Beach Quotes

Beach quotes for you to use on your beach wedding invitations, for your beach themed party, or just to give you a little beach therapy.

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and straightens the crooked path.

love keeps the stars in the firmament

and imposes rhythm on the ocean tides

each of us is created of it

and i suspect

each of us was created for it”

--Maya Angelou quotes
“A real friend is someone who takes a winter vacation on a sun-drenched beach and does not send a card.”

--Farmer’s Almanac

“Don't grow up too quickly, lest you forget how much you love the beach.”

-- Michelle Held

“I am you; you are ME. You are the waves; I am the ocean. Know this and be free, be divine.”

--Sri Sathya Sai Baba
“The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea.”

--Isak Dinesen

“Sponges grow in the ocean. That just kills me. I wonder how much deeper the ocean would be if that didn't happen.”

--Stephen Wright quotes
“I have always loved the beach. The smell of the salty water, the wind in my face, the gentle roar of the waves all combine to create a sense of peace and calm.”

--Anonymous

“I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.”

-- T. S. Eliot

“Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.”

--Robert Henri

“My life is like a stroll on the beach...as near to the edge as I can go.”

--Thoreau

“Our memories of the ocean will linger on, long after our footprints in the sand are gone.”

--Anonymous

“The Sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.”

--Jacques Cousteau

“I dropped a tear in the ocean, and whenever they find it I'll stop loving you, only then.”

--Anonymous

“We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.”

--Mother Teresa

“Even the upper end of the river

believes in the ocean.”

--William Stafford
“The waves of the sea

Help me get back to me.”

--Jill Davis

“Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.”

--Albert Schweitzer
“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”

--Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“Eternity begins and ends with the ocean's tides.”

--Unknown "Gift from the Sea"

"In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth"

--Rachel Carson

“Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore.”

--Lord Byron

"“As the ocean is never full of water, so is the heart never full of love”

--Unknown

“Everyone has faith in God though everyone does not know it. For everyone has faith in himself and that multiplied to the nth degree is God. The sum total of all that lives is God. We may not be God, but we are of God, even as a little drop of water is of the ocean.”

--Mohandas Gandhi

“Seeing death as the end of life is like seeing the horizon as the end of the ocean.”

--David Searls
“Thank God for the food and for the hands that prepared it and also for the ocean.”

--Bode Dykens (age 2)

“It’s hard for me to put into words why I like the beach so much. Everything about it is renewing for me, almost like therapy...Beach Therapy”

--Amy Dykens

“The beach is in our blood. Everyone in our family returns to the beach instinctively, just like the sea turtles.”

--Sandy Archibald

“Play in the sand; splash in the water; get dirty; get wet. The beach is the only place my mom doesn’t get mad about me doing that stuff. Of course I love the beach!”

--Dixie Dykens (age 5)

“I honestly think the beach is the only place children actually entertain themselves.”

--Donna McLavy