Ocean Treasures Quotes

That's it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons.

I wiped away the weeds and foam, I fetched my sea-borne treasures home.

Rich and various gems inlay The unadorned bosom of the deep.

One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach.

I went to the beach a couple of times in New York City. Tough summer out there, but I was pretty excited. I found what I thought at the time was a very rare seashell. And I took it to a friend of mine who works in a museum. And I was really disappointed. It turned out to be just a human ear.

When I was a child growing up in Maine, one of my favorite things to do was to look for sand dollars on the seashores of Maine, because my parents told me it would bring me luck. But you know, these shells, they're hard to find. They're covered in sand. They're difficult to see.

Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster.

I wiped away the weeds and foam, I fetched my sea-born treasures home; But the poor, unsightly, noisome things Had left their beauty on the shore, With the sun and the sand and the wild uproar.

When I see a beautiful shell like that I can't help feeling a regret about what's inside it.