Sand Quotes

The difference between a sand trap and water hazard is the difference between a car crash and an airplane crash. You have a chance of recovering from a car crash.

Sometimes, that mountain you've been climbing, is just a grain of sand.

We shall not enter Palestine with its soil covered in sand, we shall enter it with its soil saturated in blood

Write today's worries in sand. Chisel yesterday's victories in stone.

It's amazing how the things you remember forever are the things you'd rather forget and the things you desperately want to grasp onto seem to slip away like sand in the wind.

Everybody needs to go to Mongolia just to see what it is to be a human being again.

Even though we may all become extinct, we can still leave our footprint in the sand.

Greatness exists like an ocean within you. Why do you want to act like a fish out of water, wriggling on the sand under the scorching sun? Look! The water is just one millimeter away! Jump in!

They have a sign at the beach, "no glass bottles". I think that's so the other sand particles don't feel like underachievers.

Like those great sphinxes lounging through eternity in noble attitudes upon the desert sand, they gaze incuriously at nothing, calm and wise.

Los Angeles, give me some of you! Los Angeles come to me the way I came to you, my feet over your streets, you pretty town I loved you so much, you sad flower in the sand, you pretty town!

Works? Works? A man get to heaven by works? I would as soon think of climbing to the moon on a rope of sand!

Write in the sand the flaws of your friend.

In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth.

Worry and anxiety are sand in the machinery of life; faith is the oil.

The sand stones had fragments of charcoal on some surfaces but found no recognisable fossils.

He is like the fox, who effaces his tracks in the sand with his tail.

For the recuperation of body and mind, there is nothing better than natural therapy - sand, sunshine and surf.

Individually, every grain of sand brushing against my hands represents a story, an experience, and a block for me to build upon for the next generation.

Little drops of water, little grains of sand, Make the mighty ocean, and the pleasant land. So the little minutes, humble though they be, Make the mighty ages of eternity.

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?

Everybody's life is either a warning or an example. You've got to decide what you're gonna be and you have to draw a line in the sand.

My role in life is that of the grain of sand to the oyster-it irritates the oyster and out comes a pearl.

History is not going to look kindly on us if we just keep our head in the sand on armed autonomous robotics issue because it sounds too science fiction.

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.

As a handful of sand thrown into the ocean, so are the sins of all flesh as compared with the mind of God.

The ostrich burying its head in the sand does at any rate wish to convey the impression that its head is the most important part of it.

Even Castles made of sand, fall into the sea, eventually.

We are, always, reminded of the old saw: What would happen if the Soviet Union took over the Sahara Desert? Answer: Nothing for 50 years. After that there would be a shortage of sand.

To be a rebel is not to be a revolutionary. It is more often by a way of spinning one's wheels deeper in sand.

If you would like to leave footprints in the sands of time, you had better wear work shoes.

The man who stands firm in order to protect a sand-castle can never be relied upon; for he has given away his common sense.

We write a subscript to our mortality. We make our lives tiny diamonds in the cosmic sands.

The divine is everywhere, even in a grain of sand; there I represented it in the reeds.

History is a child building a sand-castle by the sea, and that child is the whole majesty of man's power in the world.

I would like to bury all the hating eyes under the sand somewhere.

Finer than any sand are dusts of gold that gleam, Vague starpoints, in the mystic iris of their eyes.

We have ...drawn a line in the sand.

We're ostriches and the whole world is sand.

... politics are nothing but sand and gravel: it is art and life that feed us until we die. Everything else is ambition, hysteria or hatred.

As a camel beareth labor, and heat, and hunger, and thirst, through deserts of sand, and fainteth not; so the fortitude of a man shall sustain him through all perils.

Apothegms are in history, the same as pearls in the sand, or gold in the mine.

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

So I'm pampering myself to a homemade stone pumice session, to sand down my feet because I'm worth it.

Amid this vast and overwhelming space and in these boundless solar archipelagoes, how small is our own sphere, and the earth, what a grain of sand!

The Word of God is ROCK. All else is sand.

Judy Miller is the most innocent person in this case. I really thought that was outrageous that she was jailed and we needed as journalists to draw a line in the sand in a strong but thoughtful way.

I love being in Malibu. It's so cool there, and the water is just, it's nice and, and I love the beach. And I found a sand dollar there.

The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind's eye only, fade out in sand.

We are too prone to engrave our trials in marble and write our blessings in sand.