Sand Quotes

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.

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

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 heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity in an hour.

The question is: how bad do things have to get before you will do something about it? Where is your line in the sand? If you don't enforce the constitutional limitations on your government very soon, you are likely to find out what World War III will be like.

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

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.

Until they put that sand and dirt in my face I will not sit in church all day.

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

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.

It is such a cut throat industry where you get knocked down so much and get rejected so much. If you do not back yourself up, no one else is going to so you really need to learn to get up, shake the sand off your chest and keep going.

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

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

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

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.

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.

The house built on the sand may oftentimes be built higher, have more fair parapets and battlements, windows and ornaments, than that which is built upon the rock; yet all gifts and privileges equal not one grace.

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

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

We grew up listening to alternative music from the '90s, and there was no shame in being on a major label and still making the music you wanted to make. I feel like rap rock came around and drew a line in the sand, and everybody that was like me ran away from that and started making indie-rock.

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.'

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.

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.

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

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

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

The moon is essentially gray, no color. It looks like plaster of Paris, like dirty beach sand with lots of footprints in it.

And when we draw lines in the sand with regard to certain basic things that are vital to our interest and to the interest of democracy and our friends around the world, we have to be willing to back that up.

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.

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