Sand Quotes - Page 20

• I wanted to create a kind of substance by means of brush-work. But that is the kind of discovery which one makes gradually... Thus it was that I subsequently began to introduce sand, sawdust and metal filings into my pictures.

  Georges Braque

  Mean, Discovery, Substance

  "Cahiers d'Art" by Dora Vallier, p. 76, 1954.

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• You must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will follow on that act.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Change, Evil, Decision

  A Wizard of Earthsea ch. 3 (1968)

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• In fierce March weather White waves break tether, And whirled together At either hand, Like weeds uplifted, The tree-trunks rifted In spars are drifted, Like foam or sand.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Weed, Hands, Weather

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)”, p.715, Delphi Classics

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• A nation that fails to plan intelligently for the development and protection of its precious waters will be condemned to wither because of its shortsightedness. The hard lessons of history are clear, written on the deserted sands and ruins of once proud civilizations.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Civilization, Water, Environmental

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1970). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1968-1969”, p.1131, Best Books on

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• Write in the sand the flaws of your friend.

  Pythagoras

  Friendship, Teaching, Writing

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• Every child should have mud pies, grasshoppers, water bugs, tadpoles, frogs, mud turtles, elderberries, wild strawberries, acorns, chestnuts, trees to climb. Brooks to wade, water lilies, woodchucks, bats, bees, butterflies, various animals to pet, hayfields, pine-cones, rocks to roll, sand, snakes, huckleberries and hornets; and any child who has been deprived of these has been deprived of the best part of education.

  Luther Burbank

  Children, Butterfly, Animal

  Luther Burbank (2000). “The Training of the Human Plant”, p.91, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• When all the scaffolding is removed it is our integrity that both defines us and identifies us. Men of integrity are like the Rock of Gibraltar - steadfast and immovable; men without it are like the shifting sands on the Sahara Desert - tossed to and fro by every variant wind of life.

  Tad R. Callister

  Integrity, Men, Rocks

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• We must dissent from the indifference. We must dissent from the apathy. We must dissent from the fear, the hatred and the mistrust. We must dissent from a nation that has buried its head in the sand, waiting in vain for the needs of its poor, its elderly, and its sick to disappear and just blow away. We must dissent from a government that has left its young without jobs, education or hope. We must dissent from the poverty of vision and the absence of moral leadership. We must dissent because America can do better, because America has no choice but to do better.

  Thurgood Marshall

  Jobs, Blow, America

  Thurgood Marshall, J. Clay Smith, Jr. (2003). “Supreme Justice: Speeches and Writings”, p.15, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• Your anger was a climate I inhabited like a desert in a dry frigid weather of high thin air and ivory sun, sand dunes the wind lifted into stinging clouds that blinded and choked me where the only ice was in the blood.

  Marge Piercy

  Blood, Ice, Wind

  1983 Stone, Paper, Knife,'TheWeight'.

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• How many mysteries have you seen in your lifetime? How many nets pulled full over the boat's side, each silver body ready or not falling into submission? How many roses in early summer uncurling above the pale sands then falling back in unfathomable willingness? And what can you say? Glory to the rose and the leaf, to the seed, to the silver fish. Glory to time and the wild fields, and to joy. And to grief's shock and torpor, its near swoon.

  Mary Oliver

  Summer, Grief, Fall

  Mary Oliver (2017). “Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver”, p.132, Penguin

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• Sometimes in June, when I see unearned dividends of dew hung on every lupine, I have doubts about the real poverty of the sands. On solvent farmlands lupines do not even grow, much less collect a daily rainbow of jewels.

  Aldo Leopold

  Real, Jewels, June

  Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.102, Oxford University Press, USA

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• When building sand castles on the beach, we can ignore the waves but should watch the tide.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Beach, Castles, Watches

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• After Ive sent my revised draft to my agent and editor, they suggest more improvement sand again, this revision phase can take anywhere from a few hours to a few months.

  Margaret Haddix

  Editors, Agents, Phases

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• Where is the subject that does not branch out into infinity? For every grain of sand is a mystery; so is every daisy in summer, and so is every snow-flake in winter. Both upwards and downwards, and all around us, science and speculation pass into mystery at last.

  William Mountford

  Summer, Winter, Branches

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 421), 1895.

