Best ocean & firsts Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose, should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. But the sea, though changed in a sinister way, will continue to exist: the threat is rather to life itself.”

Source: The Sea Around Us

“Organic life beneath the shoreless waves Was born and rais’d in Ocean’s pearly caves First forms minute, unseen by spheric glass, Move on the mud, or pierce the watery mass; These, as successive generations bloom, New powers acquire, and larger limbs assume; Whence countless groups of vegetation spring, And breathing realms of fin, and feet and wing.”

Firsts Moving Form Born Generations Groups Feet Minutes Ocean Mass Spring Wings Assuming Glasses Wave Breathing Realms Acquire Unseen Mud Caves Limbs Pierce Vegetation Fins Organic Life

Author:Erasmus Darwin

“Life on this earth first emerged from the sea. As the polar ice melts and sea level rises, we humans find ourselves facing the prospect that once again we may quite literally become ocean.”

Firsts Humans May Earth Levels Sea Ocean Ice Sea Level Rise

Author:John Luther Adams

“My life and the life of my family has to do with exploration, with adventure. My grandfather was the first man in the stratosphere, and my father was the first to touch the deepest point in the ocean... For me, adventure and exploration is something in the blood.”

Men Firsts Father Blood Adventure Ocean My Family Exploration Grandfather My Grandfather

Author:Bertrand Piccard

“Man finds his pathways: at first they were foot-tracks, as those of the beast in the wilderness; now they are swift and invisible: his thought dives through the ocean, and his wishes thread the air: has he found all the pathways yet? What reaches him, stays with him, rules him: he must accept it, not knowing its pathway.”

Men Firsts Found Wish Accepting Knowing Air Feet Ocean Track Invisible Beast Wilderness Thread Not Knowing Pathways

Book:Daniel Deronda: Top Novelist Focus

Source: Daniel Deronda: Top Novelist Focus

“More wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of the ocean. Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent. All my days I have watched it and listened to it, and I know it well. At first it told to me only the plain little tales of calm beaches and near ports, but with the years it grew more friendly and spoke of other things; of things more strange and more distant in space and time.”

Source: Complete Collection Of H. P. Lovecraft - 150 eBooks With 100+ Audiobooks (Complete Collection Of Lovecraft's Fiction, Juvenilia, Poems, Essays And Collaborations)

“Michael Jackson was part of that tremendous wave in the ocean of human expression and it happened to be located first and foremost in Gary, Indiana, working class.”

Firsts Humans Class Happened Expression Ocean Wave Working Class Indiana Gary

Author:Cornel West

“When I was young I once found a book in a Dutch translation, 'The leaves of Grass'. It was the first time a book touched me by its feeling of freedom and open spaces, the way the poet spoke of the ocean by describing a drop of water in his hand. Walt Whitman was offering the world an open hand (now we call it democracy) and my 'Monument for Walt Whitman' became this open hand with mirrors, so you can see inside yourself.”

“The whole difference between a man of genius and other men, it has been said a thousand times, and most truly, is that the first remains in great part a child, seeing with the large eyes of children, in perpetual wonder, not conscious of much knowledge--conscious, rather of infinite ignorance, and yet infinite power; a fountain of eternal admiration, delight, and creative force within him meeting the ocean of visible and governable things around him.”

Source: The Stones of Venice

“I was born by the sea, and I have noticed that all the great events of my life have taken place by the sea. My first idea of movement, of the dance, certainly came from the rhythm of the waves.”

Firsts Ideas Born Taken Sea Events Movement Ocean Wave Rhythm Great Events

Author:Isadora Duncan

“Several groups have information evaluating seafood sustainability. I wrote the first such guide, and seafood pocket-guides and detailed evaluations of different seafoods are available for download from the group I founded, Blue Ocean Institute.”

Firsts Different Groups Information Ocean Blue Available Guides Pockets Sustainability Institute Seafood Evaluation Downloads Blue Ocean

Author:Carl Safina

“Love is like some fresh spring, first a stream and then a river, changing its aspect and its nature as it flows to plunge itself in some boundless ocean, where restricted natures only find monotony, but where great souls are engulfed in endless contemplation.”

