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Quotes About Coast

Hugging the coast, the fleet spent the last week of February sailing west toward Bahía Blanca
~ Laurence Bergreen
the final days of 1499, Vicente Yáñez Pinzón, a Spanish mariner, first saw the coast of what would later be called Brazil.
~ Laurence Bergreen
Pinzón explored the easternmost shores of Brazil and ventured into the mouth of the Amazon River
~ Laurence Bergreen
the storm gathered force, and the winds pushed the helpless ship toward the rocky coast
~ Laurence Bergreen
Magellan spoke excitedly of his intention to sail along the eastern coast of what is now called South America until the land ended
~ Laurence Bergreen
Magellan spoke excitedly of his intention to sail along the eastern coast of what is now called South America until the land ended and he would be able to turn west toward the Spice Islands;
~ Laurence Bergreen
The labors of Father Junipero Serra and other Franciscans on the coast, nearly a couple of centuries later, were heroic, but in no way comparable to the incredible achievements of the devoted frailes who penetrated and subdued the incomparable deserts of the Southwest with their ferocious savage tribes.
~ Charles F. Lummis
Don't allow anyone to tell you that there's "no market" for a career as the eccentric yet mysterious caretaker of an abandoned lighthouse nestled in fog on the coast of a long-forgotten seaside town.
~ Keith Wynn, @ravens_rhapsody
For 250 million years, redwood kingdoms have crowned the Pacific Coast of North America.
~ Kyle Da Silva
Here, where sea Meets shore: The best of dancing floors.
~ Gregory Orr
Crabs, crabs, crabs. Crabs the size of beach donkeys.
~ Guy N Smith
Luz dorada sobr el mar, sobre arena, sobre cantizales. El sol está ahí, los gráciles árboles, las casas limón.
~ James Joyce
I have discovered a gem, a tiny, relatively unknown Greek island. Kastellorizo lies in the Aegean Sea a mile off the Turkish Turquoise Coast, the most easterly of the Dodecanese islands.
~ Carol Drinkwater
Naval Station Mayport and Naval Air Station Jacksonville are the East Coast home for the MH-60Rs, and the nation's P-8A fleet and Triton operations facility are based at Naval Air Station Jacksonville.
~ Ander Crenshaw
I've never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none.
~ Alan Bennett
North Carolina is blessed with amazing coastal resources and we need to safeguard our coast because it helps drive our economy.
~ Roy Cooper
Once our carrier fleet went all nuclear in 2005, we went from having two aircraft carrier homeports on the East Coast to one.
~ Ander Crenshaw
At Beriel's silence she turned around -- and fury crashed against her like a wave thrown by a storm against the rocky coast.
~ Cynthia Voigt
Sand is overrated. It's just tiny little rocks.
~ Charlie Kaufman
Attitude is attitude, whether you're a West Coast gangster or East Coast gangster, you know?
~ Paul Walker
Had the aging widow been murdered by a jewel thief or by the strangler who had been prowling the Pacific Coast for months, preying on unwary landladies?
~ Harold Schechter
The Pacific Ocean waters were cool.
~ Jan Moran
How can you completely appreciate the Jersey shore if the air is safe to breathe in the interior parts of the state?
~ Janet Evanovich
It must be said that Brighton, unlike London, makes driving seem very appealing. Instead of glowering faces and angry horns on all sides, we have the coast road in front of us and the Sussex Downs just 10 minutes behind us.
~ Julie Burchill