Sand Quotes

891 Sand quotes by 672 unique authors

Youâ€™d better get busy, though, buddy. The goddam sands run out on you every time You turn around. I know what Iâ€™m talking about. Youâ€™re… — J D Salinger
...like a grain of sand that gets into an oyster's shell. What if the grain doesn't want to become a pearl? Is it ever asked… — Robin McKinley
Right at that moment it was as if we were the only two people left in the world. And I don't mean that to sound… — Lucy Christopher
Safe upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand. Come and see my shining palace built upon the sand! — Edna St. Vincent Millay
That whole week, we started to divide things into those two categories: anything or something. A piece of jewelry bougth at a department store: anything.… — David Levithan
The piebald mare paws at the sand; I see her digging out of the corner of my eye and hear her grinding her teeth. That… — Maggie Stiefvater
Tell me what it's like. The race." "What it's like is a battle. A mess of horses and men and blood. The fastest and strongest… — Maggie Stiefvater
You walk for days among trees and among stones. Rarely does the eye light on a thing, and then only when it has recognized that… — Italo Calvino
Two lost things that had survived the seas and arrived on a coastline. What did they do? They implanted themselves in the sand and grew… — Cecelia Ahern
Do I love you? My God, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches! If your love were-"… — William Goldman
Nothing like poetry when you lie awake at night. It keeps the old brain limber. It washes away the mud and sand that keeps on… — Joyce Cary
We, their hearts, become fearful just thinking of loved ones who go away forever, or of moments that could have been good but weren't, or… — Paulo Coelho
I...asked why purebloods despised me so. He replied, 'What if the difference between social strata stem not from genomics or inherent xcellence or even dollars,… — David Mitchell
Does anyone ask you why you stay, Sean Kendrick?" "They do." "And why do you?" "The sky and the sand and the sea and Corr. — Maggie Stiefvater
We have a definite but unknown quantity of experience at our disposal. As soon as the hourglass is turned, the sand will begin to run… — Pablo Picasso
This land, although not my native land, Will be remembered forever. And the sea's lightly iced, Unsalty water. The sand on the bottom is whiter… — Anna Akhmatova
The whole of the world could be deduced from the smallest grain of sand, if one studied it closely enough. — Christopher Paolini
Think of your life as an hourglass. You know there are thousands of grains of sand in the top of the hourglass; and they all… — Dale Carnegie
A thousand years ago five minutes were Equal to forty ounces of fine sand. Outstare the stars. Infinite foretime and Infinite aftertime: above your head… — Vladimir Nabokov
..when a war ends, what does that look like exactly? do the cells in the body stop detonating themselves? does the orphanage stop screaming for… — Andrea Gibson

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