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• I should like to take the wind and water and sand as a motif and work with them, but it has to be simplified in most cases to colour and force lines, just as music has done with sound.

  Arthur Dove

  Wind, Water, Done

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• Unlike a child in a totally urban environment, my friends and peer group were not only other children, but also wild and domesticated animals, plants of every sort, brooks and waterfalls, rocks and sand.

  Freeman Patterson

  Children, Animal, Rocks

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• Who will cry for the little boy, lost and all alone?
  Who will cry for the little boy, abandoned without his own?
  Who will cry for the little boy? He cried himself to sleep.
  Who will cry for the little boy? He never had for keeps.
  Who will cry for the little boy? He walked the burning sand.
  Who will cry for the little boy? The boy inside the man.
  Who will cry for the little boy? Who knows well hurt and pain.
  Who will cry for the little boy? He died and died again.
  Who will cry for the little boy? A good boy he tried to be.
  Who will cry for the little boy, who cries inside of me?

  Antwone Fisher

  Hurt, Pain, Sleep

  "Antwone Fisher". www.imdb.com. 2002.

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• Every time I look at it, It looks back at me I love the sea, its waters are blue And the sky is too And the sea is very dear to me If when I grow up and the sea is still there Then I’ll open my eyes and smell the fresh air Because the sea is very dear to me The sea is very calm and that’s why I like it there The sand is brand new and the wind blows in my hair And the sea is very dear to me.

  Esther Earl

  Growing Up, Eye, Blow

  Esther Earl, Lori Earl, Wayne Earl (2014). “This Star Won't Go Out: The Life and Words of Esther Grace Earl”, p.38, Penguin UK

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• Very few men acquire wealth in such a manner as to receive pleasure from it. Just as long as there is the enthusiasm of the chase they enjoy it; but when they begin to look around, and think of settling down, they find that that part by which joy enters is dead in them. They have spent their lives in heaping up colossal piles of treasure, which stand, at the end, like the pyramids in the desert sands, holding only the dust of kings.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Kings, Men, Thinking

  Henry Ward Beecher (1860). “Life thoughts”, p.144

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• If hemp could supply the energy needs of the United States, its value would be inestimable. Now that the drug czar is in final retreat, America has an opportunity to, once and for all, say farewell to the Exxon Valdez, Saddam Hussein and a prohibitively expensive brinkmanship in the desert sands of Saudi Arabia.

  Hugh Downs

  Farewell, Opportunity, America

  ABC News, November 1990.

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• Sand-strewn caverns, cool and deep, Where the winds are all asleep; Where the spent lights quiver and gleam; Where the salt weed sways in the stream.

  Matthew Arnold

  Weed, Light, Wind

  'The Forsaken Merman' (1849) l. 35

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• When I lie on the beach there naked, which I do sometimes, and I feel the wind coming over me and I see the stars up above and I am looking into this very deep, indescribable night, it is something that escapes my vocabulary to describe. Then I think: 'God, I have no importance. Whatever I do or don't do, or what anybody does, is not more important than the grains of sand that I am lying on, or the coconut that I am using for my pillow.' So I really don't think in the long sense.

  Marlon Brando

  Beach, Stars, Lying

  New York Times, July 2, 2004.

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• Our path to Palestine will not be covered with a red carpet or with yellow sand. Our path to Palestine will be covered with blood... In order that we may liberate Palestine, the Arab nation must unite, the Arab armies must unite, and a unified plan of action must be established.

  Gamal Abdel Nasser

  Army, Order, Yellow

  Gamal Abdel Nasser's re-election speech (1965) as quoted in Efraim Karsh "Islamic Imperialism: A History" (p. 162), 2006.

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• Plough not the seas, sow not the sands,Leave off your idle pain;Seek other mistress for your minds,Love's service is in vain.

  Robert Southwell

  Pain, Mind Love, Sea

  Robert Southwell (1856). “The poetical works of the rev. Robert Southwell, now first completely ed. by W. B. Turnbull”, p.65

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• Writing anything, it sorta starts the way you'd build a castle at the beach. You're just taking your hands and you're mounting up sand.

  Aaron Sorkin

  Beach, Writing, Hands

  "The West Wing/ Noël". Drama, Season 2, Episode 10, 2000.

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