Nathan Phillips Quotes

I enjoyed growing up part of my life in Virginia Beach. We had the ocean and the beach and a beautiful landscape.

From the outside, Rick Rubin's house above Zuma Beach is a generic millionaire beach home. There's a rarely used tennis court and a circular drive.

In 10 years, I'd love to live near the sea, in a warmer climate. I could see myself with three dogs... and it'd be great to share them with someone else.

My dream is to have a house on the beach, even just a little shack somewhere so I can wake up, have coffee, look at dolphins, be quiet and breathe the air.

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.

I love L.A. for the beach and stuff, that's the reason I live here.

We have a cottage on the Mendocino coast.

Being by the ocean is the greatest thing.

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.

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

I became a beach bum.

I got really into surfing, and that was my life from when I was 10 years old to 18. I surfed almost every day, and it was all I cared about - I was a sand-in-the-bed, total beach bum.

I would live at the beach if I could, and I love dancing.

I am just your everyday, average girl. I live by the beach. I wear flip flops. I don't wear make-up. I go to the gym. My husband and I are just really laid back people.

Why see the world / when you got the beach?

I grew up on the beach. It was such a luxury to wake up to the sun and the ocean.

A beach house isn't just real estate. It's a state of mind.

I'm looking at a place on the coast, ... I was born next to the ocean and I'd like to live next to the ocean.

But it is rather derogatory that your dwelling-place should be only a neighborhood to a great city,--to live on an inclined plane.I do not like their cities and forts, with their morning and evening guns, and sails flapping in one's eye. I want a whole continent to breathe in, and a good deal of solitude and silence, such as all Wall Street cannot buy,--nor Broadway with its wooden pavement. I must live along the beach, on the southern shore, which looks directly out to sea,--and see what that great parade of water means, that dashes and roars, and has not yet wet me, as long as I have lived.

...vicinity to the sea is desirable, because it is easier to do nothing by the sea than anywhere else, and because bathing and basking on the shore cannot be considered an employment but only an apotheosis of loafing. ("Expiation")

I had big dreams when I was a boy. And I can't say that I never saw a beach house in Malibu in those dreams.

O grant me a house by the beach of a bay, Where the waves can be surly in winter, and play With the sea-weed in summer, ye bountiful powers! And I'd leave all the hurry, the noise, and the fray, For a house full of books, and a garden of flowers.

Growing up in Australia, you never feel like you're going to live beyond that place. You wake up and you go to the beach, and you do your homework. You're just a kid.

One learns first of all in beach living the art of shedding; how little one can get along with, not how much.

I have an apartment back home in London. England will be home for me. It always has been and always will be. It's where my friends are.