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Quotes About Coastal

Monterey, as far as my observation goes, is decidedly the pleasantest and most civilized-looking place in California.
~ Richard Henry Dana Jr.
Though I couldn't see it, I knew the Atlantic was behind the buildings on the other side of the street. Everything seemed so alien that it was hard to believe I was only a few miles from Manhattan.
~ Kate White
I grow tired of intelligence having such a limited manifestation in movies - "intelligence" usually meaning coastal, with a certain level of formal education.
~ Edward Norton
Singing Beach on the North Shore of Boston. Do you know the beach? It's called Singing Beach because the sand sings in this strange way under your bare feet when you run across it.
~ Jean Stein
If we burn all the known reserves of coal, oil, and gas on the planet, seas will likely rise by more than two hundred feet in the coming centuries, submerging virtually every major coastal city in the world.
~ Jeff Goodell
Most of the water that will drown Miami and New York and Venice and other coastal cities will come from two places: Antarctica and Greenland. Often you hear about the disappearance of the snows on Mount Kilimanjaro or the glaciers in Patagonia, but in the context of drowning cities, land-based glaciers won't contribute much. What really matters is what happens on the two big blocks of ice at either end of the Earth.
~ Jeff Goodell
I am just your everyday, average girl. I live by the beach. I wear flip flops. I don't wear make-up. I go to the gym.
~ A. J. Cook
When you live by the sea, there are definite seasons when you can see the weather coming and going, which lends itself to photography.
~ Graeme Le Saux
I live by the sea in Australia and the weather of course is glorious all year round.
~ Anna Torv
We should be working with the governor of Sonora to establish a commercial sea port on the coast of their state.
~ Doug Ducey
I'm a bit claustrophobic, I don't like crowds, I live by the sea - that's what I see when I come out of my house in Bridlington.
~ David Hockney
A Mediterranean city is really my culture.
~ Zinedine Zidane
used to take many long and uncomfortable hours in a bus, car, or train to journey between the deep interior of Croatia and the coast. But the building of several massive, graded, and multi-laned superhighways from Zagreb down the mountains to Rijeka, to Senj, to Zadar, and to Split along the Adriatic coast has cut the distance dramatically
~ Robert D. Kaplan
Even though he lived on the beach in college, he didn't have a tan. Now that's a serious player!
~ Bill Fitch
Malibu: With sounds of waves crashing, and the ocean at the doorstep, you feel like you are hours away from civilization. And with L.A. traffic, YOU ARE.
~ Jennifer Harrison
Coastal elites" have become a kind of market-dominant minority from the point of view of America's heartland, and, as we've seen all over the developing world, market-dominant minorities invariably end up producing democratic backlash.
~ Amy Chua
For the past several years, the daily high-water mark in the Miami area has been racing up at the rate of almost an inch a year, nearly 10 times the rate of average global sea-level rise.
~ Amy Stewart
I live in one of the coastal cities in Southern California, and every so often I like to take a walk down the boardwalk in Venice during the weekends when it is abuzz with lively activity.
~ Al Seckel
A lot of rappers were influenced off the West Coast, even from the East.
~ Jay Rock
In a way, it's taken me 25 years to acknowledge that I am from the West Coast. I was always sort of pretending I was bicoastal or that I really belonged on the East Coast.
~ David Shields
West Wittering in Chichester is perfect for a short break and if I've got longer, Devon and Cornwall are my favourites places in Britain.
~ Konnie Huq
No oyster in the world tastes as good as a Gulf oyster.
~ Steve Scalise
highway curled breathtakingly close to the cliff edges above the Pacific, its cresting cobalt waves pummeling the rocks while embracing the beaches below. The view soothed
~ Rick Mofina
Coastal people never really know what the ocean symbolizes to landlocked inland people—what a great distant dream it is, present but unseen in the deepest levels of subconsciousness, and when they arrive at the ocean and the conscious images are compared with the subconscious dream there is a sense of defeat at having come so far to be so stopped by the mystery that can never be fathomed. The source of it all.
~ Robert M. Pirsig