Beach Quotes - Page 23

• Have you never, when waves were breaking, watched children at sport on the beach, With their little feet tempting the foam-fringe, till with stronger and further reach Than they dreamed of, a billow comes bursting, how they turn and scamper and screech!

  Alfred Austin

  Inspirational, Sports, Children

  Alfred Austin, “A Woman’s Apology”

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• I'm pale-skinned so I don't feel at my best on a beach.

  Clive Anderson

  Pale, Feels

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• I was on holiday recently and I came home to find that one of the papers here had 'bikini'd' me on the beach. I was wearing a grossly unflattering costume and they had published photographs of me taken from behind. I looked dreadful. I went into our local newsagent and bought up every copy.

  Amanda Burton

  Taken, Home, Holiday

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• I grew up on the beach. It was such a luxury to wake up to the sun and the ocean.

  Gemma Ward

  Ocean, Luxury, Wake Up

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If you want to swim across the English Channel from England to France - you have to leave your doubt on the beach in England.

  Lewis Gordon

  Swim, Doubt, Want

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• I was a beach boy, and I believe I learned my songs from the birds of the Brazilian forest.

  Antonio Carlos Jobim

  Song, Believe, Boys

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• Why is it we love so fully what has washed up on the beaches
  of our hearts, those lost messages, lost friends, the daylight stars
  we never get to see? Bad luck never takes a vacation, my friend
  once wrote. It lies there among the broken shells and stones
  we collect, a story he would say begins with you, with me,
  a story that is forever lost among the backwaters of our lives,
  our endless fear of ourselves, and our endless need for hope,
  a story, perhaps an answer, a word suddenly on wing, the simple
  sound of a torn heart, or the unmistakable scent of the morning's fading moon.

  Richard Jackson

  Morning, Stars, Lying

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• We start out postulating sharp boundaries, such as between humans and apes, or between apes and monkeys, but are in fact dealing with sand castles that lose much of their structure when the sea of knowledge washes over them. They turn into hills, leveled ever more, until we are back to where evolutionary theory always leads us: a gently sloping beach.

  Frans de Waal

  Sea, Apes, Facts

  Frans de Waal (2009). “The Age of Empathy: Nature's Lessons for a Kinder Society”, p.199, Crown

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• After my husband died, I felt like one of those spiraled shells washed upon the beach... Poke a straw through the twisting tunnel, around and around, and there is nothing there. No flesh. No life. Whatever lived there is dried up and gone.

  Lynn Caine

  Husband, Tunnels, Flesh

  Lynn Caine (1974). “Widow”

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• I loved going surfing down on Venice Beach. Id go out with a board under my arm and think, I cant do that in Cranhill.

  Billy Boyd

  Thinking, Venice, Surfing

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• For me, our beaches have always been a source of personal inspiration.

  Thomas Carper

  Inspiration, Growth, Source

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• Imagine a master painting that's never finished...when you can only build on previous work, you become limited by what you can paint...If you are in the midst of painting a forest full of tall tress and hanging vines, it is rather difficult to wake up the next day and suddenly turn that paining into the beach and ocean...We have to treat each day like a black canvas on which we can paint. Yesterday might have been paining flowers, but today you can paint cars or horses. A new day represents a chance for renewal.

  Ian K. Smith

  Horse, Ocean, Flower

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• To see for themselves what the United States has been willing to undertake in the name of freedom. We should all visit Normandy. We should pay homage to those brave Americans who stormed ashore at Omaha Beach and gave their lives for the freedom of others.

  Fatos Nano

  Names, Brave, United States

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• Look at me. Home boy wore combat boots to the beach. I know you don’t want to call that your boyfriend, I know you don’t.

  Lauren Conrad

  Home, Boys, Your Boyfriend

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• I studied at UC Santa Cruz before going on to do a grad program at UCLA. Santa Cruz was like an awesome hippie summer camp. I got to take a vacation from reality and hang out on beaches and in forests.

  Aaron Koblin

  Summer, Hippie, Reality

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• I'm a total water-baby. I've seen some pristine beaches, from Greece to Goa.

  Esha Gupta

  Baby, Water, Greece

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• If there wasn't The Beach Boys and there wasn't music, I wouldn't even talk to them. But through the music I fell in love with my brothers.

  Dennis Wilson

  Brother, Boys, Ifs

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• I didn't actually realise what apartheid meant. I'm probably a bit naive, but I thought it was more of a vague segregation, like on the beaches and buses.

  John Deacon

  Discrimination, Segregation, Bus

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I've said many times before that Pebble Beach is a wonderful thinking-man's golf course. That is why it is such a great U.S. Open venue.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Golf, Men, Thinking

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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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• I find myself at the extremity of a long beach. How gladly does the spirit leap forth, and suddenly enlarge its sense of being to the full extent of the broad, blue, sunny deep! A greeting and a homage to the Sea! I descend over its margin, and dip my hand into the wave that meets me, and bathe my brow. That far-resounding roar is the Ocean’s voice of welcome. His salt breath brings a blessing along with it.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Ocean, Blessing, Blue

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (1982). “Tales and Sketches”, p.561, Library of America

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