Coastal Community Quotes

I grew up in Greenwich, Connecticut.

When I looked around, with my wife, Sarasota seemed like the best place in Florida. We settled about one mile from Siesta Key.

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'm from a small town called Alesund in Norway.

I am fascinated by these ocean-grown folks. On the coast, there's all this cross-pollination of ideas. Someone thinks they saw something. One person's madness is reiterated by another, and a story is born. The rumour becomes a substitute for news.

I'm from an island, so I've always been near the water. I don't think I could live somewhere far from the sea.

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.

I had a series of jobs in the small fishing village in West Wales where my family lived when I was a teenager. I worked as a fisherman in the day, and then the skipper and his wife ran a small restaurant - she'd cook the fish he caught.

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

A harbor, even if it is a little harbor, is a good thing, since adventurers come into it as well as go out, and the life in it grows strong, because it takes something from the world, and has something to give in return.

Sarasota in 1974 was a city of 46,459 people, the 73rd-largest market in the country and sixth-largest in Florida, according to Arbitron Ratings. To supplement my meager salary, I was a bartender at Big Daddy's on St. Armand's Circle and a sailing instructor at nearby Lido Beach.

I'm one of three boys raised by a single mom in a military beach town in the South.

The Harbor Area is everything - Carson, Wilmington, San Pedro, Long Beach, that whole little bubble that I grew up in. I always throw it up after I finish fighting, I always throw up the Harbor Area. Out of pride. It made me who I am. It brought me my goods; it brought me my bads. It molded me into who I am.

I grew up in Sheepshead Bay.

I live on an island, and my community is served by a ferry that goes three times a day.

It was a rural upbringing by the seaside. A real quiet place surrounded by fields. I had to travel into town for school and stuff like that.

If I'm going to live in Sydney, I want to live on Bondi Beach.

There is no faith like the faith of a builder of homes in coastal Louisiana

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

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.

Brighton is a beautiful seaside city, but it's got a dark underbelly.

I grew up on Cape Cod. We didn't live right on the water, but I could walk to it and did every day.

My high school didn't have a football team; we just had like a surf team, because I grew up in Encinitas, California, which is the ultimate place where everyone skated or surfed, so it was a very different culture. It was, like, cool to be the art kid.

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.

In Hawaii, we understand that our way of life depends on a healthy ocean.