Beach Quotes

One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few. (Anne Morrow Lindbergh)
Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war. View quote
Loren Eiseley
Happy. Just in my swim shorts, barefooted, wild-haired, in the red fire dark, singing, swigging wine, spitting, jumping, running -- that's the way to live. All alone and free in the soft sands of the beach.... View quote
Jack Kerouac
The first thing I do every morning is go online to check the surf. If the waves are good, I'll go surf. The beach is 10 minutes away. View quote
Marisa Miller
I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me. View quote
Anna Quindlen
To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me. View quote
Isaac Newton
I've been kind of submerged in my own little geographic location for a really long time in Venice Beach. View quote
Amber Tamblyn
I played at the Sainte Maxime Beach Soccer Tournament, which was brilliant fun as usual. View quote
David Ginola
One of my favorite vacation places is Miami, because of the people, the water and the beach - of course - and the architecture on Miami Beach is so wonderful. View quote
Oksana Baiul
If I have a Sunday free, I'll go up the coast and spend some time on the beach. I scuba dive and swim and sail. A lot of the things I like are around the water. View quote
Parker Stevenson
In Hawaii, we go to this wonderful place, all families. My wife and I go directly from breakfast to a beach chair where we read all day. My daughter goes from water to pool to running around with friends she meets, some of whom are regulars there. (Stephen Collins)
If you are playing bad you are going to lose here, on clay, on ice, or on the beach. View quote
Rafael Nadal
To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude. View quote
Jeanne Moreau
The eye of the trilobite tells us that the sun shone on the old beach where he lived; for there is nothing in nature without a purpose, and when so complicated an organ was made to receive light, there must have been light to enter it. View quote
Louis Agassiz
You must respect people and work hard to be in shape. And I used to train very hard. When the others players went to the beach after training, I was there kicking the ball. View quote
Pelé
I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach? View quote
Philip Johnson
It was as if when I looked into his eyes I was standing alone on the edge of the world...on a windswept ocean beach. There was nothing but the soft roar of the waves. View quote
Anne Rice
Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
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. View quote
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Honor is like an island, rugged and without a beach; once we have left it, we can never return. View quote
Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux
Babies don't need a vacation, but I still see them at the beach... it pisses me off! I'll go over to a little baby and say 'What are you doing here? You haven't worked a day in your life!' (Steven Wright)
Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster. View quote
Cyril Connolly
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. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
Hollywood is a place where some people lie on the beach and look up at the stars, whereas other people lie on the stars and look down at the beach. View quote
Noël Coward
This fall, and this was a very tough decision for me, but this fall I will be taking my talents to South Beach and play with the Miami Heat. View quote
LeBron James