Sand Quotes

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

  Henry David Thoreau

  Running, Faster, Fingers

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• At a certain point memory becomes a beach strewn with landmines, all life’s many losses buried in those sands.

  Thomas H. Cook

  Beach, Memories, Loss

  Thomas H. Cook (2012). “The Crime of Julian Wells”, p.23, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• When I was a little kid we had a sand box. It was a quicksand box. I was an only child... eventually.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Children, Humor

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• 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.

  Socrates

  Fall, Dust, Fingers

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• When people hurt you over and over, think of them like sand paper. They may scratch and hurt you a bit, but in the end, you end up polished and they end up useless.

  Chris Colfer

  Inspirational, Bullying, Hurt

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• I loved every minute of my childhood - sunbathing on the fire escape, digging for buried treasure in the back yard, pulling alewives out of the sand... Then it was all taken away from me. I came back every summer to visit my father until I was 18, but I was always the outsider.

  Jennifer Egan

  Summer, Father, Taken

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• Heaven is in a grain of sand.

  William Blake

  Heaven, Grains Of Sand, Grain

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  To see a world in a grain of sand
  And a heaven in a wild flower,
  Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
  And eternity in an hour.

  William Blake

  Inspirational, Happiness, Peace

  'Auguries of Innocence' (c.1803) l. 1

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

  Ivan Panin

  Beach, Knowledge, Grain

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• Time seems to me a drift, a shifting of sand. And my mind is shifting with it. I am wearing away.

  E. L. Doctorow

  Time, Mind, Shifting

  E.L. Doctorow (2009). “Homer & Langley: A Novel”, p.175, Random House

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• Hold infinity in the palm of your hand.

  William Blake

  Nature, Flower, Eternity Of Life

  'Auguries of Innocence' (c.1803) l. 1

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

  Margaret Atwood

  Time, Without A Trace, Quicksand

  Margaret Atwood (2014). “The MaddAddam Trilogy Bundle: The Year of the Flood; Oryx & Crake; MaddAddam”, p.571, Anchor

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

  Herbie Mann

  Music, Jazz, Kicks

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• The Winner is always part of the answer.
  The Loser is always part of the problem.
  The Winner always has a program.
  The Loser always has an excuse.
  The Winner says, "Let me do it for you."
  The Loser says, "That's not my job."
  The Winner sees an answer for every problem.
  The Loser sees a problem for every answer.
  The Winner sees a green near every sand trap
  The Loser sees two or three sand traps near every green.
  The Winner says, "It may be difficult but it's possible."
  The Loser says, "It might be possible but it's too difficult."
  Be a Winner.

  Vince Lombardi

  Jobs, Two, May

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

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Life, Positive, Birthday

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

  William Blake

  Blow, Wind, Back Again

  'MS Note-Book' p. 7

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• Write your Sad times in Sand,
  Write your Good times in Stone.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Sad, Encouragement, Writing

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• The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.

  George Sand

  Beauty, Eye, Soul

  George Sand (1871). “Handsome Lawrence: A Sequel to A Rolling Stone”, p.30

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• 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.

  John Donne

  Love, Cute, Anniversary

  'Songs and Sonnets' 'The Bait'

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

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Pain, Blood, Scorpio Races

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• Sugar and sand may be mixed together, but the ant rejects the sand and goes off with the sugar grain; so pious men lift the good from the bad.

  Ramakrishna

  Men, Together, May

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

  Robert W. Service

  Anger, Adversity, Climbing

  "Sand: The Never-ending Story". Book by Michael Welland, p. 30, 2009.

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• All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Love, Life, Friendship

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2013). “Poems of Ella Wheeler Wilcox: Passion”, p.9, eBookIt.com

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• I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.

  Og Mandino

  Purpose, Cry, Mercy

  Og Mandino (1991). “Og Mandino”, Outlet

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

  Don Feder

  War, Exposed, Anatomy

  "Why We Keep Getting Islam Wrong". www.israel-commentary.org. February 25, 2003.

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