Sand Quotes

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour.

With their souls of patent leather, they come down the road. Hunched and nocturnal, where they breathe they impose, silence of dark rubber, and fear of fine sand.

It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.

If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge.

Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.

If you look at the various strategies available for dealing with a new technology, sticking your head in the sand is not the most plausible strategy.

Write injuries in sand, kindnesses in marble.

The things we used to have/ Are fading all too fast, ... Like a castle in the sand/ Well some things they're meant to last.

In December 2003, after pulling their heads out of the sand, the Department of Agriculture closed the barn door after the mad cow had already escaped, ... This bill will ensure that the door is never opened again to abusing sick animals, jeopardizing the public health, threatening the American consumer's confidence in the safety of our meat and potentially undermining a valuable sector of our economy.

would throw sand into the gears of human progress.

Certainly there's a lot less sand behind those breakwaters since Hurricane Katrina, ... But, having said that, it looks like it could have been a lot worse.

The wider the island, the less sand is lost from the system, ... That does have important implications for future coastal restoration efforts.

It draws a line in the sand. Once you cross it, you can't go back.

Upon touching sand may it turn to gold.

He, who does not believe that God wants this bit of sand to lie in this particular place, does not believe at all.

Scissors in the Sand.

A scent of jasmine and a rasp of sand.

The fall in the sand trap - a distance of 6 feet - caused the type of hemorrhaging that led to his death.

They stopped somewhere near Sand Hill Road where the man forced her to have sex.

We helped a few victims on the sand there on the beach and there were a few people lying ... on the tables which are out on the beach, dead.

Every leaf on every tree And every drop of water in the sea Every grain of weathered sand That smashes itself onto dry land Every stone and every petal, everything that's elemental You are never gone.

Sartre smoked. Colette, George Sand, Marguerite Duras, [André] Gide -- they all smoked, ... We have a long history of great thinking here, [with] coffee and cigarettes.

Sand castle virtues are all swept away, in the tidal destruction, the moral melee.

And so castles made of sand fall in the sea, eventually.