Sir Isaac Newton is said to have avowed that he felt like a child picking up shells beside the great and unexplored ocean of truth. – Mary Shelley Frankenstein, Chapter 2, Victor Frankenstein.
Had it not been for the Atlantic Ocean and the virgin wilderness, the United States would never have been the Land of Promise. – Herbert Croly
A beach is not only a sweep of sand, but shells of sea creatures, the sea glass, the seaweed, the incongruous objects washed up by the ocean. – Henry Grunwald
But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean. – H. P. Lovecraft
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. – H. L. Mencken
I am not a yachting person, by nature, but I have just enough experience on the sea under sail to feel a certain nostalgia for it when I see a big white racing yacht heeled over at cruising speed on the ocean, and I can still tie a mean bowline knot on just about anything in less than 10 seconds. – Hunter S. Thompson
When I was filming ‘Lost,’ we’d be in the jungle. The only thing we had to contend with was the sound of the ocean. That was it, really. – Henry Ian Cusick
Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent. – H. P. Lovecraft
I wonder what it’s like to be from a state that is spread across a few islands way out in the Pacific Ocean, only added to the United States in 1959. Not only that but to be the birthplace of America’s first black president? Pretty cool, I bet. – Henry Rollins
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. – George Vancouver
I always think of space-time as being the real substance of space, and the galaxies and the stars just like the foam on the ocean. – George Smoot
The stakes in my books tend to be kind of ridiculously high. In ‘Kid vs. Squid,’ the question is whether or not the California coast will be subsumed by the ocean in favor of the creation of a new Atlantis. In ‘The Boy at the End of the World,’ what’s at stake is the survival of the human species. – Greg van Eekhout
Not only have I made films about the subject, but I’ve largely funded them on my own, so I’m fully committed to doing whatever I can to change the audience’s respect and appreciation for the ocean. In 100 years I want whales, dolphins and sharks to still be around, and the ocean to be a healthier place. – Greg MacGillivray
The thing about Moby Dick is that, at heart, it’s a very simple plot – there’s only one white whale in the ocean. When you’re a boy growing up in a hostile home, you imagine it’s unique: it’s happening only to you. – Gavin O’Connor
Cirque du Soleil means Circus of the Sun. When I need to take time to reenergize, I go somewhere by the ocean to sit back and watch the sunsets. That is where the idea of ‘Soleil’ came from, on a beach in Hawaii, and because the sun is the symbol of youth and energy. – Guy Laliberte
Scientists are always the ones who head into the ocean, but I want to take writers and politicians, people who can convey the beauty that is there and perhaps do something to take care of it. – Graham Hawkes
Whatever be the qualities of the man with whom a woman is united according to the law, such qualities even she assumes, like a river, united with the ocean. – Guru Nanak
Marine scientists predict that by 2050 there will be no more large fish left in the ocean if we don’t change our relationship with the sea. – Greg MacGillivray
I’ll tell you what me scares me is plastic. Plastic bags and plastic bottles and these things. Why does my water have to be in a bloody plastic bottle? The landfill and the ocean. And I don’t know, I’m just terrified with the proliferation of plastic. – Helen Mirren
Movies like ‘The Abyss’ and ‘Jaws’ make people think the ocean is threatening. It’s not. It’s very tranquil. – Graham Hawkes
At the bottom of the ocean, bacteria that are thermophilic and can survive at the steam vent heat that would otherwise produce, if fish were there, sous-vide cooked fish, nevertheless, have managed to make that a hospitable environment for them. – Harvey V. Fineberg
The ocean is this beautiful, unexplored place. Why on Earth everyone isn’t down there, I don’t know. – Graham Hawkes
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 seashore, and diverting myself now and then in finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. – Isaac Newton
The ocean is our planet’s life support system, yet in my travels and at home, I’ve seen its degradation firsthand. – Greg MacGillivray