Sand Quotes - Page 40

• It is one thing to do your dance on a beach and quite another to collaborate intimately with the sand.

  Deborah Jowitt

  Dance, Beach, Things To Do

  Deborah Jowitt (1985). “The Dance in Mind: Profiles and Reviews 1976-83”, Boston : D.R. Godine

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• Who soweth good seed shall surely reap; The year grows rich as it groweth old, And life's latest sands are its sands of gold!

  Julia Caroline Dorr

  Inspirational, Years, Age

  Julia Caroline Ripley Dorr (1879). “Friar Anselmo: And Other Poems”

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• I deserve to be happy and I think a lot of people stay in relationships for wrong reasons and instead of just looking at each other and just saying, 'you know, it's like sands of the hourglass, we learned our lessons, we can end in war or we can end in peace.'

  Jenny McCarthy

  Breakup, War, Thinking

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• Gentlemen, as sure as I'm sitting here now, the result of continuation of a non-system, the ostrich-like head-in-the-sand attitude, the constant rejection of any efforts to solve this problem, will produce an Armageddon in the American population in those states where there is a big problem.

  Dianne Feinstein

  Attitude, Ostriches, Rejection

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• So says the most ancient book of the Earth; thus it is written on its leaves of marble, lime, sand, slate, and clay: ... that our Earth has fashioned itself, from its chaos of substances and powers, through the animating warmth of the creative spirit, to a peculiar and original whole, by a series of preparatory revolutions, till at last the crown of its creation, the exquisite and tender creature man, was enabled to appear.

  Johann Gottfried Herder

  Book, Science, Men

  Johann Gottfried Herder (1800). “Outlines of a Philosophy of the History of Man”, p.259

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• Judy Miller is the most innocent person in this case. I really thought that was outrageous that she was jailed and we needed as journalists to draw a line in the sand in a strong but thoughtful way.

  Tom Brokaw

  Strong, Thoughtful, Innocent Person

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• Solid stone is just sand and water...Sand and water and a million years gone by.

  Beth Nielsen Chapman

  Years, Water, Stones

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• Any fool can turn a blind eye but who knows what the ostrich sees in the sand.

  Samuel Beckett

  Eye, Ostriches, Fool

  Samuel Beckett (2012). “Murphy”, p.115, Faber & Faber

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• Whenever God's will is in the ascendant all compulsion is gone. When we choose deliberately to obey Him then with all His almighty power.

  Oswald Chambers

  Stars, Lasts, Obedience

  "Run Today's Race: A Word from Oswald Chambers for Every Day of the Year".

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• That narrow stretch of sand knows nothing in the world better than it does the white waves that whip it , caress it , collapse on to it . The white foam knows nothing better than those sands which wait for it , rise to it and suck it in .but what do the waves know of the massed, hot, still sands of the desert just twenty , no , ten feet beyond the scalloped edge ? And what does the beach knows of depths, the cold, the currents just there, where-do you see it? - Where the water turns a deeper blue.

  Ahdaf Soueif

  Beach, Blue, White

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• That would be a glorious life, to addict oneself to perfection; to follow the curve of the sentence wherever it might lead, into deserts, under drifts of sand, regardless of lures, of seductions; to be poor always and unkempt; to be ridiculous in Piccadilly.

  Virginia Woolf

  Glorious Life, Curves, Perfection

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “The Waves”, p.63, Virginia Woolf

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• But you must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will follow on that act. The world is in balance, in Equilibrium. A wizard's power of Changing and Summoning can shake the balance of the world. It is dangerous, that power...It must follow knowledge, and serve need.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Evil, Balance, Needs

  A Wizard of Earthsea ch. 3 (1968)

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• Of course the Neverlands vary a good deal. John's, for instance, had a lagoon with flamingos flying over it at which John was shooting, while Michael, who was very small, had a flamingo with lagoons flying over it. John lived in a boat turned upside down on the sands, Michael in a wigwam, Wendy in a house of leaves deftly sewn together. John had no friends, Michael had friends at night, Wendy had a pet wolf forsaken by its parents.

