Quotes About The Beach

#1. Heather Lende's small town is populated with big hearts
she finds them on the beach, walking her granddaughters, in the stories of ordinary peoples' lives, and knits them into unforgettable tales. Find the Good is a treasure.

Jo-Ann Mapson

#2. To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me

Isaac Newton

#3. 'SMiLE' is perhaps the Beach Boys' most legendary album. It was recorded in 1966 and 1967 but only saw a formal release in 2011. That's a long time to wait for what was said to be Brian Wilson's masterpiece.

Henry Rollins

#4. beast. But first I detour toward the lanai and plop myself on a chaise. The sun is high up in the afternoon sky, not a cloud in sight. People have crowded the beach, just little colorful dots against the white sand. The ocean stretches as far the horizon without any islands visible ahead,

Kendal Taylor

#5. My dad was a soul fan and a singer himself, and he loved vocal harmony, stuff like the Beach Boys and Motown like the Four Tops, which was a big influence on me.

Katy B

#6. Tamsen lay listening to the crashing of the waves on the beach, the symphony of the ocean competing with the orchestral maneuvers of the first birds singing in the dawn.

Toni Kenyon

#7. I was an ugly child. I got lost on the beach. I asked a cop if he could find my parents. He said, 'I don't know. There's lots of places for them to hide'.

Rodney Dangerfield

#8. I'm really normal. I play football, go to the beach, drive. We have dogs. I can imagine people calling me a character, but I'm Joe Straight.

River Phoenix

#9. In California, I do like to just chill out and go to the beach, but I love the energy here. I feel very productive when I'm in New York.

Ashley Greene

#10. I don't like lying around on the beach. I like to be busy.

Carrie Preston

#11. When I'm not working, I love going to the beach. I am from Florida, so I definitely love the beach life. I love horse-back riding. Just to go out to a barn, it's fun. It's kind of like a get-away from the city. And also, I love animals.

Stefanie Scott

#12. I remember having this friend in school who said she didn't like the Beach Boys. And in that moment I knew we couldn't be friends anymore.

Zooey Deschanel

#13. We spent a lot of time on the beach when I was young so I'd also take pictures of seaweed and crabs.

Graeme Le Saux

#14. Quite honestly, I live in California in the off season. Going off to Green Bay is just like two different walks of life - I hunt, fish, practice with firearms. Back in California, it's spend time at the beach, go to the movies.

Clay Matthews III

#15. Tave drew nearer, his pace never slowing. He continued with his rapid speed even as he approached the shallows of the beach. What, did he think he could swim on land? If so, the Ujals seriously needed to reconsider their leadership choices.

Erin Tate

#16. Breathe, man, just breathe, I told myself and had to think of old women at the beach in bikinis. When that didn't help, I had to go a little further and picture them in thongs. Voila! No more stiffy.

R.D. Cole

#17. A wave is a pretty thing to look at when it breaks on the beach, but too many only make you seasick.

Stephen King

#18. Having colleagues nearby, whether at the beach or in a crypt, means the ideas are always flowing

Richard Branson

#19. I try to surf everyday or at least go for a walk on the beach if the waves are flat. The more I travel, the more I appreciate where I live and the ocean.

Jon Foreman

#20. The best thing about living at the beach is that you only have assholes on three sides of you.

George Carlin

#21. Mrs Forrester said you could ruin a thing by wishing for something else. If you're having fun at the beach, like we are, but you spend all your time here wishing you could be here all the time, you're wasting the time you're here.

Diane Chamberlain

#22. Once Paul told her that the beach was like him because it changed every day but it never made any progress. Later she remembered thinking that a normal person might have begun by saying that he was like the beach.

Ann Brashares

#23. You still should enjoy the beach and going outside. Having a good time at the beach can still include being smart about protecting your skin because getting burned is no fun at all.

Brande Roderick

#24. The last swimmers have come in from the beach now and are dressing upstairs; the cars from New York are parked five deep in the drive, and already the halls and salons and verandas are gaudy with primary colours, and hair bobbed in strange new ways ...

F Scott Fitzgerald

#25. The waves lie on the beach; Your hair on your back of angel. (Les vagues s'allongent sur la plage; - Tes cheveux sur ton dos d'ange. )

Charles De Leusse

#26. I love long walks on the beach, big dicks and fried chicken.

