Sand Quotes · Page 17

Genuine morality is preserved only in the school of adversity; a state of continuous prosperity may easily prove a quick sand to…

— Anonymous

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

— Charles Baudelaire

All that mankind has ever learned is nothing more than a single grain of sand on a beach that reaches to infinity.

— H. Jackson Brown, Jr

When I was 7, I started playing with a club. The only grass on the field was in the corner. There was…

— Ronaldinho

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

— Al Aronowitz

I don't believe it's all for nothing. It's not just written in the sand.

— Robbie Robertson

If it's hemorrhaging cash, you've got to do something about it. You can't live with your head in the sand.

— Jim Ratcliffe

The beauty of the landscape - where sand, water, reeds, birds, buildings, and people all somehow flowed together - has never left…

— Zaha Hadid

somewhere in sands of the desert A shape with lion body and the head of a man, A gaze blank and pitiless…

— William Butler Yeats

Officials in the George W. Bush administration later criticized the cruise missile strikes that were ordered by President Bill Clinton in Afghanistan…

— Peter Bergen

Andy says, I don't understand how they can give loans to people who want to spend two weeks lying on the sand…

— Frank McCourt

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…

— Diana Wynne Jones

I should like to take the wind and water and sand as a motif and work with them, but it has to…

— Arthur Dove

“Someday I will pick up shells of every colour And probably even rob the sea of its wonder Yet I won't find…

— Sanhita Baruah

Stats are important to me, especially the ones related to scoring. You're going to miss fairways and greens out here, so how…

— Jordan Spieth

Los Angeles, give me some of you! Los Angeles come to me the way I came to you, my feet over your…

— John Fante

If you don't make the commitment today to start becoming the person you need to be to create the extraordinary life you…

— Hal Elrod

The books that I do, the stories I write - I'm glad I'm able to do them, but they will quickly be…

— Jim Woodring

The golfer has more enemies than any other athlete. He has fourteen clubs in his bag, all of them different; 18 holoes…

— Dan Jenkins

[...] endless action and reaction. Those beautifully rounded pebbles which you gather on the sand and which you hold in your hand…

— Frederick Douglass

Apart from The Holiday, I haven't really spent a huge amount of time in LA. Not that I avoid it, it's just…

— Kate Winslet

...she wasn't reading Deathly Hallows at all. Her book wasn't orange but rose and water and sand, and featured a kid on…

— Melissa Anelli

I give myself the luxury of time in shaping a song. It's very common for me to work three months or more…

— David Massengill

Outside, the ocean was crashing, waves hitting sand, then pulling back to sea. I thought of everything being washed away, again and…

— Sarah Dessen

“Abstraction can be a powerful tool, but it can also lead to heads buried in the sand. In”

— Peter Lucas

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

— Gamal Abdel Nasser

All summer long we spent dancin' in the sand, and the jukebox kept on playing Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.

— Johnny Ramistella

Vacation: Two weeks on the sunny sands - and the rest of the year on the financial rocks.

— Sam Ewing

The whole of the world could be deduced from the smallest grain of sand, if one studied it closely enough.

— Christopher Paolini

“When you bury your head in the sand, at least you don't get slapped in the face.”

— Kim Askew

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

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Yucatan Peninsula is really worth the trip. The water is stunning and the beaches are true-white sand.

— Bridget Marquardt

All self-effort is but sinking sand. Christ alone is the Rock of our salvation.

— Henry Allen Ironside

Walking in softer substances like sand and grass forces the feet to work to stabilize the body and really strengthens them.

— Laird Hamilton

As a depressive, routine is sand slipping through my fingers. Being self-employed doesn't help.

— John Whaite

My head is buried in the sands of tomorrow, while my tail feathers are singed by the hot sun of today.

— John Barrymore

There is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave…

— Toni Morrison

Perhaps life is like an hour glass, with dear ones the sand that slips from the upper glass--the earth--into the second--eternity.

— Margaret George

What do you have when you have an agent buried up to his neck in sand? Not enough sand.

— Pat Williams

I am hanging in the balance of a perfect finished plan, like every sparrow falling, like every grain of sand.

— Bob Dylan