Beach Quotes
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The never-ceasing boom of the great ocean as it breaks on the Beach, drowns all smaller sounds.
alexander maclaren— Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895, p. 277)
[The assault units] were disorganized, had suffered heavy casualties and were handicapped by losses of valuable equipment.... They were pinned down along the Beach by intense enemy fire.... Personnel and equipment were being piled ashore... where congested groups afforded food targets for the enemy.
— An American officer at the landing beach at Normandy, June 6, 1944.
Love the sea? I dote upon it from the Beach.
Douglas William Jerrold— Specimen of Jerrold's Wit, "Love of the Sea".
Every time I stand before a beautiful Beach, its waves seem to whisper to me: If you choose the simple things and find joy in nature's simple treasures, life and living need not be so hard.
Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
Writers begin with a grain of sand, and then create a Beach.
Robert Black— British author, translator, and journalist
In every outthrust headland, in every curving Beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth.
rachel carson— American marine biologist, author, and conservationist (1907 - 1964)
I started taking ballet lessons when I was 4, and I was performing in ballet companies when I was 10, and I did summer stock in Miami Beach when I was 12, and finally I said, 'I gotta go to Broadway .'
rita rudner— Rita Rudner, in Jerry Fink Lovely Rita: Comedian Rita Rudner revels in writing career, Las Vegas Sun, Jan. 25, 2002
Writing anything, it sorta starts the way you'd build a castle at the Beach. You're just taking your hands and you're mounting up sand.
aaron sorkin— The West Wing, Season Two Commentary Track: Noel.
There's only one way to prepare for playing Beach volleyball, and that's by getting in the sand.
Kerri Walsh Jennings— American professional beach volleyball player
It takes a lot of hard work and dedication just like any pro sport. Especially for Beach volleyball you don't have to be tall or as fast as other sports. You just have to have the skills.
Misty May-Treanor— As quoted in Bring Your "A" Game: A Young Athlete's Guide to Mental Toughness by Jennifer L. Etnier (2009, pg. 12).
My life is like a stroll upon the Beach, As near the ocean's edge as I can go.
Henry David Thoreau— The Fisher's Boy, Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). An American Anthology, 1787–1900
I like anywhere with a Beach. A Beach and warm weather is all I really need.
Rob gronkowski— The VIP Lounge: Rob Gronkowski (July 1, 2016)
In this big ball of people, I'm just one grain of sand on this Beach.
aurora— Norwegian singer-songwriter
But the beaches are always open 'cause the ocean, she never sleeps.
So turn around and come on down, the Beach is free.
— "The Beach is Free" from the album Mr. Love and Justice
Standing on a Beach somewhere
Looking for something to see
As the Beach rolls in, I swear
It's bringing something to me
— "Beach Foam" from the album "Wave Like Home"
At the Beach, life is different. Time doesn't move hour to hour. We live by the currents, plan by the tides, and follow the sun.
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There came to the Beach a poor exile of Erin,The dew on his thin robe was heavy and chill;For his country he sigh'd, when at twilight repairingTo wander alone by the wind-beaten hill.
thomas campbell— The Exile of Erin.
Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A Beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does.
john kenneth galbraith— Foreword to The Beach Book by Gloria Steinem (1963); reprinted in Galbraith's A View from the Stands (1986)
I remember thinking that walking on the Beach as a free man is pretty desirable.
pierre trudeau— Part 3, 1974 - 1979 Victory And Defeat, p. 258
One might as well claim that the tide which rubs pebbles smooth on a Beach is doing the pebbles a service because being round is prettier than being jagged. It's of no concern to a pebble what shape it is. But it's very important to a person.
john brunner— Bk. 2, Ch. "Let's All Be Different Same As Me"
You wouldn't want Alan Greenspan to write the instructions for assembling a Beach chair.
robert orben— Chicago Tribune staff (June 25, 1995) "Think About It", Chicago Tribune, p. 3.
Everybody here drove around like a dedicated loser, expecting moment to moment to get into an accident. Doc could relate to this it was like the Beach, where you lived in a climate of unquestioning hippie belief, pretending to trust everybody while always expecting to be sold out but he didn't have to enjoy that either, especially.
thomas pynchon— p. 225 (Inherent Vice (2009))
Across the narrow Beach we flit, One little sand-piper and I; And fast I gather, bit by bit. The scattered driftwood, bleached and dry.
celia thaxter— "The Sand-piper" (1862).
All night the thirsty Beach has listening lain With patience dumb, Counting the slow, sad moments of her pain; Now morn has come, And with the morn the punctual tide again.
— Susan Coolidge, Flood-Tide.
The sun was down, And all the west was paved with sullen fire. I cried, "Behold! the barren Beach of hell At ebb of tide."
alexander smith— A Life Drama, scene 4.
I'd rather be on Blackpool Beach than Bondi Beach.
— Leon Pryce, during Great Britain's 2006 Tri-Nations campaign in Australia.
