Sand Quotes - Page 17

• A nation that fails to plan intelligently for the development and protection of its precious waters will be condemned to wither because of its shortsightedness. The hard lessons of history are clear, written on the deserted sands and ruins of once proud civilizations.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Civilization, Water, Environmental

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1970). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1968-1969”, p.1131, Best Books on

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• The sand-castle virtues are all swept away in the tidal destruction, the moral melee.

  Jethro Tull

  Future, Castles, Moral

  Song: Thick As A Brick Edit No. 1

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• May your character not be a writing upon the sand, but an inscription upon the rock!

  Charles Spurgeon

  Writing, Character, Rocks

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• I give myself the luxury of time in shaping a song. It's very common for me to work three months or more on a single song. Plotting takes time and effort, for there are many false turns. I fill up pages and pages with my mistakes, thereby eliminating them. Eventually a trail is broken through this mountain of mistakes. Sometimes it's as easy as putting eggs in a basket; other times it's like trying to pound a ton of sand into a diamond.

  David Massengill

  Song, Mistake, Writing

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  Sometimes, that mountain you've been climbing, is just a grain of sand.

  Carrie Underwood

  Climbing, Mountain, Sometimes

  Song: So Small, Album: Carnival Ride, 2007

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• Studios and networks who ignore either shift - whether the increasing sophistication of storytelling, or the constantly shifting sands of technological advancement - will be left behind.

  Kevin Spacey

  Advancement, Shifting, Storytelling

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• Extracting oil from the tar sands is a nasty, polluting, energy-intensive business.

  Jeff Goodell

  Oil, Energy, Nasty

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• The man who offers an insult writes it in sand, but for the man who receives it, it's chiseled in bronze.

  Giovannino Guareschi

  Writing, Men, Offending

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• My dad, who was creative director in the '60s, always wore black jeans with black desert boots; he thought he was cool. He told me to buy a pair as well. I didn't like black, so I got the sand color, and I've been wearing them since college.

  Andy Spade

  Dad, College, Color

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• When someone's been gone a long time, at first you save up all the things you want to tell them. You try to keep track of everything in your head. But it's like trying to hold on to a fistful of sand: all the little bits slip out of your hands, and then you're just clutching air and grit.

  Jenny Han

  Love, Life, Regret

  Jenny Han (2014). “To All the Boys I've Loved Before”, p.294, Simon and Schuster

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• The sand stones had fragments of charcoal on some surfaces but found no recognisable fossils.

  George Mercer Dawson

  Stones, Fossils, Found

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• Every barrel of oil that comes out of those sands in Canada is a barrel of oil that we don't have to buy from a foreign source.

  Rick Perry

  Oil, Canada, Source

  "What Moves Republican Crowds in Iowa" by Michael D. Shear, thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com. December 28, 2011.

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• You possess a non-renewable resource, which is headed toward total depletion and that resource is time. You can either invest your life or let it dribble through your fingers like sand in an hour glass. If there is ever a time to redeem every second, every minute it is now. You may never have tomorrow. You can't count your days, but with the Lord as your Savior you can make your days count.

  Billy Graham

  Glasses, Renewable Resources, May

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• I am the infinite sea, and all worlds are but grains of sand upon my shore.

  Khalil

  Sea, World, Infinite

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• You must love the crust of the earth on which you dwell more than the sweet crust of any bread or cake. You must be able to extract nutriment out of a sand-heap. You must have so good an appetite as this, else you will live in vain

  Henry David Thoreau

  Sweet, Cake, Earth

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.192, Courier Corporation

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• Worry and anxiety are sand in the machinery of life; faith is the oil.

  E. Stanley Jones

  Christian, Oil, Worry

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• Amid this vast and overwhelming space and in these boundless solar archipelagoes, how small is our own sphere, and the earth, what a grain of sand!

  Hippolyte Taine

  Space, Earth, Spheres

  Hippolyte Taine (1876). “The Modern Régime”

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• If you would like to leave footprints in the sands of time, you had better wear work shoes.

  Herbert V. Prochnow

  Shoes, Footprint, Ifs

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• Beneath the light, the river and hills are beautiful, The spring breeze bears the fragrance of flowers and grass. The mud has thawed, and swallows fly around. On the warm sand, mandarin ducks are sleeping.

  Du Fu

  Beautiful, Spring, Flower

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• I was also surprised by the alacrity and dedication we devote to the damaging exercise of remembering, which after all brings nothing good and serves only to hinder our normal functioning, like those bags of sand athletes tie around their calves for training.

  Juan Gabriel

  Athlete, Exercise, Dedication

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• Depression can be the sand that makes the pearl. Most of my best
  work came out of it.

  Joni Mitchell

  Pearls, Best Work

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• Nothing is more satisfying than to write a good sentence. It is no fun to write lumpishly, dully, in prose the reader must plod through like wet sand. But it is a pleasure to achieve, if one can, a clear running prose that is simple yet full of surprises. This does not just happen. It requires skill, hard work, a good ear, and continued practice.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Running, Fun, Hard Work

  Barbara W. Tuchman (2011). “Practicing History: Selected Essays”, p.48, Random House

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• There is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing.

  Toni Morrison

  Art, Civilization, Drawing

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• Counting the ways the Book of Mormon brings peace to the soul is like counting the sand on the seashore.

  Neil L. Andersen

  Book, Soul, Way

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• Progress. Just make progress. It's okay to have setbacks and the need for do-overs. It's okay to draw a line in the sand and start over again - and again. Just make sure you're moving the line forward. Move forward. Take baby steps... Then change will come. And it will be good.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Baby, Monday, Moving

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