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- Nov 07, 2020
Ocean Quotes
The ocean as metaphor, and as a place to breathe.
Several of these quotes use the ocean as a metaphor for scale and helplessness - civilization compared to thin ice over deep chaos, a person likened to a leaf drifting without any say in where it goes. See Life quotes for more on navigating uncertainty.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
The land and the ocean are living, breathing entities that supported us, clothed us, fed us, and nurtured our culture from time immemorial.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd love to work with Drake; I'd love to work with Frank Ocean, Jay Z, and Kanye. The list is endless.
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes, you might meet somebody that you love that's turning into a 'they.' My key is invite them to Miami and take them to the ocean and let them jump off the boat in the ocean, on the sand bar, and cleanse off and pray and then go take a shower, and hopefully the 'they' is out of you.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ocean planets might be very common in the universe because water is very common in the low-temperature environments where planets form and evolve. This might be especially true for super-Earths, which can retain volatiles more easily thanks to their larger mass and surface gravity.
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- Nov 07, 2020
One day in '61, I was looking in the Santa Monica phone book for a number, and there it was: Stan Laurel, Ocean Avenue in Santa Monica. I went over there and spent the afternoon with them. And pumped him with questions. I must have driven him crazy. I spent a lot of happy hours at Stan's house on Sundays just talking about comedy.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Caribbean is an immense ocean that just happens to have a few islands in it. The people have an immense respect for it, awe of it.
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I really enjoy writing novels. It's like the ocean. You can just build a boat and take off.
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My mind became agitated with the enquiry - why a nation, separated from us by an ocean more than three thousand miles in extent, should endeavor to enforce on us plans of subjugation, the most unnatural in themselves, unjust, inhuman in their operations, and unpractised even by the uncivilized savages of the wilderness?
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- Nov 07, 2020
Apollo 13, as you may remember, gave us a reactor that is bubbling away right now somewhere in the Pacific. It's supposed to be bubbling away on the moon, but it's in the Pacific Ocean instead.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Global warming is the foreboding thunder in the distance. Ocean acidification is the lightning strike in our front yard, right here, right now.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Japanese people have a strong connection with nature and the ocean and a huge respect for them.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always say that people are like peanut shells on the ocean: the waves will take them everywhere.
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- Nov 07, 2020