Sand Quotes

891 Sand quotes by 672 unique authors

The trebling of the population in this small and impoverished country, flowing with milk and honey but not with sufficient water, rich in rocks and… — David Ben-Gurion
We can put our head in the sand and continue to lose jobs overseas and to other states, or we can say, 'You know what?… — Meg Whitman
To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wildflower. — William Blake
The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind's eye only, fade out in sand. — Nadine Gordimer
The best treatment for feet encased in shoes all day is to go barefoot. One-fifth of the world's population never wears shoes - ever! But… — Stephanie Tourles
Wilderness has been characterized as barren and unproductive; little can be grown in its sand and rock. But the crops of wilderness have always been… — David Douglass
I have met a great celebrity, Madame Dudevant, known as George Sand... Her appearance is not to my liking. Indeed there is something about her… — Frederic Chopin
'E's all'ot sand an' ginger when alive, An''e's generally shammin' when'e's dead. — Rudyard Kipling
He is like the fox, who effaces his tracks in the sand with his tail. — Niels Henrik Abel
Mock on, mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau! Mock on, mock on: 'Tis all in vain! You throw the sand against the wind, And the wind blows… — William Blake
Yes, yes, I'm coming. Right up the top of the house. One moment I'll linger. How the mud goes round in the mind-what a swirl… — Virginia Woolf
There are souls beneath that water. Fixed in slimethey speak their piece, end it, and start again:'Sullen were we in the air made sweet by… — Dante Alighieri
History fades into fable; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy; the inscription molders from the tablet: the statue falls from the pedestal. Columns, arches,… — Washington Irving
The bird Gamayun was related to Alkonost and Sirin in some vague fashion-even the most casual observer would've noticed that all three of them were… — Ekaterina Sedia
A name with a gently exotic ring to it, like birdsong, like a grain of sand in the far-off Gobi Desert or the northern steppes,… — Sijie Dai
When you're out in the desert, you can't believe the amount of stars. Are you busy as a bee? Do not even have time for… — Eddie Vedder
This part of optics, when well understood, shows us how we may make things a very long distance off appear as if placed very close,… — Robert Grosseteste
A handful of sand is an anthology of the universe. — David McCord
Life is a desert of shifting sand dunes. Unpredictable. Erratic. Harmony changes into dissonance, the immediate outlives the profound, esoteric becomes cliched. And vice versa. — Ella Leya
I think fear neutralizes alcohol, weakens its anesthetic power. It's good for small fears; your boss, your wife, your bills, your dentist; all right then… — Cornell Woolrich
Surely one may as profitably be soaked in the juices of a swamp for one day as pick his way dry-shod over sand. Cold and… — Henry David Thoreau
The name Alaska is probably an abbreviation of Unalaska, derived from the original Aleut word agunalaksh, which means "the shores where the sea breaks its… — Corey Ford
God will forgive you if you ask him to. Though your sins be numerous as the grains of sand on the shore, God’s merciful forgiveness… — Patrick Madrid
Bearing in his right paw the shovel that digs to the truth beneath appearances, cut the roots of useless attachments, and flings damp sand on… — Gary Snyder
Passionate and forcefully argued, Tar Sands is a wake-up call not just to Canadians but to the wider world to take a serious look at… — Margaret MacMillan

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