Barack Obama Quotes, Beach Quotes, Sacrifice Quotes

It was unknowable then, but so much of the progress that would define the 20th century, on both sides of the Atlantic, came down to the battle for a slice of beach only six miles long and two miles wide.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Beach Quotes , Sacrifice Quotes

It's very hard to respect people on holiday - everybody looks so silly at the beach, it makes you hate humanity - but when you see people at their work they elicit respect, whether it's a mechanic, a stonemason or an accountant.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alain de Botton Quotes , Beach Quotes , Hate Quotes

I love discomfort. I mean, my whole life is discomfort. One reason I can never retire is that the idea of just sitting on the beach totally comfortable is not a desideratum in my life. I like ambiguity, I like conflict, I like uncertainly.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Dershowitz Quotes , Beach Quotes , Mean Quotes

I grew up in Brentwood, but I live now in Los Feliz. I grew up on the beach, now I live under the Hollywood sign.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Adam Shankman Quotes , Beach Quotes , Hollywood Quotes

Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Beach Quotes , Ocean Quotes

She felt... how life, from being made up of little separate incidents which one lived one by one, became curled and whole like a wave which bore one up with it and threw one down with it, there, with a dash on the beach.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Beach Quotes , Littles Quotes

At the beach - time you enjoyed wasting, is not wasted.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Beach Quotes , Not Wasting Time Quotes

If we were to lose our fish that we appreciate so much by overfishing; or if we were to lose some of our favorite beaches to overbuilding and pollution, then how would we feel? It's become a case of not knowing what you've got until it's gone.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Aaron Peirsol Quotes , Beach Quotes , Knowing Quotes

I grew up in an area of a lot of growth, in Orange County, California, and spent most of my youth on the beach. I had witnessed the degradation of our Back Bay and the increased number of closed beach days over the years.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Aaron Peirsol Quotes , Beach Quotes , California Quotes

My soul is full of longing for the secret of the sea, and the heart of the great ocean sends a thrilling pulse through me.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Beach Quotes , Ocean Quotes

I am just your everyday, average girl. I live by the beach. I wear flip flops. I don't wear make-up. I go to the gym. My husband and I are just really laid back people.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : A. J. Cook Quotes , Girl Quotes , Beach Quotes

Here about the beach I wandered, nourishing a youth sublime With the fairy tales of science, and the long result of Time.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , Beach Quotes , Science Quotes

Luxury is anything that feels special. I mean, it can be a moment, it can be a walk on the beach, it could be a kiss from your child,or it could be a beautiful picture frame, a special fragrance. I think luxury doesn't necessarily have to mean expensive.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Aerin Lauder Quotes , Beautiful Quotes , Beach Quotes

At the beach - time you enjoyed wasting, is not wasted.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Beach Quotes , Not Wasting Time Quotes

In the morning there was a big wind blowing and the waves were running high up on the beach and he was awake a long time before he remembered that his heart was broken.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Running Quotes , Beach Quotes

Independence, like honor, is a rocky island, without a beach.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes , Beach Quotes , Islands Quotes

On the other hand, although I have a regular work schedule, I take time to go for long walks on the beach so that I can listen to what is going on inside my head. If my work isn't going well, I lie down in the middle of a workday and gaze at the ceiling while I listen and visualize what goes on in my imagination.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Albert Einstein Quotes , Beach Quotes , Lying Quotes

They took to silence. They touched each other without comment and without progression. A hand on a hand, a clothed arm, resting on an arm. An ankle overlapping an ankle, as they sat on a beach, and not removed. One night they fell asleep, side by side... He slept curled against her back, a dark comma against her pale elegant phrase.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : A. S. Byatt Quotes , Beach Quotes , Dark Quotes

The total number of stars in the Universe is larger than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the planet Earth.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Carl Sagan Quotes , Beach Quotes , Stars Quotes

More wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of the ocean. Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent. All my days I have watched it and listened to it, and I know it well. At first it told to me only the plain little tales of calm beaches and near ports, but with the years it grew more friendly and spoke of other things; of things more strange and more distant in space and time.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : H. P. Lovecraft Quotes , Beach Quotes , Ocean Quotes