Break Quote by Jacques Barzun

From the shore, the ocean is forever. It's a beautiful, dangerous place. Music is tied to the sea, born from the struggle, looking for…

— Jon Foreman

This land, although not my native land, Will be remembered forever. And the sea's lightly iced, Unsalty water. The sand on the bottom is…

— Anna Akhmatova

“The implications are sobering: the non-West not only finds itself replicating the West’s trauma on an infinitely larger scale. While helping inflict the profoundest…

— Pankaj Mishra

A land not mine, still forever memorable, the waters of its ocean chill and fresh. Sand on the bottom whiter than chalk, and the…

— Anna Akhmatova

“I used to walk out, at night, to the breakwater which divides the end of the harbor form the broad moor of the salt…

— Mark Doty

When the waves are crazy, the land is prettier!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

The American West is just arriving at the threshold of its greatness and growth. Where the West of yesterday is glamorized in our fiction,…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

All is going on as it was wont. The waves are hoarse with repetition of their mystery; the dust lies piled upon the shore;…

— Charles Dickens

The coast is an edgy place. Living on the coast presents certain stark realities and a wild, rare beauty. Continent confronts ocean. Weather intensifies.…

— Carl Safina

Life's a vast sea That does its mighty errand without fail, Painting in unchanged strength though waves are changing.

— George Eliot

“Words and stories washed ashore on that ancient way of the sea, and we made of them new songs. The sun came again, casting…

— Susan Abulhawa

If you want to know why the coast is such an inspirational place, ask Herman Melville, Jack London, Nordhoff and Hall, Robert Louis Stevenson…

— John Cooper Clarke