logo

Quotes About Coast

Lines of gulls standing on glassy blue patches of wet sand.
~ Cathleen Schine
They ate and picked sand from their chicken in the pink light.
~ Cathleen Schine
When Lawrence came to Taormina, Verga was living in Catania, a few miles further down the eastern Sicilian coast, and in the autumn of 1921, when his writings first attracted Lawrence's attention, he was an octogenarian with only a few months left to live. Shortly after Verga's death in January 1922, Lawrence wrote to a correspondent in New York that 'Poor old Verga went and died exactly as I was going to see him in Catania. But he was 82 years old.
~ Giovanni Verga
Human beings had polluted the seawater and mechanically destroyed the nearby coast; all life had paid this price. Often, in airports, on sidewalks, at restaurants, children and adults alike stop me to ask about barracuda and sharks; killer whales; the deadly sorcery of the Bermuda Triangle; the Loch Ness Monster. When I saw Le Veyron, I believed that the sea's most monstrous force doesn't live in Loch Ness. It lives in us.
~ Jacques-Yves Cousteau
The sea, as much as the light, gives this curve of coast it's flavor. The light takes it's color from the sea, sometimes seems to be emerging from it. And the sea here is ever-present. On clear days it coats the air with a transparent tinge of palest blue that salts and sharpens every detail.
~ James D. Houston
Deng Xiaoping made a calculation. He bet on demographics. What he knew was that China had this enormous population of young, underemployed people, people who he could move from the farms to the coast and put them to work in factories, and that would be the lifeblood of China's economy.
~ Evan Osnos
The place closest to my dad's heart, unequivocally his favourite, was Scarborough. To him it was the epitome of the English coast, postcard perfect.
~ Jonny Bairstow
The mornings along the coast where the fog and mist meet with the salty spray of the seas is one of my favourite smells. I love the smell in the evergreen forest just after it rains - The Redwood Forest in California has the coast, too, so you have the best of everything!
~ Paul Walker
The acute scenes were still on our eyes, immediate and clear in the passion; and there were moments, too, in which we were outsiders and could draw away, as if we were in a plane and rose far, to a high focus above that coast, those cities, and this sea, with sight and feelings sharper than before
~ The Life of poetry
I grew up in Wicklow, near Roundwood. It's a beautiful place on the east coast. That's where I started riding bikes.
~ Charley Boorman
I especially like the Padstow area and the south coast near Portloe. It's lovely, though I do wish it was a bit closer to London.
~ Tim Pigott-Smith
I really have a passion for the sea, so I think it's important that whatever I do, I want to be near the sea.
~ Severn Cullis-Suzuki
If I needed to record, I'd head to the coast or Nashville, one or the other.
~ Wanda Jackson
She disappeared. Since then I had never thought anymore of her. Nevertheless, she must have continued to live deep down in my heart, and today, on this empty coast, she reappeared, pale and plaintive, from the depths of my being.
~ Nikos Kazantzakis
Uno puede vivir junto al mar y no amar a los tiburones
~ Noah Gordon
I recommend that the Statue of Liberty on the East Coast be supplemented by a Statue of Responsiblity on the West Coast.
~ Viktor E. Frankl
Statue of Liberty on the East Coast be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the West Coast.
~ Viktor E. Frankl
That is why I recommend that the Statue of Liberty on the East Coast be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the West Coast.
~ Viktor E. Frankl
I recommend that the Statue of Liberty on the East Coast be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the West Coast.
~ Viktor E. Frankl
plage, various seaside chairs and stools supported the parents
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Río de la Plata, a funnel-shaped river located on the coast of what is now Argentina.
~ Laurence Bergreen
We saw an opening like a bay, and it has at the entrance, on the right hand, a very long spit of sand
~ Laurence Bergreen
the black ships reached the expansive mouth of San Matías Gulf, on the coast of Argentina.
~ Laurence Bergreen
sailed along its coast, and spotted a tribe that seemed friendly, at least from a distance. In good spirits
~ Laurence Bergreen