Surf Quotes
162 quotes by 131 authors
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If you want to surf, move to Hawaii. If you like to shop, move to New York. If you like acting and Hollywood, move to…
— Ricky Williams
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When I get up, I have a cup of coffee, surf the Internet, then do a half-hour run.
— Katarina Witt
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The magic that you find in surf music, I think, is really timeless. You know, when I was very young, I was in a surf…
— John Zorn
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On these magic shores children at play are for ever beaching their coracles. We too have been there; we can still hear the sound of…
— James M. Barrie
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There's no place you can go on the prairie that you don't hear the white noise of the wind, steady and rough as surf curling…
— Diane Ackerman
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When the real history of mankind is fully disclosed, will it feature the echoes of gunfire or the shaping sound of lullabies? The great armistices…
— Neal A. Maxwell
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She walked on, comforted by the surf, by the one perpetual moment of beach-time, the now-and-always of it.
— William Gibson
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Patient endurance permits us to cling to our faith in the Lord and our faith in His timing when we are being tossed about by…
— Neal A. Maxwell
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We only came close to dying six or seven times, which I thought was pretty good. Once, I lost my grip and found myself dangling…
— Rick Riordan
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Can you surf really well, then?" I looked at Grover, who was trying hard not to laugh. "Jeez, Nico," I said. "I've never really tried."…
— Rick Riordan
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I was in Cancun, Mexico, sitting in a disappearing-edge swimming pool, on a bar stool that was actually under the water, watching palm trees sway…
— Karen Marie Moning
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Lying under such a myriad of stars. The sea’s black horizon. He rose and walked out and stood barefoot in the sand and watched the…
— Cormac McCarthy
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If pinpointing God's presence were really that simple, then he supposed the beaches would be more crowded in the mornings. They would be filled with…
— Nicholas Sparks
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The little fishing boat anchors right off the shore of Gili Meno. There are no docks here on this island. You have to roll up…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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I stand amid the roar Of a surf-tormented shore, And I hold within my hand Grains of golden sand- How few! yet how they creep…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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Under the thinning fog the surf curled and creamed, almost without sound, like a thought trying to form inself on the edge of consciousness.
— Raymond Chandler
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Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore.
— Florence Nightingale
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You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
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L.A. burns, and so many other cities smolder, waiting for the hose that will flood gasoline over the coals, and we listen to politicians who…
— Dennis Lehane
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To stand at the edge of the sea, to sense the ebb and flow of the tides, to feel the breath of a mist moving…
— Rachel Carson
Who Wrote These Surf Quotes
131 authors contributed a total of 162 Surf Quotes, led by these top contributors: