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Atlantic Ocean Quotes

On history, hope, and crossing the Atlantic Ocean.

These Atlantic Ocean quotes lean historical, treating the ocean as central to how immigrants reached a new land full of opportunity. One line even argues the United States couldn't exist as it does without that crossing.

Last Updated on May 30, 2021

Ocean
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Nov 07, 2020

Millions upon millions of people came here full of hope and aspiration to this extraordinary land of liberty and opportunity, and helped build the United States. So the Atlantic Ocean was absolutely critical to the story of America.

Quotes by Simon Winchester

Ocean
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Nov 07, 2020

Politics is there the way men and women are there, the way the Atlantic Ocean is there. Sometimes I've written about politics specifically, I mean about politics as it's understood on television and in newspapers.

Quotes by Kenneth Koch

Never
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Nov 07, 2020

Had it not been for the Atlantic Ocean and the virgin wilderness, the United States would never have been the Land of Promise.

Quotes by Herbert Croly

Ocean
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Nov 07, 2020

I've gone on a research expedition in the Atlantic Ocean before. I was sick for the entire week after that.

Quotes by Boyan Slat

Not every quote is grand history - one is a personal, almost comic account of getting seasick during a week-long research expedition. Read side by side, the quotes move from national symbol to a genuinely rough body of water to sail.

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