Sand Quotes

Even Castles made of sand, fall into the sea, eventually. (Jimi Hendrix)
It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up. View quote
Muhammad Ali
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. View quote
George Eliot
To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hands, and eternity in an hour. View quote
William Blake
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand. View quote
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The sand murmurs that it wants to swallow everything. View quote
Gao Xingjian
Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped, but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment. View quote
Mark Twain
Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone. View quote
Jorge Luis Borges
Write in the sand the flaws of your friend. View quote
Pythagoras
I am not a great French woman. George Sand, Marguerite Duras and Simone de Beauvoir are great French women. View quote
Juliette Binoche
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. (Truman Capote)
The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it. View quote
Niccolò Machiavelli
When I was a little kid we had a sand box. It was a quicksand box. I was an only child... eventually. View quote
Steven Wright
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. View quote
Og Mandino
If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge. View quote
Napoleon Hill
America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand. View quote
Woodrow Wilson
Abstinence sows sand all over; The ruddy limbs flaming hair, But Desire Gratified; Plants fruits of life beauty there. View quote
William Blake
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. View quote
Erma Bombeck
Fresh pitsand, however, in spite of all its excellence in concrete structures, is not equally useful in stucco, the richness of which, when the lime and straw are mixed with such sand, will cause it to crack as it dries on account of the great strength of the mixture. But river sand, though useless in "signinum" on account of its thinness, becomes perfectly solid in stucco when thoroughly worked by means of polishing instruments. View quote
Vitruvius
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. View quote
Nadine Gordimer
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 shore, With the sun and the sand and the wild uproar. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
He ploughs the waves, sows the sand, and hopes to gather the wind in a net, who places his hopes on the heart of woman. View quote
Jacopo Sannazaro
Do I love you? My God, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches. View quote
William Goldman
But be careful; sand is already broken but glass breaks. The shoes are for dancing, not running away. View quote
Francesca Lia Block
I always say, if you keep your head in the sand, you don't know where the kick's coming from. View quote
Herbie Mann