Quotes about Sand

Write your Sad times in Sand, Write your Good times in Stone. Votes: 7

It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up. Votes: 7

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand. Votes: 7

It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out; it's the grain of sand in your shoe. Votes: 6

I guess humans like to watch a little destruction. Sand castles, houses of cards, that's where they begin. Their great skills is their capacity to escalate. Votes: 6

To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity in an hour. Votes: 6

They dined on mince, and slices of quince, Which they ate with a runcible spoon; And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand, They danced by the light of the moon. Votes: 6

I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy. Votes: 6

You throw the sand against the wind and the wind blows it back again. Votes: 5

God changes caterpillars into butterflies, sand into pearls and coal into diamonds using time and pressure. He's working on you, too. Votes: 5

America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand. Votes: 4

To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wildflower. Votes: 4

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand. Votes: 4

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it. Votes: 4

Nothing is built on stone; All is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone. Votes: 4

If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge. Votes: 4

Do I love you? My God, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches. Votes: 4

Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped, but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment. Votes: 4

I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Votes: 4

I ignored your aura but it grabbed me by the hand, like the moon pulled the tide, and the tide pulled the sand. Votes: 4

Seeking to perpetuate one's name on earth is like writing on the sand by the seashore; to be perpetual it must be written on eternal shores. Votes: 4

I love the sea's sounds and the way it reflects the sky. The colours that shimmer across its surface are unbelievable. This, combined with the colour of the water over white sand, surprises me every time. Votes: 4

I read once that the ancient Egyptians had fifty words for sand & the Eskimos had a hundred words for snow. I wish I had a thousand words for love, but all that comes to mind is the way you move against me while you sleep & there are no words for that. Votes: 4

Sand castles just aren't made to last. Votes: 3

Sand is overrated. It's just tiny little rocks. Votes: 3

Sand. Everywhere. In the bed, in the shower, all over the floor. Grrrrr. Votes: 3

Bernie or bust actually reduces the leverage for Bernie [Sandеrs] to claim victory. Votes: 3

Solid stone is just sand and water...Sand and water and a million years gone by. Votes: 3

Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. Votes: 3

Sand can resist to water; but it cannot win. Ignorant can resist to knowledge; but it cannot win. Votes: 3

Pier Angeli was in the movie called Sea of Sand that Guy Green directed where this idea came up. Votes: 3

I am not a great French woman. George Sand, Marguerite Duras and Simone de Beauvoir are great French women. Votes: 3

Sand-strewn caverns, cool and deep, Where the winds are all asleep; Where the spent lights quiver and gleam; Where the salt weed sways in the stream. Votes: 3

Here's to real heroes, not the ones who carry us off into the sunset but the ones who help us choose our princes." - commentary on Castles on the Sand Votes: 3

Dylan, myself and my father were in a two hour movie called The Sand Kings, which started off the Outer Limits series. It was sort of the two hour pilot movie. Votes: 3

The Sand Pebbles has always been one of my favorite films, I suppose because its the most difficult film - from a physical and logistical standpoint - that I've ever made. Votes: 3

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 fall in love at night. Never lasts beyond breakfast, though. Votes: 3

Sometimes you have got to look at things really positively - without putting your head in the sand, you have got to manage the negatives and keep putting a positive slant on it, keep trying to find answers. Votes: 3

Sand is one of the best exfoliates out there! Take a handful of sand and rub it on your skin in small circles. When you're done, wash it off and presto... you get spa like skin, without the price tag. Votes: 3

There's something incredibly sexy about sand and sweat and dunes photographed like women's backs. Votes: 2

He behaved like an ostrich and put his head in the sand, thereby exposing his thinking parts. Votes: 2

I have a very ostrich mentality. I feel like I have my head in the sand so no one can see me. Votes: 2

We Americans think, in every country in transition, there's a Thomas Jefferson hiding behind some rock or a James Madison beyond one sand dune. Votes: 2

He ploughs the waves, sows the sand, and hopes to gather the wind in a net, who places his hopes in the heart of a woman. Votes: 2

I'll paddle board, swim in the ocean, roll in the sand, soak up the sun, eat good food, be with friends and family and go fishing with my dad. Votes: 2

On vacations: We hit the sunny beaches where we occupy ourselves keeping the sun off our skin, the saltwater off our bodies, and the sand out of our belongings. Votes: 2

Stats are important to me, especially the ones related to scoring. You're going to miss fairways and greens out here, so how you play from the sand really matters. Votes: 2

Bliss is the ocean, a towel on the sand, the sun out, the chance to swim in waves or walk dragging a stick behind you, a good book, a cold drink. Votes: 2

Fractal geometry is everywhere, even in lines drawn in the sand. It's the cycle of life... You see fractals in plants, in flowers. Within the human lung are branches within branches. Votes: 2

Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons, a possession for all eternity. Votes: 2

I don't think that anybody in any war thinks of themselves as a hero. The minute anybody presumes that they are heroes, they get their boots taken away from them and buried in the sand. Votes: 2

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 meter is running through the sand on you, and I am now filibustering. Votes: 2

It's not unexpected that shooting massive amounts of water, sand, and chemicals at high pressure into the earth to shatter shale and release natural gas might shake things up. But earthquakes aren't the worst problem with fracking. Votes: 2

Actually I think Art lies in both directions - the broad strokes, big picture but on the other hand the minute examination of the apparently mundane. Seeing the whole world in a grain of sand, that kind of thing. Votes: 2

I developed my training routine going into my senior year at Jackson State. I found this sandbank by the Pearl River near my hometown, Columbia, Miss. I laid out a course of 65 yards or so. Sixty-five yards on sand is like 120 on turf, but running on sand helps you make your cuts at full speed. Votes: 2

The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river; and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future. Votes: 2

