Quotations About / On: OCEAN

  • 1.
    The Atlantic Ocean was something then.
    (John Guare (b. 1938), U.S. screenwriter, and Louis Malle. Lou (Burt Lancaster), Atlantic City (1981).)
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  • 2.
    Such is the fate of simple Bard,
    On life's rough ocean luckless starr'd:
    (Robert Burns (1759-1796), Scottish poet. To a Mountain Daisy (l. 37-38). . . World's Best Loved Poems, The. James Gilchrist Lawson, comp. (1927) Harper & Row.)
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  • 3.
    the ocean, multiple to a blinding
    oneness
    (Archie Randolph Ammons (b. 1926), U.S. poet. Cut the Grass (l. 14-15). . . Harper Anthology of Poetry, The. John Frederick Nims, ed. (1981) Harper & Row.)
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  • 4.
    The wild and wasteful ocean.
    (William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. King Henry, in Henry V, act 3, sc. 1, l. 14.)
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  • 5.
    The ocean, whose tides respond, like women's menses, to the pull of the moon, the ocean which corresponds to the amniotic fluid in which human life begins, the ocean on whose surface vessels (personified as female) can ride but in whose depth sailors meet their death and monsters conceal themselves ... it is unstable and threatening as the earth is not; it spawns new life daily, yet swallows up lives; it is changeable like the moon, unregulated, yet indestructible and eternal.
    (Adrienne Rich (b. 1929), U.S. poet. Of Woman Born, ch. 4 (1976).)
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  • 6.
    We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But if that drop was not in the ocean, I think the ocean would be less because of that missing drop. I do not agree with the big way of doing things.
    (Mother Teresa (b. 1910), Albanian-born Roman Catholic missionary in India. "Carriers of Christ's Love," A Gift for God (1975).)
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  • 7.
    The sheen of ocean gleams on the blue fish-plate.
    (Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Eighth Selection, New York (1991).)
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  • 8.
    On the whole, we were glad of the storm, which would show us the ocean in its angriest mood.
    (Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist. Cape Cod (1855-1865), in The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, vol. 4, p. 40, Houghton Mifflin (1906).)
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  • 9.
    There would be more than ocean-water broken
    Before God's last Put out the Light was spoken.
    (Robert Frost (1874-1963), U.S. poet. "Once by the Pacific.")
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  • 10.
    The heart can think of no devotion
    Greater than being shore to the ocean....
    (Robert Frost (1874-1963), U.S. poet. "Devotion.")
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