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Letter "T" » The Beaches
«I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me.»
Author: Anna Quindlen
(Author, Journalist)
| Keywords:
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«You can tell all you need to about a society from how it treats animals and beaches.»
«The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach»
Author: Henry Beston
| About:
Nature
| Keywords:
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«Wildness and silence disappeared from the countryside, sweetness fell from the air, not because anyone wished them to vanish or fall but because throughways had to floor the meadows with cement to carry the automobiles which advancing technology produced. Tropical beaches turned into high-priced slums where thousand-room hotels elbowed each other for glimpses of once-famous surf not because those who loved the beaches wanted them there but because enormous jets could bring a million tourists every year -- and therefore did.»
Author: Archibald MacLeish
(Critic, Poet)
| Keywords:
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«One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach; one can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few»
Author: Anne Morrow Lindbergh
| About:
Beauty
| Keywords:
beach, collect, collects, On the Beach, shells, The Beach, The Beaches
«The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea.»
Author: Anne Morrow Lindbergh
| Keywords:
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«In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth.»
Author: Rachel Carson
| About:
Earth
| Keywords:
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«I have the world's largest collection of seashells. I keep it on all the beaches of the world... perhaps you've seen it.»
Author: Stephen Wright
(Actor, Writer)
| Keywords:
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«On vacations: We hit the sunny beaches where we occupy ourselves keeping the sun off our skin, the saltwater off our bodies, and the sand out of our belongings.»
Author: Erma Bombeck
| About:
Vacation
| Keywords:
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«We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
| Keywords:
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