Beach Quotes - Page 12

• Today secular faith is ebbing, and it is the apostles of unbelief who are left stranded on the beach.

  John Gray

  Atheist, Today, Secular

  "The atheist delusion" by John Gray, www.theguardian.com. March 14, 2008.

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• Babies don't need a vacation. But I still see them at the beach. It pisses me off.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Baby, Vacation

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• Dermot Reeve was so self-obsessed that even on the local nudist beach he only admired himself

  Simon Hughes

  Self, Nudists, Obsessed

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• They trekked out along the crescent sweep of beach, keeping to the firmer sand below the tidewrack. They stood, their clothes flapping softly. Glass floats covered with a gray crust. The bones of seabirds. At the tideline a woven mat of weeds and the ribs of fishes in their millions stretching along the shore as far as the eye could see like an isocline of death. One vast salt sepulchre. Senseless. Senseless.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Weed, Eye, Glasses

  Cormac McCarthy (2007). “The Road”, p.187, Vintage

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• The thing to remember about Phuket is it's very beach-oriented and relaxed. The trendiest beach is Koh Sirey, which is full of groovy places to have a cocktail and watch the sun go down.

  Tony Parsons

  Watches, Cocktails, Sun

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• I used to paint landscapes without any people in them but now I paint people who happen to be in a particular place. They might be outside a pub, or on a beach or in a studio. They might have clothes on or they might not.

  Peter Wright

  Clothes, People, Landscape

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• If we were to lose our fish that we appreciate so much by overfishing; or if we were to lose some of our favorite beaches to overbuilding and pollution, then how would we feel? It's become a case of not knowing what you've got until it's gone.

  Aaron Peirsol

  Knowing, Appreciate, Gone

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I was trying to put myself in a bottle that would one day wash up on the beach for my children. If I were a painter, I would have painted for them. If I were a musician, I would have composed music. But I am a lecturer. So I lectured.

  Randy Pausch

  Children, Trying, One Day

  Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow (2008). “The last lecture”, Hyperion Books

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• The summer following the winter that my mother took off into something called Women's Land for what I could only guess would be all eternity, my father decided that there was no choice but for him to quit his despised job and take me and my brother to the beach for at least the entire summer and possibly longer.

  Bennett Madison

  Summer, Mother, Brother

  Bennett Madison (2013). “September Girls”, p.5, Harper Collins

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• Smart, truly hilarious, and entirely sympathetic. Like a hot bubble bath or a holiday at the beach, you won't want it to end.

  Cecily von Ziegesar

  Smart, Holiday, Hot

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• Perhaps this is the most important thing for me to take back from beach-living: simply the memory that each cycle of the tide is valid; each cycle of the wave is valid; each cycle of a relationship is valid.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Memories, Important, Tides

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (2002). “Wisdom from Gift from the Sea”, p.62, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• It's elevating and humbling at the same time. Running along a beach at sunrise with no other footprints in the sand, you realize the vastness of creation, your own insignificant space in the plan, how tiny you really are, your own creatureliness and how much you owe to the supreme body, the God that brought all this beauty and harmony into being.

  Marion Irvine

  Motivational, Running, Athlete

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• I had to go off the circuit twice to avoid him. I don't know what Rene Arnoux is doing in Formula One racing. He should be on the beach.

  Thierry Boutsen

  Racing, Should, Formulas

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• Every experience shapes your writing, being stuck in a car on a lonely bridge, or dancing at a prom, being the it girl on the beach, all of those things influence your life, they influence how you write, and the topics you choose to write about.

  Maya Angelou

  Girl, Dance, Lonely

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Oct 13, 2012

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• Life has left her footprints on my forehead. But I have become a child again this morning. The smile, seen through leaves and flowers, is back to smooth away the wrinkles, as the rains wipe away footprints on the beach. Again a cycle of birth and death begins.

  Nhat Hanh

  Beauty, Morning, Children

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2013). “Call Me by My True Names: The Collected Poems”, p.5, Parallax Press

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• From 1997 to 2003, there was a decline of 50 percent in the proportion of children nine to twelve who spent time in such outside activities as hiking, walking, fishing, beach play, and gardening, according to a study by Sandra Hofferth at the University of Maryland.

  Richard Louv

  Children, Fishing, Play

  Richard Louv (2013). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.34, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I walk up a dune to a beach and look out to sea, but it's 100km away. The ships lie askew in their dry beds, at anchor for ever. Today is my son's birthday. Thousands of miles from here, his healthy lungs are blowing out candles. I should be there but I'm here with another boy, who puts his face close to mine and laughs. I smile back but realise he can't see it, because I'm wearing an antiseptic muzzles to protect me from his breath.

  A. A. Gill

  Funny, Lying, Son

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• The hour of death waits for no order. Death does not even come from the front. It is ever pressing on from behind. All men know of death, but they do not expect it of a sudden, and it comes upon them unawares. So, though the dry flats extend far out, soon the tide comes and floods the beach.

  Yoshida Kenko

  Men, Order, Waiting

  Yoshida Kenko (2009). “Essays in Idleness”, p.67, Cosimo, Inc.

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• It may be just one facet of your personality, or it may not even be a facet but only a pretension. You can show this false face with no problem when sometimes you meet on a sea beach, sometimes in a garden, sometimes under the moon and the stars, but when you really start living together then the reality starts surfacing. The real person is a hell and all that sweet talk that had happened under the stars becomes just lies.

  Rajneesh

  Marriage, Sweet, Stars

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• The Dead and Those About to Die is a gripping, first-hand account of the desperate battle for Omaha Beach on D-Day by the legendary 1st Infantry Division, the Big Red One. On the 70th anniversary of that momentous event, John C. McManus’s tale of courage under fire is a vivid reminder that freedom isn’t free and that when the chips are down stalwart American soldiers will always answer the call of duty.

  Carlo D'Este

  Fire, Hands, Infantry Division

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• Instead of looking for the dream in reverie, people should look for reverie in the dream. There are calm beaches in the midst of nightmares.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Dream, People, Looks

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• For example, in my district there are visitors from all over the world who are drawn to our beautiful beaches, recreational lakes, habitat wildlife preserves and golf courses.

  Mark Foley

  Beautiful, Golf, Lakes

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• I don't like the beach. I think we have no business at the beach at all, as a species. We don't belong in the sea. The sea is full of things that bite us, sting us, hurt the soles of our feet, and it's extremely cold. When are we gonna take the hint that the things that live in the sea don't like us?

  Billy Connolly

  Funny, Hurt, Animal

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• Costa Rica, with its tourist-based economy and lack of a national army, has focused on keeping safe its beaches, parks and other public draws. It is one if the safest countries in Central America based on the number of homicides.

  Laura Chinchilla

  Country, Army, Numbers

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• If you simply walk on the beach as we are doing, you have no special color. But if you travel with a purpose, it is different. When you go somewhere important or you return home from a long journey, you build a shape around you and it reaches out ahead to touch your destination.

  Lyall Watson

  Home, Journey, Color

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