Pastoral Resources

It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.

Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.

It is said that many children who live in the central provinces, away from the ocean, have a great longing to see it. I who had never been away from the monotonous country surrounding us looked forward eagerly to seeing the mountains.

But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.

Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time.

Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent.

In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.

Doo never actually made moonshine, but he hauled about an ocean of it.

Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.

I don't see America as a mainland, but as a sea, a big ocean. Sometimes a storm arises, a formidable current develops, and it seems it will engulf everything. Wait a moment, another current will appear and bring the first one to naught.

If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up.

My son walked up to Nicole on the beach and I was throwing the ball for the dogs in the ocean. I was like, 'Max, you get the dogs. I'll talk to the hot blondes.'

Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates.

It isn't the oceans which cut us off from the world - it's the American way of looking at things.

The sun would come up over the ocean, and we'd be eating scrambled eggs before we shot some stuff. It was a vacation in the sense that it was the best working conditions.

Neither our oceans nor our radar nor our fighters can keep us intact through another major war.

Whatever be the qualities of the man with whom a woman is united according to the law, such qualities even she assumes, like a river, united with the ocean.

The movie that's had the most effect on me is Jaws. To this day when I'm in the ocean, I'm hearing that music.

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.

To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.