Words and stories washed ashore on that ancient way of the…

A prosthetic leg with a Willie Nelson bumper sticker washed ashore on the beach, which meant it was Florida. Then it got weird.

— Tim Dorsey

“She tried to speak; her mouth opened, once, twice, silent, a mermaid washed ashore.”

— Gillian Flynn

“My penis lay pathetically along my left thigh, like some small animal washed ashore.”

— Gillian Flynn

“Folklore tells of sea maidens who tamed the raging ocean to allow their sailors safe passage. But for those sailors they had loved and…

— Kerry Lonsdale

“On the morning after the storm the body of a drowned giant was washed ashore on the beach five miles to the north-west of…

— J.G. Ballard

It isn't that life ashore is distasteful to me. But life at sea is better.

— Francis Drake

The fish that first ventured ashore had considerable practical problems.

— Poul Anderson

In practice, the ocean is the world's wildest place because of both its fearsome natural danger and how easy it is out there to…

— Rose George

So our lives glide on: the river ends we don't know where, and the sea begins, and then there is no more jumping ashore.

— George Eliot

“The home world exercises its siren call over us all. No matter how far we wander, or how long we are gone, it waits…

— Jack McDevitt

“The Three-Decker "The three-volume novel is extinct." Full thirty foot she towered from waterline to rail. It cost a watch to steer her, and…

— Rudyard Kipling

No man will swim ashore and take his baggage with him.

— Seneca the Elder

July 2. A beautiful day for Labrador. Went ashore and killed nothing, but was pleased with what I saw. The country is so grandly…

— John James Audubon

They said the black oil wouldn't come ashore. Well, it is ashore. It's here to stay and it's going to keep coming.

— Billy Nungesser

Out of the choked Devonian waters emerged sight and sound and the music that rolls invisible through the composer's brain. They are there still…

— Loren Eiseley