  James M. Barrie

  Night, House, Parent

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• Long since, the desert wind wiped away our footprints in the sand. But at every second of my existence, I remember what happened, and you still walk in my dreams and in my reality. Thank you for having crossed my path.

  Paulo Coelho

  Dream, Reality, Wind

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• ...she wasn't reading Deathly Hallows at all. Her book wasn't orange but rose and water and sand, and featured a kid on a broomstick and white unicorn. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. She didn't notice me staring at her. 'Oh, I envy you,' I thought, but was smiling for her. She had just begun.

  Melissa Anelli

  Book, Reading, Kids

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• I know I hated magic for a reason," Janco said. "Congratulations. This is the first time you've had a VALID reason to hate something," Ari countered. "Remember your campaign against sand?" "Sand! Horrid little stuff. Gets everywhere. I had a perfectly good argue--" "Janco." Ari's voice rumbled deep in his throat. In a heartbeat, Janco switched gears. "Well, this blood magic sounds worse than sand.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Hate, Congratulations, Perfectly Good

  Maria V. Snyder (2013). “Storm Glass”, p.422, MIRA

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• When we reached the beach, Leif fell to his knees with a dramatic cry. "Solid ground! I'll never take you for granted again." "Are you going to kiss the sand?" I asked. "Don't be ridiculous." "Now I'M the one being silly?" "Yes.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Beach, Silly, Kissing

  Maria V. Snyder (2013). “Sea Glass”, p.223, Harlequin

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• She had sand in her mouth and between her toes, the briny wind raising goose bumps on her skin, and the sweetest, spellbound feeling spilling from her heart. She could, at that moment, have died for him.

  Lauren Kate

  Heart, Wind, Feelings

  Lauren Kate (2011). “The Fallen Sequence: An Omnibus Edition”, p.268, Delacorte Press

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• it was possible to grow up in an instant, that you could look down and see the line in the sand dividing your life now from what it used to be.

  Jodi Picoult

  Growing Up, Looks, Lines

  Jodi Picoult (2006). “The Tenth Circle: A Novel”, p.277, Simon and Schuster

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• Somewhere you are holding the person I love," the boy said. "So, when I look out over your sands, I am also looking at her. I want to return to her, and I need your help so that I can turn myself into the wind.

  Paulo Coelho

  Boys, Wind, Needs

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• I don't know why it's called "getting lost." Even when you turn down the wrong street, when you find yourself at the dead end of a chain-link fence or a road that turnd to sand, you are somewhere. It just isn't where you expected to be.

  Jodi Picoult

  Finding Yourself, Links, Getting Lost

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Vanishing acts”, p.105, Simon and Schuster

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• I'll tell you truly: I value my thought and work terribly, but in essence - think about it - this whole world of ours is just a bit of mildew that grew over a tiny planet. And we think we can have something great - thoughts, deeds! They're all grains of sand

  Leo Tolstoy

  Thinking, Essence, World

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• I had removed my patent leather shoes after a while, for they foundered badly in the sand. It pleased me to think they would be perched there on the silver log, pointing out to sea, like a sort of soul-compass, after I was dead.

  Sylvia Plath

  Thinking, Sea, Shoes

  Sylvia Plath (2008). “The Bell Jar”, p.113, Faber & Faber

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• She couldn’t read his expression. As he started toward her, she recalled the way he’d seemed to glide through the sand the first time she’d ever seen him; she remembered their kiss on the boat dock the night of his sister’s wedding. And she heard again the words she’d said to him on the day they’d said good-bye. She was besieged by a storm of conflicting emotions—desire, regret, longing, fear, grief, love. There was so much to say, yet what could they really begin to say in this awkward setting and with so much time already passed?

  Nicholas Sparks

  Regret, Grief, Kissing

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• I can't save you like that Ty. What you did to me wasn't this brilliant thing, like you think it was. You took me away from everything - my parents, my friends, my life. You took me to the sand and the heat, the dirt and isolation. And you expected me to love you. And that's the hardest bit. Because I did, or at least, I loved something out there. But I hated you too. I can't forget that.

  Lucy Christopher

  Love You, Thinking, Parent

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