Sand Quotes - Page 39

• The 4th sort of creatures... which moved through the 3 former sorts, were incredibly small, and so small in my eye that I judged, that if 100 of them lay [stretched out] one by another, they would not equal the length of a grain of course Sand; and according to this estimate, ten hundred thousand of them could not equal the dimensions of a grain of such course Sand. There was discover'd by me a fifth sort, which had near the thickness of the former, but they were almost twice as long.
  The first time bacteria were observed.

  Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

  Eye, Science, Long

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• But, in truth, the existing premises, wholly altered by geologic science, are no longer those of Hume. The footprint on the sand — to refer to his happy illustration — does not now stand alone. Instead of one, we see many footprints, each in turn in advance of the print behind it, and on a higher level.

  Hugh Miller

  Science, Illustration, Feet

  "The Testimony of the Rocks: Or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed".

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• We would labor earnestly to raise a believer in salvation by free will into a believer in salvation by grace, for we long to see all religious teaching built upon the solid rock of truth and not upon the sand of imagination. At the same time, our grand object is not the revision of opinions, but the regeneration of natures. We should bring men to Christ, not to our own particular views of Christianity.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Religious, Teaching, Men

  Charles Spurgeon (2015). “Select Works”, p.116, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Distrust even Mathematics; albeit so sublime and highly perfected, we have here a machine of such delicacy it can only work in vacuo, and one grain of sand in the wheels is enough to put everything out of gear. One shudders to think to what disaster such a grain of sand may bring a Mathematical brain. Remember Pascal.

  Anatole France

  Science, Thinking, Sublime

  Anatole France (1920). “The garden of Epicurus”

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• Nothing erodes [a mother's love]. It is not sand on a beach. It is the nuclear heart of things-hard as the rock of this earth.

  Beth Kephart

  Mother, Beach, Heart

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• Works? Works? A man get to heaven by works? I would as soon think of climbing to the moon on a rope of sand!

  George Whitefield

  Moon, Men, Thinking

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• Waste not the smallest thing created, for grains of sand make mountains, and atomies infinity.

  Eric Knight

  Earth Day, Mountain, Environmental

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• I got a burlap sack, put a brick in the middle, and filled it with rags, corncobs, some Spanish moss, and sand. I hung that sack off the branch of an oak tree. I'd wrap my hands with a necktie of my daddy's and punch at it. My mom gave me an hour a day. My brothers and sisters said, "Nah." I said, "You'll see."

  Joe Frazier

  Mom, Brother, Hands

  "Joe Frazier: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. November 7, 2011.

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• With the right attitude, human beings can move mountains. With the wrong attitude, they can be crushed by the smallest grain of sand.

  Jim Rohn

  Attitude, Moving, Mountain

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• Sleep is a daily reminder from God that we are not God. Once a day God sends us to bed like patients with a sickness. The sickness is a chronic tendency to think we are in control and that our work is indispensable. To cure us of this disease God turns us into helpless sacks of sand once a day.

  John Piper

  Sleep, Thinking, Bed

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• People sometimes accuse me of knowing a lot. "Stephen," they say, accusingly, "you know a lot." This is a bit like telling a person who has a few grains of sand clinging to him that he owns much sand. When you consider the vast amount of sand there is in the world such a person is, to all intents and purposes, sandless. We are all sandless. We are all ignorant. There are beaches and deserts and dunes of knowledge whose existance we have never even guessed at, let alone visited.

  Stephen Fry

  Beach, Knowing, People

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• I can't seem to keep my heart from leaking out of the cracks, like sand clutched in a fist.

  Kiersten White

  Heart, Cracks, Fists

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• My heart is sand and Orion's cruel tide has washed it away from me, scattered it, lost it.

  Kiersten White

  Heart, Orion, Tides

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• Madness is the WHO staring into the abyss and denying it is there. Madness is an ostrich who sticks her head in the sand while a pack of hyenas closes around her. - Lanky Man with green eyes

  Dan Brown

  Eye, Men, Ostriches

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• Why are we such tortured human beings, with tears in our eyes and false laughter on our lips? If you could walk alone among those hills or in the woods or along the long, white, bleached sands, in that solitude you would know what meditation is. The ecstasy of solitude comes when you are not frightened to be alone no longer belonging to the world or attached to anything. Then, like that dawn that came up this morning, it comes silently, and makes a golden path in the very stillness, which was at the beginning, which is now, and which will be always there.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Morning, Laughter, Eye

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• You were right, Hale. It was a bad job. It was a bad call. You were right to leave." "Kat..." Hale tried to reach for her, but even in the sand, Kat was quick and sure on her feet, and she moved nimbly away, leaving Hale with nothing but a fistful of salty air. "Thanks for coming back and helping me find her and all, but..." She looked at Gabrielle, who stood leaning against Simon, still bruised and almost broken. " I think I've got to take it from here.".... She was sure right up until the point when Hale said, "No.

  Ally Carter

  Jobs, Thinking, Air

  Ally Carter (2012). “Heist Society: Uncommon Criminals”, p.103, Hachette UK

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• It's only a world, after all, and they're just sand grains in the desert, worlds.

  Neil Gaiman

  Desert, World, Grain

  Neil Gaiman (2013). “The Ocean at the End of the Lane”, p.141, Hachette UK

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• When I write this in bed, I can almost hear the echo of the wind over the sand, or the groans of wooden panels around me. I can almost smell the dustiness of the camel, taste the bitterness of saltbush. And when I dream, your warm hands cover my shoulders. Your whispers carry stories and sound like the rustle of spinifex. I still wear that ring, you know... at night, when no one is watching.

  Lucy Christopher

  Dream, Writing, Night

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• Little drops of water, little grains of sand,
  Make the mighty ocean, and the pleasant land.
  So the little minutes, humble though they be,
  Make the mighty ages of eternity.

  Julia Abigail Fletcher Carney

  Time, Ocean, Humble

  Julia Abigail Fletcher Carney, “Little Things”

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• A handful of red sand from the hot clime
  Of Arab deserts brought,
  Within this glass becomes the spy of Time,
  The minister of Thought.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Time, Glasses, Spy

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Complete Edition”, p.135

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• We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die, because they are never going to be born. The number of people who could be here, in my place, out number the sand grains in the Sahara. If you think about all the different ways in which our genes could be permuted, you and I are quite grotesquely lucky to be here. The number of events that had to happen in order for you to exist, in order for me to exist... we are privileged to be alive and nd we should make the most of our time on this world.

  Richard Dawkins

  Inspirational, Thinking, Numbers

  Unweaving the Rainbow ch. 1 (1998)

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• The sands are number'd that make up my life;
  Here must I stay, and here my life must end.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Numbers, Ends

  William Shakespeare, William Harness, William Gilmore Simms (1842). “The Complete Works of William Shakspeare”, p.501

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• Let us be banded together as one man; let us contend earnestly for the faith once delivered to the saints; let us pray with fervour, let us live in holiness, let us preach constantly, and preach with fire, and let us so live, that we may impress our age, and leave our footprints on the sands of time.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Wisdom, Men, Fire

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1874). “Flashes of thought; 1000 choice extr. from the works of C.H. Spurgeon”, p.511

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• Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

  Charles Dickens

  Change, Caring, Men

  Charles Dickens (1850). “The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit ... With a Frontispiece, from a Drawing by F. Stone”, p.180

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• Greatness exists like an ocean within you. Why do you want to act like a fish out of water, wriggling on the sand under the scorching sun? Look! The water is just one millimeter away! Jump in!

  Gurumayi Chidvilasananda

  Self Esteem, Ocean, Greatness

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