Famous quotes containing the words state and/or beach:
“I see the state of all of us who live, nothing more than phantoms or a weightless shadow.”
—Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)
“They will tell you tough stories of sharks all over the Cape, which I do not presume to doubt utterly,—how they will sometimes upset a boat, or tear it in pieces, to get at the man in it. I can easily believe in the undertow, but I have no doubt that one shark in a dozen years is enough to keep up the reputation of a beach a hundred miles long.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)