Quotes About Coastline

I traveled to Ireland to research 'Sandcastles,' to visit the coastline where my ancestors looked toward America, the tiny town they once loved so much, and the docks from which they sailed toward their dreams of building a better life for their family. The answers I found on that journey are woven through the novel.

Pebble Beach. It is tough and the lay out is amazing.

more than 60 percent of the global population lives within thirty miles of a coastline.

The low road and the sea always flirted with each other, and today they were particularly passionate.

They stopped a few times along the way, the early start affording them the opportunity. Marc exposed several rolls of film of the changing coastline and took several pictures of her as well. By the time they reached

War is just a racket... I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else.

Living on the Gulf Coast, we often have to go through dangerous situations, whether you're a child, an adult or a senior citizen.

Part of the reason people could eat so well was that many foods that we now think of as delicacies were plenteous then. Lobsters bred in such abundance around Britain's coastline that they were fed to prisoners and orphans or ground up for fertilizer.

Anning would spend the next thirty-five years gathering fossils, which she sold to visitors. (She is commonly held to be the source for the famous tongue twister "She sells seashells on the seashore.")

The specific site is Church Flatts Farm, which is officially 70.21 miles from the nearest patch of coastline. Some passerby had marked the spot with a roll of old carpet heaved into the hedge.

Lobsters bred in such abundance around Britain's coastline that they were fed to prisoners and orphans or ground up for fertilizer; servants sought written agreements from their employers that they would not be served lobster more than twice a week.

This is the worst thing to happen to beaches since the Speedo.

I'd happily cover the British Open every year until St. Andrews slides into the sea or Scotland runs out of beer, whichever happens first.

I am delighted to learn that the small part I played in the campaign to protect the white cliffs of Dover has been so effective.

The Yucatan Peninsula is really worth the trip. The water is stunning and the beaches are true-white sand.

I grew up running miles of the Norfolk coastline. I'd think nothing of a six-mile run before breakfast. I still run, though not as far and not before muesli.

Nuclear power plants built in the areas usually thought of as earthquake zones, such as the California coastline, have a surprisingly low risk of damage from those earthquakes. Why? They built anticipating a major quake.

War is just a racket... I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else.

There were good reasons for their interest, chiefly because Norway's long coastline offered potential naval bases to dominate the North Sea.

The successors to both Wari and Tiwanaku combined the former's organizational skills and the latter's sense of design and razzle-dazzle. First came Chimor, then the greatest empire ever seen in Peru. Spread at its greatest extent over seven hundred miles of the coastline, Chimor was an ambitious state that grew maize and cotton by irrigating almost fifty thousand acres around the Moche River (all of modern Peru only reached that figure in 1960). A

precisely where the land touched water at high tide, where things came together but also separated.

you reached a small half-moon bay, rimmed with white sands and great piles of dried ribbon-weed that had been thrown up by the winter storms and lay along the beach like large, badly made birds' nests.

I liked New England.

A little-known fact is that most American of icons, the open-range cattle industry, originated in El Norte and was based on Spanish precedents. A mix of arid plains, high deserts, and Mediterranean coastline, Spain bears a physical resemblance to El Norte.