our land mass, and teems with plant and animal life, mineral resources, commerce, trade, and energy sources.
~By Tom Allen ~
But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.
~By H. P. Lovecraft ~
Had it not been for the Atlantic Ocean and the virgin wilderness, the United States would never have been the Land of Promise.
~By Herbert Croly ~
I had more fun making Traffic than either of the Ocean's films.
~By Steven Soderbergh ~
Our surest protection against assault from abroad has been not all our guards, gates and guns, or even our two oceans, but our essential goodness as a people. Our richest asset has been not our material wealth but our values.
~By Theodore C. Sorensen ~
Three things have been difficult to tame: the oceans, fools and women. We may soon be able to tame the oceans; fools and women will take a little longer.
~By Spiro T. Agnew ~
Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.
~By George Orwell ~
The road to democracy may be winding and is like a river taking many curves, but eventually the river will reach the ocean.
~By Chen Shui-bian ~
The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach.
~By Henry Beston ~
Our climate is changing. The Earth's climate has, in fact, warmed by 1.1 to 1.6 degrees Fahrenheit since the industrial revolution. People look at this and say: Oh, that is not very much. In fact, it is very much, and it changes the dynamic. It impacts species. It kills some. It diminishes the carbon sink of the ocean. It does a number of things.
~By Diane Feinstein ~
Pouring forth its seas everywhere, then, the ocean envelops the earth and fills its deeper chasms.
~By Nicolaus Copernicus ~
Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time.
~By H. P. Lovecraft ~
Others may use the ocean as their road; Only the English make it their abode.
~By Edmund Waller ~
We do not have the luxury of two big oceans protecting us as we have had in the past, for we now have a new kind of enemy who deals with stealthiness. Our ability to protect ourselves is having the information ahead of time so we can thwart the attack.
~By Bill Nelson ~
Neither our oceans nor our radar nor our fighters can keep us intact through another major war.
~By Philip Morrison ~
The sun would come up over the ocean, and we'd be eating scrambled eggs before we shot some stuff. It was a vacation in the sense that it was the best working conditions.
~By Marguerite Moreau ~
Apollo 13, as you may remember, gave us a reactor that is bubbling away right now somewhere in the Pacific. It's supposed to be bubbling away on the moon, but it's in the Pacific Ocean instead.
~By David R. Brower ~
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.
~By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ~
Together we can face any challenges as deep as the ocean and as high as the sky.
~By Sonia Gandhi ~
I'm not sure whether Los Angeles borders on the ocean or on oblivion. I always feel that I'm two steps away from the other side when I'm out there. It's more like a vacation place or a place to visit than a place to hunker down.
~By Jeffrey Wright ~
I don't see America as a mainland, but as a sea, a big ocean. Sometimes a storm arises, a formidable current develops, and it seems it will engulf everything. Wait a moment, another current will appear and bring the first one to naught.
~By Jacques Maritain ~
I do an awful lot of scuba diving. I love to be on the ocean, under the ocean. I live next to the ocean.
~By James Cameron ~
You can never turn your back on the ocean.
~By Rip Torn ~
Before computers, telephone lines and television connect us, we all share the same air, the same oceans, the same mountains and rivers. We are all equally responsible for protecting them.
~By Julia Louis Dreyfus ~
Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
~By Immanuel Kant ~
Sponges grow in the ocean. That just kills me. I wonder how much deeper the ocean would be if that didn't happen.
~By Steven Wright ~
We've been a country that's been fortunate to be protected by two oceans, to not have serious attacks on our territory for most of our history. And we were unfortunately reminded in a very devastating way of our vulnerability.
~By Condoleezza Rice ~
I don't know if you can change things, but it's a drop in the ocean.
~By Julie Walters ~
Hawaii was beautiful of course, we played at Turtle Bay an amazing resort right on the ocean.
~By Natalie Gulbis ~
Under the big political umbrella, a man is just like a leaf in the ocean, with no control of his destiny and does not have any choice.
~By Zhang Yimou ~
The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa, and say this, and mean it. We do not have to stand for this. A whole continent written off - we do not have to stand for this.
