Sand Quotes - Page 31

• On these sands and in the clefts of the rocks, in the depths of the sea, in the creaking of the pines, you'll spy secret footprints and catch far-off voices from the homecoming celebration. This land still longs for Odysseus.

  Homer

  Home, Rocks, Sea

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• Come, for the House of Hope is built on sand: bring wine, for the fabric of life is as weak as the wind.

  Hafez

  Hope, Wine, Fabric Of Life

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• Who are the happiest people on earth? A craftsman or artist whistling over a job well done. A little child building sand castles. A mother, after a busy day, bathing her baby. A doctor who has finished a difficult and dangerous operation, and saved a human life. Happiness lies in a constructive job well done. Get your happiness out of your work or you will never know what happiness is.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Happiness, Mother, Baby

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• There are few gardens that can be left alone. A few years of neglect and only the skeleton of a garden can be traced. . . . Japanese artists working with a few stones and sand four hundred years ago achieved strangely lasting compositions. However there, too, but for the hands that have piously raked the white sand into patterns and controlled the spread of moss and lichens, little would remain.

  Russell Page

  Garden, Artist, Skeletons

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• There is nothing but God, nothing but the Goddess, nothing but Spirit in all directions, and not a grain of sand, not a speck of dust, is more or less Spirit than any other.

  Ken Wilber

  Spiritual, Dust, Goddess

  Ken Wilber (1998). “The Eye of Spirit: An Integral Vision for a World Gone Slightly Mad”, Shambhala Publications

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• One summer day, while I was walking along the country road on the farm where I was born, a section of the stone wall opposite me, and not more than three or four yards distant, suddenly fell down. Amid the general stillness and immobility about me the effect was quite startling. ... It was the sudden summing up of half a century or more of atomic changes in the material of the wall. A grain or two of sand yielded to the pressure of long years, and gravity did the rest.

  John Burroughs

  Summer, Country, Wall

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• Hollywood's like Egypt, full of crumbled pyramids. It'll never come back. It'll just keep on crumbling until finally the wind blows the last studio prop across the sands.

  David O. Selznick

  Blow, Wind, Pyramids

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• Male bashing is everywhere. It would be a mistake to view the current situation as another skirmish in the war between the sexes. Women have been doing the shooting, and men have been burying their heads in the sand, hoping the bullets will miss.

  Warren Farrell

  Sex, War, Mistake

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• Fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but the storm adjusts. Over and over you play this out, like some ominous dance with death just before dawn. Why? Because this storm isn't something that blew in from far away, something that has nothing to do with you. This storm is you. Something inside of you. So all you can do is give in to it, step right inside the storm, closing your eyes and plugging up your ears so the sand doesn't get in, and walk through it, step by step.

  Haruki Murakami

  Eye, Fate, Play

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Mar 11, 2012

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

  Eric Bana

  Mean

  "Eric Bana talks Love the Beast - RT Interview". Interview with Joe Utichi, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. November 16, 2009.

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• I like to run on the beach. It's a different exercise as well when you're in sand, a different kind of training.

  Charlie Bewley

  Running, Beach, Exercise

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• All summer long we spent dancin' in the sand, and the jukebox kept on playing Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.

  Johnny Ramistella

  Summer, Lonely, Heart

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• Beatle bones and smokin' stones the dry sands fall.

  Don Van Vliet

  Fall, Dry, Stones

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• I am hanging in the balance of a perfect finished plan, like every sparrow falling, like every grain of sand.

  Bob Dylan

  Inspirational, Fall, Perfect

  Bob Dylan (2013). “Lyrics:1962-2012”, p.635, Simon and Schuster

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• Maybe roll in the sand with a rock and roll man.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Men, Rocks, Rock And Roll

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• Pretty Polynesian baby over the sea, I remember the night, when we walked in the sands of Waikiki and I held you oh so tight.

  Ricky Nelson

  Baby, Night, Sea

  Song: Travelin' Man

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• Hear this Robert Zimmerman, I wrote a song for you, about a strange young man called Dylan with a voice like sand and glue.

  David Bowie

  Song, Men, Voice

  Song: Song For Bob Dylan, Album: Hunky Dory, 1971

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• Infinity is present in each part. A loving smile contains all art. The motes of starlight spark and dart. A grain of sand holds power and might.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Inspiring, Art, Thoughtful

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• Blue jean baby, LA lady, seamstress for the band. Pretty eyed, pirate smile, you'll marry a music man. Ballerina, you must have seen her dancing in the sand.

  Elton John

  Baby, Men, Blue

  Song: Tiny Dancer

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• The Keystone XL project has built strong safety measures into its design with the newest technology. Additionally, 80 percent of the new Canadian oil sands are being developed 'in situ,' meaning, it has a similar carbon footprint and emissions as conventional oil wells.

  John Hoeven

  Strong, Technology, Carbon Footprint

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• Let me go on sleeping and I will lose myself in palaces of sand, and all the fantasies that I've been keeping will make the empty hours easier to stand.

  Billy Joel

  Philosophy, Sleep, Goes On

  Song: Everybody Has A Dream, Album: The Stranger

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• 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, Results

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• Like so many other kids with special needs, I have been bullied. Kids in elementary school made me eat sand, and those same boys would walk behind me, teasing me. Finally I had enough, and I told them to grow up.

  Lauren Potter

  Growing Up, School, Kids

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• There's always a place for the angry young man with his fist in the air and his head in the sand. He's never been able to learn from mistakes, he can't understand why his heart always breaks.

  Billy Joel

  Education, Mistake, Heart

  Song: Angry Young Man

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• The Okavango Delta is an astonishing sight: the great Okavango River, rather than flow towards the sea, flows inland, into the sands of the Kalahari.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Sight, Sea, Rivers

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