How thin and insecure is that little beach of white sand we call consciousness. I've always known that in my writing it is the dark troubled sea of which I know nothing, save its presence, that carried me. I've always felt that creating was a fearless and a timid, a despairing and hopeful, launching out into that unknown. Votes: 2

The best meal I've had was in Tavarua, an island in Fiji. It was just before sunset. A bunch of guys had just caught all this yellow fin tuna; they literally brought this huge wooden table down to the sand, pulled the tuna from the boat, dropped it on top of the table, pulled the skin off and sliced the tuna up. Votes: 2

Sometimes, that mountain you've been climbing, is just a grain of sand. Votes: 1

Too many people write their blessings in the sand but engrave their sorrows in marble Votes: 1

If you keep your head in the sand, you don't know where the kick's coming from. Votes: 1

Time is like a handful of sand - the tighter you grasp it, the faster it runs through your fingers. Votes: 1

On sand, you can never be sure of anything. An ordinary shot can take a wicked deflection at the last moment. Votes: 1

My role in life is that of the grain of sand to the oyster-it irritates the oyster and out comes a pearl. Votes: 1

With the right attitude, human beings can move mountains. With the wrong attitude, they can be crushed by the smallest grain of sand. Votes: 1

You can't make footprints in the sand of time if you're sitting on your butt, and who wants to make buttprints in the sand of time? Votes: 1

Look at climate change; don't put your head in the sand. Understand that it is going to have profound effects on our resources and so much else. Votes: 1

Little drops of water, little grains of sand, Make the mighty ocean, and the pleasant land. So the little minutes, humble though they be, Make the mighty ages of eternity. Votes: 1

Everyone makes mistakes. If everyone fell into the sand after making a mistake we would never get anywhere. We'd all be washed away in the sea, lost forever. Do you understand~? Votes: 1

When people hurt you over and over, think of them like sand paper. They may scratch and hurt you a bit, but in the end, you end up polished and they end up useless. Votes: 1

Real friends are very special, but you have to be careful because sometimes you have a friend and you think they are made of rock, then suddenly you realise they're only made of sand. Votes: 1

Just remember: If one bird carried every grain of sand, grain by grain, across the ocean, by the time he got them all on the other side, that would only be the beginning of eternity. Votes: 1

Heaven is in a grain of sand. Votes: 0

The sand dunes look like two tits. Votes: 0

Genius has no taste for weaving sand. Votes: 0

We have ...drawn a line in the sand. Votes: 0

The magic of property turns sand to gold. Votes: 0

We're ostriches and the whole world is sand. Votes: 0

A foolish man... built his house upon the sand. Votes: 0

The sand murmurs that it wants to swallow everything. Votes: 0

I climb mountains, while you keep sinking in sand. Votes: 0

God is everywhere, in the smallest grain of sand. Votes: 0

From a grain of sand in the Pearl comes. Votes: 0

Write in the sand the flaws of your friend. Votes: 0

Movies are written in sand: applauded today, forgotten tomorrow. Votes: 0

The Word of God is ROCK. All else is sand. Votes: 0

Write today's worries in sand. Chisel yesterday's victories in stone. Votes: 0

Most Americans have their head in the sand about evolution. Votes: 0

Even Castles made of sand, fall into the sea, eventually. Votes: 0

Trust is like sand, one lie and it slips away. Votes: 0

what a rope of sand we are without a leader ... Votes: 0

I'm just saying it's not all sand castles and ninjas. Votes: 0

A handful of sand is an anthology of the universe. Votes: 0

You change or you hide your head in the sand. Votes: 0

Putting our heads in the sand is not a wise strategy. Votes: 0

Faith is to the human what sand is to the ostrich. Votes: 0

Fear is like the wilderland - Stepping stones or sinking sand Votes: 0

Maybe roll in the sand with a rock and roll man. Votes: 0

I was sand, I was snow"”written on, rewritten, smoothed over. Votes: 0

'E's all'ot sand an' ginger when alive, An''e's generally shammin' when'e's dead. Votes: 0

Building a godly life on the sand of scriptural illiteracy is impossible. Votes: 0

Insults should be written in sand, compliments should be carved in stone Votes: 0

Adversity is only sand on your track to prevent you from skidding. Votes: 0

Writers begin with a grain of sand, and then create a beach. Votes: 0

I danced along a colored wind/ Dangled from a rope of sand Votes: 0

Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand. Votes: 0

Time slips through our hands like grains of sand, never to return again. Votes: 0

Harbour Island in the Bahamas is beautiful, with turquoise water and pink sand. Votes: 0

Elaboration is not beauty, and sand-paper never finished a piece of bad work. Votes: 0

Moonflowers blossom in the sand hills before dawn, just as I followed him. Votes: 0

Nothing like the road to rub all the sand out of your soul. Votes: 0

We don't want to bury our heads in the sand about serious issues. Votes: 0

Faith as tiny as a grain of sand allows us to move mountains. Votes: 0

I don't believe it's all for nothing. It's not just written in the sand. Votes: 0

The sand-castle virtues are all swept away in the tidal destruction, the moral melee. Votes: 0

All self-effort is but sinking sand. Christ alone is the Rock of our salvation. Votes: 0

For me exotic means beaches, palm trees and sand and frolicking in the ocean Votes: 0

Worry and anxiety are sand in the machinery of life; faith is the oil. Votes: 0

Our life is but a grain of sand in the indifferent ocean of infinity. Votes: 0

And all around is the desert; a corner of the mournful kingdom of sand. Votes: 0

It's only a world, after all, and they're just sand grains in the desert, worlds. Votes: 0

The sand stones had fragments of charcoal on some surfaces but found no recognisable fossils. Votes: 0

I love like I'm thirsty. Can I offer you a tall glass of Sahara sand? Votes: 0

Waste not the smallest thing created, for grains of sand make mountains, and atomies infinity. Votes: 0

