Sand Quotes

891 Sand quotes by 672 unique authors

You throw the sand against the wind and the wind blows it back again. — William Blake
Real friends are very special, but you have to be careful because sometimes you have a friend and you think they are made of rock,… — Maria Callas
Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages. Just because the rains descend, and the winds blow, we cannot afford to build… — Henry Ward Beecher
Our best built certainties are but sand-houses and subject to damage from any wind of doubt that blows — Mark Twain
The Word of God is ROCK. All else is sand. — J C Ryle
Too many people write their blessings in the sand but engrave their sorrows in marble — Charles Spurgeon
Hulkamania is like a single grain of sand in the Sahara desert that is Macho Madness. — Randy Savage
It is trial that proves one thing weak and another strong. A house built on the sand is in fair weather just as good as… — Henry Ward Beecher
As a handful of sand thrown into the ocean, so are the sins of all flesh as compared with the mind of God. — Isaac of Nineveh
We have only to see a few letters of the alphabet spelling our name in the sand to recognize at once the work of an… — John Lennox
Do you remember the church across the sands? You stood outside and planned to travel the lands, where the pilgrims go. So you packed your… — Al Stewart
The red sands of Marrakesh, sprawling at the foot of the Atlas like a wounded Leviathan... — Rosita Forbes
Aliens might be surprised to learn that in a cosmos with limitless starlight, humans kill for energy sources buried in the sand — Neil deGrasse Tyson
The carbon emissions from tar shale and tar sands would initiate a continual unfolding of climate disasters over the course of this century. We would… — James Hansen
When someone tells you it’s a grain of sand, there’s a moment where your reality falls apart and you have to reconstruct it. You have… — Vik Muniz
There is but one fountain of comfort for a man drawing near to his end, and that is the Bible. ...All comfort from any other… — J C Ryle
I have a lot of friends and family that have suffered because of the church's judgment; my best friend in the world is gay. I… — Derek Webb
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? — William Hartnell
I have a very ostrich mentality. I feel like I have my head in the sand so no one can see me. — Lupita Nyong'o
Surfers are the ‘throw-aheads’ of mankind, not the dregs; they aren’t the black sheep of humanity, but the futurists and they are leading the way… — Timothy Leary
The apparent physical stability of reefs belies an underlying natural turmoil of growth, death and destruction of calcareous organisms. Much like a modern city, reefs… — Jeremy Jackson
Indeed Christianity passes. Passes - it has gone! It has littered the beaches of life with churches, cathedrals, shrines and crucifixes, prejudices and intolerances, like… — H.G. Wells
Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped, but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment. — Mark Twain
May your character not be a writing upon the sand, but an inscription upon the rock! — Charles Spurgeon
O Mary, go and call the cattle home, And call the cattle home, And call the cattle home, Across the sands o' Dee! — Charles Kingsley

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