ocean creatures Quotes

Although Shanghai is on the sea, it long lacked the prosperity that Hong Kong enjoyed, so while Hong Kong became known for its exotic ocean creatures, Shanghai built its diet around more commonplace river and sea fish.

Conceive a jelly-fish such as sails in our summer seas, bell-shaped and of enormous size - far larger, I should judge, than the dome of St. Paul's. It was of a light pink colour veined with a delicate green, but the whole huge fabric so tenuous that it was but a fairy outline against the dark blue sky. It pulsated with a delicate and regular rhythm. From it there depended two long drooping, green tentacles, which swayed slowly backwards and forwards. This gorgeous vision passed gently with noiseless dignity over my head, as light and fragile as a soap-bubble, and drifted upon its stately way.

I'm horrified of lobsters. And shrimp and lobsters are the cockroaches of the ocean.

I like underwater life.

Fish," he said, "I love you and respect you very much. But I will kill you dead before this day ends.

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

Fish love the ocean. Snakes move like earth-fish inside a mountain,well away from seawater. Certain sunfish,though,turn snakes into ocean lovers.

We really have dinosaurs today, without any question. You just need the right weather conditions, as I see it, to get huge creatures. And in the ocean, of course, we have huge creatures.... this is where the plesiosauruses seem to be today, and perhaps also this fire breathing dragon is still down there - very rare, but occasionally there.

Fish," he said softly, aloud, "I'll stay with you until I am dead.

One fish Two fish Red fish Blue fish!

No one ever explained the octopuses.

One fish. Two fish. Red fish. Blue fish. Black fish. Blue fish. Old fish. New fish. This one has a little star. This one has a little car. Say! What a lot of fish there are.

...now and then a giggling trail of mermaids appeared in our wake. We fed them oatmeal.

If you're going to make a lot of films about a particular group of animals, you might as well pick one that's fairly common. And octopus are: they live in all the oceans. They also live deep. And I can't say octopus are responsible for my really strong interest in getting in subs and going deep, but whatever the case, I like that.

I was watching the Animal Planet. Did you know that the male seahorse has the baby? Why don't they just call that one the female?

Some of us are sixty feet long with a brain the size of a walnut.

My respect and empathy towards animals includes sea dwellers too--from dolphins to fish to lobsters. So, of course, I wouldn't dream of eating them.

It's a little-appreciated fact that most of the animals in our ocean make light.

When it comes to the battle of the molluscs, cephalopods win tentacles down.

South Africa is not a jellyfish and is in many respects a swordfish.

Giant squid aren't rare. Based on the number of beaks that have been found in the stomachs of sperm whales, it's thought that there are actually millions of them in the ocean, and yet, we haven't seen them.

Will you walk a little faster? said a whiting to a snail, "There's a porpoise close behind us, and he's treading on my tail! See how eagerly the lobsters and the turtles all advance: They are waiting on the shingle--will you come and join the dance?

O Oysters,' said the Carpenter, You've had a pleasant run! Shall we be trotting home again?' But answer came there none - And this was scarcely odd, because They'd eaten every one.

I write many essays on whales. I love whales, especially orcas. And dolphins.

Neither earth nor ocean produces a creature as savage and monstrous as woman.