“The never-ceasing boom of the great ocean as it breaks on the beach, drowns all smaller sounds.”

“How pleasant to sit on the beach,
On the beach, on the sand, in the sun,
With ocean galore within reach,
And nothing at all to be done!.”

“They hear like ocean on a western beach
The surge and thunder of the Odyssey.”

“when skies are hanged and oceans drowned, the single secret will still be man”

“Paul patted Mrs. O'Leary's snout. The living room shook —BOOM, BOOM, BOOM—which either meant a SWAT team was breaking down the door or Mrs. O'Leary was wagging her tail.
I couldn't help but smile.”

“What a culture we live in, we are swimming in an ocean of information, and drowning in ignorance.”

“I ain’t afraid to drown if that means I’m deep up in your ocean.”

“My life is like a stroll upon the beach,
As near the ocean's edge as I can go.”

“People lose their senses at the beach 'cause the sun beats down too hard. They say things that just don't gel, you know. Well, you've heard this a lot: "Pick up a shell - oh, you can hear the ocean!" You could pick up a bicycle and hear the ocean - you're at the beach. Put the shell down, you'll hear the ocean twice as loud.”

“They kept it up until the very end. Only the engulfing ocean had power to drown them into silence.”