Sand Quotes - Page 11

• When someone tells you it’s a grain of sand, there’s a moment where your reality falls apart and you have to reconstruct it. You have to step back and ask what the image is and what it means.

  Vik Muniz

  Fall, Mean, Reality

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• There is but one fountain of comfort for a man drawing near to his end, and that is the Bible. ...All comfort from any other source is a house built upon sand.

  J. C. Ryle

  Men, Drawing, House

  J.C Ryle, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor “PRACTICAL RELIGION”, Lulu.com

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• I have a lot of friends and family that have suffered because of the church's judgment; my best friend in the world is gay. I felt a lot of people around me drawing lines in the sand, and that year I decided: I don't want to draw lines and have to be on one side or the other, but if someone's going to push me to one or the other side of the line, I'm going to stand on the side of those being judged because that's where I feel Jesus meets people.

  Derek Webb

  Jesus, Gay, Drawing

  "Just Follow Jesus: Interview with Christian Singer Derek Webb". Interview with Chris Stedman, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 26, 2010.

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• If you could touch the alien sand and hear the cries of strange birds, and watch them wheel in another sky, would that satisfy you?

  William Hartnell

  Sky, Bird, Watches

  "Fictional character: The Doctor". TV Series "Doctor Who", (1.1, "An Unearthly Child"), 23 November - 14 December, 1963.

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• I am a firm believer in 'negative thinking' when used correctly. We need to be AWARE of negatives so that we can steer clear of them. A golfer needs to know where the bunkers and sand traps are - but he doesn't think continuously about the bunker - where he doesn't want to go. His mind glances at the bunker, but he DWELLS upon the green.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Thinking, Mind, Green

  Maxwell Maltz (2016). “Psycho-Cybernetics Deluxe Edition: The Original Text of the Classic Guide to a New Life”, p.102, Penguin

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• Surfers are the ‘throw-aheads’ of mankind, not the dregs; they aren’t the black sheep of humanity, but the futurists and they are leading the way to where man ultimately wants to be. The act of the ride is the epitome of ‘be here now’, and the tube ride is the most acute form of that. Which is: your future is right ahead of you, the past is exploding behind you, your wake is disappearing, your footprints are washed from the sand. It’s a non-productive, non-depletive act that’s done purely for the value of the dance itself. And that is the destiny of man.

  Timothy Leary

  Past, Destiny, Men

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• The apparent physical stability of reefs belies an underlying natural turmoil of growth, death and destruction of calcareous organisms. Much like a modern city, reefs are constantly being rebuilt and torn down at the same time. Corals are the bricks, broken pieces of plant and animal skeletons the sand, and algal crusts and chemical cements the mortar. Reef growth is determined by the production, accumulation, and cementation of all this calcareous stuff into solid limestone.

  Jeremy Jackson

  Nature, Animal, Cities

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• Indeed Christianity passes. Passes - it has gone! It has littered the beaches of life with churches, cathedrals, shrines and crucifixes, prejudices and intolerances, like the sea urchin and starfish and empty shells and lumps of stinging jelly upon the sands here after a tide. A tidal wave out of Egypt. And it has left a multitude of little wriggling theologians and confessors and apologists hopping and burrowing in the warm nutritious sand. But in the hearts of living men, what remains of it now? Doubtful scraps of Arianism. Phrases. Sentiments. Habits.

  H. G. Wells

  Beach, Heart, Men

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• To travel like a bird, lightly to view | Deserts where stone gods founder in the sand, | Ocean embraced in a white sleep with land; | To escape time, always to start anew... | Hooded by a dark sense of destination... | Travelers, we're fabric of the road we go; We settle, but like feathers on time's flow.

  Cecil Day-Lewis

  Ocean, Sleep, Dark

  Cecil Day Lewis (1992). “The Complete Poems of C. Day Lewis”, p.325, Stanford University Press

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• A grain of sand leads to the fall of a mountain when the moment has come for the mountain to fall.

  Ernest Renan

  Fall, Mountain, Moments

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• Though sands be black and bitter black the sea, Night lie before me and behind me night, And God within far Heaven refuse to light The consolation of the dawn for me,-- Between the shadowy burns of Heaven and Hell, It is enough love leaves my soul to dwell With memory.

