Sand Quotes

The sand-castle virtues are all swept away in the tidal destruction, the moral melee.

it was possible to grow up in an instant, that you could look down and see the line in the sand dividing your life now from what it used to be.

When the beginnings of self destruction enter the heart, it seems no bigger than a grain of sand.

Manchester City are built on sand and I don't mean that because their owners are from the Arab countries.

At ebb tide I wrote a line upon the sand, and gave it all my heart and all my soul. At flood tide I returned to read what I had inscribed and found my ignorance upon the shore.

My heart is sand and Orion's cruel tide has washed it away from me, scattered it, lost it.

Did no one tell him that pain lives in this sand, dug in and watered with our blood?

It was then I knew I'd had enough, Burned my credit card for fuel Headed out to where the pavement turns to sand With a one-way ticket to the land of truth And my suitcase in my hand

The introduction of resistance in form of sand and hill is too important to be ignored.

...like a grain of sand that gets into an oyster's shell. What if the grain doesn't want to become a pearl? Is it ever asked to climb out quietly and take up its old position as a bit of ocean floor?

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.

Sand. Everywhere. In the bed, in the shower, all over the floor. Grrrrr.

I grew, a happy, healthy child in a bright world of illustrated books, clean sand, orange trees, friendly dogs, sea vistas and smiling faces.

The most mesmerizing of artists is always like one who was merely drawing in the sand and people came to watch.

One thought includes all thought, in the sense that a grain of sand includes the universe.

Reached only by boat, seaplane and, with less surety, telephone-this is Fire Island, a pile of sand beneath a pile of people.

Unfortunately, the suit is so stiff, I can't do this with two hands, but I'm going to try a little sand-trap shot here.

There lived a singer in France of old By the tideless dolorous midland sea. In a land of sand and rain and gold There shone one woman, and none but she.

Man is a living lie--a bitter jest Upon himself--a conscious grain of sand Lost in a desert of unconsciousness.

I love being outdoors, playing beach tennis, going for runs in the sand, or doing a three-hour hike with my best girlfriend, Mieko.

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.

Then I walked away, and I did not look back. I had written my troubles on the sand. The tide was coming in.

The faculty for remembering is not diminished in proportion to what one has learnt, just as little as the number of moulds in which you cast sand lessens its capacity for being cast in new moulds.

The magic of property turns sand to gold.

The night sky in North Korea might be the most brilliant in northeast Asia, the only airspace spared the coal dust, Gobi Desert sand, and carbon monoxide choking the rest of the continent.

Oh, that river of wishes, the slippery crocodile dream of it, how it might have carried my body down through all the glittering sand bars to the sea.

In Aleppo we had the missile itself, and the material, and the sample from the sand, from the soil, and samples from the blood [of chemical weapons].

Bernie or bust actually reduces the leverage for Bernie [Sandеrs] to claim victory.

Nothing erodes [a mother's love]. It is not sand on a beach. It is the nuclear heart of things-hard as the rock of this earth.

Solid stone is just sand and water...Sand and water and a million years gone by.

I think we need to change that old saying, "I don't need a building to fall on me." Because two did and we still don't get it. I think we all stick our head in the sand as a deep human impulse.

There's always a place for the angry young man with his fist in the air and his head in the sand. He's never been able to learn from mistakes, he can't understand why his heart always breaks.

Let me go on sleeping and I will lose myself in palaces of sand, and all the fantasies that I've been keeping will make the empty hours easier to stand.

In our time, we have sifted the sands of Mars, we have established a presence there, we have fulfilled a century of dreams!

I have loved you woman as surely as I have named you rust and sand and nylon.

I like to run on the beach. It's a different exercise as well when you're in sand, a different kind of training.

It's not enough to be numbered with the grains of sand on the beach and the stars in the sky.

The passing of armies and the passing of sands in the desert are one.

Estate taxes make every one of us nervous. If there’s an owner who isn’t, he has his head in the sand.

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.

And when he came to, he was flat on his back on the beach in the freezing sand, and it was raining out of a low sky, and the tide was way out.

Time seems to me a drift, a shifting of sand. And my mind is shifting with it. I am wearing away.

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.

Sometimes you get politicians who dig their feet into the sand and aren't willing to listen to another voice.

Blue jean baby, LA lady, seamstress for the band. Pretty eyed, pirate smile, you'll marry a music man. Ballerina, you must have seen her dancing in the sand.

I saw you dancing out the ocean Running fast along the sand A spirit born of earth and water Fire flying from your hands

Technically speaking, you can build anything out of sand; it doesn't mean you do it.

On sand, you can never be sure of anything. An ordinary shot can take a wicked deflection at the last moment.

You must reach inside yourselves where I live like a story, not old, not young laughing at my own sorrow, weeping pearls at weddings, wielding a torch to melt sand into something clear and bright.

But be careful; sand is already broken but glass breaks. The shoes are for dancing, not running away.