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Quotes About Coastline

Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline.
~ Graham Greene
In fact, he argued, any coastline is—in a sense—infinitely long. In another sense, the answer depends on the length of your ruler.
~ James Gleick
Po našem p?sobení byly dv? míle pob?eží k nepoznání. Ale byla to jen nevinná hra, d?ti p?eci vyvád?jí všechno možné a koneckonc? pro? taky ne? D?ti sa takhle prost? baví, vytá?ejí dosp?lé a dávají jim zabrat; co by jiného m?ly d?lat?
~ Lemmy Kilmister
Next door to Ethiopia spreading out along the strategic Red Sea coastline is Eritrea, a relatively new country, and a place that few Americans seem to fully understand.
~ Dana Rohrabacher
Most of the Marois Bay scenery is simply made as a setting for the nursing of a wounded heart. The cliffs are a sombre indigo, sinister and forbidding; and even on the finest days the sea has a curious sullen look. You have only to get away from the crowd near the bathing-machines and reach one of these small coves and get your book against a rock and your pipe well alight, and you can simply wallow in misery. I have done it myself.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
The firstdown team for this planet must have had a fixation on animals. Horse, Bear, Eagle. For three days we were creeping down the east coast of Equus over an irregular coastline called the Mane. We've spent the last day making the crossing of a short span of the Middle Sea to a large island called Cat Key. Today we are offloading passengers and freight at Felix, the "major city" of the island.
~ Dan Simmons
A mile below the lowest cloud, rock breaches water and the sea begins. It has been given many names. Each inlet and bay and stream has been classified as if it were discrete. But it is one thing, where borders are absurd. It fills the space between stones and sand, curling around coastlines and filling trenches between the continents.
~ China Mieville
Out of the four large windows facing the water she can see the sine curve of the coastline, the serrated firs in the distance, the glittery amethyst sea.
~ Christina Baker Kline
Between low water and the flotsam and jetsam of the high-tide mark, land and sea wage a never-ending conflict for possession.
~ Rachel Carson
And I see the houses of the human race perched on the edge of the sea, shipwrecked in their false neighborliness.
~ Italo Calvino
For such a small country, Britain packs in an amazing diversity of landscapes: coastline, lakes, mountains, rolling countryside, villages and great cities.
~ Rory Bremner
Looking back along my morning's route, I can see the trail roller-coasting past estuaries and inlets, snaking its way along the meandering coastline.
~ Unknown
The sun touches Maine first among every state in the US. But Maine likes to confuse people and generally feels conflicted on the subject of light and warmth, so its shattered coastline of necks and points and isles hides from the sun, facing any direction but east.
~ John Hodgman
It keeps eternal whisperings around desolate shores
~ John Keats
Una Ensenada sólo vista en postales una región perpleja del recuerdo
~ Mario Benedetti
The man picked her up in Vernazza, a picturesque village perched along the rugged coastline of the Italian Riviera.
~ Unknown
Compelling and poetic, Four Letters of Love spirits the reader away to a magical, mist-clad coastline, inhabited by a passionate people, and unfurls like some epic poem which has been handed down in song, generation to generation. Half fable, half tragic realism, its musical rhythm is unforgettable
~ Niall Williams
This was dreadful news for the British. It meant that the long Spanish coastline was now enemy territory.
~ Unknown
The hostile shore facing the British stretched now from the Friesian Islands in the north
~ Unknown
Your western border will be the coastline of the Great Sea; this will be your boundary on the west.
~ Numbers 34:6
And the western border was the coastline of the Great Sea. These are the boundaries around the clans of the descendants of Judah.
~ Joshua 15:12
Ashdod, with its towns and villages; Gaza, with its towns and villages, as far as the Brook of Egypt and the coastline of the Great Sea.
~ Joshua 15:47