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Sand Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The history of persecution is a history of endeavors to cheat nature, to make water run up hill, to twist a rope of sand.
- The wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting.
- I wiped away the weeds and foam, I fetched my sea-born treasures home; But the poor, unsightly, noisome things Had left their beauty on the…
- Genius has no taste for weaving sand.
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- I typically enjoy a beautiful beach destination, as I find the water and sand to be the most replenishing. — Elizabeth Berkley
- I am not a great French woman. George Sand, Marguerite Duras and Simone de Beauvoir are great French women. — Juliette Binoche
- Our Constitution was not written in the sands to be washed away by each wave of new judges blown in by each… — Hugo Black
- To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palms of your… — William Blake
- On vacations: We hit the sunny beaches where we occupy ourselves keeping the sun off our skin, the saltwater off our bodies,… — Erma Bombeck
- Incredibly, almost every hotel I ever played in Vegas was blown up shortly afterward: The Dunes, The Sands, The Landmark, The Aladdin,… — Elayne Boosler
- Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone. — Jorge Luis Borges
- Please don't ask me to do that which I've just said I'm not going to do, because you're burning up time. The… — George H. W. Bush
- While it is well enough to leave footprints on the sands of time, it is even more important to make sure they… — James Branch Cabell
- On sand, you can never be sure of anything. An ordinary shot can take a wicked deflection at the last moment. — Eric Cantona