Surf Quotes - Page 3

• Out of the depths of my happy heart wells a great tide of love and prayer for this priceless treasure that is confided to my lifelong keeping. You cannot see its waves as they flow toward you, darling, but in these lines you will hear...the distant beating of its surf.

  Mark Twain

  Love, Cute, Sweet

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• By suggestion and example, I believe children can be helped to hear the many voices about them. Take Time to listen and talk about the voices of the earth and what they mean-the majestic voice of thunder, the winds, the sound of surf or flowing streams.

  Rachel Carson

  Children, Believe, Mean

  Rachel Carson (2011). “The Sense of Wonder”, p.32, Open Road Media

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• But I did a lot of boxing and I was captain of an Australian surf club.

  Rod Taylor

  Boxing, Surfing, Clubs

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• I didn't grow up with money, but I grew up with a lot of space. All I did was surf. I was committed to the ocean. That's one thing about Australians; we have the capacity to embrace life.

  Simon Baker

  Growing Up, Ocean, Space

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• I know I love sexy surf guitars, I know I love loud snare. I love really simple repeating bass lines, and I love weird mad scientist keyboard sounds.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Sexy, Simple, Guitar

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• The noise resembles the roar of heavy, distant surf. Standing on the stirring ice one can imagine it is disturbed by the breathing and tossing of a mighty giant below.

  Ernest Shackleton

  Ice, Breathing, Surfing

  Ernest Shackleton (2015). “South”, p.59, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• I play basketball, I surf and swim and go to the cinema and listen to music and read. I like shopping.

  Saoirse Ronan

  Basketball, Play, Shopping

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• I love to see actors' work. I love to surf channels late at night and accidentally run into movies I hadn't seen before. It makes me very proud of the profession.

  James Earl Jones

  Running, Night, Actors

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• You're lucky if I watch 10 minutes of wrestling a month. Most of the time, I channel surf, and I lose interest after a few minutes.

  Jesse Ventura

  Wrestling, Watches, Lucky

  "Interview: Jesse Ventura biography". AskMen Interview, www.askmen.com.

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• Cats have intercepted my footsteps at the ankle for so long that my gait, both at home and on tour, has been compared to that of a man wading through low surf.

  Roy Blount, Jr.

  Home, Cat, Animal

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• My dad got me a huge board when I was little. He loves to surf. He suited me up and sent me out on this huge wave. I went under, and when I came out and the board hit me in the face. So I said, I never wanted to do this again. I stayed away until I was 13.

  Shaun White

  Dad, Boards, Littles

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• That’s why our TVs are brimming with so much hot man-on-pan action. You can’t channel surf for long without seeing turkey getting stuffed over and over until they finally cut to the gravy shot.

  Stephen Colbert

  Cutting, Men, Turkeys

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• L.A. burns, and so many other cities smolder, waiting for the hose that will flood gasoline over the coals, and we listen to politicians who fuel our hate and our narrow views and tell us it's simply a matter of getting back to basics while they sit in their beachfront properties and listen to the surf so they won't have to hear the screams of the drowning.

  Dennis Lehane

  Hate, Views, Cities

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• The quality of life is so much higher anyplace you can ski in the morning and surf in the evening - there's something to be said for that.

  Ian Somerhalder

  Morning, Quality, Evening

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When fast food is not a treat but a dietary staple, the children surf the internet all day in dark corners of the room and are bombarded with latest gadgets. Things replace parental standards.

  Diane Abbott

  Children, Dark, Bombarded By

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• For me, skateboarding started in 1965, so by the time the Dogtown era came around I'd already been skatin' for 10 years. When I started it was clay wheels and mostly home made decks. We were just trying to copy surfing. Everything about skateboarding had to do with surfing. It was all about fun and a way to surf when the waves were shitty.

  Jay Adams

  Fun, Home, Years

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• In the sea of words, the in print is foam, surf bubbles riding the top. And it's a dark sea, and deep, where divers need lights on their helmets and would perish at the lower depths.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Dark, Light, Sea

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• Watching nonprogrammers trying to run software companies is like watching someone who doesn’t know how to surf trying to surf. Even if he has great advisers standing on the shore telling him what to do, he still falls off the board again and again.

  Joel Spolsky

  Running, Fall, Trying

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• We're all trying to get to the same island — whether you swim, fly, surf, or skydive, it doesn't matter. What matters is when the red light goes on.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  What Matters, Islands, Light

  "How To Get Fired From Your Own Movie And Survive" by E.A. Hanks, www.buzzfeed.com. May 2, 2013.

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• This proves Indians do nothing else but surf the Web.

  Amitabh Bachchan

  Computer, Prove

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• I'm just a glutton for spas and messages. And I love to surf and hike.

  Carolyn Murphy

  Love, Age, Spas

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• [...] we must start by inspiring our children with a sense of purpose...by nurturing their imagination so that they may dream big and then work hard to reach those dreams. Too often, our children spend hours playing Playstation without ever finding out how to build Playstation. They watch television but never wonder how it's put together. They surf web page after web page on the Internet, but are never taught how to design one.

  Barack Obama

  Inspiring, Dream, Children

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• Within our culture, every school has a swimming pool. We lived on the coast. People swam in the surf. It's a very sporty nation and at that particular time anyone who had an artistic bent was very much an outsider. So if you liked reading or ideas or playing the piano then your dad viewed you as a sissy, basically.

  Geoffrey Rush

  Dad, Reading, School

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• The first time you get a ride on a surf board and you are being propelled along by a wave, it’s probably as close as humans can get to being able to fly like a bird

  Gerry Lopez

  Bird, Boards, Able

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• Surf the Web is a happy coincidence.

  Vinton Cerf

  Coincidence

  "Vint Cerf: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. April 24, 2008.

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