~By Bono ~
My son walked up to Nicole on the beach and I was throwing the ball for the dogs in the ocean. I was like, 'Max, you get the dogs. I'll talk to the hot blondes.'
~By John C. McGinley ~
Without the oceans there would be no life on Earth.
~By Peter Benchley ~
Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent.
~By H. P. Lovecraft ~
Some of them profess to be well acquainted with all the principal waters of the Columbia, with which they assured me these waters had no connection short of the ocean.
~By William Henry Ashley ~
Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.
~By Ryunosuke Satoro ~
Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and commerce.
~By John F. Kennedy ~
If you wish to avoid foreign collision, you had better abandon the ocean.
~By Henry Clay ~
We made part of the record in Miami, and I would go down to the beach, and not 20 feet from the water I see a fish that is at least seven feet long swimming close to the shore. I did not go back in the ocean the entire month.
~By Michael Stipe ~
As for poker, I've stayed away from that, even though when I was in Vegas for Ocean's Eleven, I would get accosted by these guys begging me to play. They just want to take my money. They see me, think "actor" and see some easy money.
~By Matt Damon ~
The positive heuristic of the programme saves the scientist from becoming confused by the ocean of anomalies.
~By Imre Lakatos ~
The frozen ocean... of Boston life.
~By Julia Ward Howe ~
The ocean is a central image. It is the symbolism of a great journey.
~By Enya ~
He didn't come out of my belly, but my God, I've made his bones, because I've attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I'm so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.
~By John Lennon ~
In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.
~By James Russell Lowell ~
Every drop in the ocean counts.
~By Yoko Ono ~
We all have an edge. We all are floating our psyche on top with a great ocean underneath.
~By Brad Dourif ~
The movie that's had the most effect on me is Jaws. To this day when I'm in the ocean, I'm hearing that music.
~By Judd Nelson ~
That includes not cutting down the rain forest, and stop polluting the ocean because once we kill the coral reefs and the rain forest, this earth is toast.
~By Michael Berryman ~
You're not a wave, you're a part of the ocean.
~By Mitch Albom ~
We can see cities during the day and at night, and we can watch rivers dump sediment into the ocean, and see hurricanes form.
~By Sally Ride ~
I think the Caribbean countries face rising oceans and they face increase in the severity of hurricanes. This is something that is very, very scary to all of us. The island states in the world represent - I remember this number - one-half of 1 percent of the carbon emissions in the world. And they will - some of them will disappear.
~By Steven Chu ~
Doo never actually made moonshine, but he hauled about an ocean of it.
~By Loretta Lynn ~
Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.
~By Saint Augustine ~
Simultaneously with the establishment of the Constitution, Virginia ceded to the United States her domain, which then extended to the Mississippi, and was even claimed to extend to the Pacific Ocean.
~By William H. Seward ~
If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up.
~By Abraham Maslow ~
It isn't the oceans which cut us off from the world - it's the American way of looking at things.
~By Henry Miller ~
I really enjoy writing novels. It's like the ocean. You can just build a boat and take off.
~By Denis Johnson ~
You know, I do speak the Queens English. It's just the wrong Queens that's all. It's over the 59th Street Bridge. It's not over the Atlantic Ocean.
~By Cyndi Lauper ~
When you're thirsty and it seems that you could drink the entire ocean that's faith; when you start to drink and finish only a glass or two that's science.
~By Anton Chekhov ~
Surfing soothes me, it's always been a kind of Zen experience for me. The ocean is so magnificent, peaceful, and awesome. The rest of the world disappears for me when I'm on a wave.
~By Paul Walker ~
I hope for your help to explore and protect the wild ocean in ways that will restore the health and, in so doing, secure hope for humankind. Health to the ocean means health for us.
~By Sylvia Earle ~
Often extinctions in the ocean occur at the same time as those on land. Then again, the ice age extinctions lost many big animals, but not many sea faring ones.
~By Robert T. Bakker ~
I love the ocean. Boats, not so much.
~By Jeff Goldblum ~
The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.
