White Sand Quotes:

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

- Niccolo Machiavelli

topic: Life, Positive, Birthday, Grains Of Sand, Hourglass

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.

- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

source: Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2013). “Poems of Ella Wheeler Wilcox: Passion”, p.9, eBookIt.com

topic: Love, Life, Friendship, Lovers And Friends, White Sand

I love the sea's sounds and the way it reflects the sky. The colours that shimmer across its surface are unbelievable. This, combined with the colour of the water over white sand, surprises me every time.

- John Dyer

topic: Sky, White, Sea, White Sand, Shimmer

The greatest legacy we can leave our children is happy memories.

- Og Mandino

topic: Children, Memories, Legacy, Happy Memories, Leaving A Legacy

And they three passed over the white sands, between the rocks, silent as the shadows.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

source: Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1854). “The complete works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an introductory essay upon his philosophical and theological opinions”, p.306

topic: Rocks, White, Silence, White Sand

How thin and insecure is that little beach of white sand we call consciousness. I've always known that in my writing it is the dark troubled sea of which I know nothing, save its presence, that carried me. I've always felt that creating was a fearless and a timid, a despairing and hopeful, launching out into that unknown.

- Athol Fugard

source: Athol Fugard (1983). “Notebooks, 1960-1977”

topic: Beach, Writing, Dark, White Sand, Launching

I used to dream of a week-long beach vacation with white sand under my toes... right now, I'd settle for 48 hours at a Motel 6 with some Lysol and a UV lamp.

- Ingrid Weir

topic: Dream, Beach, Vacation, Long Beach, White Sand

My first feeling was a wild desire to drive a stake in the sand and claim the place for myself. The beach was white as salt, and cut off from the world by a ring of steep hills that faced the sea. We were on the edge of a large bay and the water was that clear, turquoise color that you get with a white sand bottom. I had never seen such a place. I wanted to take off all my clothes and never wear them again.

- Hunter S. Thompson

topic: Beach, Cutting, Color, White Sand, Turquoise

I am convinced that the greatest legacy we can leave our children are happy memories: those precious moments so much like pebbles on the beach that are plucked from the white sand and placed in tiny boxes that lay undisturbed on tall shelves until one day they spill out and time repeats itself, with joy and sweet sadness, in the child now an adult.

- Og Mandino

source: Og Mandino (2011). “The Choice: A Surprising New Message of Hope”, p.103, Bantam

topic: Beach, Sweet, Memories, Happy Memories, Precious Moments

No more cutting grams, and wrapping grands up in rubber-bands, I'm a recovered man, our plans ta discover other lands, suburban places got me seeking for an oasis, cristal by the cases, ladies of all races with dime faces, sex on the white sand beaches of Saint Thomas, though this ain't promised, I'm as determined as them old timers.

- Eminem

topic: Old Timers, White Sand, Timer, Rubber Bands, Saint Thomas

It is moonlight. Alone in the silence I ascend my stairs once more, While waves remote in pale blue starlight Crash on a white sand shore. It is moonlight. The garden is silent. I stand in my room alone. Across my wall, from the far-off moon, A rain of fire is thrown. There are houses hanging above the stars, And stars hung under the sea, And a wind from the long blue vault of time Waves my curtains for me. I wait in the dark once more, swung between space and space: Before the mirror I lift my hands And face my remembered face.

- Conrad Aiken

topic: Stars, Wall, Rain, White Sand, Starlight

There are few gardens that can be left alone. A few years of neglect and only the skeleton of a garden can be traced. . . . Japanese artists working with a few stones and sand four hundred years ago achieved strangely lasting compositions. However there, too, but for the hands that have piously raked the white sand into patterns and controlled the spread of moss and lichens, little would remain.

- Russell Page

topic: Garden, Artist, Skeletons, White Sand

When we blew the first atomic bomb at White Sands near the end of the war, nobody knew what was going to happen. There was a theory that the chain reaction would continue forever. And we would have created a little tiny sun out there in the desert that would burn until the end of the universe. It wasn't a widely held theory but it was a theory that nobody had a way of disproving. There were people who thought it wouldn't go off at all, that it would simply sit out there and melt and produce a great big dirty cloud of radioactivity. Nobody knew.

- Stephen King

source: High Times Magazine Interview with Martha Thomases, John Robert Tebbel, October 1981.

topic: War, Dirty, White, Chain Reactions, White Sand