Coastal Quotes
45 quotes by 42 authors
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Sir Guy Campbell's classic account of the formation of the links, beginning with Genesis and moving step by step to the thrilling arrival of 'tilth'…
— Alistair Cooke
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It is particularly appropriate that we unveil this campaign on this first day of the annual international coastal clean-up effort, ... Beach cleanups are something…
— Ted Danson
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The sea from Dunkirk to Dover during these days of the evacuation looked like any coastal road in England on a bank holiday. It was…
— Douglas Bader
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Coastal sailing as long as it is perfectly safe and easy commands no magic. Overseas expeditions are invariably bound up with ceremonies and ritual. Man…
— Bronislaw Malinowski
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Protecting dozens of major coastal cities from future flooding will be challenging enough-rebuilding major coastal cities destroyed by super-hurricanes will be an almost impossible task.
— Joseph J. Romm
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It's paradoxical that where people are most closely crowded, in the big coastal cities of the East and West, the loneliness is the greatest...The explanation…
— Robert M. Pirsig
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Saving Greenland is both a metaphor and a precondition for saving civilization. If its ice sheet melts, sea levels will rise 23 feet. Hundreds of…
— Lester R. Brown
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Climate change will affect the basic elements of life for people around the world - access to water, food production, health, and the environment. Hundreds…
— Nicholas Stern
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I do like the ocean wave, actually. I'm born under the sign of Cancer - the sign of the crab - so I like coastal…
— Anjelica Huston
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Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, and don't have any kids yourself.
— Philip Larkin
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If our government won't spend the money to protect New Orleans sufficiently today, what are the chances we will spend the money to protect dozens…
— Joseph J. Romm
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We have a unique opportunity to unite America, urban and rural, coastal and midwestern, red and blue, under the banner of a truly unifying national…
— William J. Clinton
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I sleep with a glass of water on the nightstand so I can see by its level if the coastal earth is trembling or if…
— Amy Hempel
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The people of South and Central Texas and the Coastal Bend need jobs, they need health care, they need water infrastructure improvements, they need a…
— Ruben Hinojosa
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The Coastal Plain of Alaska has great potential for energy development. Americans have paid record-high prices for oil and gas in the year 2005.
— Kenny Marchant
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A panel at a beautiful annual literary festival in Brazil, held in the almost Utopian coastal town of Parati, found me matched with Fernando Gabeira.…
— Christopher Hitchens
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Oman overall has great animal and plant biodiversity because it has mountains, desert, coastal areas and rich coral reefs.
— Saadi
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We have the highest graduation rates, the broadest health care access, and the greatest level of home ownership and workforce participation in the country. And…
— Tim Pawlenty
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Rising sea levels will result in tens to hundreds of millions more people flooded each year with a warming of 3 or 4°C. There will…
— Nicholas Stern
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Estuaries are coastal bays, harbors, sounds and lagoons, places where rivers meet the sea.
— Jim Gerlach
Who Wrote These Coastal Quotes
42 authors contributed a total of 45 Coastal Quotes, led by these top contributors: