Quotes and Sayings about Diving

75% of the Earth's surface is ocean. So divers live on a much bigger planet.

Life feels better in a wetsuit.

I must be a mermaid. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.

From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free.

The ocean is a source of inspiration, wonder, and awe. Diving allows us to tap into that inspiration and to experience the world in a whole new way.

I want to spend some time at the bottom of the sea... In peace and total silence.

Successful technologies often begin as hobbies. Jacques Cousteau invented scuba diving because he enjoyed exploring caves. The Wright brothers invented flying as a relief from the monotony of their normal business of selling and repairing bicycles.

If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.

The human world... it's a mess.

No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.

The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears, or the sea.

The ocean is where I go
To lose my mind and find my soul

For whatever we lose (like a you or a me),
it's always our self we find in the sea.

When anxious, uneasy and bad thoughts come, I go to the sea, and the sea drowns them out with its great wide sounds, cleanses me with its noise, and imposes a rhythm upon everything in me that is bewildered and confused.

May all your blues be the ocean and the sky!

Right down here, the ocean has a depth of almost 4,000 meters. Man has mapped out every corner of this world. Been to the farthest deserts, the top of the highest mountains. But what's down there is still a mystery. A hidden world in the shadows.

The watery part of this world has a way of healing even the deepest of wounds.

Why does the ocean have live so far away from my home?

The ocean may not be the answer, but it makes you forget the question!

The oceans are home for up to 80% of all life on Earth.

If the ocean dies, so do we.

The landscapes underwater don't know any borders.

Bottom of the sea's the top of another world.

What one man can do himself directly is but little. If however he can stir up ten others to take up the task he has accomplished much.

I confess that in 1901 I said to my brother Orville that man would not fly for fifty years.

No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.

The airplane stays up because it doesn't have the time to fall.

Island days. Island ways. Surfing, sun and sunny rays.

I discovered surfing, which I absolutely fell in love with. That feels good and kind of keeps your body aligned, so does the salt water.

Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.

Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

Like so many things, it's not what is outside, but what is inside that counts.

"What makes the desert beautiful," said the little prince, "is that somewhere it hides a well."

I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored.

The truth is: the natural world is changing. And we are totally dependent on that world. It provides our food, water and air. It is the most precious thing we have and we need to defend it.

It's easy to fix a machine when you know how it's built and how it works. But people... they're much more difficult.

I read in a book that when people die, they turn into stars and watch over us from the sky.

Every orchid or rose or lizard or snake is the work of a dedicated and skilled breeder. There are thousands of people, amateurs and professionals, who devote their lives to this business. Now imagine what will happen when the tools of genetic engineering become accessible to these people.

We have no reason to think that climate change is harmful if you look at the world as a whole. Most places, in fact, are better off being warmer than being colder. And historically, the really bad times for the environment and for people have been the cold periods rather than the warm periods.

Nothing gives me as much pleasure as travelling. I love getting on trains and boats and planes.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

My ideals have no stains.
I must correct you. People here bear no sins in the eyes of the gods... Only laws and the Tribunal can judge someone.
They can judge even me. So praise my magnificence and purity.

Eternity stretches things out over a long time. But each moment within it becomes all the more fragile.

With you by my side, though our mouths stay silent, my heart is at peace.

Observation is the first step of any experiment, but observing the current world doesn't satisfy me. It lacks an important dimension - that of time.

Some ambitions have the power to heal wounds, to bring victory, to inspire hope. But some ambitions, outlive their masters, long after their soul ascends. They remain as they were in the beginning, burning bright and true, for all eternity.