Quotes About Coast

When it blows here, even the seagulls walk.

I'm a total beach bum.

I don't think 'Playboy' would have been successfully started on either coast.

My memories of my childhood are wonderful memories. I feel that I was privileged because I grew up in a beautiful city. It is Catania, on the eastern coast of Sicily. It's a place filled with sun, close to the beach.

I'm definitely much more of a beach bunny. I prefer the sun over the snow.

Watching a coast as it slips by the ship is like thinking about an enigma. There it is before you, smiling, frowning, inviting, grand, mean, insipid, or savage, and always mute with an air of whispering, Come and find out.

The idleness of a passenger, my isolation amongst all these men with whom I had no point of contact, the oily and languid sea, the uniform sombreness of the coast, seemed to keep me away from the truth of these things, within the toil of a mournful and senseless delusion. The voice of the surf now and then was a positive pleasure, like the speech of a brother. It was something natural, that had its reason, that had a meaning.

They were dying slowly - it was very clear. They were not enemies, they were not criminals, they were nothing earthly now - nothing but black shadows of disease and starvation, lying confusedly in the greenish gloom. Brought from all the recesses of the coast in all the legality of time contracts, lost in uncongenial surroundings, fed on unfamiliar food, they sickened, became inefficient, and were then allowed to crawl away and rest.

Al fin el tramo se abrió. Apareció una punta rocosa, montículos de tierra levantados en la orilla, casas tendidas en una colina, algunas con tejados metálicos, contra restos de excavaciones y declives.

Watching a coast as it slips by the ship is like thinking about an enigma. There it is before you - smiling, frowning, inviting, grand, mean, insipid, or savage.

developed eastern shore. He sped along

the outer banks swing out from the coast of North Carolina like the bony curve of a woman's hip

A scent of jasmine and a rasp of sand.

Madagascar had been a monkey-free refuge for the lemurs off the coast of mainland Africa, and now Nosy Mangabé had to be a monkey-free refuge off the coast of mainland Madagascar. The refuges were getting smaller and smaller, and the monkeys were already here on this one, sitting making notes about it. "The difference," said Mark, "is that the first monkey-free refuge was set up by chance. The second was actually set up by the monkeys.

In the distance he could see the Cape May lighthouse winking, one short, one long.

El moribundo frente marítimo al final había sucumbido al perverso huracán Yankee Clipper de 1938.

Christmas in Southern California was as much an oxymoron as jumbo shrimp.

I had a house in Haiti, in the hills above the North Atlantic coast. The house appeared as if out of a dream: my dream to have a foothold in the country. Like many concepts do in Haiti, the phrase 'pied a terre' became literal, material.

The Mississippi coast is not like south Florida, but it always seems warm enough for sandals and short-sleeved shirts, except for now and then.

I try to get out to The Skelligs, and people will know The Skelligs from 'Star Wars' and so forth, but they really are the most incredible monastic settlement on this island off the south coast, the Kerry coast.

The sycamore trees that surround our house sway as the wind pushes in an oncoming storm now gathering off the coast.

Manhattan is a narrow island off the coast of New Jersey devoted to the pursuit of lunch.

I'm a California kid, so I love the beach.

The oceans have been a part of my life for as long as I remember. As a child, I spent hours playing in the surf off Cape Cod. In college, I fished along the rocky coast of Nova Scotia with my school's fishing team.