Sea Creatures Quotes

Where great whales come sailing by, Sail and sail, with unshut eye, Round the world for ever and aye.

My favourite thing to do on this planet is to scuba dive.

Thalia had been turned into a pine tree when she was 12. Me... well, i was doing my best not to follow her example. I had nightmares about what Poseidon might turn me into if i were ever in the verge of death—plankton, maybe. Or a floating patch of kelp.

For a time, I believed not in God nor Santa Claus, but in mermaids. They seemed as logical and possible to me as the brittle twig of a seahorse in the zoo aquarium or the skates lugged up on the lines of cursing Sunday fishermen - skates the shape of old pillowslips with the full, coy lips of women.

The Nautilus was piercing the water with its sharp spur, after having accomplished nearly ten thousand leagues in three months and a half, a distance greater than the great circle of the earth. Where were we going now, and what was reserved for the future?

Everybody's got some fascination with undersea life, don't you think?

One day I caught four Dolphins, how much I have gazed at these beautiful creatures... as they changed their hue in twenty varieties of richest arrangement of tints.

I was into Jacques Cousteau as a kid and started scuba-diving around 14, which blew my mind. It was all colour, another world.

I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.

The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings. And the sea is precisely their best vehicle, the only medium through which these giants (against which terrestrial animals, such as elephants or rhinoceroses, are as nothing) can be produced or developed

All in all, the dives I made in Fiordland were some of the best I've ever made.

I do an awful lot of scuba diving. I love to be on the ocean, under the ocean. I live next to the ocean.

And the new day was a great big fish.

I don't like grouper fish. Well, they're okay. They hang around star fish. Because they're grouper fish.

If I didn't travel so much, maybe my perfect Sunday would be skin diving on a coral reef - not scuba diving, as skin diving is more physical, and I prefer the lightness of it. Skin diving means wearing just goggles. Oh, I could wear some trunks, maybe.

I just love mermaids. I was a mermaid in my past life. I just feel it when I go in the sea. I just feel a connection there between me, and the water, and the fish - they speak to me - and the shells - they ring out to me.

I deep sea fish a lot.

I went whale watching once. It was very similar to watching people on a boat become disappointed.

Poseidon can come in too! We will eat you both! Seafood!

An ocean without unnamed monsters would be like sleep without dreams.

The naturalists of yore esteemed the ocean to be a treasury of wonders, and sought therein for monstrosities and organisms contrary to the law of nature, such as they interpreted it.

Poseidon grinned. "You're doing well with those new cabins, by the way. I suppose this means I can claim all those other sons and daughters of mine and send you some siblings next summer." "Ha-ha." Poseidon reeled in his empty line. I shifted my feet. "Um, you were kidding, right?" Poseidon gave me one of his inside-joke winks, and I still didn't know whether he was serious or not.

'SpongeBob SquarePants' is a great show, and it centers on a character that is courageously nice. Why is SpongeBob interesting? It's because he has passion. He has a passion for chasing jellyfish.

I want to stay in the ocean. I'm not going to be able to do that from some holding cell in Japan.

Even in the vast and mysterious reaches of the sea we are brought back to the fundamental truth that nothing lives to itself.