Sand Quotes - Page 26

• The whole of the world could be deduced from the smallest grain of sand, if one studied it closely enough.

  Christopher Paolini

  World, Enough, Grain

  Christopher Paolini (2012). “Inheritance Deluxe Edition (The Inheritance Cycle, Book 4)”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• I want you to think of your life as an hourglass. You know there are thousands of grains of sand in the top of the hourglass; and they all pass slowly and evenly through the narrow neck in the middle. Nothing you or I could do would make more than one grain of sand pass through this narrow neck without impairing the hourglass. You and I and everyone else are like this hourglass.

  Dale Carnegie

  Thinking, Tasks, Necks

  "The Essential Dale Carnegiec".

  95 Copy quote

  Show source

• A thousand years ago five minutes were Equal to forty ounces of fine sand. Outstare the stars. Infinite foretime and Infinite aftertime: above your head They close like giant wings, and you are dead.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Stars, Years, Wings

  Vladimir Nabokov (2011). “Pale Fire”, p.32, Vintage

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• ..when a war ends, what does that look like exactly? do the cells in the body stop detonating themselves? does the orphanage stop screaming for its mother? when the sand in the desert has been melted down to glass and our reflection is not something we can stand to look at does the white flag make for a perfect blindfold? yesterday i was told a story about this little girl in Iraq, six-years-old, who cannot fall asleep because when she does she dreams of nothing but the day she watched her dog eat her neighbor's corpse. if you told her war is over do you think she can sleep?

  Andrea Gibson

  Girl, Mother, Dream

  21 Copy quote

• Children make prayers so thoughtlessly, building them up like sand castles—and they are always surprised when suddenly the castle becomes real, and the iron gate grinds shut.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Prayer, Children, Real

  6 Copy quote

• I will not go on, I thought. I won't. I will throw my soul to the wind and blow into a thousand pieces. I will wash up on a shore somewhere like bleached and broken driftwood. I will dry out in the sun until I-and any gift I ever had-shrivel into the sand.

  Janette Rallison

  Blow, Wind, Broken

  Janette Rallison (2009). “Just One Wish”, p.149, Penguin

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• It's a funny thing about bogs. You can fill them with rocks and sand and old logs and make a little fenced-in yard on top with a woodpile and chopping block - but bogs go right on behaving like bogs. Early in the spring they breathe ice and make their own mist, in remembrance of the time when they had black water and their own sedge blossoming untouched.

  Tove Jansson

  Block, Spring, Rocks

  7 Copy quote

• It's not enough to be numbered with the grains of sand on the beach and the stars in the sky.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Beach, Stars, Sky

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Fight Club”, p.141, Random House

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The sweetness of dogs (fifteen) What do you say, Percy? I am thinking of sitting out on the sand to watch the moon rise. Full tonight. So we go and the moon rises, so beautiful it makes me shudder, makes me think about time and space, makes me take measure of myself: one iota pondering heaven. Thus we sit, I thinking how grateful I am for the moon’s perfect beauty and also, oh! How rich it is to love the world. Percy, meanwhile, leans against me and gazes up into my face. As though I were his perfect moon.

  Mary Oliver

  Beautiful, Dog, Grateful

  27 Copy quote

• Momma said that ghosts couldn't move over water. That's why Africans got trapped in the Americas.. They kept moving us over the water, stealing us away from our ghosts and ancestors, who cried salty rivers into the sand. That's where Momma was now, wailing at the water's edge, while her girls were pulled out of sight under white sails that cracked in the wind.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Girl, Moving, Sight

  5 Copy quote

• Women want everything of a lover. And too often I would sink below the surface. So armies disappear under sand. And there was her fear of her husband, her belief in her honour, my old desire for self-sufficiency, my disappearances, her suspicions of me, my disbelief that she loved me. The paranoia and claustrophobia of hidden love.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Husband, Army, Self

  Michael Ondaatje (2011). “The English Patient”, p.238, Vintage

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• For love, we will climb mountains, cross seas, traverse desert sands, and endure untold hardships. Without love, mountains become unclimbable, seas uncrossable, deserts unbearable, and hardships our lot in life.

