Sand Quotes

891 Sand quotes by 672 unique authors

Many people find bald, unvarnished truths so disturbing, they prefer to ram their heads in the sand and start dreaming at the first sign of… — Charlie Brooker
Alexander, you broke my heart. But for carrying me on your back, for pulling my dying sled, for giving me your last bread, for the… — Paullina Simons
A Note Life is the only way to get covered in leaves, catch your breath on the sand, rise on wings; to be a dog,… — Wislawa Szymborska
She finds tales everywhere, in grains of sand she picks up from the garden, in puffs of smoke that drift out from the chimneys of… — David Almond
The night below. We two. Crystal of pain. You wept over great distances. My ache was a clutch of agonies over your sickly heart of… — Federico Garcia Lorca
Of course the Man was wild too. He was dreadfully wild. He didn't even begin to be tame till he met the Woman, and she… — Rudyard Kipling
If my love were an ocean, there would be no more land. If my love were a desert, you would see only sand. If my… — Jay Asher
As you know, this little grain of sand has mass. A very small mass, but mass nonetheless." And because this grain of sand has mass,… — Dan Brown
I imagine a line, a white line, painted on the sand and on the ocean, from me to you. — Jonathan Safran Foer
What was wrong with me? I had a decent life. I was healthy. I wasn't starving or maimed by a land mine or orphaned. Yet… — Jodi Picoult
It is moonlight. Alone in the silence I ascend my stairs once more, While waves remote in pale blue starlight Crash on a white sand… — Conrad Aiken
I was sand, I was snow—written on, rewritten, smoothed over. — Margaret Atwood
The body is so easily damaged, so easily disposed of, water and chemicals is all it is, hardly more to it than a jellyfish drying… — Margaret Atwood
Lying under such a myriad of stars. The sea’s black horizon. He rose and walked out and stood barefoot in the sand and watched the… — Cormac McCarthy
More than anything, he wanted to return to the house with the same look of peace that he'd seen on Pastor Harris's face, but he… — Nicholas Sparks
And perhaps beyond those shrouded swells another man did walk with another child on the dead gray sands. Slept but a sea apart on another… — Cormac McCarthy
Come unto these yellow sands, And then take hands. Curtsied when you have and kissed The wild waves whist, Foot is featly here and there;… — William Shakespeare
To our brothers and sisters in harm’s way, we say that we pray for you. We pray that the Lord will watch over you and… — Gordon B. Hinckley
I can never get over when you're on the beach how beautiful the sand looks and the water washes it away and straightens it up… — Andy Warhol
Where the wave of moonlight glosses The dim gray sands with light, Far off by furthest Rosses We foot it all the night, Weaving olden… — William Butler Yeats
For great are you, Lord, and you look kindly on what is humble, but the lofty-minded you regard from afar. Only to those whose hearts… — Saint Augustine
When obedience is in the ascendant, He will tax the remotest star and the last grain of sand to assist you with all His Almighty… — Oswald Chambers
That narrow stretch of sand knows nothing in the world better than it does the white waves that whip it , caress it , collapse… — Ahdaf Soueif
That would be a glorious life, to addict oneself to perfection; to follow the curve of the sentence wherever it might lead, into deserts, under… — Virginia Woolf
But you must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will follow on that act.… — Ursula K. Le Guin

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