Sand famous quotes

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

#Jobs #Bombshells #Sand

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.
-- Anne Lamott

#Fighter #Shame #Sand

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

#Writing #Names #Sand

Our doom is, to be sifted by the wind, heaped up, smoothed down like silly sands. We are less permanent than thought.
-- Basil Bunting

#Silly #Wind #Sand

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.
-- Caitlin Thomas

#Art #Fire #Sand

God is everywhere, in the smallest grain of sand.
-- Caspar David Friedrich

#Sand #Grains Of Sand #Grain

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

#Reeds #Sand #Divine

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

#World #Sand #Enough

The passing of armies and the passing of sands in the desert are one.
-- Cormac McCarthy

#Army #Desert #Sand

Adversity is only sand on your track to prevent you from skidding.
-- Croft M. Pentz

#Adversity #Track #Sand

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

#Nervous #Sand #Owners

How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them! If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee.
-- David

#Numbers #Sand #Should

A handful of sand is an anthology of the universe.
-- David McCord

#Sand #Anthology #Universe

It is one thing to do your dance on a beach and quite another to collaborate intimately with the sand.
-- Deborah Jowitt

#Dance #Beach #Sand

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

#Gold #Pearls #Sand

When your head is firmly in the sand, another part of your anatomy is fully exposed.
-- Don Feder

#Sand #Exposed #Anatomy

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.
-- Dorothy Bryant

#Gold #Digging #Sand

Building a godly life on the sand of scriptural illiteracy is impossible.
-- Edwin Louis Cole

#Godly #Impossible #Sand

Incredibly, almost every hotel I ever played in Vegas was blown up shortly afterward: The Dunes, The Sands, The Landmark, The Aladdin, The Frontier, The Hacienda, The Stardust - all were imploded.
-- Elayne Boosler

#Vegas #Stardust #Sand

Technically speaking, you can build anything out of sand; it doesn't mean you do it.
-- Eric Bana

#Mean #Sand

The sand murmurs that it wants to swallow everything.
-- Gao Xingjian

#Want #Sand

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

#Stones #Fossils #Sand

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.
-- Goswami Kriyananda

#Happiness #Able #Sand

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.
-- Haruki Murakami

#Running #Like You #Sand

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

#Running #Sand #Faster

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

#Shoes #Footprint #Sand

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

#Music #Sand #Kicks

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

#Beach #Knowledge #Sand

The Word of God is ROCK. All else is sand.
-- J. C. Ryle

#Rocks #Sand #Word Of God

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

#Important #Footprint #Sand

When the beginnings of self destruction enter the heart, it seems no bigger than a grain of sand.
-- John Cheever

#Heart #Self #Sand

Nothing like the road to rub all the sand out of your soul.
-- John Clellon Holmes

#Soul #Sand #Your Soul

Death has shaken out the sands of thy glass.
-- John Gardiner Calkins Brainard

#Glasses #Sand

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

#Dapper #Fairy #Sand

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

#Pearls #Sand #Best Work

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

#Stones #Sand

I am not a great French woman. George Sand, Marguerite Duras and Simone de Beauvoir are great French women.
-- Juliette Binoche

#Sand #Great French

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,
-- Kevin Spacey

#Technological Advancement #Shifting #Sand

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

#Sexy #Sweat #Sand

Well, actually, I do the voiceover for Quentin Sands.
-- Lawrence Taylor

#Sand #Wells #Quentin

Moonflowers blossom in the sand hills before dawn, just as I followed him.
-- Leslie Marmon Silko

#Dawn #Hills #Sand

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.
-- Mac Thornberry

#Limits #Sticks #Sand

Did no one tell him that pain lives in this sand, dug in and watered with our blood?
-- Maggie Stiefvater

#Pain #Blood #Sand

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.
-- Marcus Luttrell

#Water #Speed #Sand

I was sand, I was snow—written on, rewritten, smoothed over.
-- Margaret Atwood

#Snow #Sand

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

#Time #Sand #Without A Trace

Don't stop doing what you love. Don't let your future be ruined by a bunch of loony sand monkeys.
-- Megan McCafferty

#Doing What You Love #Monkeys #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.
-- Michael Greger

#Animal #Risk #Sand

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.
-- Pablo Picasso

#Running #Gone #Sand

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

#Castles #Hell #Sand

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

#Stones #Sand #Easier

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

#Acting #Pearls #Sand

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

#House #Firsts #Sand

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

#Might #World #Sand

Hulkamania is like a single grain of sand in the Sahara desert that is Macho Madness.
-- Randy Savage

#Sahara Desert #Madness #Sand

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.
-- Rick Perry

#Oil #Canada #Sand

Writers begin with a grain of sand, and then create a beach.
-- Robert Black

#Beach #Ocean #Sand

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.
-- Robert Stuart MacArthur

#Foundation #Sand #Christ

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.
-- Robert Wise

#Pebbles #Film #Sand

Time slips through our hands like grains of sand, never to return again.
-- Robin Sharma

#Hands #Return #Sand

Most newspaper companies still have their heads in the sand, but other media companies are aggressive.
-- Rupert Murdoch

#Media #Sand #Newspapers

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

#Sand #Complacent

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

#Texas #Water #Sand

I was signed to MGM. I was in Vegas for sixteen weeks at the Sands Hotel.
-- Solomon Burke

#Las Vegas #Sixteen #Sand

How massively the mountains stand, while low to the ground the sand blows. The sand blows on and on. And then there are no mountains, none at all, the sand has kissed and whispered them away. And still, the sand blows on.
-- Tanith Lee

#Blow #Mountain #Sand

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?
-- Thomas Bailey Aldrich

#Sand #Ends #All The Best

It is impossible to stand upright when one plants his roots in the shifting sands of popular opinion and approval.
-- Thomas S. Monson

#Opinion #Impossible #Sand

I danced along a colored wind/ Dangled from a rope of sand
-- Tom Waits

#Wind #Rope #Sand

You change or you hide your head in the sand.
-- Tony Gilroy

#Sand

Burying your head in the sand does not make you invisible it only leads to suffocation.
-- Wayne Gerard Trotman

#Doe #Sand #Invisible

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

#Blow #Wind #Sand

Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
-- Wislawa Szymborska

#Lasts #Scratches #Sand

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.
-- Alex O'Loughlin

#Cutting #Needs #Sand

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

#Ostriches #Sand #Feels

I will not be a common man. I will stir the smooth sands of monotony.
-- Peter O'Toole

#Men #Common #Sand

Most Americans have their head in the sand about evolution.
-- Rafael Cruz

#Evolution #Sand

I always believe you have to show the symbolism of a civilization, whether it be the cave drawings or somebody drawing in the sand in Darfur to show a massacre.
-- Stanley Greene

#Believe #Sand #Always Believe

Putting our heads in the sand is not a wise strategy.
-- Steven Petrow

#Wise #Sand #Strategy

The magic of property turns sand to gold.
-- Arthur Young

#Magic #Gold #Sand

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.
-- Rosanne Cash

#Ephemeral #Painting #Sand