Time is like a handful of sand - the tighter you grasp it, the faster it runs through your fingers.
topic: Running, Sand, Faster, Handful, Sands Of Time

source: "A Tribute to Yip Harburg: The Man Who Put the Rainbow in The Wizard of Oz". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. November 25, 2004.
topic: Life, Change, Time, Departing, Footprints In The Sand
You can't leave footprints in the sands of time while sitting down.
topic: Volunteer, Sitting, Footprint, Sands Of Time
topic: Memories, Years, May, Eragon, Sands Of Time
source: Letter of to his Minister of the Interior on the Poor Laws. Pub. in The Press, February 1, 1868.
topic: Time, May, Matter, Sands Of Time
The sands of time are quicksands ... so much can sink into them without a trace.
topic: Time, Sand, Without A Trace, Quicksand, Sands Of Time
If you would like to leave footprints in the sands of time, you had better wear work shoes.
topic: Shoes, Footprint, Sand, Sands Of Time
source: James Branch Cabell (2005). “Beyond Life”, p.173, Cosimo, Inc.
topic: Important, Footprint, Sand, Commendable, Sands Of Time
source: Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1874). “Flashes of thought; 1000 choice extr. from the works of C.H. Spurgeon”, p.511
topic: Sands Of Time, Together As One
topic: Views, Order, People, Sands Of Time
topic: Eye, Hands, Darkness, Sands Of Time
source: "Cornel West, 'Living And Loving Out Loud'". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. October 29, 2009.
topic: Unique, Men, Who I Am, Muster, Sands Of Time
source: Interview with Ross Simonini, staging.believermag.com.
topic: Significant Things, Sands Of Time
topic: Memories, Book, Years, Eragon, Sands Of Time