  Gary Chapman

  Sea, Mountain, Desert

  Gary Chapman, Ross Campbell (2010). “The 5 Love Languages/The 5 Love Languages Men's Edition/The 5 Love Languages of Teenagers/The 5 Love Lan”, p.16, Moody Publishers

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• But I almost think we are all of us ghosts. It is not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that “walks” in us. It is all sorts of dead ideas, and lifeless old beliefs, and so forth. They have no vitality, but they cling to us all the same, and we cannot shake them off. Whenever I take up a newspaper, I seem to see ghosts gliding between the lines.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Mother, Country, Father

  "Complete Works of Henrik Ibsen".

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• Forgiveness involves pardon. Basically, that is like erasing their offenses toward us from a marking board. We immediately wash their offenses away like a wave washing away a message in the sand. Second, forgiveness involves caring for the offending person because most people who offend us have something in their own heart that needs healing. When we forgive others, they are released from our anger and we are healed by God.

  Gary Smalley

  Forgiveness, God, Christian

  237 Copy quote

• Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, and creeds follow one another like the withered leaves of Autumn; but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons and a possession for all eternity.

  Oscar Wilde

  Beauty, Beautiful, Christian

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)”, p.1594, Delphi Classics

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• Estate taxes make every one of us nervous. If there’s an owner who isn’t, he has his head in the sand.

  Dan Rooney

  Nervous, Owners, Estates

  4 Copy quote

• Fate! Fate! All things pass away; Life is forever, youth is for a day. Love again if you may Before the stars are blown out of the sky And the crickets die; Babylon and Samarkand Are mud walls in a waste of sand.

  John Gould Fletcher

  Life, Death, Stars

  John Gould Fletcher, Lucas Carpenter, Leighton Rudolph (1988). “Selected Poems of John Gould Fletcher”, p.172, University of Arkansas Press

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• Silicon Valley, "the largest legal creation of wealth in history," was built largely by unprofessional amateurs using math, sand, and the institutions of freedom. The Soviet Union had the greatest mathematicians on earth, and plenty of sand, but without the institutions of freedom their brilliant mathematicians were not empowered to create those devices that are changing the world.

  Michael Strong

  Freedom, Business, Math

  Michael Strong, John Mackey (2009). “Be the Solution: How Entrepreneurs and Conscious Capitalists Can Solve All the World?s Problems”, p.60, John Wiley and Sons

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• There are more stars known to exist right now than the total number of all the grains of sand on every beach in the entire world. With those kinds of odds, it would seem downright naive for someone to go to a beach in, say, some out-of-the-way inlet in Baffin Bay, stoop to pick up only one tiny grain of sand, and declare that that grain alone was the only place where life could exist.

  Hugh Downs

  Beach, Stars, Spring

  7 Copy quote

• I wonder if we might pledge ourselves to remember what life is really all about—not to be afraid that we're less flashy than the next, not to worry that our influence is not that of a tornado, but rather that of a grain of sand in an oyster! Do we have that kind of patience?

  Fred Rogers

  Oysters, Worry, Might

  11 Copy quote

• Even though we may all become extinct, we can still leave our footprint in the sand.

  Dr. Seuss

  Life, May, Footprint

  38 Copy quote

• I was signed to MGM. I was in Vegas for sixteen weeks at the Sands Hotel.

  Solomon Burke

  Vegas, Sixteen, Hospitality

  7 Copy quote

• Sweep the garden, any size, said the roshi. Sweeping, sweeping alone as the garden grows large or small. Any song sung working the garden brings up from sand gravel soil through straw bamboo wood and less tangible elements Power song for the hands Healing song for the senses what can and cannot be perceived of the soul.

  Olga Broumas

  Song, Healing, Garden

  Olga Broumas (1999). “Rave: poems, 1975-1999”, Copper Canyon Pr

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• The Long March The Red Army is not afraid of hardship on the march, the long march. Ten thousand waters and a thousand mountains are nothing. The Five Sierras meander like small waves, the summits of Wumeng pour on the plain like balls of clay. Cliffs under clouds are warm and washed below by the River Gold Sand. Iron chains are cold, reaching over the Tatu River. The far snows of Minshan only make us happy and when the army pushes through, we all laugh. October 1935

  Mao Zedong

  Happiness, Laughter, Army

  Zedong Mao (2008). “The Poems of Mao Zedong”, p.63, Univ of California Press

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Wen you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but vether it's worth while goin' through so much to learn so little, as the charity-boy sand ven he go to the end of the alphabet, it's a matter of taste.

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Marriage, Learning

  Charles Dickens (1993). “The Pickwick Papers”, p.350, Wordsworth Editions

  5 Copy quote

  Show source