Top 380 Ocean Quotes

We’ve built, drilled, and shipped indiscriminately across our oceans, with little consideration for the natural environment that is critical to the health of many of our other ocean uses, like food and recreation.
Philippe Cousteau, Jr.
I’m concerned about the ocean and the environment. And I love whales.
Mayim Bialik
I would love to have an ocean of love right now. That said, the number-one rule of acting is, ‘Do not seek approval from the audience.’ People don’t realize that. You can’t do stuff to get applause. You have to live in the truth.
Chadwick Boseman
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
Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
I pray to be like the ocean, with soft currents, maybe waves at times. More and more, I want the consistency rather than the highs and the lows.
Drew Barrymore
Scientists have suggested that some whale deaths could be a result of marine noise, often a result of military activity, offshore drilling or exploration, which can disorient the animals and send them in the wrong direction, possibly toward beaches where they get stuck instead of into the deeper ocean.
Tatiana Schlossberg
Some studies suggest that the Arctic Ocean may be ice-free by the end of the century.
Jeff Goodell
In Nazare, the ocean is known as a place of death, not of riding waves.
Garrett McNamara
Ocean rowing is very much what you make it. Rowing technique is pretty irrelevant on the ocean. It’s the psychology that’s important.
Roz Savage
In Porto, it’s a tourist city. It’s close to the river, the ocean as well. There’s a lot of history.
Ruben Neves
Whether there’s even an ocean on Pluto deep inside is a question I hope New Horizons can address in indirect ways.
Alan Stern
We’re not building a nuclear reactor here. We’re not drilling a mile beneath the surface of the ocean with no plan in case something goes wrong. This is making music, this is melodious air and people can hear what goes into it.
Gord Downie
Once you start looking into the infrastructure, it becomes obvious very quickly that 99 percent of the world’s information goes through little tubes under the ocean. Those are very juicy targets for someone who wants to surveil the world.
Trevor Paglen
Everything goes in waves. Evolution goes in waves. The ocean goes in waves. Energy goes in waves. Sound travels in waves.
Edgar Ramirez
Hawaii feels so passionately about climate. You know, our oceans are warming. As a result, we have more ocean acidification and coral bleaching. You can actually see it.
Brian Schatz
I love to cook, my husband and I collect wine, and in m

I love to cook, my husband and I collect wine, and in my head, I am always on Sullivan’s Island, walking the beach listening to the song of the ocean.
Dorothea Benton Frank
There is something inexpressibly sad in the thought of the children who crossed the ocean with the Pilgrims and the fathers of Jamestown, New Amsterdam, and Boston, and the infancy of those born in the first years of colonial life in this strange new world.
Alice Morse Earle
The only time I get afraid is when I am at the ocean. I get a little nervous when I’m in the water because I always feel like something is going to bite or snatch me.
Texas Battle
I love anything that involves the ocean. Swimming, snorkelling or surfing are all fun, which distracts from your mind that you are actually doing a workout. Being outdoors in the sun and the salt water is great for freeing your mind and feeling alive.
Samantha Stosur
The road to democracy may be winding and is like a river taking many curves, but eventually the river will reach the ocean.
Chen Shui-bian
Pak-China friendship is higher than Himalayas, deeper than ocean, sweeter than honey, and stronger than steel.
Shehbaz Sharif
I love Frank Ocean. I think he’s so talented and his music is so great. So, I would love to do one of his songs like ‘Bad Religion’ or ‘Pink Matter.’
Jacob Artist
I will not vote for a candidate who thinks you can ‘pray away the gay;’ I will not vote for a candidate who thinks that he has more rights to my uterus than I do; I will not vote for a candidate who thinks that it’s okay to dump toxic waste in the ocean.
Sophia Bush
Out here in California, in the Pacific Ocean, the sharks have a bad attitude.
Katy Mixon
I would love to be a part of a project like ‘Ocean’s 8,’ if such a film is ever made in India.
Parineeti Chopra
Giant squid aren’t rare. Based on the number of beaks that have been found in the stomachs of sperm whales, it’s thought that there are actually millions of them in the ocean, and yet, we haven’t seen them.
