Sand Quotes

The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river; and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future.

Put three grains of sand inside a vast cathedral, and the cathedral will be more closely packed with sand than space is with stars.

He ploughs the waves, sows the sand, and hopes to gather the wind in a net, who places his hopes in the heart of a woman.

On sand, you can never be sure of anything. An ordinary shot can take a wicked deflection at the last moment.

They dined on mince, and slices of quince, Which they ate with a runcible spoon; And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand, They danced by the light of the moon.

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

Pier Angeli was in the movie called Sea of Sand that Guy Green directed where this idea came up.

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

Please don't ask me to do that which I've just said I'm not going to do, because you're burning up time. The meter is running through the sand on you, and I am now filibustering.

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

If you're soft and fuzzy, like our little characters, you become the skinny kid on the beach, and people in this business don't mind kicking sand in your face.

It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.

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.

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 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.

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.

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.