Surfer Quotes - Page 3

• We play in the ocean every day but for some reason we don’t make as much noise about the environment as we should. I believe the average surfer needs to do a lot more to become a greater catalyst for change

  Mark Price

  Believe, Ocean, Average

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• Cornwall has lots of folk and Celtic music and has that kind of surfer vibe as well. That was my kind of upbringing.

  Sam Palladio

  Kind, Celtic, Folks

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• Surfing also teaches quality . I will wager that it is not the number of waves that makes a session memorable for any given surfer, but that one beautiful wave that he or she waited for … and rode all the way the way to shore.

  Shaun Tomson

  Beautiful, Memorable, Numbers

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• All surfers are joined by one ocean.

  Shaun Tomson

  Ocean

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• I'm a surfer at heart. Both my parents moved to Hawaii in the 1970s, where they met and became Christians. Then they taught me and my two brothers how to love the Lord - and how to surf!

  Bethany Hamilton

  Christian, Brother, Heart

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• Growing up in Huntington Beach, you were either a traditional sports athlete, a skateboarder, or a surfer. I got my first skateboard when I was five and skated off and on over the years, did a little BMX racing as a kid, and then in my freshman or sophomore year I started getting a little bit more into skateboarding.

  Jason Lee

  Sports, Beach, Growing Up

  Interview with Kenneth Plume, www.ign.com. October 2, 2000.

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• Many people bypass search engines altogether and still find what they're looking for online. These Internet surfers are using direct navigation.

  Marc Ostrofsky

  People, Bypass, Navigation

  Marc Ostrofsky (2013). “Get Rich Click!: The Ultimate Guide to Making Money on the Internet”, p.59, Simon and Schuster

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• I was a good surfer because we grew up a block from the water, and my father took us to the ocean the way other fathers take their kids to the park.

  Jolene Blalock

  Father, Block, Ocean

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• Now, see, that's why you want Internet friends. You can find people just exactly like you. Screw your neighbors and your family, too messy...the trouble is, once you filter out everybody that doesn't agree with you, all that's left is maybe this one retired surfer guy living in Idaho.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Idaho, People, Guy

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• Surfers are in tune with the weather because if there's a storm coming, there are waves coming. I love the rain.

  Stephanie Gilmore

  Sports, Rain, Weather

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• I do feel a kinship for sure. I admire those guys who've won hat-tricks like Andy, and obviously Kelly who's won seven, that's amazing stuff. I think the average surfer thinks it's amazing. The guys who win our championships, they're so amazing.

  Mark Occhilupo

  Winning, Thinking, Average

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• In Blue Crush , we meet three Hawaiian surfers who work as hotel maids, live in a grotty rental, and are raising the kid sister of one of them. Despite this near-poverty, they look great; there is nothing like a tan and a bikini to overcome class distinctions.

  Roger Ebert

  Crush, Kids, Blue

  Roger Ebert (2004). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2005”, p.76, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• It's true. Happiness is a big thing.

  Joel Parkinson

  True Happiness, Bigs, Big Things

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• It's funny, 'cause you think surfing is your whole life, but then when you make a family it seems like it's not at all.

  Joel Parkinson

  Sports, Thinking, Surfing

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• It was like a big family, since so many of us brought our kids. We all went surfing. It was so relaxed and easy.

  Elle Macpherson

  Kids, Surfing, Big Families

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• Why is it that scuba divers and surfers are some of the strongest advocates of ocean conservation? Because they've spent time in and around the ocean, and they've personally seen the beauty, the fragility, and even the degradation of our planet's blue heart.

  Sylvia Earle

  Ocean, Heart, Sea

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• Surfer girls rip and they are hot

  Alana Blanchard

  Girl, Rip, Surfing

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• There is wisdom in waves. Some surfers see it right away, others never do. To find success in surfing, we must learn to be in harmony with nature. This will bring a sense of peace. By sharing this peace, and contributing to other people's happiness, we can find the true meaning of life. Keep surfing . . .

  Gerry Lopez

  People, Surfing, Meaning Of Life

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• And if God were trying to reach out to us, and teach us something about the deepest nature of matter, he might use some drugged-out surfers.

  David Milch

  Might Use, Trying, Matter

  "Dead in the Water" by Nancy Franklin, www.newyorker.com. June 25, 2007.

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• You can read minds, and you didn't tell me?” Link stared at me like he just found out I was the Silver Surfer. He rubbed his head nervously. “Hey, man, all that stuff about Lena? I was yankin’ your chain.” He looked away. “Are you doin’ it now? You're doin’ it, aren't you? Dude, get out of my head.” He backed away from me and into the bookshelf. “I can't read your mind, you idiot.

  Kami Garcia

  Men, Mind, Hey

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• I'd blurted out the question only to keep him from noticing that I was working my hands free, but the Warden behind me, some young brown-haired surfer dude, yelled a warning. "She's getting loose!" Narc.

  Rachel Caine

  Hands, Warning, Brown

  Rachel Caine (2011). “Thin Air”, p.194, Allison & Busby

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• I want to surf better tomorrow. I want to surf better in 10 years. When I'm 50 I want to be a better surfer than I am now - for me it's a lifelong journey.

  Kelly Slater

  Journey, Years, Want

  "Kelly Slater: 'Surfing is my religion'" by Nick Glass and Natasha Maguder, www.cnn.com. June 6, 2013.

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• Surfers are members of a different race of people from the man in the street

  Nat Young

  Men, Race, People

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• I'm seeking out a new way to live and if it's surfing, that's the way I'll do it. I'll be a surfer for the rest of my life.

  Andy Warhol

  Surfing, Way To Live, New Ways

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• A couple from Sydney or Melbourne might leave on the same day for their holiday: the wife might go sun-bathing at Surfers Paradise, in Queensland, the husband ski-ing in the Snowy Mountains. A lucky country.

  George Mikes

  Funny, Country, Couple

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