Sands Quotes

While it is well enough to leave footprints on the sands of time, it is even more important to make sure they point in a commendable direction. (James Branch Cabell)
Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Happy. Just in my swim shorts, barefooted, wild-haired, in the red fire dark, singing, swigging wine, spitting, jumping, running -- that's the way to live. All alone and free in the soft sands of the beach.... View quote
Jack Kerouac
What could be more fascinating than discovering life that had evolved entirely independently of life here on Earth? Many people would also find it heartening to learn that we are not entirely alone in this vast cold cosmos. But I hope that our Mars probes will discover nothing. It would be good news if we find Mars to be completely sterile. Dead rocks and lifeless sands would lift my spirit. View quote
Nick Bostrom
Think naught a trifle, though it small appear Small sands the mountain, moments make the year, And trifles life. View quote
Edward Young
We, their hearts, become fearful just thinking of loved ones who go away forever, or of moments that could have been good but weren't, or of moments that could have been found but were forever hidden in the sands. View quote
Paulo Coelho
Plough not the seas, sow not the sands, Leave off your idle pain; Seek other mistress for your minds, Love's service is in vain. View quote
Robert Southwell
Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With silken lines, and silver hooks. View quote
John Donne
Now we can cross the Shifting Sands. View quote
L. Frank Baum
"The water in music the oar forsakes." The air in music the wing forsakes. All things move in music and write it. The mouse, lizard, and grasshopper sing together on the Turlock sands, sing with the morning stars. View quote
John Muir
Women have crucified the Mary Wollstonecrafts, the Fanny Wrights, and the George Sands of all ages. Men mock us with the fact and say we are ever cruel to each other... If this present woman must be crucified, let men drive the spikes. (Elizabeth Cady Stanton)
Surely in a matter of this kind we should endeavor to do something, that we may say that we have not lived in vain, that we may leave some impress of ourselves on the sands of time. View quote
Napoleon Bonaparte
It flows through old hushed Egypt and its sands, Like some grave mighty thought threading a dream, And times and things, as in that vision, seem Keeping along it their eternal stands. View quote
Leigh Hunt
For now is my grief heavier than the sands of the seas, she thought. This world has emptied me of all but the oldest purpose: tomorrow's life. View quote
Frank Herbert
Of course the sands of Present Time are running out from under our feet. And why not? The Great Conundrum: 'What are we here for?' is all that ever held us here in the first place. Fear. The answer to the Riddle of the Ages has actually been out in the street since the First Step in Space. Who runs may read but few people run fast enough. What are we here for? Does the great metaphysical nut revolve around that? Well, I'll crack it for you, right now. What are we here for? We are here to go! View quote
Brion Gysin
All the best sands of my life are somehow getting into the wrong end of the hourglass. If I could only reverse it! Were it in my power to do so, would I? View quote
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
For hundreds of millions of years, Sex was the most efficient method for propagating information of dubious provenance: the origins of all those snippets of junk DNA are lost in the sands of reproductive history. Move aside, Sex: the world-wide Web has usurped your role. View quote
Seth Lloyd
Sometimes in June, when I see unearned dividends of dew hung on every lupine, I have doubts about the real poverty of the sands. On solvent farmlands lupines do not even grow, much less collect a daily rainbow of jewels. View quote
Aldo Leopold
I will not be a common man. I will stir the smooth sands of monotony. View quote
Peter O'Toole
The world hid its head in the sands of convention, so that by seeing nothing it might avoid Truth. View quote
Radclyffe Hall
I was signed to MGM. I was in Vegas for sixteen weeks at the Sands Hotel. (Solomon Burke)
There's no question that tar sands in Canada are probably the largest source of oil available to the U.S. over a long period of time. There's as much oil in the tar sands probably as there is in Saudi Arabia. The problem is, there's a huge capital requirement to develop that. View quote
T. Boone Pickens
No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead. View quote
Van Wyck Brooks
The sea, unmated creature, tired and lone, Makes on its desolate sands eternal moan. View quote
Frederick William Faber
Don't think about what you've left behind, the alchemist said to the boy as they began to ride across the sands of the desert. "Everything is written in the Soul of the World, and there it will stay forever." View quote
Paulo Coelho