Stop the bullsh*t. Stop drawing lines in the sand like previous generations [have done]. Votes: 0

He is like the fox, who effaces his tracks in the sand with his tail. Votes: 0

Technically speaking, you can build anything out of sand; it doesn't mean you do it. Votes: 0

One thought includes all thought, in the sense that a grain of sand includes the universe. Votes: 0

Hulkamania is like a single grain of sand in the Sahara desert that is Macho Madness. Votes: 0

The wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting. Votes: 0

When your head is firmly in the sand, another part of your anatomy is fully exposed. Votes: 0

May your character not be a writing upon the sand, but an inscription upon the rock! Votes: 0

Even though we may all become extinct, we can still leave our footprint in the sand. Votes: 0

The introduction of resistance in form of sand and hill is too important to be ignored. Votes: 0

They defended the grains of sand in the desert to the last drop of their blood. Votes: 0

If we sit by and become complacent and put our heads in the sand, we're complicit. Votes: 0

We are too prone to engrave our trials in marble and write our blessings in sand. Votes: 0

The beach is a natural park, without the greenery but the sand is a natural toy. Votes: 0

Snow-white moslem head-dress around a dead black face! Beautiful were your sand-papering words against our skins! Votes: 0

Apothegms are in history, the same as pearls in the sand, or gold in the mine. Votes: 0

Fish have water, the bushmen of the Kalahari have sand, and Houstonians have interior décor. Votes: 0

Here's all I know about Dubai: It's one of those somewhere-over-there places where they make sand. Votes: 0

Philosophies fall away like sand, and creeds follow on another like the withered leaves of Autumn. Votes: 0

I am the infinite sea, and all worlds are but grains of sand upon my shore. Votes: 0

Most newspaper companies still have their heads in the sand, but other media companies are aggressive. Votes: 0

Burying your head in the sand does not make you invisible it only leads to suffocation. Votes: 0

The emotions attached to them were like sand castles in the tide, slowly washing out to sea. Votes: 0

When building sand castles on the beach, we can ignore the waves but should watch the tide. Votes: 0

Light may earth's crumbling sand be laid on thee, that dogs may dig thy bones up easily Votes: 0

From an endless beach of reality, we take a grain of sand and call it the world. Votes: 0

A person is full of sorrow the way a burlap sack is full of stones or sand. Votes: 0

I have loved you woman as surely as I have named you rust and sand and nylon. Votes: 0

The divine is everywhere, even in a grain of sand; there I represented it in the reeds. Votes: 0

Any fool can turn a blind eye but who knows what the ostrich sees in the sand. Votes: 0

The house that is built upon the sand will crumble at the first sign of a windstorm. Votes: 0

We write our names in the sand: and then the waves roll in and wash them away. Votes: 0

Are you tired of sand being kicked in your face? I promise you new muscles in days! Votes: 0

A stone is heavy and the sand is weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both. Votes: 0

When the beginnings of self destruction enter the heart, it seems no bigger than a grain of sand. Votes: 0

But be careful; sand is already broken but glass breaks. The shoes are for dancing, not running away. Votes: 0

Whatever's most important to you is your god. If it's not the Rock Christ Jesus, then it's sand! Votes: 0

Existence is of little interest save on days when the dust of realities is mingled with magic sand. Votes: 0

And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand, They danced by the light of the moon. Votes: 0

Our best built certainties are but sand-houses and subject to damage from any wind of doubt that blows Votes: 0

Did no one tell him that pain lives in this sand, dug in and watered with our blood? Votes: 0

My heart is sand and Orion's cruel tide has washed it away from me, scattered it, lost it. Votes: 0

There is no hope the future will but turn the old sand in the falling glass of time. Votes: 0

Oh, sometimes I like to put the sand of doubt into the oyster of my faith." (Br. Cadfael) Votes: 0

Depression can be the sand that makes the pearl. Most of my best work came out of it. Votes: 0

So I'm pampering myself to a homemade stone pumice session, to sand down my feet because I'm worth it. Votes: 0

Nature makes the locust with an appetite for crops; man would have made him with an appetite for sand Votes: 0

You can't draw lines in the sand like that. Humour's a tsunami that doesn't care about your little lines. Votes: 0

A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass. Votes: 0

Finer than any sand are dusts of gold that gleam, Vague starpoints, in the mystic iris of their eyes. Votes: 0

I typically enjoy a beautiful beach destination, as I find the water and sand to be the most replenishing. Votes: 0

Manchester City are built on sand and I don't mean that because their owners are from the Arab countries. Votes: 0

The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it. Votes: 0

The moon is essentially gray, no color; looks like plaster of Paris or sort of a grayish beach sand. Votes: 0

Can we find "The Universe in a grain of sand"? Well perhaps, but a stone seems easier to visualize. Votes: 0

Don't stop doing what you love. Don't let your future be ruined by a bunch of loony sand monkeys. Votes: 0

Safe upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand. Come and see my shining palace built upon the sand! Votes: 0

What we know is to what we do not know, as a grain of sand is to the beach. Votes: 0

Sometimes you get politicians who dig their feet into the sand and aren't willing to listen to another voice. Votes: 0

For the recuperation of body and mind, there is nothing better than natural therapy - sand, sunshine and surf. Votes: 0

That's the hell of sand castles. They are always doomed. That's part of their beauty — their impermanence. Votes: 0

Man is a living lie--a bitter jest Upon himself--a conscious grain of sand Lost in a desert of unconsciousness. Votes: 0

I always say, if you keep your head in the sand, you don't know where the kick's coming from. Votes: 0

I can't seem to keep my heart from leaking out of the cracks, like sand clutched in a fist. Votes: 0

The Moon is essentially gray - no color - looks like plaster of paris - soft of gray sand. Votes: 0

