Quotes About The Ocean Floor

#1. Since much of the ocean floor remains unexplored (except perhaps for still-classified data acquired by the U.S. and Soviet navies), we may know more about the surface topography of Venus than about any other planet, Earth included.

Carl Sagan

#2. Just look at the world around you, right here on the ocean floor. Such wonderful things surround you. What else are you looking for? Its all under the sea

SebastiAn

#3. We need to lose the mental image of our pre-Christian state as a drowning person helplessly flailing about in the water, hoping upon hope that someone might throw us a life preserver. Outside of Christ we are, in fact, spiritual corpses rotting on the ocean floor among the silt and sludge.

Gloria Furman

#4. Blessed be they whose lives do not taste of evil
but if some god shakes your house
ruin arrives
ruin does not leave
it comes tolling over the generations
it comes rolling the black night salt up from the ocean floor
and all your thrashed coasts groan

Anne Carson

#5. If you allow dunya to own your heart, like the ocean that owns the boat, it will take over. You will sink down to the depths of the sea. You will touch the ocean floor.

Yasmin Mogahed

#6. I've got a magic charm
That I keep up my sleeve,
I can walk the ocean floor
And never have to breathe.

Maya Angelou

#7. We are going toward the sea. I have swollen. I am carried away. Sometimes at night love comes up so quickly and so high, and if we have no little boat perhaps it is because we want to roll breathless under the ocean floor.

Helene Cixous

#8. When he was young, his father told him that black people didn't like water because they were brought over on slave ships. What did a black man want to swim for? The ocean floor was already littered with black men.

Yaa Gyasi

#9. Man has left footprints on the moon but still hasn't walked on the ocean floor.

Richard Paul Evans

#10. What is there left for me after my purgatory of solitude? ... I welcome death as a version of life in which I will not be myself. There is a fallacy here which I ought to see but will not. For when I wake on the ocean floor it will be the same old voice that drones out of me ...

J.M. Coetzee

#11. Smart men walked on the moon, daring men walked on the ocean floor, but wise men walk with God.

Leonard Ravenhill

#12. To be honest, I had been restless ... The sensation would rise suddenly like freight from the ocean floor
the unexpected discontent of cows in their pasture. The constant chewing of all that cud.

Sue Monk Kidd

#13. Long after you go down
and the vessel rusts apart

your bones sunken
buried in the ocean floor

I wonder if you miss people?

Kristin Elizabeth Clark

#14. Shy is the oyster, fervent is the clam, peaceful is the ocean floor rocked by the sands of time.

Bradley Chicho

#15. For the life of me I can't understand why BP couldn't go in at the ocean floor, maybe 10 feet lateral to the - around the periphery, drill a few holes, and put a little ammonium nitrate, some dynamite in those holes, and detonate that dynamite, and seal that leak. Seal it permanently.

Phil Gingrey

#16. The configuration of the ocean-floor is of great interest to seismologists studying the movements of the Earth's crust. Oceanographers are also able to explain certain peculiarities of ocean currents by the contour of the ocean-bed. But enormous areas are still unexplored.

Paul J. H. Schoemaker

#17. In the new quiet I heard the sea as if my ears were laid against the ocean floor. I could hear everything. The rumbling earthquake of a ship and spider crabs moving between weeds.

Deborah Levy

#18. She felt like a creature born to reside on the bottom of the ocean floor, dark and flat and half-blind, slowly rising through the icy water to the glittering light above.

Lisa Jewell

#19. It's not enough to fill your head with wondrous ideas - you must initiate action.

Lorii Myers

#20. What nerve. Not even a modicum of originality.

Samuel Goldwyn

#21. The beige linoleum floor turned into the ocean, crashed and crashed against Lotto's shins. He sat down. How swiftly things spun. Two minutes ago he'd been a kid, thinking about his nintendo system, worried about asymptotes and signs. Now he was, heavy, adult.

Lauren Groff

#22. Like a grain of sand that gets into an oyster's shell. What if the grain doesn't want to become a pearl? Is it ever asked to climb out quietly and take up its old position as a bit of ocean floor?

Robin McKinley

#23. Contrary to popular wisdom, knowledge is not power - it's potential power. Knowledge is not mastery. Execution is mastery. Execution will trump knowledge every day of the week.

Anthony Robbins

#24. In chambers deep, Where waters sleep, What unknown treasures pave the floor.

Edward Young

#25. For a moment I want to believe him. For a moment I want to sit on the floor and cry out the ocean lodged in my throat.

Tahereh Mafi

#26. We know what the surface of the moon is better than we know what the surface of the sea floor is.

James Garner

#27. Losers, even if they do not have a brain,have a heart.

Chetan Bhagat

#28. A man of your advanced years is surely a little deaf." "Sorry, could you speak up? I can't hear you.

E.L. James

#29. I dream of a day when they may rise above the billows to drag down in their reeking talons the remnants of puny, war-exhausted mankind - of a day when the land shall sink, and the dark ocean floor shall ascend amidst universal pandemonium.

H.P. Lovecraft

#30. You're in pretty good shape for the shape you are in.

Dr. Seuss

#31. My mother drove me to Boston and bought me a beautiful blue dress that touched the floor, spilling out in waves; I wore the ocean in the shape of a girl.

Kelle Groom

#32. If you don't scratch your own back, you will have an itchy back.

L.F.Young