Famous quotes containing the words sand and/or beach:
“She had more sand in her than any girl I ever see: in my opinion she was just full of sand. It sounds like flattery, but it aint no flattery.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910)
“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 (18171862)