Quotes About Seaside

My mum lives near Holkham Bay in Norfolk, and with my dad by the coast in Suffolk, I spend quite a bit of time by the sea.

Brighton is such a good place to bring up kids.

Do you know why sailors wear gold in their ears?" Uncle asked me. "It was the law, long ago, that a sailor had to have on his person enough gold to bury him should he wash ashore. So the seaside folk wouldn't be out of pocket at the funeral expense.

I loved the smell of ocean water. Salt always smells like memory.

He doesn't care if my trainers get wet because we're at the seaside and it doesn't matter at the seaside, nothing matters at the seaside.

In this state, drugged by the rainy dusk, she almost always returned with sensual closeness to seaside childhood; once more she felt her heels in the pudding-softness of the hot tarred esplanade or her bare arm up to the elbow in rain-wet tamarisk. She smelt the shingle and heard it being sucked by the sea.

Montauk is a little more raw and rugged than the other parts of the Hamptons, and I like that.

Heaven, as conventionally conceived, is a place so inane, so dull, so useless, so miserable that nobody has ever ventured to describe a whole day in heaven, though plenty of people have described a day at the seaside.

She enjoyed the sights and sounds of the dockside – ports were places of freedom.

What's best about those seaside towns is that they are like time warps, and that's why people go there.

A poor woman from Manchester, on being taken to the seaside, is said to have expressed her delight on seeing for the first time something of which there was enough for everybody.

Beyond the dark trees, Seal Rock gleamed eerily against the ocean, white as an iceberg under the moon. "Magic," she said, squeezing his arm.

Once a day, take some 'Beach Time.'

I've been going to Bamburgh for holidays since I was a child.

When I was a kid, all our seaside holidays were spent on Canvey Island or in Clacton-on-Sea.

It was like a voyage, only the other way round. So that instead of the waiting and hoping to sight land, you were moving over land in the first place, all impatient, all ready for that first glimpse. The seaside. The sea.

I was going to Miami quite a lot at the time, speaking a lot of Spanish with my friends from Cuba - Lana Del Rey reminded us of the glamour of the seaside. It sounded gorgeous coming off the tip of the tongue.

Almost 2,000 years ago, on August 24, A.D. 79, the seaside town of Pompeii (pom-PAY) was a typical Roman town. Many Romans went there on their ?vacation. They built large houses called villas and planted groves of olive trees along the slopes of a mountain called Mount Vesuvius (vuh-SOO-vee-us).

Nema told us that the son of one of his friends, a 10-year-old, had a week and his parents in whore telling them he has been having an "illegal dream." He had been dreaming that he was at the seaside with some men and women who were kissing, and he did not know what to do. He kept repeating to his parents that he was having a legal dreams.

Topography is one of my chief themes in my poetry, about the country, the suburbs and the seaside. Then there comes love... and increasingly; the fear of death.

describing the beauties of the seaside resort where you would like to be; by letting yourself be lulled by the waves created in your bath by the backwash of the paddle-steamers passing close to the pontoon;

Casi siempre descansaban en un prado, con Deauville a la izquierda, Le Havre a la derecha y enfrente el mar abierto. Estaba reluciente de sol, liso como un espejo, tan manso que apenas se oía su murmullo; piaban, escondidos, los gorriones, y todo esto bajo la inmensa cúpula del cielo.

There's a melancholy sense of things lost in the shabbier British seaside towns; of comfortable failure and better times long gone.

Whitley Bay was my first experience of the seaside. I'd buy my bucket and spade, and beach ball, and all the shops were teeming with toys. I used to spend hours on the shuggy boats.