I imagine a line, a white line, painted on the sand and on the ocean, from me to you. Votes: 0

What do you have when you have an agent buried up to his neck in sand? Not enough sand. Votes: 0

One step outside the gate, and we are among the sand-hills that stretch for miles and miles round Vera Cruz. Votes: 0

I am hanging in the balance of a perfect finished plan, like every sparrow falling, like every grain of sand. Votes: 0

The whole of the world could be deduced from the smallest grain of sand, if one studied it closely enough. Votes: 0

If it's hemorrhaging cash, you've got to do something about it. You can't live with your head in the sand. Votes: 0

The whole of the world could be deduced from the smallest grain of sand if one studied it closely enough. Votes: 0

In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth. Votes: 0

It's not enough to be numbered with the grains of sand on the beach and the stars in the sky. Votes: 0

Counting the ways the Book of Mormon brings peace to the soul is like counting the sand on the seashore. Votes: 0

It is one thing to do your dance on a beach and quite another to collaborate intimately with the sand. Votes: 0

A ball will always come to rest halfway down a hill, unless there is sand or water at the bottom. Votes: 0

If all the circumstances of acting are made to easy, then there's no grain of sand to make the pearl. Votes: 0

All summer long we spent dancin' in the sand, and the jukebox kept on playing Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Votes: 0

The desert is cold early in the morning. Laying down on that sand is like laying on a block of ice. Votes: 0

Abstinence sows sand all over The ruddy limbs and flaming hair, But desire gratified Plants fruits of life and beauty there. Votes: 0

Talent, and genius as well, is like a grain of pearl sand shifting about in the creative mind. A valued tormentor. Votes: 0

The Bible talks about building houses on sand and rock, but says nothing about a brick house built on a blanket. Votes: 0

The most mesmerizing of artists is always like one who was merely drawing in the sand and people came to watch. Votes: 0

Time seems to me a drift, a shifting of sand. And my mind is shifting with it. I am wearing away. Votes: 0

We shall not enter Palestine with its soil covered in sand, we shall enter it with its soil saturated in blood Votes: 0

A grain of sand leads to the fall of a mountain when the moment has come for the mountain to fall. Votes: 0

Every ripple on the ocean, every leaf on every tree, every sand dune in the desert, every power we never see. Votes: 0

Perhaps life is like an hour glass, with dear ones the sand that slips from the upper glass--the earth--into the second--eternity. Votes: 0

Character is the line in the sand between the worst of the good people and the best of the bad ones Votes: 0

We are all different. God made us that way. Drawing a line in the sand due to that is indeed unfortunate. Votes: 0

The ostrich-approach of burying your head in the sand, when confronting your areas of weakness, becomes a self-set trigger for failure. Votes: 0

The man who offers an insult writes it in sand, but for the man who receives it, it's chiseled in bronze. Votes: 0

In my job you can't just put your head in the sand and throw partisan bombshells. You have to get results. Votes: 0

Here's to our beloved George Washington, the Joshua of America, who commanded the sun and the moon to sand still--and they obeyed. Votes: 0

Reached only by boat, seaplane and, with less surety, telephone-this is Fire Island, a pile of sand beneath a pile of people. Votes: 0

We take a handful of sand from the endless landscape of awareness around us and call that handful of sand the world. Votes: 0

They have a sign at the beach, "no glass bottles". I think that's so the other sand particles don't feel like underachievers. Votes: 0

All that mankind has ever learned is nothing more than a single grain of sand on a beach that reaches to infinity. Votes: 0

Sticking your head in the sand might make you feel safer, but it's not going to protect you from the coming storm. Votes: 0

I never kick my ball in the rough or improve my lie in a sand trap. For that I have a caddie. Votes: 0

It is our art that has an opportunity to leave a footprint in the sand. They don't wrap fish in our work. Votes: 0

I like to run on the beach. It's a different exercise as well when you're in sand, a different kind of training. Votes: 0

Aliens might be surprised to learn that in a cosmos with limitless starlight, humans kill for energy sources buried in the sand Votes: 0

Wake up, Shake up, Make up and Break up; life is all about moving like ant in search of sugar not sand. Votes: 0

When I was a little kid we had a sand box. It was a quicksand box. I was an only child... eventually. Votes: 0

Writing a first draft and reminding myself that I'm simply shoveling sand into a box so that later I can build castles. Votes: 0

In the fury of the moment/ I can see the Master's hand In every leaf that trembles, in/ every grain of sand. Votes: 0

The last thing a young woman needs is another picture of a sexy pop star writhing in sand, covered in grease, touching herself. Votes: 0

The beauty of the landscape - where sand, water, reeds, birds, buildings, and people all somehow flowed together - has never left me. Votes: 0

I love being outdoors, playing beach tennis, going for runs in the sand, or doing a three-hour hike with my best girlfriend, Mieko. Votes: 0

I'm writing a first draft and reminding myself that I'm simply shoveling sand into a box so that later I can build castles. Votes: 0

I tried to convey to the boy how people's lives are often altered by curved lines read slowly from paper, sand, or stone. Votes: 0

Genuine morality is preserved only in the school of adversity; a state of continuous prosperity may easily prove a quick sand to virtue Votes: 0

... nature photographs downright bore me for some reason or other. I think: 'Oh, yes. Look at that sand dune. What of it?' Votes: 0

Unfortunately, the suit is so stiff, I can't do this with two hands, but I'm going to try a little sand-trap shot here. Votes: 0

As a handful of sand thrown into the ocean, so are the sins of all flesh as compared with the mind of God. Votes: 0

History is a child building a sand-castle by the sea, and that child is the whole majesty of man's power in the world. Votes: 0

Estate taxes make every one of us nervous. If there’s an owner who isn’t, he has his head in the sand. Votes: 0