Jujubee

#27. If Frank and The Beach Boys got together and did a Super Session album, it would be a gas.

Mike Love

#28. It's not going to surprise me if our kids end up running on the beach in Florida when they're 100 years old on regrown body parts with a much higher quality of life than we can begin to imagine.

Juan Enriquez

#29. I don't see why a poem couldn't be spoken out a car window or written on the beach at low tide. In fact, I'm sure people are doing it.

James Arthur

#30. All the itch and clutter of the world, its bother and fuss, its nagging pettiness, can wear you down so easily. And this is why I like the beach ...

William Boyd

#31. I wanted to resist, allowing the night to go on forever. As we walked along the beach, I pressed my feet into the sand firmly, leaving an impression deep enough to last a lifetime.

And I did not look back...

Scott Hildreth

#32. That's all it was, the dream was just Jock and me and the stick and the beach and the sea and the sky and time passing by, and that was all, there was nothing else. And that was happiness.

Ninni Holmqvist

#33. After supper they saw Kaluka to the boardwalk, and then strolled back along the beach to Asbury. The evening sea was a new sensation, for all its color and mellow age was gone, and it seemed the bleak waste that made the Norse sagas sad.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#34. People want to see me back in the ring. I think it is more of a drag lying around on the beach.

Lennox Lewis

#35. Being with my wife and children in Kauai, seeing old friends there, being on the beach, painting, paddleboarding. Sitting under a Kauai moon with a bonfire going, buddies around. Those are the things that kind of make my world turn.

Pierce Brosnan

#36. Henry closed his eyes and imagined the sweet petulant woundedness with which she had stared at him on the beach. He felt a little proud that she could love him.

Anna Godbersen

#37. At the beach, college girls lay in groups on the sand around buckets of drinks, their bums curved up like fruits. Mine didn't do that.

Tamara Faith Berger

#38. My relaxation has always been my animals - going to the dog park with them, going to the beach.

Hilary Swank

#39. (Moonlit nights)
On the beach of my thoughts
Full is overlooking some days..
,And it's flood ..
But, Isles is always coming
...
And the vision becomes clearly

Huda Aweys

#40. At present men make shift to wear what they can get. Like shipwrecked sailors, they put on what they can find on the beach, and at a little distance, whether of space or time, laugh at each other's masquerade.

Henry David Thoreau

#41. One cannot collect all the beautful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#42. When we're young, and we dream of love and fulfillment, we think perhaps of moon-drenched Parisian nights or walks along the beach at sundown. No one tells us that the greatest moments of a lifetime are fleeting, unplanned and nearly always catch us off guard.

Jean Harper

#43. I burn very easily, so if I forget sunscreen, I will be a tomato by the end of the day. I'm very big on sunscreen and hats. I grew up in Florida, and I love the beach, and I think it's healthy to get a little bit of color.

Candice Accola

#44. Gulls shriek plovers and sandpipers run up and down the beach. The tide is all the way out. The stone jetty from which people fish in the summer is covered with seals basking in the light.

Kathleen Valentine

#45. I turn and kick with the first one and feel myself being lifted and thrown towards the beach. It's like wrestling with an old friend, tumbling underneath then coming up for air.

Mark Smith

#46. So, I'm a Leo," she began. "I like long walks on the beach, chick flicks, and I have a five-year plan." She saw Carla and Ruby share a confused look. "Do you have a five-year plan, Nathan? I can't date a guy without a five-year plan."
"Are you high?" he asked.

Elena Kincaid

#47. I wanted to make a small movie about a guy and a girl on the beach, but then I thought, wouldn't it be cool if a werewolf was there?

Stephen Sommers

#48. 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.

Alain De Botton

#49. Her pace is furious as she walks along the beach, the surf competing with the noise in her head.

Anita Shreve

#50. Some people find the golden ring swimming in their cereal in the morning, slip it on their finger and go skipping through life. And others drop it in the sand at the beach & spend the rest of their life digging to get it back.

Raye Morgan

#51. When you're in love, the world is brighter. Sunnier. The air smells flowerier, and your hair is silkier, and suddenly you find yourself smiling at babies and strangers and old couples walking down the beach holding hands.

