Sand Quotes
891 Sand quotes by 672 unique authors
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Love all God’s creation, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf, every ray of light. Love the animals, love the plants,…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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pull a string, a puppet moves ... each man must realize that it can all disappear very quickly: the cat, the woman, the job, the…
— Charles Bukowski
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Love? Be it man. Be it woman. It must be a wave you want to glide in on, give your body to it, give your…
— Anne Sexton
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To a person who expects every desert to be barren sand dunes, the Sonoran must come as a surprise. Not only are there no dunes,…
— Jerry Spinelli
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When the sands are all dry, he is gay as a lark, And will talk in contemptuous tones of the Shark: But, when the tide…
— Lewis Carroll
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Strong winds buffet the sea oats and tall dune grasses, tossing sand and seabirds where it will, winding my sister's golden hair into sunlit spirals…
— Karen White
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Think of a rock polisher, one of those drums, goes round and round, rolls twenty-four/seven, full of water and rocks and gravel. Grinding it all…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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My love is like a red, red rose That's newly sprung in June: My love is like the melody That's sweetly played in tune. How…
— Robert Burns
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The Owl and the Pussycat went to sea In a beautiful pea-green boat: They took some honey, and plenty of money Wrapped up in a…
— Edward Lear
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Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free, Silhouetted by the sea, circled by the circus sands
— Bob Dylan
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Fear is like the wilderland - Stepping stones or sinking sand
— Joni Mitchell
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Extreme torture is mute, and so we sat silent, petrified, like columns of marble buried under the sand of an earthquake. Neither wished to listen…
— Khalil Gibran
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We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to…
— Richard Dawkins
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Since the first human eye saw a leaf in Devonian sandstone and a puzzled finger reached to touch it, sadness has lain over the heart…
— Loren Eiseley
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I jammed my hand in my jacket pocket, bracing myself fo the next hit, and fel something. Something grainy and samll, sticking to the tips…
— Sarah Dessen
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Bod said, 'I want to see life. I want to hold it in my hands. I want to leave a footprint on the sand of…
— Neil Gaiman
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In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth.
— Rachel Carson
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There is a curious thing that happens with the passage of time: a calcification of character... Change isn't always for the worst; the shell that…
— Jodi Picoult
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She would be quiet at first. Then she would say a word about something small, something she had noticed, and then another word, and another,…
— Amy Tan
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We would lie on coral sand, below sugary stars, watching Cassiopeia mount her throne and the Great Bear wash its paws in the South. I…
— Diane Ackerman
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