Sue Monk Kidd Quotes

There's nothing like coming home here, having the day off or morning off and going surfing. In Orlando I don't know what I would do.

On the other hand, if there's an underlying core of poetry that I go to, I go to the sea. I've lived on the sea all my life. I live on the sea in Cape Breton.

I have two houses in California, and they're both within a couple of minutes from the beach. So, I definitely feel at home in California and by the ocean.

I don't live in L.A. or in New York. I live in Virginia by the ocean.

I don't feel I've arrived home until I get on the beach. All my life, the theater of the sea has been a very strong thing.

Tidal rhythms have an effect on our physiology.... When we feel out of sorts, our body is out of sync with the body of the Universe. Spending time near the ocean, or anywhere in nature, can help us to synchronize our rhythms with nature's rhythms.

Our greatest foreign policy problem is our divisions at home. Our greatest foreign policy need is national cohesion and a return to the awareness that in foreign policy we are all engaged in a common national endeavor.

My lifetime’s memories are what I have brought home from the trip. I will require them for eternity no more than that little souvenir of the Eiffel Tower I brought home from Paris.

Certain words now in our knowledge we will not use again, and we will never forget them. We need them. Like the back of the picture.

The Christian sees the world as a transitional home badly in need of rehab, and we are active agents in that project.

I'm 47 now, and I'm at that stage where I'm still young but I'm not young. I'm not old but I'm getting old, and I have stuff at home that reminds me of people and places.

For more and more of us, home has less to do with a piece of soil than a piece of soul.

I gave him his first TV and he needs to remember that.

I don't need new boots I got bluchers back down home. Eff the effing bluchers I'll buy you new adjectival effing elastic sided boots.

I feel at home up in the air, just like sailors do at sea and climbers do in the mountains.

The word 'home', it seemed, once learned, was a hard one to forget.

I don't have too much time to shop. I have such a back log of stuff at home. I tend to get temperative once in awhile. I don't need anything, so if I see something that knocks me out, then I'm buying it. It's getting harder and harder because things are getting more homogenized.

Art for me is a form of nourishment. I need the land. I need it.

I really don't know why it is that all of us are so committed to the sea, except I think it is because in addition to the fact that the sea changes and the light changes, and ships change, it is because we all came from the sea. And it is an interesting biological fact that all of us have, in our veins the exact same percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean, and, therefore, we have salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears. We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch it we are going back from whence we came.

Almost everyone is dying to leave home, eventually; and almost everyone needs to.

My early childhood was spent living by the Pacific Ocean. I carry with me something imprinted by that wide, limitless horizon, which I learned connected us to different people and cultures, including my own family's origins in the Arab World and Northern Europe. I understood early that my world was only a small part of a much larger one. That captivated me.

They sent forth men to battle, But no such men return; And home, to claim their welcome, Come ashes in an urn

Even if you never have the chance to see or touch the ocean, the ocean touches you with every breath you take, every drop of water you drink, every bite you consume. Everyone, everywhere is inextricably connected to and utterly dependent upon the existence of the sea.

I love Florida. I love the beach. I love the sound of the crashing surfers against the rocks.

All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.