quotes about Sand
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In my job you can't just put your head in the sand and throw partisan bombshells. You have to get results.
-- Amy Klobuchar -
I sat down in the sand, breathless with shame and failure. God, I thought, some defender of the weak. Some freedom fighter: Joan of Arc in sunscreen.
-- Anne Lamott -
We write our names in the sand: and then the waves roll in and wash them away.
-- AugustusSource : The Sandman #30: "August",
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Our doom is, to be sifted by the wind, heaped up, smoothed down like silly sands. We are less permanent than thought.
-- Basil BuntingSource : 1925 Villon, pt.1.
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The wretched Artist himself is alternatively the lowest worm that ever crawled when no fire is in him; or the loftiest God that ever sand when the fire is going.
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God is everywhere, in the smallest grain of sand.
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The divine is everywhere, even in a grain of sand; there I represented it in the reeds.
-- Caspar David FriedrichSource : "Absent Presences in Liminal Places: Murnau's Nosferatu and the Otherworld of Stoker's Dracula" by Saviour Catania in Literature Film Quarterly, 2004.
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The whole of the world could be deduced from the smallest grain of sand, if one studied it closely enough.
-- Christopher PaoliniSource : Christopher Paolini (2012). “Inheritance Deluxe Edition (The Inheritance Cycle, Book 4)”, Knopf Books for Young Readers
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The passing of armies and the passing of sands in the desert are one.
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Adversity is only sand on your track to prevent you from skidding.
-- Croft M. Pentz -
Estate taxes make every one of us nervous. If there’s an owner who isn’t, he has his head in the sand.
-- Dan Rooney -
How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them! If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee.
-- David -
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A handful of sand is an anthology of the universe.
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It is one thing to do your dance on a beach and quite another to collaborate intimately with the sand.
-- Deborah JowittSource : Deborah Jowitt (1985). “The Dance in Mind: Profiles and Reviews 1976-83”, Boston : D.R. Godine
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Apothegms are in history, the same as pearls in the sand, or gold in the mine.
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When your head is firmly in the sand, another part of your anatomy is fully exposed.
-- Don FederSource : "Why We Keep Getting Islam Wrong". www.israel-commentary.org. February 25, 2003.
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Like an old gold-panning prospector, you must resign yourself to digging up a lot of sand from which you will later patiently wash out a few minute particles of gold ore.
-- Dorothy Bryant -
Building a godly life on the sand of scriptural illiteracy is impossible.
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Incredibly, almost every hotel I ever played in Vegas was blown up shortly afterward: The Dunes, The Sands, The Landmark, The Aladdin, The Frontier, The Hacienda, The Stardust - all were imploded.
-- Elayne Boosler -
Technically speaking, you can build anything out of sand; it doesn't mean you do it.
-- Eric Bana -
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The sand murmurs that it wants to swallow everything.
-- Gao Xingjian -
The sand stones had fragments of charcoal on some surfaces but found no recognisable fossils.
-- George Mercer Dawson -
If it (the good circumstances) changes will you be able to keep onto your happiness just as much? Because if not then your happiness is really built on sand.
-- Goswami Kriyananda -
I don't know, there's something about you. Say there's an hourglass: the sand's about to run out. Someone like you can always be counted on to turn the thing over.
-- Haruki Murakami -
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Time is like a handful of sand - the tighter you grasp it, the faster it runs through your fingers.
-- Henry David Thoreau -
If you would like to leave footprints in the sands of time, you had better wear work shoes.
-- Herbert V. Prochnow -
If you keep your head in the sand, you don't know where the kick's coming from.
-- Herbie Mann -
What we know is to what we do not know, as a grain of sand is to the beach.
-- Ivan Panin -
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While it is well enough to leave footprints on the sands of time, it is even more important to make sure they point in a commendable direction.
-- James Branch CabellSource : James Branch Cabell (2005). “Beyond Life”, p.173, Cosimo, Inc.
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When the beginnings of self destruction enter the heart, it seems no bigger than a grain of sand.
-- John CheeverSource : 1952 Collected in The Journals,'The Late Forties and Fifties'.
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Nothing like the road to rub all the sand out of your soul.
-- John Clellon Holmes -
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Death has shaken out the sands of thy glass.
-- John Gardiner Calkins BrainardSource : John Gardiner Calkins Brainard, Royal Robbins (1842). “The Poems of John G. C. Brainard: A New and Authentic Collection, with an Original Memoir of His Life”, p.70
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On the tawny sands and shelves trip the pert fairies and the dapper elves.
-- John Milton -
Depression can be the sand that makes the pearl. Most of my best work came out of it.
-- Joni Mitchell -
Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.
-- Jorge Luis Borges -
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I am not a great French woman. George Sand, Marguerite Duras and Simone de Beauvoir are great French women.
-- Juliette Binoche -
Studios and networks who ignore either shift — whether the increasing sophistication of storytelling, or the constantly shifting sands of technological advancement — will be left behind,
-- Kevin Spacey -
There's something incredibly sexy about sand and sweat and dunes photographed like women's backs.
-- Kristin Scott Thomas -
Well, actually, I do the voiceover for Quentin Sands.
-- Lawrence Taylor -
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Moonflowers blossom in the sand hills before dawn, just as I followed him.
-- Leslie Marmon Silko -
And to stick our head in the sand and pretend that we are somehow safer if we do not know or to pretend we are somehow safer if we limit our options seems to me not only foolish but actually dangerous.
-- Mac Thornberry -
Did no one tell him that pain lives in this sand, dug in and watered with our blood?