Jess Rothenberg

#52. I've always been active - outdoors, on the beach, playing - and so to go home and have to sit on my couch and relax ... it's frustrating. Sometimes, you just have to really shut yourself down.

Landon Donovan

#53. Toronto is actually way more fast-paced than L.A. - I find the fast-paced nature of Toronto a bit obtrusive. In L.A., I love getting up and going hiking and going to the beach - that's L.A. culture and it's awesome and I miss it. Toronto culture is wonderful, but I miss L.A.

Jordan Gavaris

#54. Oooh, hey, sex camp! Yeah. That's the ticket. We need to start a sex camp where women can tell their hubbies they're going to a fat farm and instead of the boot camp diet with Nazi dieticians, they go to the beach and have hot men treat them like goddesses! (Chrissy)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#55. I started with one squirt but didn't think that was enough, so I ended up accidentally spraying on six more. I went back to the beach to wait, smelling like a department-store tragedy.

T.J. Klune

#56. So I'll put on my bob marley tape And practice what I preach Get jah lost in the reggae mon As I walk along the beach

Jimmy Buffett

#57. I'm a master of heels. I'm used to them. I'm tiny, so I wear them all the time. Apart from to the beach. That would be slightly psycho. I'm over the top, but not that much yet.

Josephine De La Baume

#58. 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

#59. As a kid I collected stamps, pebbles on the beach, anything. I liked to have at least 10 of something.

Jean Pigozzi

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

Paula Deen

#61. You can't find an uglier urban environment than the centre of Hollywood, but then you go to Griffith Park, you go to the beach, you go to the mountains, and it's rural. I live up in the Hollywood Hills and I have frogs, owls, coyotes, mountain lions - but I'm ten minutes from the centre of the city.

Moby

#62. I made this film 'The Beach,' which didn't take place in a city, and it didn't really suit me.

Danny Boyle

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

William Manchester

#64. If you simply walk on the beach as we are doing, you have no special color. But if you travel with a purpose, it is different. When you go somewhere important or you return home from a long journey, you build a shape around you and it reaches out ahead to touch your destination.

Lyall Watson

#65. A few days before the [Mr. America] contest we heard rumors about a man who had throngs of people following him along the Lake Michigan Beach front, and we couldn't imagine who could draw crowds by merely walking along the beach!

George Eiferman

#66. It was like in Samoa when they'd put up a movie screen on the beach and show movies and the locals would run behind the sheet to see where the people went. It was pretty grim.

Dick Wolf

#67. I pray. I try to find space to process with a walk on the beach, a hike in the hills. Nature is restorative. I also try not to overreact. I grew up in Ireland, and we are big tea drinkers, and I think it's less about the tea itself and more about the ritual and the moment to prepare.

Roma Downey

#68. Fresh seafood reminds me of Hawaii and eating raw ahi fish on the beach with a little soy sauce - instant sashimi.

Marie Helvin

#69. The breeze at the beach has a secret song in her heart which always lures us back.

Debasish Mridha

#70. 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.

Oksana Baiul

#71. Every minute I'm on the set, it's play time for me. I feel like I'm on the beach!

Rachel G. Fox

#72. I bought salvation from a man on the street. He said, Go down to the beach and let the waves wash your feet.

Gabriel Rheaume

#73. We liked the Beach Boys. There was kind of that friendly East Coast, West Coast thing between us. We were always fans. 'God Only Knows' is a brilliant record.

Bob Gaudio

#74. Be the ocean of love so that everyone can come to you to enjoy the beauty of the beach.

Debasish Mridha

#75. So who has more at stake? A young man trying to get laid with the least amount of white water before he ships off to his next assignment and has nothing but a memory of a nice month on the beach, or a family that desperately needs and wants old heartaches to disappear?

Roxanne St. Claire

#76. I still notice the burned house, mornings, when I walk along the beach. Well, obviously I do not notice the house. What I notice is what remains of the house. One is still prone to think of a house as a house, however, even if there is not remarkably much left of it.

David Markson

#77. I grew up in Los Angeles. I still remember when I was a junior in high school studying for the SATs. I had my job - I was actually a production assistant on a film - but on weekends, I would finish my prep tests on the beach.

