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

In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth.
-Rachel Carson

Miami Beach is where neon goes to die.
-Lenny Bruce

A ship on the beach is a lighthouse to the sea.
-Dutch Proverb

A mere forty years ago, beach volleyball was just beginning. No bureaucrat would have invented it, and that's what freedom is all about.
-Newt Gingrich

A shipwrecked sailor, landing on a lonely beach, observed a gallows.
-Jim Steinman

The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach.
-Henry Beston

To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.
-kentfrese Isaac Newton

Babies don't need a vacation but I still see them at the beach. I'll go over to them and say, 'What are you doing here, you've never worked a day in your life!'.
-Stephen Wright

Did not look out on swirling dust devils or miles of alkali and sand flats, as we did that hot August day, but on a great lake with wavelets lapping against a beach below the cave.
-Luther Cressman

Where does a wise man kick a pebble? On the beach. Where does a wise man hide a leaf? In the forest.
-G. K. Chesterton

You'll never find your gold on a sandy beach.
-Jim Steinman

The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea.
-Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The moon is essentially gray, no color. It looks like plaster of Paris, like dirty beach sand with lots of footprints in it.
-James A. Lovell

(Regarding his prayers to keep Hurricane Gloria away from Virginia Beach) It was 'extremely important' because I felt that if I couldn't move a hurricane, I could hardly move a nation.
-Pat Robertson

Film stars to me were always six feet four, had perfect teeth and could do handstands on Malibu Beach - and didn't need glasses
-Michael Caine

Shy traffickers, the dark Iberians come: And on the beach undid his corded bales.
-Matthew Arnold

You never know how many friends you have until you rent a house on the beach.
-Jim Steinman

[The shortage of student loans] may require... divestiture of certain sorts - stereo divestiture, automobile divestiture, three-weeks-at-the-beach divestiture.
-Jim Steinman

I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach?
-Philip Johnson

The coconut trees, lithe and graceful, crowd the beach like a minuet of slender elderly virgins adopting flippant poses.
-William Manchester

This race between Dick Swett and Bob Smith is hot and tight as a too-small bathing suit on a too-long car ride back from the beach.
-Dan Rather