Famous Quotes & Sayings

Luke Bracey

No, 'Point Break' for me - growing up on the beaches of Sydney as a surfer, it was kind of the movie that we watched every week. For me to be Johnny Utah, I'm beside myself.

When I was a girl, all we knew was this neighborhood, ... The beaches were ?whites only.? So Turkey Creek is where we went to fish, pick blackberries, recreate. Oftentimes you could see old people walking down to Turkey Creek with their cane poles in their hands. Churches had no pools inside for baptisms then?we all walked down to the creek and waited until the crowd got there.

John Jones

We're expecting erosion. Our first concern will be the streets. We may not worry about the beaches until Monday or Tuesday.

Since we offer sunny beaches and great weather, everyone from around the world comes to South Florida. It'd be great if they saw Safe Sea, tried the lotion and told others about it. That'll result in even more exposure.

Christo

The other exception where we did not at all restore the place to its original condition is the Surrounded Islands. Before we installed our fabric, we had our workers remove 42 tons of garbage off the beaches of those islands. We never brought the garbage back.

Toby Stephens

I'm fair-skinned, so beaches are a bit boring for me. I'm either smeared in lotion or under a shade. However, I do love the sea - diving, swimming and snorkelling.

Norman Schwarzkopf

Unfortunately, if you've ever been in southern Georgia on the beaches in a lightning storm, if you're out there, you're in great, great danger, and you can be killed very, very quickly.

We're doing what we need to do to get the plans approved, and make sure everything is up to standard and good for the community. We're going through the process. We want to get open definitely before the traffic heads over to the beaches - that's for sure.

From reinforcing beaches in the Rockaways to installing generators at the Coney Island Houses and sealing holes in the subway system, New York is fortifying our ability to withstand future storm surges.

Chris Noth

From what I've heard about Israel and its sites, landscape, beaches and historical and religious heritage, it is a wonderful place to visit. I told my friends that I'm going to Israel because I'm a New Yorker, and a New Yorker goes to Israel.

Strom Thurmond

I did not risk my life on the beaches of Normandy to come back to this country and sit idly by while a bunch of hack politicians whittles away your heritage and mine.

I think the decision to prevent him going to any beaches is a bit beyond the pale.

Billy Collins

If you write a letter of resignation or something with an agenda, you're simply using a pen to record what you have thought out. In a poem, the pen is more like a flashlight, a Geiger counter, or one of those metal detectors that people walk around beaches with.

Hill Harper

My favorite vacation spot is a beautiful beach. I've been to many, many beaches on many continents: Mombasa, the Dominican Republic, the Bahamas, Bermuda, Barbados, Mexico and the U.S. What's beautiful about beach communities is for whatever reason, they feel like vacation to me.

With all these storms, we've really been beaten up lately. The beaches all need to be rejuvenated, and Mother Nature cannot do it on its own. We need sand.

I grew up in Haifa and enjoyed the wonderful beaches and Mount Carmel that rolls into the Mediterranean Sea. From my early days at home, I remember a strong encouragement to study.

We need to get through one more hurricane season and winter of Nor' Easters. A lot of our beaches are in poor shape. A series of powerful storms in the 1990s have eroded large sections of sand and dunes. One more major hit and we could be in big trouble. There are thousands of lives, homes, businesses and public property at stake here. They are at clear risk.

Finishing all of these projects would be the biggest accomplishment in terms of protecting our beaches during my time with (the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control,

Wayne Huizenga

We love our city and we love our area. We think the weather is the best. We think we have the best hotels, the best restaurants, the best beaches and the best golf courses.

We envision rooms painted with murals of starry nights and beaches with calm waters where our grieving kids can help one another.

Brandon Boyd

We have been surfing our whole lives, so protecting the oceans and beaches is especially important to us. It is our honor and privilege to participate in such a worthy cause.

The levels here have, we're talking about, a magnitude of six times. It indicated to us there is some fecal contamination making its way to the beaches here.

All of the evidence that we have says that the beaches are as safe now as they were before the sewage spill.

This bill is a wolf in sheep's clothing. I have never seen a greater threat to the coast of California. Many coastal states see this as a direct threat to 25 years of bipartisan, bicoastal protection of their most important beaches and coastlands.

This is a fight for order and control of our streets. There are hooligans out there who believe they have the right to determine who goes to beaches and streets and who will control parts of our parks and our streets.

This is home to sea turtles, sperm whales, a number of charismatic species in serious jeopardy. The potential impact of a spill and the speed with which it would be brought to the southeast beaches is extremely alarming.

Martin Henderson

Boy, we partied, man. They were crazy days, man. Just partying all the time. We'd go surfing - Heath taught me to surf - and we'd get up at 6am and take off to the northern beaches and surf in the sunrise, and then cruise around, and girls and beer and parties.

These days you'll find a surf scene just about anyplace there are waves. Even on beaches once considered off the beaten path, you'll often find surf shops offering lessons and board rentals.

Tom Brokaw

As I walked the beaches with the American veterans who had returned for this anniversary, men in their sixties and seventies, and listened to their stories, I was deeply moved and profoundly grateful for all they had done,

Andy Richter

We've been swimming at nude beaches and I love to go skinny dipping, but I'm sorry, sitting on top of a mountain, that's just, you're trying to show off or something. That's ridiculous.

I spend a fair bit of time in Los Angeles, and there is much I love about the place - the weather, the food, the beaches and the golf. And a few things I don't. Like the way an enormous number of mentally ill people seem to be forced to live on the streets with little or nothing in the way of government assistance.

Rick Astley

I've been to Sardinia about 10 times because my wife, my daughter and I used to go every year with another family. We rented the same house each time in Villasimius in the southern part of the island, and always went to the same two beaches and same three restaurants.

Aaron Peirsol

The ocean is the lifeblood of our world. 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.