Andrea Barrett Quotes

I've been around the surf culture since I was a kid. I grew up in a beach town in Rhode Island. Then eventually I lived in Dana Point, Calif., a real surf hotbed.

My parents had a house on the Jersey shore - I grew up right there, going down there every summer and living there. It is home for me.

I grew up outside of Boston in a town called Manchester by the Sea, and we spent our summers in Nantucket.

I grew up on the beach. It's just a way of life. You don't seek out that lifestyle; it's just day-to-day.

I enjoyed growing up part of my life in Virginia Beach. We had the ocean and the beach and a beautiful landscape. We were outdoors all the time and we played outside.

I couldn't live in L.A. and not be close to the beach, you know, that's like the whole thing. I don't understand people who don't live by the beach. Why would you not?

I grew up on the Gold Coast of Australia, on the beach, basically.

I grew up in Pittwater, north of Sydney; Elvina Bay, Scotland Island area. I had to go to school by boat. To get to the mainland, we had to go by boat, so it was just a way of life.

I've been kind of submerged in my own little geographic location for a really long time in Venice Beach.

I was born and raised in Santa Cruz, California, and the whole lifestyle revolves around the beach. My parents met surfing, and the beach was a major part of our daily lives.

My favorite place in the world is my dad's house in Montauk.

I'm a coastal person. I grew up in Long Island and lived in San Diego. I felt landlocked in Pittsburgh. Psychically, it just wasn't the place for me.

It's funny, but we were living on this small island off the coast of Charleston, South Carolina when I was 9.

I loved going surfing down on Venice Beach. I'd go out with a board under my arm and think, 'I can't do that in Cranhill.'

Being by the ocean is the greatest thing.

Living at the beach, it's hard to get out of the sun.

I grew up in San Diego, California, and I spent a lot of time in the summer basically living in a bathing suit, you know, get in the car and drive straight to the beach and spend the entire day in that thing, so I always approached bathing suits thinking that they are very much like outfits.

I lived on Nantucket in college during the summer and have spent a lot of time there since. It's a special place for me.

I grew up in Imperial Beach, surfing and going to the beach - my son plays baseball at the park.

When I think back to my childhood, I just think of the word 'freedom.' In the summers, we spent all day on the beach.

I certainly grew up in coastal New Hampshire, but I prefer to play in the woods than go to Hampton Beach or whatever.

My first memories of life were Californian.

Some of my best memories of growing up on Long Island include spending all day fishing for fluke on Great South Bay.

Growing up in Florida was really amazing. I spent most my time at the beach.

... an ugly, lovely town ... crawling, sprawling ... by the side of a long and splendid curving shore. This sea-town was my world.