  Madison Cawein

  Memories, Lying, Night

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• O Mary, go and call the cattle home, And call the cattle home, And call the cattle home, Across the sands o' Dee!

  Charles Kingsley

  Home, Mary, Cattle

  'The Sands of Dee'

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• Ordinarily rivers run small at the beginning, grow broader and broader as they proceed, and become widest and deepest at the point, where they enter the sea. It is such rivers that the Christian's life is like. But the life of the mere worldly man is like those rivers in Southern Africa, which, proceeding from mountain freshets, are broad and deep at the beginning, and grow narrower and more shallow as they advance. They waster themselves by soaking into the sands, and at last they die out entirely. The farther they run the less there is of them.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Christian, Running, Men

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• I guess with myself, I was probably the first woman to lift weights and do circuit training and to run the sand hills.

  Margaret Court

  Running, Training, Weight

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• By what a delicate and far-stretched contribution every island is made! What an enterprise of nature thus to lay the foundations of and to build up the future continent, of golden and silver sands and the ruins of forests, with ant-like industry.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Islands, Foundation

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.188, Delphi Classics

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• The problem ... is that we have run out of dinosaurs to form oil with. Scientists working for the Department of Energy have tried to form oil using other animals; they've piled thousands of tons of sand and Middle Eastern countries on top of cows, raccoons, haddock, laboratory rats, etc., but so far all they have managed to do is run up an enormous bulldozer-rental bill and anger a lot of Middle Eastern persons. None of the animals turned into oil, although most of the laboratory rats developed cancer.

  Dave Barry

  Running, Country, Cancer

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• It is not surprising that in talking about uncertainty we should lean heavily on facts, just as the court of law does when interrogating witnesses. Facts form a sort of bedrock on which we can build the shifting sands of uncertainty.

  Dennis Lindley

  Talking, Law, Doe

  "Understanding Uncertainty". Book by Dennis Lindley (Chapter 2 "Stylistic Questions", p. 19), 2006.

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• How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them! If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee.

  David

  Numbers, Should, Thee

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• The most mesmerizing of artists is always like one who was merely drawing in the sand and people came to watch.

  Criss Jami

  Artist, Drawing, People

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.10, Criss Jami

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• Man is a living lie--a bitter jest Upon himself--a conscious grain of sand Lost in a desert of unconsciousness.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Lying, Men, Desert

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• Honest rejection of Christ, however mistaken, will be forgiven and healed ... but to evade the Son of Man, to look the other way, to pretend you haven't noticed, to become suddenly absorbed in something on the other side of the street, to leave the receiver off the telephone because it might be He who was ringing up, to leave unopened certain letters in a strange handwriting because they might be from Him -- this is a different matter. You may not be certain yet whether you ought to be a Christian; but you do know you ought to be a Man, not an ostrich, hiding its head in the sand.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Son, Men

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• There is only one way fit for a man - Heroism, or Master-Morality, or Violence. All the other people in between are ploughing the sand.

  C. S. Lewis

  Men, People, Heroism

  "The Pilgrim's Regress". Book by C. S. Lewis, p. 100, 1933.

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• Our doom is, to be sifted by the wind, heaped up, smoothed down like silly sands. We are less permanent than thought.

  Basil Bunting

  Silly, Wind, Doom

  1925 Villon, pt.1.

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• Dwelling beside a body of water is tonic for the weary psyche. Sea smells, sea birds, seawrack, sands - alternately cool, warm, moist and dry - a taste of brine and the presence of the rocking, slopping bluegraygreen spit-flecked waters, has the effect of rinsing the emotions, bathing the outlook, bleaching the conscience.

  Roger Zelazny

  Sea, Smell, Dwelling

  Roger Zelazny (2001). “Isle of the Dead ; Eye of Cat”, Ibooks

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• A name with a gently exotic ring to it, like birdsong, like a grain of sand in the far-off Gobi Desert or the northern steppes, whipped up by the wind, carried by storms, swirling through the sky, travelling, crossing whole countries without knowing quite how, and ending up in the crook of my ear.

  Sijie Dai

  Country, Wind, Sky

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