Sand Quotes

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

Our lives are but specks of dust falling through the fingers of time. Like sands of the hourglass, so are the days of our lives.

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

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

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

We have a definite but unknown quantity of experience at our disposal. As soon as the hourglass is turned, the sand will begin to run out and once it starts, it cannot stop until it's all gone.

Faith is to the human what sand is to the ostrich.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Those who consume animals not only harm those animals and endanger themselves, but they also threaten the well-being of other humans who currently or will later inhabit the planet. ... It is time for humans to remove their heads from the sand and recognize the risk to themselves that can arise from their maltreatment of other species.

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

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 sowould I?

The SEALs place a premium on brute strength, but there's an even bigger premium on speed. That's speed through the water, speed over the ground, and speed of thought. There's no prizes for gleaming a set of well-oiled muscles in Coronado. Bulk just makes you slow, especially in soft sand, and that's what we had to tackle every day of our lives, mile after mile.

Every barrel of oil that comes out of those sands in Canada is a barrel of oil that we don't have to buy from a foreign source.

If you would like to leave footprints in the sands of time, you had better wear work shoes.

I would like to bury all the hating eyes under the sand somewhere.

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

We write a subscript to our mortality. We make our lives tiny diamonds in the cosmic sands.

We have ...drawn a line in the sand.

We're ostriches and the whole world is sand.

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

The Word of God is ROCK. All else is sand.

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

Heaven is in a grain of sand.

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.

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

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

And to stick our head in the sand and pretend that we are somehow safer if we do not know or to pretend we are somehow safer if we limit our options seems to me not only foolish but actually dangerous.

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

The world hid its head in the sands of convention, so that by seeing nothing it might avoid Truth.

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.

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

On the tawny sands and shelves trip the pert fairies and the dapper elves.

God is everywhere, in the smallest grain of sand.

From a grain of sand in the Pearl comes.

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

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.

I will not be a common man. I will stir the smooth sands of monotony.

Well, actually, I do the voiceover for Quentin Sands.

The sands of time are quicksands ... so much can sink into them without a trace.

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

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

Studios and networks who ignore either shift - whether the increasing sophistication of storytelling, or the constantly shifting sands of technological advancement - will be left behind.

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

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

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

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.