Source: The Magic Skin: Or The Wild Ass's Skin

“Oceans need more attention because climate change IS an ocean issue. Our oceans will be the first victim, and sea life will suffer dramatically. Detailed proof is hard in ocean science, but I think we're already seeing big ocean changes caused by climate change, such as starvation of whales, seabirds, and other animals off the coast US west coast.”

Thinking Needs Firsts Hard Bigs Suffering Animal Attention Issues Seeing Sea Ocean Victim West Climate Climate Change Proof Coast Starvation Whales West Coast Sea Life

Author:Mark Powell

“When I was about 14. I saw my first mountain. I saw the ocean for the first time. I remember thinking that that ocean looked very similar to our wheat fields. I didn't know what I thought I would see when I looked out at the ocean, but I thought I'd see something different.”

Thinking Knows Firsts Different Remember Saws Fields Mountain Ocean First Time Wheat Wheat Fields

Author:Dennis Hopper

“It was a thought, that. Not to attach yourself to a man, but to confront instead the open world, the wide fields of France and Spain, the ocean, anything. Not just to hitch a lift with the first fellow who looked as though he knew where he was going, but just to go.”

Men World Firsts Fields Ocean Fellows Wide France Lifts Spain

Book:Longbourn

Source: Longbourn

“Ideas are like seeds, apparently insignificant when first held in the hand. Once firmly planted, they can grow and flower into almost anything at all, a cornstalk, or a giant redwood, or a flight across the ocean. Whatever a man imagines, he can achieve.”

Men Firsts Ideas Hands Grows Imagine Achieve Flower Ocean Seeds Flight Giants Insignificant Redwoods

Book:The Spirit of St. Louis

Source: The Spirit of St. Louis

“My first breath was just...it just seemed impossible that you could actually breathe underwater. I knew in my mind it was possible, but actually experiencing it was such a gulp of joy and I feel it every time I go under the ocean. I love doing it, to be able to feel weightless, to spin on one finger, to do somersaults, to be like a graceful ballerina - even with a huge tank on your back you can do the most extraordinary things.”

Feels Mind Firsts Able Joy Can Do Impossible Huge Ocean Breaths Fingers Extraordinary Breathe Tanks Extraordinary Things Ballerina Underwater

Author:Sylvia Earle

“There are three big things going for The Scorpio Races: first, it is set on a beautiful but wild island in the middle of the cold Atlantic Ocean. That would've seduced me as a teen reader. Second, It is full of beautiful but killer horses being trained for a dangerous race. Actually, that would've seduced me as a teen reader as well. At third it involves a very repressed love story with a very Mr. Darcy-like love interest.”

“If you want to discover new oceans, you must first have the courage to leave shore.”

Ifs Want Firsts Ocean Shore Courage To Leave

Author:Winston Churchill

“I think one of the first things to go as people's lives start to go down is their dreams. Dreams should be the last thing to go - dreams are the things you go down with. If you're left clinging to a piece of driftwood in the middle of the ocean, I'd put on it the word dreams.”

People Ifs Thinking Should Firsts Dream Lasts Left Pieces Middle Ocean Clinging Driftwood

Author:Kevin Costner

“People who just wanted to make it work and knew it was going to be a real challenge. We were on the beach the first day and Donald [Sutherland] and I are playing best friends our whole lives. We met each other for 10 seconds the night before and we're sitting on a beach lining up a shot that we shoot a few minutes later, never having had a conversation with each other and then end up going skinny dipping in the Pacific Ocean buck-ass naked, not knowing who the other person is.”

“There was no magic encounter for me with a whale in the ocean; no being zapped by a whale as I snorkelled in their world. Nothing visible or capable of explanation. In fact, I'd never seen a whale. When I first witnessed their terrible death agony, I couldn't get the picture of a whale being harpooned out of my mind. It was a hideous mind-blowing sight. That day I recognised a purpose on the journey of my life.”

World Mind Firsts Facts Purpose Motivation Nature Magic Journey Terrible Ocean Capable Sight Explanation Encounters Visible Agony Whales Hideous Of My Mind Mind Blowing

Author:Sue Arnold

“My first album was called Seven Waves, and was directly inspired by the ocean, and the ocean has been a leitmotif in my music. Nature was my inspiration even in NYC, because I needed that balance - I would travel out to nature. I loved the big city, I loved the energy, but I needed the balance.”

