Sand Quotes

We take a handful of sand from the endless landscape of awareness around us and call that handful of sand the world.

If all the circumstances of acting are made to easy, then there's no grain of sand to make the pearl.

I took the life of the woman I was supposed to call mother in the process of being born... in order to become the world's strongest shinobi... an incarnation of sand was implanted inside of me.

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

Heaven is in a grain of sand.

From an endless beach of reality, we take a grain of sand and call it the world.

Aliens might be surprised to learn that in a cosmos with limitless starlight, humans kill for energy sources buried in the sand

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.

A ball will always come to rest halfway down a hill, unless there is sand or water at the bottom.

You must not lose confidence in God because you lost confidence in your pastor. If our confidence in God had to depend upon our confidence in any human person, we would be on shifting sand.

They dined on mince, and slices of quince, Which they ate with a runcible spoon; And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand, They danced by the light of the moon.

Too many people write their blessings in the sand but engrave their sorrows in marble

If we sit by and become complacent and put our heads in the sand, we're complicit.

Life is singing also in the sand crunching under the slow and heavy steps of the guards, when we know how to listen to it.

That's the hell of sand castles. They are always doomed. That's part of their beauty — their impermanence.

As my father [Javāharlāl Nehrū] said, you have to keep an open mind, but you have to pour something into it - otherwise ideas slip away like sand between your fingers.

Come, for the House of Hope is built on sand: bring wine, for the fabric of life is as weak as the wind.

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.

They defended the grains of sand in the desert to the last drop of their blood.

The emotions attached to them were like sand castles in the tide, slowly washing out to sea.

The world hid its head in the sands of convention, so that by seeing nothing it might avoid Truth.

I had forgotten that time wasn't fixed like concrete but in fact was fluid as sand, or water. I had forgotten that even misery can end.

What we know is to what we do not know, as a grain of sand is to the beach.

From a grain of sand in the Pearl comes.

For me exotic means beaches, palm trees and sand and frolicking in the ocean

I guess with myself, I was probably the first woman to lift weights and do circuit training and to run the sand hills.

On the tawny sands and shelves trip the pert fairies and the dapper elves.

I learn to love the thing that has to be erased, the thing I may not be allowed to keep, sand that runs away beneath my running feet.

The night below. We two. Crystal of pain. You wept over great distances. My ache was a clutch of agonies over your sickly heart of sand.

Hear this Robert Zimmerman, I wrote a song for you, about a strange young man called Dylan with a voice like sand and glue.

Madness is the WHO staring into the abyss and denying it is there. Madness is an ostrich who sticks her head in the sand while a pack of hyenas closes around her. - Lanky Man with green eyes

God is everywhere, in the smallest grain of sand.

And you're too nice," he added, above the lap-lap of the water and the patter of sand on the water-lily leaves. "I was relying on you being too jealous to let that demon near the place.

The total number of stars in the Universe is larger than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the planet Earth.

When building sand castles on the beach, we can ignore the waves but should watch the tide.

A grain of sand leads to the fall of a mountain when the moment has come for the mountain to fall.

You know the words from the Bible: 'Build not on sand, but on rock....' Tyrant leaders respect only firmness...and laugh at persons who give in to them.

The Moon is essentially gray - no color - looks like plaster of paris - soft of gray sand.

I have always had, as I know many people have, a singular passion for Australia. I do love the sunburnt country, its ancient landscapes, its exhilarating reaches of sand and sea.

Can we find "The Universe in a grain of sand"? Well perhaps, but a stone seems easier to visualize.

On vacations: We hit the sunny beaches where we occupy ourselves keeping the sun off our skin, the saltwater off our bodies, and the sand out of our belongings.

Infinity is present in each part. A loving smile contains all art. The motes of starlight spark and dart. A grain of sand holds power and might.

Once the will is resolved, one's spirit is strengthened. Even a peasant's will is hard to deny, but a samurai of resolute will can sway ten thou­sand men.

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.

The world is laughing at us. They're laughing at the stupidity of our President [Barack Obama]. Remember he drew the line in the sand - the line is in the sand.

If you could touch the alien sand and hear the cries of strange birds, and watch them wheel in another sky, would that satisfy you?

It is easier to invest for cash flow during a financial crisis. So don't waste a good crisis by hiding your head in the sand. The longer the crisis lasts, the richer some people will become.

I will not be a common man. I will stir the smooth sands of monotony.

Well, actually, I do the voiceover for Quentin Sands.

Precept is instruction written in the sand; the tide flows over it and the record is gone; example is graven on the rock, and the lesson is not soon lost.