Then I walked away, and I did not look back. I had written my troubles on the sand. The tide was coming in. Votes: 0

I guess with myself, I was probably the first woman to lift weights and do circuit training and to run the sand hills. Votes: 0

Come, for the House of Hope is built on sand: bring wine, for the fabric of life is as weak as the wind. Votes: 0

Come, for the House of Hope is built on sand: bring wine, for the fabric of life is as weak as the wind. Votes: 0

Writing anything, it sorta starts the way you'd build a castle at the beach. You're just taking your hands and you're mounting up sand. Votes: 0

.....the light you possess will burn to the great benefit of this world long after our poor footprints have been washed from the sand." Votes: 0

Put three grains of sand inside a vast cathedral, and the cathedral will be more closely packed with sand than space is with stars. Votes: 0

I grew, a happy, healthy child in a bright world of illustrated books, clean sand, orange trees, friendly dogs, sea vistas and smiling faces. Votes: 0

What! Get to heaven on your own strength? Why, you might as well try to climb to the moon on a rope of sand! Votes: 0

The total number of stars in the Universe is larger than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the planet Earth. Votes: 0

I have a superstition that if I talk about plot, it's like letting sand out of a hole in the bottom of a bag. Votes: 0

Life gets so ridiculous, you just have to brush it off like sand and laugh. I think the laughter is good medicine for crap-itis. Votes: 0

When a crow says an intelligent thing, chickens may laugh at it. This is the laughing of the sand castles at the powerful waves! Votes: 0

To be a rebel is not to be a revolutionary. It is more often by a way of spinning one's wheels deeper in sand. Votes: 0

The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind's eye only, fade out in sand. Votes: 0

Works? Works? A man get to heaven by works? I would as soon think of climbing to the moon on a rope of sand! Votes: 0

If lighthouse becomes a burning candle, flickered upon ocean's insanity.Your sailing heart there anchors to handle the obsessed breeze towards sand dune's vanity. Votes: 0

You must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will follow on that act. Votes: 0

I want to towel off, leave my heart on this beach and walk the sand into a lake of stars, while never looking back. Votes: 0

There is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing. Votes: 0

Hear this Robert Zimmerman, I wrote a song for you, about a strange young man called Dylan with a voice like sand and glue. Votes: 0

The man who stands firm in order to protect a sand-castle can never be relied upon; for he has given away his common sense. Votes: 0

The more we wait, the more everything and everyone looks like a grain of sand escaping between our fingers before vanishing into the wind. Votes: 0

I saw you dancing out the ocean Running fast along the sand A spirit born of earth and water Fire flying from your hands Votes: 0

The history of persecution is a history of endeavors to cheat nature, to make water run up hill, to twist a rope of sand. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

On Jesus' rock, my life abounds; all other floors are slippery grounds. His love for me, is mercy band; any other love is sinking sand. Votes: 0

as you come out of the sea, naked,and return to the world full of salt and sun,reverberating statue and sword of the sand. Votes: 0

Christ is the foundation of all our hopes for time and for eternity. Oh, build on this divine foundation! All other foundations are sinking sand. Votes: 0

Nothing erodes [a mother's love]. It is not sand on a beach. It is the nuclear heart of things-hard as the rock of this earth. Votes: 0

If you could touch the alien sand and hear the cries of strange birds, and watch them wheel in another sky, would that satisfy you? Votes: 0

There is only one way fit for a man -- Heroism, or Master-Morality, or Violence. All the other people in between are ploughing the sand. Votes: 0

Life is singing also in the sand crunching under the slow and heavy steps of the guards, when we know how to listen to it. Votes: 0

All the beaches of the world, could never amount to, nor implore the one grain of sand that I stand on, which is your love. Votes: 0

... politics are nothing but sand and gravel: it is art and life that feed us until we die. Everything else is ambition, hysteria or hatred. Votes: 0

A handful of red sand from the hot clime Of Arab deserts brought, Within this glass becomes the spy of Time, The minister of Thought. Votes: 0

One day you will hear the sound of time rustling as it slips through your fingers like sand. Remember me then. I wish you luck. Votes: 0

Life is a desert of shifting sand dunes. Unpredictable. Erratic. Harmony changes into dissonance, the immediate outlives the profound, esoteric becomes cliched. And vice versa. Votes: 0

A life without vows is like a ship without an anchor or like an edifice that is built on sand instead of a solid rock. Votes: 0

Like sand on the beach, the brain bears the footprints of the decisions we have made, the skills we have learned, the actions we have taken. Votes: 0

I have always loved the desert. One sits down on a desert sand dune, sees nothing, hears nothing. Yet through the silence something throbs, and gleams... Votes: 0

Just as the sand-dunes, heaped one upon another, hide each the first, so in life the former deeds are quickly hidden by those that follow after. Votes: 0

Amid this vast and overwhelming space and in these boundless solar archipelagoes, how small is our own sphere, and the earth, what a grain of sand! Votes: 0

In some pictures of Provincetown the persons of the inhabitants are not drawn below the ankles, so much being supposed to be buried in the sand. Votes: 0

You cannot build a dream on a foundation of sand. To weather the test of storms, it must be cemented in the heart with uncompromising conviction. Votes: 0

When you're making a psychological thriller, what you need to do is have an audience on shifting sand so they're never quite sure where they are. Votes: 0

Fanatics are like debris following the course of the wind, they are swept around like sand, and convinced to believe in what they do not understand. Votes: 0

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 truth. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The ephemeral nature of live performance is the part I love most - it's a monk's sand painting, carefully constructed, then wiped away in an instant. Votes: 0

Individually, every grain of sand brushing against my hands represents a story, an experience, and a block for me to build upon for the next generation. Votes: 0

