Beach Quotes - Page 25

• When a mother takes pictures of her children on the beach, she doesn't take herself for an artist; she does it for love, which is an excellent reason, from my point of view.

  Martin Parr

  Mother, Children, Artist

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• You wouldn't want Alan Greenspan to write the instructions for assembling a beach chair.

  Robert Orben

  Writing, Want, Chairs

  "Think About It". Chicago Tribune, p. 3, June 25, 1995.

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• When I lie on the beach there naked, which I do sometimes, and I feel the wind coming over me and I see the stars up above and I am looking into this very deep, indescribable night, it is something that escapes my vocabulary to describe. Then I think: 'God, I have no importance. Whatever I do or don't do, or what anybody does, is not more important than the grains of sand that I am lying on, or the coconut that I am using for my pillow.' So I really don't think in the long sense.

  Marlon Brando

  Stars, Lying, Night

  New York Times, July 2, 2004.

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• The corporate right and the political right declared class warfare on working people a quarter of a century ago and they've won. Take the paradox of Rush Limbaugh, ensconced in a Palm Beach mansion massaging the resentments across the country of white-knuckled wage earners, who are barely making ends meet in no small part because of the corporate and ideological forces for whom Rush has been a hero.

  Bill Moyers

  Country, Hero, Class

  "FactCheck.org is Sponsored by Decidedly LEFTIST Organization: ANNENBERG Public Policy Foundation" by Biochemky, www.freerepublic.com. October 13, 2008.

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• Writing anything, it sorta starts the way you'd build a castle at the beach. You're just taking your hands and you're mounting up sand.

  Aaron Sorkin

  Writing, Hands, Castles

  "The West Wing/ Noël". Drama, Season 2, Episode 10, 2000.

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• Gather a shell from the strewn beach
  And listen at its lips: they sigh
  The same desire and mystery,
  The echo of the whole sea's speech.

  Dante Gabriel Rossetti

  Echoes, Sea, Desire

  "The Sea-Limits". "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th edition", 1919.

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• Across the narrow beach we flit, One little sand-piper and I; And fast I gather, bit by bit, The scattered drift-wood, bleached and dry, The wild waves reach their hands for it, The wild wind raves, the tide runs high, As up and down the beach we flit, One little sand-piper and I.

  Celia Thaxter

  Running, Hands, Wind

  Celia Thaxter (1874). “Poems”, p.32

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• Some folks like to get away Take a holiday from the neighborhood. Hop a flight to Miami Beach Or to Hollywood But I'm talking a Greyhound On the Hudson River Line. I'm in a New York state of mind.

  Billy Joel

  New York, Holiday, Talking

  "New York State of Mind" (song) (1976)

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• I'm more spiritual than I am religious. I don't go to church; I go to the beach.

  Paula Deen

  Spiritual, Religious, Church

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• I wrote a whole novel before The Beach. Unpublishable. Junk. But, for some reason I stuck at novels and wrote a second. Still not sure why I didn't give up. Stubborn, maybe.

  Alex Garland

  Giving Up, Stubborn, Junk

  Interview with Dennis Widmyer, chuckpalahniuk.net. July 30, 2007.

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• I love New York City for its energy. Pebble Beach, Carmel Beach and that all area, for its completely laid back energy. Paris for the charm, shopping and the glamour.

  Eva LaRue

  New York, Cities, Shopping

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• The first thing I did when I was forty years old, I put handcuffs on and I jumped off Alcatraz prison and swam to San Francisco handcuffed. That made national publicity. Then, there were three or four years where I would do more difficult feats. Another birthday I towed a thousand pound boat across the Golden Gate. On my 65th Birthday I towed 65 boats a mile and a half in Tokyo. On my 70th Birthday I towed 70 boats with 70 people in it with my feet and hands tied a mile and a half in Long Beach.... My next Birthday I will be 93. I'm gonna tow my wife across the bathtub.

