Global warming has melted the polar ice caps, raised the levels of the oceans and flooded the earth's great cities. Despite its evident prosperity, New Jersey is scarcely Utopia. ~By Godfried Danneels ~
The frozen ocean... of Boston life. ~By Julia Ward Howe ~
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 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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Every drop in the ocean counts. ~By Yoko Ono ~
If you wish to avoid foreign collision, you had better abandon the ocean. ~By Henry Clay ~
Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge. ~By Isaac Bashevis Singer ~
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 ~
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'm horrified of lobsters. And shrimp and lobsters are the cockroaches of the ocean. ~By Brooke Burke ~
Either you decide to stay in the shallow end of the pool or you go out in the ocean. ~By Christopher Reeve ~
Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure. ~By Ross MacDonald ~
What I mean by that is that the point of life, as I see it, is not to write books or scale mountains or sail oceans, but to achieve happiness, and preferably an unselfish happiness. ~By Bernard Cornwell ~
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 ~
The ocean is a central image. It is the symbolism of a great journey. ~By Enya ~
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 ~
Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore. ~By Lord Byron ~
I love the ocean. Boats, not so much. ~By Jeff Goldblum ~
Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye, looking on, finds its own. ~By Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton ~
I really enjoy writing novels. It's like the ocean. You can just build a boat and take off. ~By Denis Johnson ~
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 ~
Everything that's realistic has some sort of ugliness in it. Even a flower is ugly when it wilts, a bird when it seeks its prey, the ocean when it becomes violent. ~By Sharon Tate ~
Without the oceans there would be no life on Earth. ~By Peter Benchley ~
The 2008 election settled nothing, not even for a while. Our national politics are reflecting what appears to be going on geologically, on the bottom of the oceans and beneath the crust of the Earth: the tectonic plates are moving. ~By Peggy Noonan ~
It is said that many children who live in the central provinces, away from the ocean, have a great longing to see it. I who had never been away from the monotonous country surrounding us looked forward eagerly to seeing the mountains. ~By Pierre Loti ~
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 ~
No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm. ~By Charles Kettering ~
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 ~
Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time. ~By H. P. Lovecraft ~
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 ~
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 ~
To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me. ~By Isaac Newton ~
Can ye fathom the ocean, dark and deep, where the mighty waves and the grandeur sweep? ~By Fanny Crosby ~
In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking. ~By James Russell Lowell ~
The positive heuristic of the programme saves the scientist from becoming confused by the ocean of anomalies. ~By Imre Lakatos ~
I filmed underwater for two days in the open ocean with dolphins. ~By Kathleen Quinlan ~
I guess why the Ocean's films are hard for me is because on the one hand you have to make sure the performances are there, but on the other hand it's a film that demands, to my mind, a very layered and complex visual scheme. That takes a lot of time to figure out. ~By Steven Soderbergh ~
Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills. ~By Ambrose Bierce ~
Neither our oceans nor our radar nor our fighters can keep us intact through another major war. ~By Philip Morrison ~
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 think space exploration is very important. I think there is very intelligent life on Mars. I believe that Martians are spying on us from the bottom of the ocean. ~By Annabella Sciorra ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
It's the board I had a problem with. I could totally handle being in the water and stuff. I came here to do my own stunts. Water! Ocean! Action! Big waves! That water, that water has tamed me. You can feel that the world is connected to it. ~By Michelle Rodriguez ~
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 ~
I don't know if you can change things, but it's a drop in the ocean. ~By Julie Walters ~
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 ~
I like to make all kinds of movies. I'd do 'Ocean's Thirteen' with the right script. ~By Steven Soderbergh ~
A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election. ~By Bill Vaughan ~
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 ~
Neither does man have gills for living in a water environment; yet it is not sinful to explore the depths of the oceans in search of food or other blessings. ~By Walter Lang ~
Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent. ~By H. P. Lovecraft ~
We all have an edge. We all are floating our psyche on top with a great ocean underneath. ~By Brad Dourif ~
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 ~
The sea has now changed from it's natural, to river coloured water, the probable consequence of some streams falling into the bay, or into the ocean to the north of it, through the low land. ~By George Vancouver ~
If I swim in the ocean, I have a shark thought. Not a bad one, but just a little one. ~By Tea Leoni ~
I shall go the way of the open sea, to the lands I knew before you came, and the cool ocean breezes shall blow from me the memory of your name. ~By Adela Florence Nicolson ~
The ocean moans over dead men's bones. ~By Thomas Bailey Aldrich ~
To be anywhere near an enormous ocean liner when you are just like a fish in the water is frightening. ~By John C. Hawkes ~
If nations always moved from one set of furnished rooms to another - and always into a better set - things might be easier, but the trouble is that there is no one to prepare the new rooms. The future is worse than the ocean - there is nothing there. ~By Alexander Herzen ~
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 ~
Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life. ~By David Herbert Lawrence ~
Others may use the ocean as their road; Only the English make it their abode. ~By Edmund Waller ~
This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands. ~By Barack Obama ~
There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics none in which there is more need of good pilotage and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high. ~By Thomas Huxley ~
But now Americans, they felt a sense of peace and protection because they've been separated by so many thousands of miles of ocean. And you know, the fact that it's come to the U.S. like this is so sad, and yet you know, what can you do? It's here. ~By Patty Hearst ~
The ocean is a mighty harmonist. ~By William Wordsworth ~
A woman's heart is a deep ocean of secrets. ~By Gloria Stuart ~
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 ~
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 ~
According to String Theory, what appears to be empty space is actually a tumultuous ocean of strings vibrating at the precise frequencies that create the 4 dimensions you and I call height, width, depth and time. ~By Roy H. Williams ~
The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error. ~By Voltaire ~
How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean. ~By Arthur C. Clarke ~
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 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 ~
We are imprisoned in the realm of life, like a sailor on his tiny boat, on an infinite ocean. ~By Anna Freud ~
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 ~
Everything that ever walked or crawled on the face of the earth, swum the depths of the ocean or soared through the skies left its imprint here. ~By Robert M. Fresco ~
It is true what Rimbaud said; If you think a book is strong enough, try it at the ocean, in the wind, at the waves. If the book can resist the ocean, then it exists. Otherwise, throw it away. ~By Klaus Kinski ~
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. ~By Lord Chesterfield ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
You can never turn your back on the ocean. ~By Rip Torn ~
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 ~
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 ~
American public opinion is like an ocean, it cannot be stirred by a teaspoon. ~By Hubert H. Humphrey ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble. ~By Blaise Pascal ~
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 ~
May this house stand until an ant drinks the ocean and a tortoise circles the world. ~By Jonathan Carroll ~
Doo never actually made moonshine, but he hauled about an ocean of it. ~By Loretta Lynn ~
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 ~
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