To me there is something completely and satisfyingly restful in that stretch of sea and sand, sea and sand and sky - complete peace, complete fulfillment. Votes: 0

I didn't see painters doing paintings of glassware and glass shelves or sand dunes and receding snow fences. Why does that interest photographers and not artists? Votes: 0

Like the sand and the oyster, it's a creative irritant. In each poem, I'm trying to reveal a truth, so it can't have a fictional beginning. Votes: 0

I see an ocean that’s spilled out of a wineglass, its body clear and sparkling and folding over itself. I see a ribbon of sand. Votes: 0

When obedience is in the ascendant, He will tax the remotest star and the last grain of sand to assist you with all His Almighty power. Votes: 0

I had forgotten that time wasn't fixed like concrete but in fact was fluid as sand, or water. I had forgotten that even misery can end. Votes: 0

There is an old saying: if a man comes home with sand in his cuffs and cockleburs in his pants, don't ask him what he shot. Votes: 0

Every time a strong wind blows, every sand and dust yearns for being a solid rock and every solid rock longs for flying with the wind! Votes: 0

The night below. We two. Crystal of pain. You wept over great distances. My ache was a clutch of agonies over your sickly heart of sand. Votes: 0

The ramparts of Vienna are crumbling into the sand; no one wants to live so confined, however, the entire country is already surrounded by a Chinese wall! Votes: 0

Infinity is present in each part. A loving smile contains all art. The motes of starlight spark and dart. A grain of sand holds power and might. Votes: 0

My favorite colors come from the shades of local earth. Dig in the ground and you'll find so many layers of color-amazing yellows, sand, browns, black, beige. Votes: 0

The body is so easily damaged, so easily disposed of, water and chemicals is all it is, hardly more to it than a jellyfish drying on sand. Votes: 0

The ostrich burying its head in the sand does at any rate wish to convey the impression that its head is the most important part of it. Votes: 0

Everybody's life is either a warning or an example. You've got to decide what you're gonna be and you have to draw a line in the sand. Votes: 0

It is the simplest things in life that hold the most wonder; the color of the sea, the sand between your toes, the laughter of a child. Votes: 0

I sat down in the sand, breathless with shame and failure. God, I thought, some defender of the weak. Some freedom fighter: Joan of Arc in sunscreen. Votes: 0

My God, my GodMay there be no endTo the sea, to the sand,The splash of the water,The glow of the sky,The prayer of man Votes: 0

I forgive him and like water draining from the sand after a wave, the power he held over me disappears. A slow smile rises on my face. Votes: 0

In Aleppo we had the missile itself, and the material, and the sample from the sand, from the soil, and samples from the blood [of chemical weapons]. Votes: 0

We made love like two sand dollars in a vending machine. She said she wanted marriage and kids, and I said all I wanted was a soda. Votes: 0

A beach is not only a sweep of sand, but shells of sea creatures, the sea glass, the seaweed, the incongruous objects washed up by the ocean. Votes: 0

God does not call us to rest seven days a week with our head in the sand. He calls us to make an impact wherever we are. Votes: 0

Blue jean baby, LA lady, seamstress for the band. Pretty eyed, pirate smile, you'll marry a music man. Ballerina, you must have seen her dancing in the sand. Votes: 0

Oh, that river of wishes, the slippery crocodile dream of it, how it might have carried my body down through all the glittering sand bars to the sea. Votes: 0

Love is hanging out at the ocean, watching my wife and little girls play in the sand. I know, I threw up a little too, but it's true. Votes: 0

I want to be a simple bride when I get married. I want a beach wedding where I am running around on the sand in a white dress. Votes: 0

To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity in an hour." Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

You've slipped away like a fistful of sand. You've vanished so quickly like a wind. Do you know how I long to hold you love of my life. Votes: 0

Whisper to the flashing water your real name, write your signature in the sand, and shout your identity to the sky until it answers to you in thunder. Votes: 0

In fierce March weather White waves break tether, And whirled together At either hand, Like weeds uplifted, The tree-trunks rifted In spars are drifted, Like foam or sand. Votes: 0

Who then can calculate the path of the molecule? how do we know that the creations of worlds are not determined by the fall of grains of sand? Votes: 0

You know the words from the Bible: 'Build not on sand, but on rock....' Tyrant leaders respect only firmness...and laugh at persons who give in to them. Votes: 0

History is not going to look kindly on us if we just keep our head in the sand on armed autonomous robotics issue because it sounds too science fiction. Votes: 0

The temptation is not here, where you are reading about it or praying about it. It is down in your shop, among bales and boxes, ten-penny nails, and sand-paper. Votes: 0

If you want to unleash more creativity in your company, you need to allow for a little contamination. It is the sand in the oyster that creates the pearl. Votes: 0

If you're soft and fuzzy, like our little characters, you become the skinny kid on the beach, and people in this business don't mind kicking sand in your face. Votes: 0

I am thinking of our family's womenas faraway bulbs, their historywith crippling loss, and how I am pieced together, shell and sand,from the spine of their collective strength. Votes: 0

If it (the good circumstances) changes will you be able to keep onto your happiness just as much? Because if not then your happiness is really built on sand. Votes: 0

She was sleeping in a quiet bedroom beside her brother, separated only by glass and sand from the young man she loved, a young man who loved her back Votes: 0

Were you lying?" "I never lie," he said piously. "About what?" "The sand, the snake." For a young man who never lied, he seemed surprisingly unoffended by the question. Votes: 0

By the way, did you ever realize that if Moses would have turned right instead of left, we'd have had the oil, the Arabs would have had the sand? Votes: 0

Sugar and sand may be mixed together, but the ant rejects the sand and goes off with the sugar grain; so pious men lift the good from the bad. Votes: 0

The sand stretched out gray and ghostlike and illuminated, a column of light leading forward. It was like something a dead person would see, a tunnel leading toward heaven. Votes: 0

