Sand Quotes

891 Sand quotes by 672 unique authors

A land not mine, still forever memorable, the waters of its ocean chill and fresh. Sand on the bottom whiter than chalk, and the air… — Anna Akhmatova
A moment later, he plopped down on the sand beside her, and when they accidentally touched, Gabby had the briefest flash of them sitting together… — Nicholas Sparks
I grew, a happy, healthy child in a bright world of illustrated books, clean sand, orange trees, friendly dogs, sea vistas and smiling faces. — Vladimir Nabokov
One day you will hear the sound of time rustling as it slips through your fingers like sand. Remember me then. I wish you luck. — Sergei Lukyanenko
I have always loved the desert. One sits down on a desert sand dune, sees nothing, hears nothing. Yet through the silence something throbs, and… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
I sat down in the sand, breathless with shame and failure. God, I thought, some defender of the weak. Some freedom fighter: Joan of Arc… — Anne Lamott
I danced along a colored wind/ Dangled from a rope of sand — Tom Waits
Outside, the ocean was crashing, waves hitting sand, then pulling back to sea. I thought of everything being washed away, again and again. We make… — Sarah Dessen
For now is my grief heavier than the sands of the seas, she thought. This world has emptied me of all but the oldest purpose:… — Frank Herbert
A stone is heavy and the sand is weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both. — Frank Herbert
Perhaps life is like an hour glass, with dear ones the sand that slips from the upper glass--the earth--into the second--eternity. — Margaret George
I am forever walking upon these shores, Betwixt the sand and the foam, The high tide will erase my food prnts, And the wind will… — Khalil Gibran
Many of our attempts to understand Christian faith have only cheapened it. I can no more understand the totality of God than the pancake I… — Donald Miller
You told me once of the plants that lie dormant through the drought, that wait, half-dead, deep in the earth. The plants that wait for… — Lucy Christopher
The sky was different, without color, taut and unforgiving. But the water was the most unforgiving thing, nearly black at times, cold enough, I knew,… — Jhumpa Lahiri
Each of us has... all the time there is. Those years, weeks, hours, are the sands in the glass running swiftly away. To let them… — Eleanor Roosevelt
Good night.' Diana summoned all the dignity that she could manage in her bedraggled state and began to move back up the beach. Her dress… — Anna Godbersen
We must remember that there is a great difference between a myth and a miracle. A myth is the idealization of a fact. A miracle… — Robert Green Ingersoll
When you accept everything, everything is beyond dimensions. The earth is not great nor a grain of sand small. In the realm of Great Activity… — Shunryu Suzuki
A little tap at the window, as though some missile had struck it, followed by a plentiful, falling sound, as light, though, as if a… — Marcel Proust
i sometimes felt as if these marks on my body were a kind of code, which blossomed, then faded, like invisible ink held to a… — Margaret Atwood
I dreamt we walked together along the shore. We made satisfying small talk and laughed. This morning I found sand in my shoe and a… — Maya Angelou
Sonnet XXV Before I loved you, love, nothing was my own: I wavered through the streets, among Objects: Nothing mattered or had a name: The… — Pablo Neruda
From my spirit's gray defeat, From my pulse's flagging beat, From my hopes that turned to sand Sifting through my close-clenched hand, From my own… — Sara Teasdale
What is the sound of one hand clapping? What is the weight of a single grain of sand? The answer is equal to my interest… — Meg Cabot

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