  Jack LaLanne

  Hands, Years, Feet

  Interview with Antonia Venezia, aliveeastbay.com. March 2007.

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• In fall 1967, I was given leave of absence by the National Public Affairs Research Foundation to move to Redondo Beach, California, to work on a short-term research contract with TRW.

  Preston Manning

  Moving, Fall, California

  "The New Canada". Book by Preston Manning, 1992.

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• I tend to believe that computers are drawing kids -- and adults -- away from reading purely because they provide an alternative, vast source of spare-time amusement and entertainment. I recently heard a frightening statistic: there are less than one million true readers in this country (those who read every day instead of one book per year on a beach). Terrifying.

  Tim Lebbon

  Country, Believe, Book

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• Wake up to find out that you are the eyes of the world, but the heart has its beaches, its homeland, and thoughts of its own. Wake now, discover that you are the song that the morning brings, but the heart has its seasons its evenings, and songs of its own

  Robert Hunter

  Song, Morning, Heart

  Robert Hunter, David G. Dodd (2005). “The Complete Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics: The Collected Lyrics of Robert Hunter and John Barlow, Lyrics to All Original Songs, with Selected Traditional and Cover Songs”, p.202, Simon and Schuster

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• On every full moon, rituals ... take place on hilltops, beaches, in open fields and in ordinary houses. Writers, teachers, nurses, computer programmers, artists, lawyers, poets, plumbers, and auto mechanics -- women and men from many backgrounds come together to celebrate the mysteries of the Triple Goddess of the Dance of Life. The religion they practice is called Witchcraft.

  Starhawk

  Teacher, Men, Artist

  Starhawk (1999). “Spiral Dance: Slipcase”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• James loved Rhode Island, ... He loved the ocean. He would sit in his beach chair for hours and look out at the ocean.

  Ann Wright

  Ocean, Rhode Island, Islands

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• Life is also busy transporting and overturning the soils of earth, the stones, and the minerals. The miles-long drifts of sea kelp that float along our coasts may carry hundreds of tons of volcanic boulders held in their roots. I have followed these streams of life over 300 km, and seen them strand on granite beaches, throwing their boulders up on a 9,000 year old pile of basalt, all the hundreds of tons of which were carried there by kelp.

  Bill Mollison

  Years, Sea, Roots

  "Permaculture: A Designers' Manual". Book by Bill Mollison, 1988.

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• If I had to pick one tribe to go back and live with permanently - and I hate doing this, it's not a contest - it would be the people of Anuta, in the South Pacific. It's got white beaches, blue seas, good food and gentle, friendly people who have a wonderful philosophy of sharing. And it's warm.

  Bruce Parry

  Hate, Philosophy, Blue

  "My hols: Bruce Parry". Times Online UK, September 16, 2007.

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• I'm a really big surfer, and I have also been playing a ton of volleyball on the beach on the weekends.

  Teddy Sears

  Volleyball, Weekend, Surfer

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• What were the bodies like on the beach? Ugly and white and ruined by offices.

  Leonard Cohen

  Pain, White, Office

  Leonard Cohen (2011). “The Favourite Game”, p.80, Emblem Editions

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• Living at a beach, near a river mouth, taught him the impotence of impatience at events moving at nature's pace.

  Tony Bishop

  Moving, Sea, Fishing

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• This year's Olympics will be replacing the women's beach volleyball bikinis with uniforms that are less revealing. The stricter dress code was made to appease the conservative nation of 'Buzzkillistan.'

  Conan O'Brien

  Funny, Volleyball, London Olympics

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• The point of all this is to be able to spend more time at the beach!

  Nils John Nilsson

  Life, Able, More Time

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• I don't know whether to admit it or not. You think I should tell them, Snerdley? Okay. Folks, some good friends of mine who live here in Palm Beach bought a Smart Car... and there's a picture of me in it.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Smart, Good Friend, Thinking

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