-- Maggie Stiefvater -
The SEALs place a premium on brute strength, but there's an even bigger premium on speed. That's speed through the water, speed over the ground, and speed of thought. There's no prizes for gleaming a set of well-oiled muscles in Coronado. Bulk just makes you slow, especially in soft sand, and that's what we had to tackle every day of our lives, mile after mile.
-- Marcus Luttrell -
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I was sand, I was snow—written on, rewritten, smoothed over.
-- Margaret Atwood -
The sands of time are quicksands ... so much can sink into them without a trace.
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Don't stop doing what you love. Don't let your future be ruined by a bunch of loony sand monkeys.
-- Megan McCafferty -
Those who consume animals not only harm those animals and endanger themselves, but they also threaten the well-being of other humans who currently or will later inhabit the planet. ... It is time for humans to remove their heads from the sand and recognize the risk to themselves that can arise from their maltreatment of other species.
-- Michael GregerSource : "Flu Season: Factory Farming Could Cause A Catastrophic Pandemic". Interview with Kathy Freston, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.
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We have a definite but unknown quantity of experience at our disposal. As soon as the hourglass is turned, the sand will begin to run out and once it starts, it cannot stop until it's all gone.
-- Pablo Picasso -
That's the hell of sand castles. They are always doomed. That's part of their beauty — their impermanence.
-- Pamela Moore -
Can we find "The Universe in a grain of sand"? Well perhaps, but a stone seems easier to visualize.
-- Peter J. Carroll -
If all the circumstances of acting are made to easy, then there's no grain of sand to make the pearl.
-- Peter Sarsgaard -
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The house that is built upon the sand will crumble at the first sign of a windstorm.
-- R. C. Sproul -
The world hid its head in the sands of convention, so that by seeing nothing it might avoid Truth.
-- Radclyffe HallSource : Radclyffe Hall (2016). “The Well Of Loneliness”, p.140, Radclyffe Hall
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Hulkamania is like a single grain of sand in the Sahara desert that is Macho Madness.
-- Randy Savage -
Every barrel of oil that comes out of those sands in Canada is a barrel of oil that we don't have to buy from a foreign source.
-- Rick PerrySource : "What Moves Republican Crowds in Iowa" by Michael D. Shear, thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com. December 28, 2011.
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Writers begin with a grain of sand, and then create a beach.
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Christ is the foundation of all our hopes for time and for eternity. Oh, build on this divine foundation! All other foundations are sinking sand.
-- Robert Stuart MacArthurSource : Robert Stuart MacArthur (1890). “The Calvary Pulpit: Christ and Him Crucified”
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The Sand Pebbles has always been one of my favorite films, I suppose because its the most difficult film - from a physical and logistical standpoint - that I've ever made.
-- Robert Wise -
Time slips through our hands like grains of sand, never to return again.
-- Robin Sharma -
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Most newspaper companies still have their heads in the sand, but other media companies are aggressive.
-- Rupert Murdoch -
If we sit by and become complacent and put our heads in the sand, we're complicit.
-- Shelley Morrison -
Fish have water, the bushmen of the Kalahari have sand, and Houstonians have interior décor.
-- Simon Hoggart -
I was signed to MGM. I was in Vegas for sixteen weeks at the Sands Hotel.
-- Solomon Burke -
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How massively the mountains stand, while low to the ground the sand blows. The sand blows on and on. And then there are no mountains, none at all, the sand has kissed and whispered them away. And still, the sand blows on.
-- Tanith LeeSource : Tanith Lee (1987). “Tales from the Flat Earth: Night's Daughter”
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All the best sands of my life are somehow getting into the wrong end of the hourglass. If I could only reverse it! Were it in my power to do sowould I?
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It is impossible to stand upright when one plants his roots in the shifting sands of popular opinion and approval.
-- Thomas S. Monson -
I danced along a colored wind/ Dangled from a rope of sand
-- Tom Waits -
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You change or you hide your head in the sand.
-- Tony GilroySource : "Tony Gilroy on The Bourne Legacy: 'Fear changes everything'" by Catherine Shoard, www.theguardian.com. August 16, 2012.
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Burying your head in the sand does not make you invisible it only leads to suffocation.
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You throw the sand against the wind and the wind blows it back again.
-- William Blake -
Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
-- Wislawa Szymborska -
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It is such a cut throat industry where you get knocked down so much and get rejected so much. If you do not back yourself up, no one else is going to so you really need to learn to get up, shake the sand off your chest and keep going.
-- Alex O'Loughlin -
I have a very ostrich mentality. I feel like I have my head in the sand so no one can see me.
-- Lupita Nyong'o -
I will not be a common man. I will stir the smooth sands of monotony.
-- Peter O'Toole -
Most Americans have their head in the sand about evolution.
-- Rafael Cruz -
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I always believe you have to show the symbolism of a civilization, whether it be the cave drawings or somebody drawing in the sand in Darfur to show a massacre.
-- Stanley Greene -
Putting our heads in the sand is not a wise strategy.
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The magic of property turns sand to gold.
-- Arthur YoungSource : Arthur Young (1792). “Travels During the Years 1787, 1788, and 1789: Undertaken More Particularly with a View of Ascertaining the Cultivation, Wealth, Resources, and National Prosperity of the Kingdom of France”, p.74
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The ephemeral nature of live performance is the part I love most - it's a monk's sand painting, carefully constructed, then wiped away in an instant.
-- Rosanne CashSource : Rosanne Cash (2010). “Composed: A Memoir”, p.133, Penguin
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