Ill paddle board, swim in the ocean, roll in the sand, soak up the sun, eat good food, be with friends and family and go fishing with my dad. Votes: 0

I love being in Malibu. It's so cool there, and the water is just, it's nice and, and I love the beach. And I found a sand dollar there. Votes: 0

The difference between a sand trap and water hazard is the difference between a car crash and an airplane crash. You have a chance of recovering from a car crash. Votes: 0

As a camel beareth labor, and heat, and hunger, and thirst, through deserts of sand, and fainteth not; so the fortitude of a man shall sustain him through all perils. Votes: 0

The wretched Artist himself is alternatively the lowest worm that ever crawled when no fire is in him; or the loftiest God that ever sand when the fire is going. Votes: 0

I got a nice nine-month vacation living on the beach collecting sand dollars, and I really got to reflect and realize that in entertainment, you can definitely go too far. Votes: 0

I am convinced, by repeated observation, that marbles, lime-stones, chalks, marls, clays, sand, and almost all terrestrial substances, wherever situated, are full of shells and other spoils of the ocean. Votes: 0

By virtue of the Deity thought renews itself inexhaustibly every day and the thing whereon it shines, though it were dust and sand, is a new subject with countless relations. Votes: 0

And the wind blows, the dust clouds darken the desert blue, pale sand and red dust drift across the asphalt trails and tumbleweeds fill the arroyos. Good-bye, come again. (p. 34) Votes: 0

I don't know, there's something about you. Say there's an hourglass: the sand's about to run out. Someone like you can always be counted on to turn the thing over. Votes: 0

Some little pieces of sand are so full of ego that they see themselves as a giant rock! But then the wind blows, the big ego flies in the air! Votes: 0

As soon as the seal was clear of the water, it reared up and its skin slipped down to the sand. What had been a seal was a white-skinned boy Votes: 0

I was on a beach in Hawaii for a video shoot once, and it was incredibly beautiful. It had very fine black sand with a silver sparkle running through it. Votes: 0

To build your house on the rock is to hear what Jesus says and obey. To be foolish and build your house on the sand is to hear and ignore. Votes: 0

If you want to build a car, you don't slap a bunch of iron ore, some sand, a rubber tree, and a couple of cows together and call it good Votes: 0

I have better use for my brain than to poison it with alcohol. To put alcohol in the human brain is like putting sand in the bearings of an engine. Votes: 0

Let me go on sleeping and I will lose myself in palaces of sand, and all the fantasies that I've been keeping will make the empty hours easier to stand. Votes: 0

She is mine own, And I as rich in having such a jewel As twenty seas, if all their sand were pearl, The water nectar, and the rocks pure gold. Votes: 0

Precept is instruction written in the sand; the tide flows over it and the record is gone; example is graven on the rock, and the lesson is not soon lost. Votes: 0

The challenges surrounding HIV and AIDS are getting more complex and mature, and we just can't stick our heads in the sand and say 'it can't happen to me.' Votes: 0

A thousand years ago five minutes wereEqual to forty ounces of fine sand.Outstare the stars. Infinite foretime andInfinite aftertime: above your headThey close like giant wings, and you are dead. Votes: 0

I'll never forget the modelling shoot I did in the Bahamas on a pink sand beach at Harbour Island. It felt like I'd just landed in paradise; it was so beautiful. Votes: 0

After I've sent my revised draft to my agent and editor, they suggest more improvement sand again, this revision phase can take anywhere from a few hours to a few months. Votes: 0

Like an old gold-panning prospector, you must resign yourself to digging up a lot of sand from which you will later patiently wash out a few minute particles of gold ore. Votes: 0

After Ive sent my revised draft to my agent and editor, they suggest more improvement sand again, this revision phase can take anywhere from a few hours to a few months. Votes: 0

I used to dream of a week-long beach vacation with white sand under my toes... right now, I'd settle for 48 hours at a Motel 6 with some Lysol and a UV lamp. Votes: 0

Many do with opportunities as children do at the seashore; they fill their little hands with sand, and then let the grains fall through, one by one, till all are gone. Votes: 0

Looks like a sand pile my kids have been playing in for a long time - it's all beat up - no definition - just a lot of bumps and holes. Votes: 0

I have always had, as I know many people have, a singular passion for Australia. I do love the sunburnt country, its ancient landscapes, its exhilarating reaches of sand and sea. Votes: 0

Death is just the moment that your hourglass runs out of sand. That's it. It happens to everyone eventually. All any of us gets to decide is where the sand falls. Votes: 0

it was possible to grow up in an instant, that you could look down and see the line in the sand dividing your life now from what it used to be. Votes: 0

People don't settle for people. They resolve to be with them. It takes faith. You draw a circle in the sand and agree to stand in it and believe in it. Votes: 0

There lived a singer in France of old By the tideless dolorous midland sea. In a land of sand and rain and gold There shone one woman, and none but she. Votes: 0

The other one was filled with loud and obnoxious tourists. Always boasting on winning a sand castle competition and seeing who could get tanned first. What a whacky bunch of people. Votes: 0

At the museum a troubled woman destroys a sand painting meticulously created over days by Tibetan monks. The monks are not disturbed. The work is a meditation. They simply begin again. Votes: 0

It's a good thing to have all the props pulled out from under us occasionally. It gives us some sense of what is rock under our feet, and what is sand. Votes: 0

You may say what you want to, but in my opinion she had more sand in her than any girl I ever see; in my opinion she was just full of sand. Votes: 0

To teach a child an instrument without first giving him preparatory training and without developing singing, reading and dictating to the highest level along with the playing is to build upon sand. Votes: 0

It's amazing how the things you remember forever are the things you'd rather forget and the things you desperately want to grasp onto seem to slip away like sand in the wind. Votes: 0

