Sand Quotes
891 Sand quotes by 672 unique authors
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Outside, the north wind, coming and passing, swelling and dying, lifts the frozen sand drives it a-rattle against the lidless windows and we may dear…
— William Carlos Williams
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I could run nearly naked on a hot, windy beach and plunge without care into a running diamond sea; roll on the sand and fling…
— Anne Rivers Siddons
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Bastian had climbed a dune of purplish-red sand and all around him he saw nothing but hill after hill of every imaginable color. Each hill…
— Michael Ende
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When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors…
— Mark Twain
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Readers may be divided into four classes: 1) Sponges, who absorb all that they read and return it in nearly the same state, only a…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is…
— Jorge Luis Borges
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Do you know how sometimes - when you are riding your bike and you start skidding across sand, or when you miss a step and…
— Jodi Picoult
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Don't think about what you've left behind" The alchemist said to the boy as they began to ride across the sands of the desert. "If…
— Paulo Coelho
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Nobody can claim the name of Pedro, nobody is Rosa or María, all of us are dust or sand, all of us are rain under…
— Pablo Neruda
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She worked her toes into the sand, feeling the tiny delicious pain of the friction of tiny chips of silicon against the tender flesh between…
— Orson Scott Card
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Los Angeles, give me some of you! Los Angeles come to me the way I came to you, my feet over your streets, you pretty…
— John Fante
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The passing of armies and the passing of sands in the desert are one.
— Cormac McCarthy
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It's a good thing to have all the props pulled out from under us occasionally. It gives us some sense of what is rock under…
— Madeleine L'Engle
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When the real history of mankind is fully disclosed, will it feature the echoes of gunfire or the shaping sound of lullabies? The great armistices…
— Neal A. Maxwell
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Do I love you? My God, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches.
— William Goldman
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Moonflowers blossom in the sand hills before dawn, just as I followed him.
— Leslie Marmon Silko
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Then take me disappearin' through the smoke rings of my mind, Down the foggy ruins of time, far past the frozen leaves, The haunted, frightened…
— Bob Dylan
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Happy. Just in my swim shorts, barefooted, wild-haired, in the red fire dark, singing, swigging wine, spitting, jumping, running—that's the way to live. All alone…
— Jack Kerouac
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How massively the mountains stand, while low to the ground the sand blows. The sand blows on and on. And then there are no mountains,…
— Tanith Lee
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I don't care what is written," Meyer Landsman says. "I don't care what supposedly got promised to some sandal-wearing idiot whose claim to fame is…
— Michael Chabon
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People are afraid to pursue their most important dreams, because they feel that they don’t deserve them, or that they’ll be unable to achieve them.…
— Paulo Coelho
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Well, I was thinking this very thing. I was thinking: I am going to die today, but Jesu also died, so he knows how it…
— Stephen R. Lawhead
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In the time it takes for her to walk from the bathhouse at the seawall of Fortune's Rocks, where she has left her boots and…
— Anita Shreve
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As I drift back into sleep, I can't help thinking that it's a wonderful thing to be right about the world. To weigh the evidence,…
— Richard Russo
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In the fury of the moment/ I can see the Master's hand In every leaf that trembles, in/ every grain of sand.
— Bob Dylan
Who Wrote These Sand Quotes
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