Firsts Has Beens Bigs Inspiration Energy Cities Needed Balance Ocean Seven Inspired Wave Albums Big Cities Nyc

Author:Suzanne Ciani

“When I saw that scene [in ocean from the Aquarius] for the first time, it blew me away. It caused me to reflect on my age, my history and all that I've been through in Brazil. Having been away from Brazil for so long, while not speaking in my own tongue, when I saw that image, I felt like I was taking my first deep breath after nearly suffocating to death. It was like the plastic had been removed from my head. Even if this breath turned out to be my last, at least I got to have this one moment of release. At least I got this one chance.”

Ifs Firsts Long Moments Age Lasts Felt Chance My Own Saws Scene Ocean First Time Breaths Tongue Release Plastic Brazil Deep Breath One Chance Suffocating Aquarius

Author:Sonia Braga

“One of my favorite places is the Maldives, an all-Muslim nation in the Indian Ocean with a culture that stretches back 5,000 years. But since the highest point in the archipelago is a meter or two above sea level, even the next hundred are not guaranteed. They've committed to becoming the first carbon-neutral nation on Earth by 2020, building windmills as fast as they can.”

Years Firsts Two Earth Culture Next Nations Levels Sea Building Becoming Ocean Highest Hundred My Favorite Committed Indian Carbon Meter Favorite Places Windmills Maldives

Author:Bill McKibben

“Under the Occupation, we in Nantes were denied access to the coast of the Atlantic Ocean. It was therefore not until after the War was over that I saw the sea for the first time, in the vicinity of St Nazaire. It was there that I discovered the bunkers.”

Firsts War Saws Sea Ocean First Time Access Occupation Denied Coast Bunkers Vicinity Atlantic Ocean

Author:Paul Virilio

“When you're shopping, too, you feel like you're designing as you're shopping. You're like, 'I love this, but I wish it was shorter or I wish it was purple. I wish it was a different fabric,' you know. It starts there, but then when you have to start from scratch, it really comes with an idea first, and then... you want to tweak and then you come up with something else and you want to add to it or change. It's fun. It's like an ocean - you can do whatever.”

Knows Want Feels Firsts Ideas Different Fun Wish Can Do Design Like You Ocean Add Come Up Shopping Fabric Scratches Purple Tweak

Author:Rihanna

“Blackness is an ocean, a universe, a possibility that can never be exhausted. And so we have to constantly reaffirm the necessity of excavation, of archiving and curating, but also exploring, and understanding afresh and learning for the first time what it is that we need to know, and what the limits and boundaries are, and what the themes and preoccupations should be, and what the redemptive character of that erudition is. I find myself in the exciting position of doing all that, and at the same time having the obligation to explain to white people what the deal is.”

“Human evolution, at first, seems extraordinary. How could the process that gave rise to slugs and oak trees and fish produce a creature that can fly to the moon and invent the Internet and cross the ocean in boats?”

Firsts Humans Seems Process Tree Produce Evolution Internet Moon Creatures Ocean Crosses Extraordinary Fishes Boat Oaks Human Evolution Oak Tree Slugs

Author:Steven Pinker

“The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa, and say this, and mean it. We do not have to stand for this. A whole continent written off - we do not have to stand for this.”

Firsts Looks Mean Whole Facts Eye Poverty Written Generations Disease Ocean Extremes Humanitarian Continents Extreme Poverty

Author:Bono

“First, he realized that the sea was blue and that there was an enormous quantity of it, and that it roared and roared-really all the banalities about the ocean that one could realize, but if any one had told him then that these things were banalities, he would have gaped in wonder.”

Ifs Firsts Realizing Wonder Sea Ocean Blue Enormous Quantity Banality Enormous Quantities

Book:The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

“at last you, will say (maybe without speaking) (there are mountains inside your skull garden and chaos, ocean and hurricane; certain corners of rooms, portraits of great-grandmothers, curtains of a particular shade; your deserts; your private dinosaurs; the first woman) all i need to know: tell me everything just as it was from the beginning.”