~By Voltaire ~
Politics is there the way men and women are there, the way the Atlantic Ocean is there. Sometimes I've written about politics specifically, I mean about politics as it's understood on television and in newspapers.
~By Kenneth Koch ~
Help is even being offered from across the ocean, as over two dozen countries have stepped forward to offer financial and material support to the American people.
~By Jo Bonner ~
I do like the ocean wave, actually. I'm born under the sign of Cancer - the sign of the crab - so I like coastal areas and sunny beaches and such - although not the wide-open and deep seas.
~By Anjelica Huston ~
Since writing JAWS, I've been lucky enough to do close to forty television shows about wildlife in the oceans, and yes, I have been attacked by sea creatures once in a while.
~By Peter Benchley ~
I like to make all kinds of movies. I'd do 'Ocean's Thirteen' with the right script.
~By Steven Soderbergh ~
I saw also that there was an ocean of darkness and death, but an infinite ocean of light and love, which flowed over the ocean of darkness.
~By George Fox ~
Yet, much of what lies beneath the ocean's surface remains a mystery, and our nation continues to rely on a confused, antiquated system of ocean governance.
~By Tom Allen ~
We also own a little boat and I'm like a kid with it. I take off early in the morning, fishing rod in tow, and just drift about the ocean all day.
~By Perry Como ~
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.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
Many drops make a bucket, many buckets make a pond, many ponds make a lake, and many lakes make an ocean.
~By Percy Ross ~
My apartment complex has a pool. I love it out here. The mountains are beautiful. It's totally different from the place I used to live. I like the heat - the only thing I would change is have the ocean, or a big body of water close by.
~By Ryan Sypek ~
We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch - we are going back from whence we came.
~By John F. Kennedy ~
Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye, looking on, finds its own.
~By Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton ~
Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates.
~By H. L. Mencken ~
There's a lot to be said about what's happening to our ocean, big companies polluting it with their oil and all the raw garbage that's being spilled in there.
~By Lloyd Bridges ~
To be anywhere near an enormous ocean liner when you are just like a fish in the water is frightening.
~By John C. Hawkes ~
We are imprisoned in the realm of life, like a sailor on his tiny boat, on an infinite ocean.
~By Anna Freud ~
Some things are only capable of being done in space. Examples of that are looking at our Earth from that far away, and understanding the entire processes of storms and weather patterns, and oceans, and coastlines.
~By Laurel Clark ~
Teachers can go on cruises with the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration and anyone can spend the summer as a volunteer in a National Parks and even earn money doing it.
~By Matthew Lesko ~
A mountain is composed of tiny grains of earth. The ocean is made up of tiny drops of water. Even so, life is but an endless series of little details, actions, speeches, and thoughts. And the consequences whether good or bad of even the least of them are far-reaching.
~By Sivananda ~
In the months leading up to World War II, there was a tendency among many Americans to talk absently about the trouble in Europe. Nothing that happened an ocean away seemed very threatening.
~By Gene Tierney ~
It is important to remember that the Pacific Ocean covers a quarter of the world's surface and that each Pacific country has its own cultural, historical and ethnic identity.
~By Jenny Shipley ~
You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.
~By Alan Watts ~
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.
~By B. R. Ambedkar ~
The ocean moans over dead men's bones.
~By Thomas Bailey Aldrich ~
We are opening up an enormous new era in archaeology. Time capsules in the deep oceans.
~By John F. Lehman, Jr. ~
Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.
~By David Herbert Lawrence ~
Man can now fly in the air like a bird, swim under the ocean like a fish, he can burrow into the ground like a mole. Now if only he could walk the earth like a man, this would be paradise.
~By Tommy Douglas ~
American public opinion is like an ocean, it cannot be stirred by a teaspoon.
~By Hubert H. Humphrey ~
God speaks to me not through the thunder and the earthquake, nor through the ocean and the stars, but through the Son of Man, and speaks in a language adapted to my imperfect sight and hearing.
~By William Lyon Phelps ~
Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
~By Ross MacDonald ~
We get a lot of people from out of state who come down and it's not what they expect Florida to be, the horse farms and oak trees instead of the sand and the ocean.
~By David Jones ~
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