{"id":4546,"date":"2016-04-22T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-22T16:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/?p=4546"},"modified":"2017-04-27T07:55:39","modified_gmt":"2017-04-27T14:55:39","slug":"five-quotes-about-the-ocean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/five-quotes-about-the-ocean\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Quotes about the Ocean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4547 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/5456265689_3f4ded31ec_z.jpg\" alt=\"Quotes about the Ocean\" width=\"640\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/5456265689_3f4ded31ec_z.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/5456265689_3f4ded31ec_z-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>&#8220;The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides.&#8221;<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0<i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_title_resp.php?TName=20,000%20Leagues%20Under%20the%20Sea\">20,000 Leagues Under the Sea<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_author_resp.php?AName=Jules%20Verne\">Jules Verne<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>No mercy, no power but its own controls it. Panting and snorting like a mad battle steed that has lost its rider, the masterless ocean overruns the globe.<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0<i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_title_resp.php?TName=Moby%20Dick\">Moby Dick<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_author_resp.php?AName=Herman%20Melville\">Herman Melville<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>And then, the unspeakable purity &#8211; and freshness of the air! There was just enough heat to enhance the value of the breeze, and just enough wind to keep the whole sea in motion, to make the waves come bounding to the shore, foaming and sparkling, as if wild with glee.<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0<i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_title_resp.php?TName=Agnes%20Grey\">Agnes Grey<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_author_resp.php?AName=Anne%20Bronte\">Anne Bronte<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>The sigh of all the seas breaking in measure round the isles soothed them; the night wrapped them; nothing broke their sleep, until, the birds beginning and the dawn weaving their thin voices in to its whiteness.<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0<i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_title_resp.php?TName=To%20the%20Lighthouse\">To the Lighthouse<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_author_resp.php?AName=Virginia%20Woolf\">Virginia Woolf<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>&#8220;Look at that sea, girls&#8211;all silver and shadow and vision of things not seen. We couldn&#8217;t enjoy its loveliness any more if we had millions of dollars and ropes of diamonds.&#8221;<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0<i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_title_resp.php?TName=Anne%20of%20Green%20Gables\">Anne of Green Gables<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_author_resp.php?AName=Lucy%20Maud%20Montgomery\">Lucy Maud Montgomery<\/a><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_topic_resp.php?QuoteType=Ocean&amp;page=1\">See More Quotes about the Ocean<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quotes about the ocean including . . . No mercy, no power but its own controls it. Panting and snorting like a mad battle steed that has lost its rider, the masterless ocean overruns the globe. ~ Moby Dick by Herman Melville<\/p>\n ","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4548,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[947],"tags":[939,297,418,100,250,419,99,616,936,167],"class_list":["post-4546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quote-topics","tag-agnes-grey","tag-anne-bronte","tag-anne-of-green-gables","tag-herman-melville","tag-jules-verne","tag-lucy-maud-montgomery","tag-moby-dick","tag-to-the-lighthouse","tag-topic1","tag-virginia-woolf"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}