Edith Widder
In practice, the ocean is the world’s wildest place because of both its fearsome natural danger and how easy it is out there to slip from the boundaries of law and civilization that seem so firm ashore.
Rose George
There is no substitute for a real location when you’re trying to shoot the jungle. You can’t just go anywhere. You’ve got to go where it’s lush and green and there really is those mountain ranges, the trees and the ocean.
Rachelle Lefevre
Was it proof of madness in the first corps of sea officers to have, at so critical a period, launched out on the ocean with only two armed merchant ships, two armed brigantines, and one armed sloop, to make war against such a power as Great Britain?
John Paul Jones
I like to make all kinds of movies. I’d do ‘Ocean’s Thirteen’ with the right script.
Steven Soderbergh
The ocean is a mighty harmonist.
William Wordsworth
Every time I slip into the ocean, it’s like going home.
Sylvia Earle
My dream artist to play at prom would be Frank Ocean. ‘Thinking Of You’ is one of my favorite songs. He makes really sweet music for slow dancing at prom.
Bella Thorne
I kind of went through a rough period. I could have kept going down that road and then off the cliff and into the ocean.
Nikki Reed
I got a lot of praise and attention post ‘Kai Po Che’ but I was thrown into a big ocean suddenly.
Amit Sadh
It’s a little-appreciated fact that most of the animals in our ocean make light. I’ve spent most of my career studying this phenomenon called bioluminescence. I study it because I think understanding it is critical to understanding life in the ocean where most bioluminescence occurs.
Edith Widder
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
We all have an edge. We all are floating our psyche on top with a great ocean underneath.
Brad Dourif
Right whales – so named because they were ‘the right whale to kill’ – grazed the waters off Nantucket as if they were seagoing cattle, straining the nutrient-rich surface of the ocean through the bushy plates of baleen in their perpetually grinning mouths.
Nathaniel Philbrick
Machine learning and artificial intelligence applications are proving to be especially useful in the ocean, where there is both so much data – big surfaces, deep depths – and not enough data – it is too expensive and not necessarily useful to collect samples of any kind from all over.
Tatiana Schlossberg
The Lowcountry traditionally is a logical place where the big ships stopped and brought new things in from the ocean, and the islands have a mystical tradition. It is such a visual place, too, with these iconic villages with the Spanish moss and the village and historical homes and the coast.
Margaret Stohl
If you’re overfishing at the top of the food chain, and acidifying the ocean at the bottom, you’re creating a squeeze that could conceivably collapse the whole system.
Carl Safina
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.
Anjelica Huston
I really enjoy writing novels. It’s like the ocean. You can just build a boat and take off.
Denis Johnson
As a child, I was aware of the widely-held attitude that the ocean is so big, so resilient that we could use the sea as the ultimate place to dispose of anything we did not want, from garbage and nuclear wastes to sludge from sewage to entire ships that had reached the end of their useful life.
Sylvia Earle
I done made music with Makonnen, Frank Ocean. We all make great music.
Quavo
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Philippe Cousteau, Jr.
The frozen ocean… of Boston life.
Julia Ward Howe
As long as there’s a body of water nearby, I’m happy. Pools don’t count. I like diving into the ocean and coming out refreshed.
Sarah Carter
I’m massively obsessed with Frank Ocean, so it’s always great when he decides to release music.
Dan Smith
Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness.
Werner Herzog
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.
Marguerite Moreau
I’ve gone from the top of the world to the bottom of the ocean.
Kell Brook
We are finding new areas in the ocean every day. It’s as alien as going to outer space.
Geoff Johns
The earliest memories I have of the ocean are actually stories – stories from my grandfather, the legendary ocean explorer and conservationist Jacques Cousteau. My passion for ocean conservation stems from learning at a very young age that we’re all connected; we’re all in this together.
Philippe Cousteau, Jr.
Pouring forth its seas everywhere, then, the ocean envelops the earth and fills its deeper chasms.
Nicolaus Copernicus
The story seems to be that almost every star has a planetary system… and, also, the definition of ‘habitable zone’ has expanded. In our system, it used to be that only Mars and Earth were potentially habitable. Now we’ve got an ocean on Europa… Titan.
Frank Drake