(224 quotes found)
“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.”
Andre Gide
“Even the upper end of the riverbelieves in the ocean.”
William Stafford
“You're not a wave, you're a part of the ocean.”
Mitch Albom
“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.”
Henry Louis Mencken
“I to the world am like a drop of waterThat in the ocean seeks another drop,Who, falling there to find his fellow forth,Unseen, inquisitive, confounds himself.”
William Shakespeare
“Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.”
Albert Schweitzer
“I'm horrified of lobsters. And shrimp and lobsters are the cockroaches of the ocean.”
Brooke Burke
“This severe, ascetic music, calm and horizontal as the line of the ocean, monotonous by virtue of its serenity, anti-sensuous, and yet so intense in its contemplativeness that it verges sometimes on ecstasy”
Charles Gounod
“Faith is knowing there is an ocean because you have seen a brook.”
William Arthur Ward
“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
