Atlantic Ocean Quotes

...but the Atlantic Ocean is deep and wide and money doesn't hurry from the other side.
- James Baldwin

Vast spaces of nature; the Atlantic Ocean, the South Sea; vast intervals of time, years, centuries, are of no account. This which I think and feel, underlay that former state of life and circumstances, as it does underlie my present, and will always circumstance, and what is called life, and what is called death.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Had it not been for the Atlantic Ocean and the virgin wilderness, the United States would never have been the Land of Promise.
- Herbert Croly

It's hard to find friends I can trust. Most end up either getting shot, stabbed, or I have to tie them up and toss them overboard in the Atlantic Ocean.
- Jarod Kintz

Politics is there the way men and women are there, the way the Atlantic Ocean is there. Sometimes I've written about politics specifically, I mean about politics as it's understood on television and in newspapers.
- Kenneth Koch

You know, I do speak the Queens English. It's just the wrong Queens that's all. It's over the 59th Street Bridge. It's not over the Atlantic Ocean.
- Cyndi Lauper

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.
- H L Mencken

The gap between most people's capacity to conjure beauty from scratch and to merely recognize it when they see it is the width of the Atlantic Ocean.
- Lionel Shriver