Sand Quotes - Page 19

• The challenges surrounding HIV and AIDS are getting more complex and mature, and we just can't stick our heads in the sand and say 'it can't happen to me.'

  Brande Roderick

  Challenges, Hiv, Sticks

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• What happens in the music business is that if you step out of your little spot to do something else, the sand falls right into where you stood and you're gone, you're history.

  Nancy Sinatra

  Fall, Steps, Gone

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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, Easy

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

  Lawrence Taylor

  Wells, Quentin

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• Your existence is passing before you. Grains of sand in the hourglass. The Wicked Witch of the West has you in her castle and she's turned the hourglass over and the sand is running through. Will you be liberated or will you die? The only way you can beat death is liberation.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Running, Buddhism

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• I think we all look for clues that we are not utterly alone... Clues we find in literature and paintings and music and even someone’s eyes; clues that demonstrate that someone else has felt the same indescribable feelings, seen the same things or passed by the spot even if it was by candlelight three hundred years ago. It means everything, like finding footprints in the sand of a deserted island.

  Jonathan Hull

  Mean, Eye, Thinking

  Jonathan Hull (2001). “Losing Julia”, Island Books

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• People don't settle for people. They resolve to be with them. It takes faith. You draw a circle in the sand and agree to stand in it and believe in it.

  Zadie Smith

  Believe, Circles, People

  "Who needs a bit on the side?" by Geraldine Bedell, www.theguardian.com. February 9, 2003.

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• 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

  Ends, All The Best, Hourglass

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1970). “The Works of Thomas Bailey Aldrich: Ponkapog papers. A sea turn, and other matters”

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• We're ostriches and the whole world is sand.

  Jim Butcher

  Ostriches, World, Whole

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

  Ronald Dworkin

  Writing, Tiny, Mortality

  Ronald Dworkin (2011). “Justice for Hedgehogs”, p.437, Harvard University Press

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• The Bible talks about building houses on sand and rock, but says nothing about a brick house built on a blanket.

  Nicole McKay

  Rocks, Building Houses, Bricks

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• You have read very good books, I am sure; there is an excellent book however, that never grows old; it is the one that God has written on every plant, on every grain of sand, in yourself; it is the book of Divine love. Give, therefore, your preference to that beautiful book and add to it a few pages of admiration and gratefulness. Read and understand all other books in the light of this one.

  Peter Julian Eymard

  Beautiful, Faith, Inspiration

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• If you don't make the commitment today to start becoming the person you need to be to create the extraordinary life you really want, what makes you think that tomorrow - or next week, or next month, or next year - is going to be any different? They won't. And that's why you must draw your line in the sand TODAY.

  Hal Elrod

  Commitment, Thinking, Next Week

  FaceBook post by Hal Elrod from Dec 19, 2012

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• I leave to children exclusively, but only for the life of their childhood, all and every the dandelions of the fields and the daisies thereof, with the right to play among them freely, according to the custom of children, warning them at the same time against the thistles. And I devise to children the yellow shores of creeks and the golden sands beneath the water thereof, with the dragon flies that skim the surface of said waters, and and the odors of the willows that dip into said waters, and the white clouds that float on high above the giant trees.

  Williston Fish

  Children, Yellow, White

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• I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journeywork of the stars, And the pismire is equally perfect, and a grain of sand, and the egg of the wren, And the tree toad is a chef-d'oeurve for the highest, And the running blackberry would adorn the parlors of heaven, And the narrowest hinge in my hand puts to scorn all machinery, And the cow crunching with depress'd head surpasses any statue, And a mouse is miracle enough to stagger sextillions of infidels!

  Walt Whitman

  Running, Depressing, Stars

  Walt Whitman, “Song Of Myself, XXXI”

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• I have divers times examined the same matter (human semen) from a healthy man... not from a sick man... nor spoiled by keeping... for a long time and not liquefied after the lapse of some time... but immediately after ejaculation before six beats of the pulse had intervened; and I have seen so great a number of living animalcules... in it, that sometimes more than a thousand were moving about in an amount of material the size of a grain of sand... I saw this vast number of animalcules not all through the semen, but only in the liquid matter adhering to the thicker part.

  Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

  Moving, Science, Men

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• Genius has no taste for weaving sand.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Genius, Taste, Weaving

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.96, University of Georgia Press

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• Here's to our beloved George Washington, the Joshua of America, who commanded the sun and the moon to stand still - and they obeyed.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Moon, America, Sun

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• How many cowards whose hearts are all as false As stairs of sand, wear yet upon their chins The beards of Hercules and frowning Mars, Who inward searched, have livers white as milk!

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, White, Coward

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.1243, Oxford University Press

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• Nature makes the locust with an appetite for crops; man would have made him with an appetite for sand

  Mark Twain

  Men, Crops, Made

  Mark Twain (2015). “Following the Equator: "A Journey Around the World"”, p.297, eKitap Projesi

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• Philosophies fall away like sand, and creeds follow on another like the withered leaves of Autumn.

  Oscar Wilde

  Philosophy, Fall, Autumn

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “Essays and Lectures”, p.73, Xist Publishing

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• I saw the long line of the vacant shore, The sea-weed and the shells upon the sand, And the brown rocks left bare on every hand, As if the ebbing tide would flow no more.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Weed, Rocks, Hands

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.930, Delphi Classics

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• The tide rises, the tide falls, The twilight darkens, the curlew calls; The little waves, with their soft, white hands, Efface the footprints in the sands, And the tide rises, the tide falls.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Fall, Twilight, Hands

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.1039, Delphi Classics

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• To me there is something completely and satisfyingly restful in that stretch of sea and sand, sea and sand and sky - complete peace, complete fulfillment.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Peace, Sea, Sky

  ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH (1973). “BRING ME A UNICORN”

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• The spoken discourse may roll on strongly as the great tidal wave; but, like the wave, it dies at last feebly on the sands. It is heard by few, remembered by still fewer, and fades away, like an echo in the mountains, leaving no token of power. It is the written human speech, that gave power and permanence to human thought.

  Albert Pike

  Writing, Echoes, Leaving

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