Across the years I will walk with you -in deep green forests; on shores of sand:and when our time on earth is through,in heaven, too, you will have my hand Votes: 0

Time has not stood still. It has washed over me, washed me away, as if I'm nothing more than a woman of sand, left by a careless child too near the water. Votes: 0

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone. Votes: 0

There is but one fountain of comfort for a man drawing near to his end, and that is the Bible. ...All comfort from any other source is a house built upon sand. Votes: 0

Failure is a state of mind. It's like one of those sand traps an ant lion digs. You keep sliding back. Takes one hell of a jump to get out of it. Votes: 0

The Shell The sea fills my ear with sand and with fear. You may wash out the sand, but never the sound of the ghost of the sea that is haunting me. Votes: 0

Globalization has taken a hit in that there is some sand in the gears because most of us have supply chains that are all over the world that we've had to lengthen. Votes: 0

Everything comes home, my mother used to say; every word spoken, every shadow cast, every footprint in the sand. It can't be helped; it's part of what makes us who we are. Votes: 0

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 low sky, and the tide was way out. Votes: 0

How many cowards whose hearts are all as false As stairs of sand, wear yet upon their chins The beards of Hercules and frowning Mars, Who inward searched, have livers white as milk! Votes: 0

Is there anybody listening? Is there anyone who sees what's going on? Read between the lines, criticize the words they're selling. Think for yourself, and feel the walls become sand beneath your feet. Votes: 0

We're all making castles in the sand, wonderful tapestries, an exquisite corpse. But is it meaningful? No. It's dogs barking. It doesn't mean anything beyond our yelping, at the pain of being alive. Votes: 0

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 carbon monoxide choking the rest of the continent. Votes: 0

Writing on the beach is not what it's cracked up to be. The sand blows, and you perspire, and the page gets all blotty and messed up, so I don't do that anymore. Votes: 0

The footprint of the savage traced in the sand is sufficient to attest the presence of man to the atheist who will not recognize God, whose hand is impressed upon the entire universe. Votes: 0

We are, always, reminded of the old saw: What would happen if the Soviet Union took over the Sahara Desert? Answer: Nothing for 50 years. After that there would be a shortage of sand. Votes: 0

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 half fathom water, 2 miles from the shore, clean sand. Votes: 0

A polarizing mission statement forces the reader to choose between two sides of a line drawn in the sand. Rare is the business owner who has the courage to craft such a statement. Votes: 0

Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe. Votes: 0

To shift a few grains of sand is no more a sign of great strength than to see the sun a sign of great sight. There is no glory in dominating the weak. Votes: 0

As my father [Javāharlāl Nehrū] said, you have to keep an open mind, but you have to pour something into it - otherwise ideas slip away like sand between your fingers. Votes: 0

What happens in the music business is that if you step out of your little spot to do something else, the sand falls right into where you stood and you're gone, you're history. Votes: 0

I dreamt we walked together along the shore. We made satisfying small talk and laughed. This morning I found sand in my shoe and a seashell in my pocket. Was I only dreaming? Votes: 0

The liveness in me just loves to feel the liveness in growing things, in grass and rain and leaves and flowers and sun and feathers and furs and earth and sand and moss. Votes: 0

Julia looked back at Hadassah on the bloodstained sand. A great emptiness opened within her as she looked at the still form. Gone, too, was the salt that had kept her from completely corruption. Votes: 0

There is nothing but God, nothing but the Goddess, nothing but Spirit in all directions, and not a grain of sand, not a speck of dust, is more or less Spirit than any other. Votes: 0

Unlike a child in a totally urban environment, my friends and peer group were not only other children, but also wild and domesticated animals, plants of every sort, brooks and waterfalls, rocks and sand. Votes: 0

If you took all the sand from all the beaches, all the desserts, and all the oceans and called that the Universe, our whole solar system would be less than one grain of sand. Votes: 0

When with care we have raised an imaginary treasure of happiness, we find at last that the materials of the structure are frail and perishing, and the foundation itself is laid in the sand. Votes: 0

El Capitan is the most chapping environment in the world: windy, cold, super dry. I wake up twice a night and reapply lotion to my hands. We sand our fingertips to keep them smooth. Votes: 0

A society in which consumption has to be artificially stimulated in order to keep production going is a society founded on trash and waste, for such a society is a house built upon sand. Votes: 0

Most people lose sight that they are less than a grain of sand in the grand scheme. More see themselves as the entire beach. Many fail to see the expansive desert that surrounds it! Votes: 0

You must not lose confidence in God because you lost confidence in your pastor. If our confidence in God had to depend upon our confidence in any human person, we would be on shifting sand. Votes: 0

You must reach inside yourselves where I live like a story, not old, not young laughing at my own sorrow, weeping pearls at weddings, wielding a torch to melt sand into something clear and bright. Votes: 0

The sun was bobbing on the horizon, just peeking over. Its light shimmered on the sand behind you, making your body look like it was glowing … like it had a kind of aura. Votes: 0

I saw the long line of the vacant shore, The sea-weed and the shells upon the sand, And the brown rocks left bare on every hand, As if the ebbing tide would flow no more. Votes: 0

We can imagine how to create and be creative on a beach in a cosmic sky. No grain of sand is merely just sandy; with imagination at hand the sand can become whatever you fancy. Votes: 0

Beneath the light, the river and hills are beautiful, The spring breeze bears the fragrance of flowers and grass. The mud has thawed, and swallows fly around. On the warm sand, mandarin ducks are sleeping. Votes: 0

Like those great sphinxes lounging through eternity in noble attitudes upon the desert sand, they gaze incuriously at nothing, calm and wise. Votes: -1

Many people find bald, unvarnished truths so disturbing, they prefer to ram their heads in the sand and start dreaming at the first sign of scientific reality. Votes: -1