This is just a collection of quotes, parts of songs, or lines from poems or movies that relate to the ocean in some way. I've been collecting them for a while, and I thought it would be nice to post them somewhere on the site, since this is Run to the Ocean.net.

• "Oh great ocean, oh great sea. Run to the ocean, run to the sea."
  - U2, One Tree Hill

• "My life is like a stroll upon the beach, as near the ocean's edge as I can go."
  - Henry David Thoreau

• "The sea is the one thing that can never, even for a moment, be taken for granted."
  - Gavin Maxwell

• "I wanna breeze and an open mind
  I wanna swim in the ocean
  Wanna take my time for me"
  - Stereophonics, Maybe Tomorrow

• "The sea was angry that day, my friends. Like an old man trying to send back soup in a deli."
  - George, Seinfeld

• "Under water the fish don't stink."
  - Bobby, Bobby's World

• "A sea change into something rich and strange."
  - Shakespeare

• "I'll tell you a tale of the bottomless blue
  And it's hey to the starboard, heave-ho
  Look out, lad, a mermaid be waiting for you
  In mysterious fathoms below"
  - Fathoms Below, The Little Mermaid

• "Just a castaway
  An island lost at sea
  Another lonely day
  With no one here but me"
  - The Police, Message In A Bottle

• "The mysteries of the sea," said McDunn thoughtfully. "You know, the ocean's the biggest damned snowflake ever? It rolls and swells a thousand shapes and colors, not two alike. Strange."
  - Ray Bradbury's The Foghorn

• "Joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea
  Joy to you and me"
  - Three Dog Night, Joy to the World

• "How inappropriate to call this planet 'Earth' when clearly it is 'Ocean'."
  - Arthur Clarke

• "The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, close embrace."
  - Kate Chopin's The Awakening

• "If you'd like to come out on the ocean with me,
  I know some places that you'd have to go to believe,
  And if you're feeling afraid then we can wait till you're dreaming
  And getcha one 'nem yellow submarines"
  - The Ben Taylor Band, Safe Enough to Wake Up

• "The ocean is a wilderness reaching round the globe, wilder than a Bengal jungle, and fuller of monsters, washing the very wharves of our cities and the gardens of our sea-side residences."
  - Henry David Thoreau

• "Lie on the surface of a summer sea, out of the sight of land, under a cloudless sky - and feel the world beneath you, the depth of the ocean, the circle of horizon. People must live and work and love and weep somewhere on the planet - but silent, invisible. The earth and sea and sky hold only oneself, cocooned in a shimmer of silver light."
  - Pam Brown

• "for whatever we lose (like a you or a me)
  it's always ourselves we find in the sea"
  - e. e. cummings

• "Let's leave at sunrise
  Let's live by the ocean
  I don't mind
  If we never come home at all"
  - Doves, Pounding

• "Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul - then I account it high time to get to the sea as soon as I can."
  - Herman Melville

• "...the sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever."
  - Jacques Cousteau

• "The people along the sand
  All turn and look one way.
  They turn their back on the land.
  They look at the sea all day."
  - from Robert Frost's Neither Out Far Nor In Deep

• "We'll meet beyond the shore
  We'll kiss just as before
  Happy we'll be beyond the sea
  And never again I'll go sailing"
  - Bobby Darin, Beyond the Sea

• "To me, the sea is like a person--like a child that I've known a long time. It sounds crazy, I know, but when I swim in the sea I talk to it. I never feel alone when I'm out there."
  - Getrude Ederle

• "Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war."
  - Loren Eiseley

• "You're an ocean, you're an ocean
  Settle down, settle down
  What's the commotion
  I'm an island, but you're an ocean
  It's a stormy sea of love and devotion
  You've got me suspended motionless in time"
  - Fastball, You're an Ocean

• "Ocean, n. A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills."
  - from Ambrose Bierce's The Enlarged Devil's Dictionary

• "Beyond all things is the ocean."
  - Seneca

• "I'm an island
  Everyone can see that I'm an island
  I've got ocean just about
  Everywhere that I can see"
  - The Ben Taylor Band, Island

• "Bubbles: So, the Big Blue. What's it like?
  Nemo: Umm...big...and blue?
  Bubbles: I knew it!"
  - Finding Nemo

• "I love the sea as I do my own soul."
  - Heinrich Heine

• "Sponges grow in the ocean. That just kills me. I wonder how much deeper the ocean would be if that didn't happen."
  - Steven Wright

• "Under the sea, under the sea
  Darlin' it's better down where it's wetter.
  Take it from me.
  Up on the shore they work all day
  Out in the sun they slave away
  While we devotin' full time to floatin' under the sea"
  - Under the Sea, The Little Mermaid

• "Across the sea
  A pale moon rises
  The ships have come
  To carry you home"
  - Annie Lennox, Into the West

• "Behold the sea,
  The opaline, the plentiful and strong,
  Yet beautiful as is the rose in June,
  Fresh as the trickling rainbow of July."
  - Ralph Waldo Emerson

• "There is a society where none intrudes,
  By the deep sea, and music, in its roar."
  - from Lord Byron's Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

• "Loose my bonds -
  set me free -
  Let me rise from my bed -
  Let me go the the sea!
  O! The sound of the sea."
  - from Daphne Du Maurier's Enchanted Cornwall

• "I must go down to the seas again
  to the vagrant gypsy life,
  To the gull's way and the whale's way
  where the wind's like a whetted knife;
  And all I ask is a merry yarn
  from a laughing fellow-rover,
  And quiet sleep and a sweet dream
  when the long trick's over."
  - from John Masefield's Sea Fever

• "Give me the sunlight and the sea
  And who shall take my heaven from me?"
  - from Alfred Noyes's Mood of the Sea

• "The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect."
  - Carl Sandburg

• "Will you get your head out of the clouds and back in the water where it belongs!"
  - Sebastian, The Little Mermaid

• "The sea, vast and wild as it is, bears thus the waste and wrecks of human art to its remotest shore."
  - Henry David Thoreau

• "For thousands upon thousands of years the sunlight and the sea and the masterless winds have held tryst together."
  - Llewelyn Powys

• "The wind's feet shine along the sea."
  - Swinburne

• "The friends of our childhood, the place of our birth
  In the heart's inner chamber sung always will be,
  As the shell ever sings of its home in the sea!"
  - Frances Dana Gage

• "There is, one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath."
  - Herman Mellville

• "Leavin' just in time
  Stay there for a while
  Rolling in the ocean
  Try to catch her eye"
  - The Strokes, The Modern Age

• "I dig my toes into the sand
  The ocean looks like a thousand diamonds
  Strewn across a blue blanket"
  - Incubus, Wish You Were Here

• "Still waiting for the dawn, the sun is coming up
  The sun is coming up on the ocean
  This love is like a drop in the ocean"
  - U2, Yahweh

• "To stand at the edge of the sea...is to have known of things that are as eternal as any earthly life can be."
  - Rachel Carson, Under the Sea Wind

• "Dance there upon the shore;
  What need have you to care
  For wind or water's roar?
  And tumble out your hair."
  - W.B. Yeats

• "The sea is emotion incarnate. It loves, hates, and weeps. It defies all attempts to capture it with words and rejects all shackles. No matter what you say about it, there is always that which you can't."
  - Brom, in Eragon by Christopher Paolini