Two Oceans Quotes

#1. We've been a country that's been fortunate to be protected by two oceans, to not have serious attacks on our territory for most of our history. And we were unfortunately reminded in a very devastating way of our vulnerability.

Condoleezza Rice

#2. Our surest protection against assault from abroad has been not all our guards, gates and guns, or even our two oceans, but our essential goodness as a people. Our richest asset has been not our material wealth but our values.

Theodore C. Sorensen

#3. Perhaps the same labeling obsession caused cartographers to split this body of water into two oceans, even though it is impossible to touch an exact point at which their currents begin to differ. Splitting. Labeling. Seeking out otherness. Some things don't change.

M.L. Stedman

#4. God of Jacob! it is the meeting of two fierce tides - the conflict of two oceans moved by adverse winds!

Walter Scott

#5. The best way to contain China and make it the peaceful rise of China is for us to have an enormously robust navy that is the greatest navy in the world, that can patrol two oceans, that can fight two or three wars, and China will not challenge us because the Chinese are practical.

Rudy Giuliani

#6. Two oceans between us. And still not enough.

Gayle Forman

#7. Two oceans away, a boy is falling in love.
Next door, another boy i just falling.
One is laughing, one is crying -
both are screaming.

Darshana Suresh

#8. America means far more than a continent bounded by two oceans. It is more than pride of military power, glory in war, or in victory. It means more than vast expanse of farms, of great factories or mines, magnificent cities, or millions of automobiles and radios.

Herbert Hoover

#9. Her eyes were oceans, two oceans of -
Good God, he thought disgustedly. No wonder his sister hated her. He'd been in her presence for less than a minute, and already he'd gone completely stupid.

Julia Quinn

#10. No nation ever had two better friends that we have. You know who they are? The Atlantic and Pacific oceans.

Will Rogers

#11. To indicate how large a part of the Earth is covered by the oceans, we might call attention to the fact that a whole hemisphere, with its center near New Zealand, would have only one-tenth of its area as dry land! And the average depth of the seas is over two miles.

Paul J. H. Schoemaker

#12. I love you, Allison. It happened when I wasn't looking for it, when I didn't know I needed it. But I fell in love with you so quickly and so smoothly. So without question.

Jessica Park

#13. It is a noble land that God has given us: a land that can feed and clothe the world; a land whose coastlines would enclose half the countries of Europe; a land set like a sentinel between the two imperial oceans of the globe.

Albert J. Beveridge

#14. I think there are two different oceans - the one that plays with you in the summer, and the one that gets so mad in the winter.

Jodi Picoult

#15. I didn't realize how interesting the place I come from is until I left home and saw how other cultures handled things differently.

Brad Pitt

#16. Pain and beauty, our constant bedfellows

Nick Bantock

#17. I never read 'The Cinderella Complex' - I'm too afraid that my name might be in it.

Susan Ford

#18. I believe in preparation. As you already know we had to deal with many crews, 2 cameras. Also as I said we had to get many different actors because they tried to tamper with the project. I just liked doing the movie how I envisioned it. I wanted it to be my own.

Tommy Wiseau

#19. Now we stand at our own crossroads, looking out upon two futures: one with rising temperatures, rising oceans, and rising violence on a hot and strip-mined planet and another with expanding organic harvests, growing solar arrays, and deepening global partnerships on a green and thriving Earth.

Van Jones

#20. I'm falling forward with the force of two years of buried grief, the sorrow of ten thousand oceans finally breaking inside me-
I let it. I let my heart break.

Jandy Nelson

#21. Look, if you draw a two thousand-mile-long line across the United States at any angle, it's going to pass through nine murder victims.

Bill Bryson

#22. I am his, and he is mine, and it has been that way all along.

Veronica Roth

#23. Our oceans cover two-thirds of what my grandfather called our water planet, and the part of the ocean that falls under the jurisdiction of the United States covers an area larger than the country itself.

Philippe Cousteau Jr.

#24. We are stronger than those who oppress us, who seek to silence us. We are stronger than the enemies of education. We are stronger than fear, hatred, violence and poverty.

Malala Yousafzai

#25. The thing I will say is that probably culturally, women are treated differently, which means, I think, you're criticized more, you have to listen a little bit more, you have to justify yourself.

Lisa Randall

#26. We do not have the luxury of two big oceans protecting us as we have had in the past, for we now have a new kind of enemy who deals with stealthiness. Our ability to protect ourselves is having the information ahead of time so we can thwart the attack.

Bill Nelson

#27. 80 percent of our global fish stocks are fully exploited, overly exploited or have collapsed. Two billion people rely on the oceans for their primary source of protein.

Barton Seaver

#28. Human technology has made it to Mars. We are transmitting gorgeous pictures from it. Yet we have not explored our own planet. Two-thirds of it is covered with oceans that are still mysterious places.

Barbara Block

#29. Our role is to encourage, not discourage, reading.

Pat R. Scales

#30. How many Elysiums have you been to?"
"Three," I said immediately. "At least ... this will be my third one."
"And how many Elysiums do you think I've been to?"
"Um. More than three?"
"I do appreciate your gift for the understatement.

Julie Kagawa

#31. What shall we call this undetermin'd state,
This narrow isthmus 'twixt two boundless oceans,
That whence we came, and that to which we tend?

George Lillo

#32. Well the sky always seemed like another ocean to me, you know? Like we live between two incredible oceans, and we'll never get to the bottom of either of them.

Brian Doyle

#33. Aggression, the writer's main source of energy.

Ted Solotaroff

#34. God had a divine purpose in placing this land between two great oceans to be found by those who had a special love of freedom and courage. - RONALD REAGAN

Bill O'Reilly

#35. His eyes were so blue, it was like looking at two angry oceans.

Alice Clayton

#36. If we lose the forests, we lose our only teachers.

Bill Mollison

#37. Josip had only an instant to exchange a glance with Serif. He made it the most eloquent glance of his life.

Geraldine Brooks

#38. A bruise is how the body remembers it's been wronged.

Jodi Picoult