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Quotes About Coast

We were all flying around up and down the coast near Dunkirk looking for enemy aircraft which seemed also to be milling around with no particular cohesion.
~ Douglas Bader
If I'm in Malibu driving up and down Pacific Coast Highway, my '68 Dodge Charger usually is what I like to drive.
~ Brody Jenner
Because the Asian market is so omnivorous, it affects all the shark populations up and down the Central and South American coast, and to a certain extent the East Coast of the United States as well.
~ Peter Benchley
It seems like we're getting fewer stops in California every year. It's good because we're exposing the sport to other parts of the country. But it's not like it used to be, when we played for a hearty handshake, slept in vans and traveled up and down the coast from Santa Cruz to San Diego.
~ Karch Kiraly
I needed to explain that Louisiana's coast accepts the drainage from two-thirds of the United States and, while the necessary levees constructed upstream have prevented floods, they have also contributed to problems downstream.
~ John Breaux
New England has a harsh climate, a barren soil, a rough and stormy coast, and yet we love it, even with a love passing that of dwellers in more favored regions.
~ Henry Cabot Lodge
We are no strangers to hurricanes in South Carolina. These storms are part of life, especially in the Lowcountry and all along our coast.
~ Jaime Harrison
The Lab hopped up on the picnic table, his coat matted with wet sand. He walked over and sat down next to me, looking out at the ocean as if to say, Pretty nice, huh? I took quick stock of my world as I stood there—thatched pub, clean bed, cool pint of stout, a Labrador—and it was pretty nice, indeed. hole 199
~ Tom Coyne
I grew up next to the ocean, on the coast, and would dance the salsa all day, so I just learned those rhythms and knew how to move my body when I was very little.
~ Ana de la Reguera
Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
~ Ross MacDonald
I always said that if I moved to California I'd live by the ocean.
~ Bob Baffert
I have gay people in my family who weren't able to openly discuss homosexuality, and I feel like that's shifted, especially here on the coast.
~ Sterling K. Brown
I once got engaged to his daughter Honoria, a ghastly dynamic exhibit who read Nietzsche and had a laugh like waves breaking on a stern and rockbound coast.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
You keep only darkness, my distant female, from your regard sometimes the coast of dread emerges.
~ Pablo Neruda
Along the Chilean coast, with cold and winter, when rain falls washing the weeks. Listen: solitude becomes music once more, and it seems its appearance is that of air, of rain, that time, something with wave and wings, passes by, grows. And the harp awakes from oblivion.
~ Pablo Neruda
kilometers of open sea and the equator. The next land we see then is the northwest coast of Aquila, the so-called Beak. Animals. To call this conveyance a "passenger dirigible" is an exercise in creative semantics.
~ Dan Simmons
I touched follow on my phone's screen. I saw it—a vision—two half sisters who had never known of one another's existence, sending the most modern version of a smoke signal, each from her own coast. I see you. I see you, too.
~ Dani Shapiro
unsignificantly off the coast there was a splash quite unnoticed this was Icarus drowning
~ William Carlos Williams
If you could shut your ears to the slow suck down of the sea and boil of the return, if you could forget how dun and unvisited were the ferny coverts on either side, then there was a chance that you might put the beast out of mind and dream for a while.
~ William Golding
sublimity than the aspect of this coast, as it is
~ William H. Prescott
There is a finely translated epigram in the greek anthology which admirably expresses this state of mind, this acceptance of loss as unatoned for, even tho the lost element might be one's self: 'A shipwrecked sailor, buried on this coast, bids you set sail. Full many a gallant bark, when we were lost, weathered the gal.
~ William James
Sylt ist eigentlich super schön.
~ Christian Kracht
The beginner will cling and cling to her thin first draft. She clings to the coast and will strike out into the ocean only under extreme duress
~ Helen Garner
In my opinion, any navy less than that which would give us the habitual command of our own coast and seas would be little short of useless.
~ John C. Calhoun