Cody Horn

#78. My body is for my tennis - it's for my sport. I'm not a model at all. I don't work out to go to the beach: I work out to play well and to do well on the court.

Stanislas Wawrinka

#79. The pictures we saw before we got down here didn't even touch the reality of what it is like being here. We can be right on the beach with all the devastation and still not be able to imagine what it was like when the wall of water actually came up.

Connie Sellecca

#80. A good vacation for me is going to warm weather. Being able to go outside, in the sun, hit the beach, play outside sports. Being active outside. Going swimming, hanging by the pool, having a couple drinks, having a couple of your close buddies around, and just having a blast.

Rob Gronkowski

#81. I grew up on oldies like the Beatles and the Beach Boys, Led Zeppelin and The Who.

Drake Bell

#82. I think that going to the beach as a child, being in the water and smelling that salt air and hearing the seagulls, it had a real calming effect. But also, it was a mysterious thing - I remember wondering what was under those dark New England seas.

Brian Skerry

#83. Another thing I like to do is sit back and take in nature. To look at the birds, listen to their singing, go hiking, camping and jogging and running, walking along the beach, playing games and sometimes being alone with the great outdoors. It's very special to me.

Larry Wilcox

#84. They were heading out to the middle of the bay - the Gulf - that's another thing that became kind of standard practice, we didn't hurry the destroyers around the beach any more, when it got dark, we'd take 'em out thirty or forty miles out in the middle of the Tonkin Gulf.

James Stockdale

#85. If you saw my musical collection it's absolutely horrendous, I've got everything from Stockhausen to The Beach Boys to Gina G, all sorts of terrible things and other people come here and look at my record collection and go, "Ah, you can't possibly like that - how embarrassing!"

Thighpaulsandra

#86. Be careful ... not all are what they seem. Some people pretend to be the beach, but they're actually quicksand.

Steve Maraboli

#87. There were human cultures that taught an afterlife of the blessed on mountaintops or in clouds in caverns or oases but she could not recall any in which if you were very very good when you died you went to the beach.

Carl Sagan

#88. Discovering L.A., in particular in the early '80s, was pretty spectacular; it was fun and carefree, and there was not nearly as much traffic as exists today. It was very much the last gasps of the Beach Boys' ideal view of L.A.: sun, the beach, cars, blondes, etc.

Zach Galligan

#89. I decided to go to the beach at San Quentin, and practice living as if today was one of the precious few left to me. What a concept.

Anne Lamott

#90. I love living in California and being able to go to the beach or go to the woods.

Tracy Chapman

#91. What does this beauty or than music mean to you? You cannot see the waves rolling up the beach or hear their roar. What do they mean to you?' In the most evident sense they mean everything. I cannot fathom or define their meaning any more than I can fathom or define love or religion or goodness.

Helen Keller

#92. I secretly enjoy being alone - hiking alone, skiing alone, walking along the beach alone, going to movies alone. Do not get me wrong, I like sharing my life with other people, but sometimes I really enjoy being as alone as possible.

Josh Zuckerman

#93. I'm no day at the beach. And if it is a beach, it's Hampton Beach. Ever been there? It's not nice.

Denis Leary

#94. Los Angeles and Sydney are very similar, but I definitely enjoy more fresh seafood when I'm back in Australia, as there is so much great, fresh produce here. I also like going swimming at the beach while I'm home, too.

Phoebe Tonkin

#95. I remember thinking that walking on the beach as a free man is pretty desirable.

Pierre Trudeau

#96. Summer means happy times and good sunshine. It means going to the beach, going to Disneyland, having fun.

Brian Wilson

#97. I can never get over when you're on the beach how beautiful the sand looks and the water washes it away and straightens it up and the trees and the grass all look great. I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.

Andy Warhol

#98. Good night.' Diana summoned all the dignity that she could manage in her bedraggled state and began to move back up the beach. Her dress was soaked and her stockings dotted with sand and her heart couldn't possibly withstand any more.

Anna Godbersen

#99. My mother was working a lot, so she was gone often. I would leave school and hitchhike to the beach. I can't believe I hitchhiked now. It scares me to death now.

Bo Derek

#100. I grew up on the beach, so I'm really comfortable in a bathing suit, playing volleyball, running around.

Gigi Hadid