Sand Quotes

891 Sand quotes by 672 unique authors

Never, never pin your whole faith on any human being: not if he is the best and wisest in the whole world. There are lots… — C.S. Lewis
Nothing erodes [a mother's love]. It is not sand on a beach. It is the nuclear heart of things-hard as the rock of this earth. — Beth Kephart
Writers begin with a grain of sand, and then create a beach. — Robert Black
I am convinced, by repeated observation, that marbles, lime-stones, chalks, marls, clays, sand, and almost all terrestrial substances, wherever situated, are full of shells and… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
You might as well baptize a bag of sand as a man, if not done in view of the remission of sins and getting of… — Joseph Smith, Jr.
All self-effort is but sinking sand. Christ alone is the Rock of our salvation. — Henry Allen Ironside
Works? Works? A man get to heaven by works? I would as soon think of climbing to the moon on a rope of sand! — George Whitefield
The sand should be neither coarse nor fine but of a middling quality or about the size of the common pop(p)y seed. If the sand… — Canvass White
The valuable properties of this cement depend in a great measure on the mode of preparing it for use. The mixing should therefore be conducted… — Canvass White
To every bushel of the powdered cement add one bushel of sand, mix them together and pass them through a sieve, then add a sufficient… — Canvass White
I think I have been much of my life an irritant. But some people say that something good came out of my research, something valuable… — Nicholas Kurti
O witches, O misery, O hate, to you has my treasure been entrusted! I contrived to purge my mind of all human hope. On all… — Arthur Rimbaud
The sand dunes look like two tits. — Valentino Garavani
... knowledge must continually be renewed by ceaseless effort, if it is not to be lost. It resembles a statue of marble which stands in… — Albert Einstein
What! Get to heaven on your own strength? Why, you might as well try to climb to the moon on a rope of sand! — George Whitefield
Who then can calculate the path of the molecule? how do we know that the creations of worlds are not determined by the fall of… — Victor Hugo
A society in which consumption has to be artificially stimulated in order to keep production going is a society founded on trash and waste, for… — Dorothy L. Sayers
If it (the good circumstances) changes will you be able to keep onto your happiness just as much? Because if not then your happiness is… — Goswami Kriyananda
I have always had, as I know many people have, a singular passion for Australia. I do love the sunburnt country, its ancient landscapes, its… — Peter Garrett
We shall not enter Palestine with its soil covered in sand, we shall enter it with its soil saturated in blood — Gamal Abdel Nasser
How dangerous it is rashly to adopt the Mosaical institutions [Old Testament teachings of eye for an eye]. Laws might have been proper for a… — Gerald Heaney
The introduction of resistance in form of sand and hill is too important to be ignored. — Percy Cerutty
Sticking your head in the sand might make you feel safer, but it's not going to protect you from the coming storm. — Barack Obama
So sweep away the sand an' dry the ocean, an' just pack the moon an' stars up in a cardboard box. And stop the clouds… — Kenny Rogers
It flows through old hushed Egypt and its sands, Like some grave mighty thought threading a dream, And times and things, as in that vision,… — Leigh Hunt

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