Sand Quotes - Page 9

• What do you have when you have an agent buried up to his neck in sand? Not enough sand.

  Pat Williams

  Funny, Nba, Necks

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• Apart from The Holiday, I haven't really spent a huge amount of time in LA. Not that I avoid it, it's just that I don't often go there unless I'm doing press. The one thing I have discovered about LA with kids is that it's really great for children. They really like the sun and making sand castles.

  Kate Winslet

  Children, Holiday, Kids

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• The canyon country does not always inspire love. To many it appears barren, hostile, repellent - a fearsome mostly waterless land of rock and heat, sand dunes and quicksand, cactus, thornbrush, scorpion, rattlesnake, and agaraphobic distances. To those who see our land in that manner, the best reply is, yes, you are right, it is a dangerous and terrible place. Enter at your own risk. Carry water. Avoid the noonday sun. Try to ignore the vultures. Pray frequently.

  Edward Abbey

  Country, Distance, Land

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• James Allen says 'We curse the effect and nourish the cause.' The guy puts sand in his shoes and he can hardly walk and you ask why would you do that? Why would we wish for it to change, hope for it to change, but all the while resisting change?

  Jim Rohn

  Shoes, Guy, Wish

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• How do I know that there is a God? In the same way that I know, on looking at the sand, when a man or beast has crossed the desert - by His footprints in the world around me.

  Henry Parry Liddon

  Men, World, Way

  Henry Parry Liddon (1872). “Some Elements of Religion: Lent Lectures, 1870”, p.56

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• All that mankind has ever learned is nothing more than a single grain of sand on a beach that reaches to infinity.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Beach, Infinity, Mankind

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• The Chinese word Li may therefore be understood as organic order, as distinct from mechanical or legal order, both of which go by the book. Li is the asymmetrical, nonrepetitive, and unregimented order which we find in the patterns of moving water, the form of trees and clouds, of frost crystals on the window, or the scattering of pebbles on beach sand.

  Alan Watts

  Beach, Moving, Book

  Alan Watts (2010). “Tao: The Watercourse Way”, p.54, Souvenir Press

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• I don't believe it's all for nothing. It's not just written in the sand.

  Robbie Robertson

  Believe, Don't Believe, Written

  Song: Fallen Angel, Album: Robbie Robertson, 1987

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• I must seem like an ostrich who forever burries its head in the relativistic sands in order not to face the evil quanta.

  Albert Einstein

  Ostriches, Order, Evil

  Albert Einstein, Harry Woolf (1980). “Some strangeness in the proportion: a centennial symposium to celebrate the achievements of Albert Einstein”, Addison Wesley Publishing Company

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• Many people believe that the grains of sand are infinite in multitude ... Others think that although their number is not without limit, no number can ever be named which will be greater than the number of grains of sand. But I shall try to prove to you that among the numbers which I have named there are those which exceed the number of grains in a heap of sand the size not only of the earth, but even of the universe

  Archimedes

  Believe, Thinking, Numbers

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• There is no hope the future will but turn the old sand in the falling glass of time.

  Richard Henry Stoddard

  Fall, Glasses, No Hope

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• We all have to pick our battles. You've got to draw a line in the sand and stand firm. And it's this squishiness that's really the enemy, like, "Well, I don't know, it's kind of OK but I kind of feel guilty, and I kind of want a bran muffin, I don't know, and I'm wearing a vest; it's crocheted." Shut up. Just pick your battle and just stand there, and whatever you are going to do, own it.

  Chicken John

  Enemy, Battle, Muffins

  "San Francisco Rejects American Apparel: Has the Fight Against Chain Stores Gone Too Far?". Interview with Josh Harkinson, www.motherjones.com. February 11, 2009.

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• We [USA and China] have a common responsibility with different numerical targets, and that's the situation ultimately we are going to have with China. We emit six times more per person than they do. It's hard to tell them to cut theirs in half right now until we start moving. Being the ostrich with your head in the sand and tail feathers in the air like some would have us to do while China continues to pollute is simply not an option.

  Jay Inslee

  Moving, Responsibility, Cutting

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• The books that I do, the stories I write - I'm glad I'm able to do them, but they will quickly be swallowed up by the sands of time. Sometimes it frustrates me that I'm not able to do bigger, more important, more significant things. I guess you have to be content to do whatever it is you can do.

  Jim Woodring

  Book, Writing, Significant Things

  Interview with Ross Simonini, staging.believermag.com.

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• A faerie heart is different from a human heart. Human hearts are elastic. They have room for all sorts of passions, and they can break and heal and love again and again. Faerie hearts are evolutionarily less sophisticated. They are small and hard, like tiny grains of sand. Our hearts are too small to love more than one person in a lifetime.

  Tink

  Passion, Heart, And Love

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• In my old age, I have come to believe that love is not a noun but a verb. An action. Like water, it flows to its own current. If you were to corner it in a dam, true love is so bountiful it would flow over. Even in separation, even in death, it moves and changes. It lives within memory, in the haunting of a touch, the transience of a smell, or the nuance of a sigh. It seeks to leave a trace like a fossil in the sand, a leaf burning into baking asphalt.

  Alyson Richman

  Memories, Believe, Moving

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• Home. When it rains, you can smell the leaves in the forest and the sand. It's all so small and mild, the landscape surrounding the lake, so manageable. The leaves and the sand are so close, it's as if you might, if you wanted, pull them on over your head. And the lake always laps at the shore so gently, licking the hand you dip into it like a young dog, and the water is soft and shallow.

  Jenny Erpenbeck

  Dog, Rain, Home

  Jenny Erpenbeck (2011). “Visitation”, p.34, Granta Books

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• The ostrich burying its head in the sand does at any rate wish to convey the impression that its head is the most important part of it.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Ostriches, Wish, Important

  Katherine Mansfield (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Katherine Mansfield (Illustrated)”, p.1039, Delphi Classics

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• Every time a strong wind blows, every sand and dust yearns for being a solid rock and every solid rock longs for flying with the wind!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Strong, Blow, Rocks

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• All the sands of the world even when they unite together cannot create the hardness of a single rock!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Rocks, Together, World

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• Big rocks are envy of little sands because little sands can travel with the winds. Every littleness has its own big advantages!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Rocks, Wind, Envy

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• Once we begin to appreciate that the apparent destructiveness of the toddler in taking apart a flower or knocking down sand castles is in fact a constructive effort to understand unity, we are able to revise our view of the situation, moving from reprimand and prohibition to the intelligent channeling of his efforts and the fostering of discovery.

  Polly Berrien Berends

  Moving, Flower, Intelligent

  Polly Berrien Berends (1987). “Whole child, whole parent”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Spatial intelligence is virtually left out of formal education. In kindergarten we give children blocks and sand with which to build. Then we take those things away for the next twelve years of their education and expect kids to be architects and engineers.

  Ann Lewin-Benham

  Education, Children, Block

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• Sand can resist to water; but it cannot win. Ignorant can resist to knowledge; but it cannot win.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Winning, Water, Ignorant

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• Countless are, as the sand in the sea, the deep desires of men, and none resembles the other, and all of them, whether shameful, or great, in the beginning are obedient, but later become terrible masters over him.

  Nikolai Gogol

  Men, Sea, Desire

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