Sand Quotes - Page 34

• There sighs, lamentations and loud wailings resounded through the starless air, so that at first it made me weep; strange tongues, horrible language, words of pain, tones of anger, voices loud and hoarse, and with these the sound of hands, made a tumult which is whirling through that air forever dark, and sand eddies in a whirlwind.

  Dante Alighieri

  Pain, Dark, Language Words

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• The last of the lonely places is the sky, a trackless void where nothing lives or grows, and above it, space itself. Man may have been destined to walk upon ice or sand, or climb the mountains or take craft upon the sea. But surely he was never meant to fly? But he does, and finding out how to do it was his last great adventure.

  Frederick Forsyth

  Lonely, Adventure, Men

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• There are flood and drought over the eyes and in the mouth, dead water and dead sand contending for the upper hand. The parched eviscerate soil gapes at the vanity of toil, laughs without mirth. This is the death of the earth.

  T. S. Eliot

  Death, Eye, Hands

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• The history of persecution is a history of endeavors to cheat nature, to make water run up hill, to twist a rope of sand.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Running, Nature, Water

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.37, 谷月社

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• Go for broke. Always try and do too much. Dispense with safety nets. Take a deep breath before you begin talking. Aim for the stars. Keep grinning. Be bloody-minded. Argue with the world. And never forget that writing is as close as we get to keeping a hold on the thousand and one things--childhood, certainties, cities, doubts, dreams, instants, phrases, parents, loves--that go on slipping , like sand, through our fingers.

  Salman Rushdie

  Dream, Stars, Writing

  Salman Rushdie, Michael Reder (2000). “Conversations with Salman Rushdie”, p.11, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• A ball will always come to rest halfway down a hill, unless there is sand or water at the bottom.

  Henry Beard

  Golf, Water, Balls

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• The house built on the sand may oftentimes be built higher, have more fair parapets and battlements, windows and ornaments, than that which is built upon the rock; yet all gifts and privileges equal not one grace.

  John Owen

  Rocks, House, Grace

  John Owen (1853). “The works ...”, p.654

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• Are you tired of sand being kicked in your face? I promise you new muscles in days!

  Charles Atlas

  Tired, Promise, Faces

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• Time slips through our hands like grains of sand, never to return again.

  Robin Sharma

  Hands, Return, Grain

  Robin Sharma (2003). “Leadership Wisdom From The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari”, p.95, Jaico Publishing House

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• There's a man in the world who is never turned down, whatever he chances to stray; he gets the glad hand in the populous town, or out where the farmers makes hay; he's greeted with pleasure on deserts of sand, and deep in the aisles of the woods; wherever he goes there's a welcoming hand-he's the man who delivers the goods.

  Walt Whitman

  Men, Hands, Desert

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• By virtue of the Deity thought renews itself inexhaustibly every day and the thing whereon it shines, though it were dust and sand, is a new subject with countless relations.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dust, Shining, Deities

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1848). “Essays, Orations and Lectures”

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• How thin and insecure is that little beach of white sand we call consciousness. I've always known that in my writing it is the dark troubled sea of which I know nothing, save its presence, that carried me. I've always felt that creating was a fearless and a timid, a despairing and hopeful, launching out into that unknown.

  Athol Fugard

  Beach, Writing, Dark

  Athol Fugard (1983). “Notebooks, 1960-1977”

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• I tried to convey to the boy how people's lives are often altered by curved lines read slowly from paper, sand, or stone.

  Simon Van Booy

  Boys, People, Paper

  Simon van Booy (2013). “The Illusion of Separateness”, p.24, Oneworld Publications

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• One disagreeable result of whispering is that it seems to evoke an atmosphere of silence, haunted by the ghosts of sound - strange cracks and tickings, the rustling of garments that have no substance in them, and the tread of dreadful feet that would leave no mark on the sea-sand or the winter snow.

  Charles Dickens

  Winter, Feet, Sea

  Charles Dickens (1853). “Bleak House”, p.318

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• Think about the holes children make when they dig in the sand on the seashore. When the waves come in, the holes are swallowed up by the ocean. Similarly, when we know Christ, our physical death is overwhelmed by the love and grace of God. Death is swallowed up in the victory of Christ.

  Billy Graham

  Children, Ocean, Thinking

  Billy Graham (2008). “Wisdom for Each Day”, p.102, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• If you want to build a car, you don't slap a bunch of iron ore, some sand, a rubber tree, and a couple of cows together and call it good

  Patricia C. Wrede

  Couple, Iron, Car

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• The Language of Sand has something for everyone: myths, mystery, community, humor, grief, and ultimately healing. I found myself not only rooting for Abigail but for the whole community of Chapel Isle. Block manages to hold sass and heartfelt emotion in perfect equilibrium.

  Brunonia Barry

  Block, Grief, Healing

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• The faculty for remembering is not diminished in proportion to what one has learnt, just as little as the number of moulds in which you cast sand lessens its capacity for being cast in new moulds.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Learning, Numbers, Littles

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Religion, a Dialogue, Etc: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.45, 谷月社

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• The atoms of Democritus
  And Newton's particles of light
  Are sands upon the Red Sea shore,
  Where Israel's tents do shine so bright.

  William Blake

  Light, Israel, Sea

  William Blake (2000). “The Selected Poems of William Blake”, p.108, Wordsworth Editions

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• I would like to bury
  all the hating eyes
  under the sand somewhere.

  Anne Sexton

  Hate, Eye

  Anne Sexton (1974). “The death notebooks”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• The real essence, the internal qualities, and constitution of even the meanest object, is hid from our view; something there is inevery drop of water, every grain of sand, which it is beyond the power of human understanding to fathom or comprehend. But it is evidentthat we are influenced by false principles to that degree as to mistrust our senses, and think we know nothing of those things which we perfectly comprehend.

  George Berkeley

  Real, Thinking, Views

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• Time keeps no measure when true friends are parted, No record day by day; the sands move not for those who, loyal-hearted, friendship's firm laws obey.

  Jack Nicholson

  Friendship, Loyalty, Time

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• The ramparts of Vienna are crumbling into the sand; no one wants to live so confined, however, the entire country is already surrounded by a Chinese wall!

  Franz Grillparzer

  Country, Wall, Chinese

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• To be a rebel is not to be a revolutionary. It is more often by a way of spinning one's wheels deeper in sand.

  Kate Millett

  Rebel, Way, Spinning

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• The Dream Lover-what a bold, insightful, and enticing novel. And how vigorously Elizabeth Berg brings us the iconoclastic life of George Sand. Berg writes with such intimacy and compassion that I think she must have some shared ancestral DNA with Sand. I savored every page.

  Frances Mayes

  Dream, Writing, Thinking

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