Sand Quotes

891 Sand quotes by 672 unique authors

Children make prayers so thoughtlessly, building them up like sand castlesâ€”and they are always surprised when suddenly the castle becomes real, and the iron gate… — Catherynne M. Valente
I will not go on, I thought. I won't. I will throw my soul to the wind and blow into a thousand pieces. I will… — Janette Rallison
It's a funny thing about bogs. You can fill them with rocks and sand and old logs and make a little fenced-in yard on top… — Tove Jansson
It's not enough to be numbered with the grains of sand on the beach and the stars in the sky. — Chuck Palahniuk
The sweetness of dogs (fifteen) What do you say, Percy? I am thinking of sitting out on the sand to watch the moon rise. Full… — Mary Oliver
No stars gleam as brightly as those which glisten in the polar sky. No water tastes so sweet as that which springs amid the desert… — Charles Spurgeon
Momma said that ghosts couldn't move over water. That's why Africans got trapped in the Americas.. They kept moving us over the water, stealing us… — Laurie Halse Anderson
Women want everything of a lover. And too often I would sink below the surface. So armies disappear under sand. And there was her fear… — Michael Ondaatje
For love, we will climb mountains, cross seas, traverse desert sands, and endure untold hardships. Without love, mountains become unclimbable, seas uncrossable, deserts unbearable, and… — Gary Chapman
Ghosts! [â€¦] I almost think we are all of us ghosts. It is not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that… — Henrik Ibsen
Mr. Sand, do you think it's possible to fall in love in the space of a single day?" He smiled. "I wouldn't know. I only… — Tessa Dare
In the deepest places, where physical norms collapse under the crushing water, bodies still fall softly through the dark, days after their vessels have capsized.… — China Mieville
This time of year, I live and breathe the beach. My cheeks feel raw with the wind throwing sand against them. My thighs sting from… — Maggie Stiefvater
The rockets set the bony meadows afire, turned rock to lava, turned wood to charcoal, transmuted water to steam, made sand and silica into green… — Ray Bradbury
Agent Jones switched to the big screen and a grainy video of MoMo sitting at his enormous desk, a swivel-hipped Elvis clock ticking behind his… — Libba Bray
Did no one tell him that pain lives in this sand, dug in and watered with our blood? — Maggie Stiefvater
What are heavy? sea-sand and sorrow. What are brief? today and tomorrow. What are frail? spring blossoms and youth. What are deep? the ocean and… — Christina Rossetti
Sleep is a daily reminder from God that we are not God. Once a day God sends us to bed like patients with a sickness.… — John Piper
People sometimes accuse me of knowing a lot. "Stephen," they say, accusingly, "you know a lot." This is a bit like telling a person who… — Stephen Fry
And when he came to, he was flat on his back on the beach in the freezing sand, and it was raining out of a… — David Foster Wallace

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