Sand Quotes

891 Sand quotes by 672 unique authors

The 6th of August in the morning we saw an opening in the land and we ran into it, and anchored in 7 and a… — William Dampier
We cannot stick our heads in the sand concerning the issue of hunger in America. Even though this subject seldom reaches the front page of… — Bruce Davison
We figure to ourselves The thing we like; and then we build it up, As chance will have it, on the rock or sand,- For… — Henry Taylor
What is time? The shadow on the dial, the striking of the clock, the running of the sand, day and night, summer and winter, months,… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
If one should give me a dish of sand, and tell me there were particles of iron in it, I might look for them with… — Henry Ward Beecher
Gratitude and Contentment is the greatest worker of miracles. It transforms water into wine, grains of sand into pearls, raindrops into balsam, poverty into wealth,… — Kaspar Hauser
Seize every opportunity you have to learn. Keep your eyes and ears wide open and seize life — don't let the moments slip through your… — Richie Sambora
The sand in the hourglass runs from one compartment to the other, marking the passage of moments with something constant and tangible.If you watch the… — Vera Nazarian
We cannot get from anyone else the things we need to fill the endless terrible need, not to be dissolved, not to sink back into… — Ellen Gilchrist
On these sands and in the clefts of the rocks, in the depths of the sea, in the creaking of the pines, you'll spy secret… — Homer
The night sky in North Korea might be the most brilliant in northeast Asia, the only airspace spared the coal dust, Gobi Desert sand, and… — Barbara Demick
I do not expect anyone will ever have the opportunity of constructing another course like Cypress Point, as I do not suppose anywhere in the… — Alister MacKenzie
The easy way is efficacious and speedy, the hard way arduous and long. But, as the clock ticks, the easy way becomes harder and the… — Colonel Sanders
The Chinese people have only family and clan solidarity; they do not have national spirit...they are just a heap of loose sand...Other men are the… — Sun Yat-sen
The sand-castle virtues are all swept away in the tidal destruction, the moral melee. — Jethro Tull
Extracting oil from the tar sands is a nasty, polluting, energy-intensive business. — Jeff Goodell
At a certain point memory becomes a beach strewn with landmines, all life’s many losses buried in those sands. — Thomas H. Cook
The man who offers an insult writes it in sand, but for the man who receives it, it's chiseled in bronze. — Giovannino Guareschi
My dad, who was creative director in the '60s, always wore black jeans with black desert boots; he thought he was cool. He told me… — Andy Spade
When someone's been gone a long time, at first you save up all the things you want to tell them. You try to keep track… — Jenny Han
The sand stones had fragments of charcoal on some surfaces but found no recognisable fossils. — George Mercer Dawson
I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. — Og Mandino
Every barrel of oil that comes out of those sands in Canada is a barrel of oil that we don't have to buy from a… — Rick Perry
Time is like a handful of sand - the tighter you grasp it, the faster it runs through your fingers. — Henry David Thoreau
You possess a non-renewable resource, which is headed toward total depletion and that resource is time. You can either invest your life or let it… — Billy Graham

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