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Quotes About Beach

The sand here, at their feet as they looked down from the dry cliff, was dark gray, the color of a thundercloud. The
~ Alice McDermott
He crossed the wide breadth of beach, hearing their voices coming to him on the wind before he saw them at the shoreline. The two boys were stamping at the creamy edges of the waves—making small explosions of water and wet sand—his daughter down on her haunches, examining something, a mussel or a crab or just the mysterious, bubbling holes that opened and closed like mouths under the retreating waves.
~ Alice McDermott
Michael had slipped beyond the crest of the dune. Jacob was lying flat out now, on his stomach, his little men all before him, and Annie had followed her single soldier up the dune to a grassy patch where the wind whipped her dark hair and the blowing sand made her squint, even
~ Alice McDermott
beach. They were perfectly safe. Michael's head crested the dune again. Then his shoulders, the rump of his blue jeans, the short barrel of his machine gun. He was crawling on his belly along the top of the dune, crushing the sea grass, filling his shirt and the pockets of his pants with sand. She would have to remember to shake him out before he got into the car.
~ Alice McDermott
sitting in the sand with her back against a log, crying. She smiled at Kath, she said, 'don't think I'm sad'.
~ Alice Munro
They made their unsteady way up onto damp, firm sand, through the cool wet.
~ Joe Hill
A bikini is like a barbed-wire fence. It protects the property without obstructing the view.
~ Joey Adams
Summer is a drag because even normal people become obsessed with their bodies. A bad bathing suit can humiliate you more tan anything else in life.
~ Conan O'Brien
I mean, when I die, throw my ashes in the water of the tiny beach. Then when you miss me, you can climb up here, look down, and think how awesome I was.
~ E. Lockhart
THIS NEW SWING looks strong. The knots are tied carefully. Inside the tire is an envelope. Gat's handwriting: For Cady. I open the envelope. More than a dozen dried beach roses spill out.
~ E. Lockhart
No matter what I say, All that I really love Is the rain that flattens on the bay, And the eel-grass in the cove; The jingle-shells that lie and bleach At the tide-line, and the trace Of higher tides along the beach: Nothing in this place.
~ Edna St. Vincent Millay
the sound of the sea washes away all other sounds
~ Anthony Doerr
In the twilight the Americans brought gin and tonics to the beach and rented pedal-boats shaped like giant swans. They trolled night crawlers from their bamboo poles, sipped their drinks and nodded to the lovers who paddled among them, spellbound, all of them, in the tangerine dusk.
~ Anthony Doerr
back across the sand, passing the white concrete
~ Anthony Horowitz
even though I tried to. The trouble is, it's not really a city at all. You have to get in the car to go anywhere but actually there isn't anywhere to go. I mean, it's shops and it's restaurants and it's the beach but somehow it all just feels a bit pointless. It was always too hot, particularly when I was pregnant.
~ Anthony Horowitz
If you make a wrong move with explosives, it could be deadly. If you're there when they blow up the beach, you get blown up, too. So you need to get your job done correctly... then pull the fuse with enough lag time for you to clear the area completely and get picked up by the small boats.
~ Jack Ramsay
I love, love, love South Florida.
~ Leslie Jordan
Florida, bro. It's different.
~ Dominic Fike
When I'm not working, I love going to the beach. I am from Florida, so I definitely love the beach life. I love horse-back riding. Just to go out to a barn, it's fun. It's kind of like a get-away from the city. And also, I love animals.
~ Stefanie Scott
I've been going to Florida since I was a baby.
~ Caroline Mulroney
We can't forbid women from going to the beach because of a costume, even if it is rightly seen as neo-fundamentalist, backward, and shocking.
~ Isabelle Adjani
The French, not the Americans, commissioned 'Einstein on the Beach.'
~ Robert Wilson
In Cyprus, our house was right on the beach. I could walk out of our front door, cross a road, and there was the sea.
~ Theo Paphitis
When they first kiss, there on the beach, they will kneel at the edge of the Pacific and say a prayer of thanks, sending all the stories of love inside them out in a fleet of bottles all across the oceans of the world.
~ Francesca Lia Block