Sand Quotes

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Like an old gold-panning prospector, you must resign yourself to digging up a lot of sand from which you will later patiently wash out a… — Dorothy Bryant
A pilot's business is with the wind, and with the stars, with night, with sand, with the sea. He strives to outwit the forces of… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Most newspaper companies still have their heads in the sand, but other media companies are aggressive. — Rupert Murdoch
I don't want to sit on the sidelines and not value the gift of being here. Instead of the idea of time ticking away, the… — Tori Amos
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. — Rosa Luxemburg
When you know your work sells, then seeking a gallery or outdoor show is fine. Then, if an event or art gallery kicks sand in… — Jack White
We [Raymond and Meursault] stared at each other without blinking, and everything came to a stop there between the sea, the sand, and the sun,… — Albert Camus
Cities, in many ways, are the best repositories for a love affair. You are in a forest or a cornfield, you are walking by the… — Edna O'Brien
A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass. — Hester Lynch Piozzi
I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc. I prefer sticks, trowels, knives and dripping fluid… — Jackson Pollock
The SEALs place a premium on brute strength, but there's an even bigger premium on speed. That's speed through the water, speed over the ground,… — Marcus Luttrell
As your life is in His hands, so are the days of your life. But donâ€™t let the sands of time get into the eye… — Jim Elliot
Without dignity our lives are only blinks of duration. But if we manage to lead a good life well, we create something more. We write… — Ronald D Dworkin
What we know is to what we do not know, as a grain of sand is to the beach. — Ivan Panin
The house built on the sand may oftentimes be built higher, have more fair parapets and battlements, windows and ornaments, than that which is built… — John Owen
The people who have sacrificed their view in order to get to the top have very often left no footprints in the sands of time. — Tony Benn
The divine is everywhere, even in a grain of sand; there I represented it in the reeds. — Caspar David Friedrich
God is everywhere, in the smallest grain of sand. — Caspar David Friedrich
The house that is built upon the sand will crumble at the first sign of a windstorm. — R C Sproul
Light may earth's crumbling sand be laid on thee, that dogs may dig thy bones up easily — Marcus Aurelius

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