Sand Quotes - Page 7

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Our best built certainties are but sand-houses and subject to damage from any wind of doubt that blows

  Mark Twain

  Blow, Wind, House

  Mark Twain, John Sutton Tuckey (1980). “The Devil's Race-track: Mark Twain's Great Dark Writings : the Best from Which was the Dream? and Fables of Man”, p.103, Univ of California Press

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• The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind's eye only, fade out in sand.

  Nadine Gordimer

  Eye, Mind, Sahara

  Nadine Gordimer (2012). “Telling Times: Writing and Living, 1950-2008”, p.132, A&C Black

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• He is like the fox, who effaces his tracks in the sand with his tail.

  Niels Henrik Abel

  Math, Track, Tails

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• There are souls beneath that water. Fixed in slimethey speak their piece, end it, and start again:'Sullen were we in the air made sweet by the Sun;in the glory of his shining our hearts poureda bitter smoke. Sullen were we begun;sullen we lie forever in this ditch.'This litany they gargle in their throatsas if they sand, but lacked the words and pitch.

  Dante Alighieri

  Sweet, Lying, Heart

  Dante Alighieri (2003). “The Divine Comedy”, p.80, Penguin

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• A handful of sand is an anthology of the universe.

  David McCord

  Anthology, Handful, Universe

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• For the recuperation of body and mind, there is nothing better than natural therapy - sand, sunshine and surf.

  Max Dupain

  Sunshine, Mind, Body

  Max Dupain, Jill White, Matthew Cawood (2000). “Dupain's beaches”

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• This part of optics, when well understood, shows us how we may make things a very long distance off appear as if placed very close, and large near things appear very small, and how we may make small things placed at a distance appear any size we want, so that it may be possible for us to read the smallest letters at incredible distances, or to count sand, or seed, or any sort or minute objects.

  Robert Grosseteste

  Distance, Long, Letters

  "De iride ('On the rainbow')". Treatise by Robert Grosseteste,

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• The bird Gamayun was related to Alkonost and Sirin in some vague fashion-even the most casual observer would've noticed that all three of them were not entirely birds; they had the faces and breasts of women, severe but beautiful. And when their lips opened, they sand in women's voices, deep and rich and bittersweet.

  Ekaterina Sedia

  Beautiful, Fashion, Voice

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• I think fear neutralizes alcohol, weakens its anesthetic power. It's good for small fears; your boss, your wife, your bills, your dentist; all right then to take a drink. But for big ones it doesn't do any good. Like water on blazing gasoline, it will only quicken and compound it. It takes sand, in the literal and the slang sense, to smother the bonfire that is fear. And if you're out of sand, then you must burn up.

  Cornell Woolrich

  Fear, Thinking, Water

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• Apothegms are in history, the same as pearls in the sand, or gold in the mine.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Gold, Pearls, Mines

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• Life is a desert of shifting sand dunes. Unpredictable. Erratic. Harmony changes into dissonance, the immediate outlives the profound, esoteric becomes cliched. And vice versa.

  Ella Leya

  Profound, Vices, Desert

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• History fades into fable; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy; the inscription molders from the tablet: the statue falls from the pedestal. Columns, arches, pyramids, what are they but heaps of sand; and their epitaphs, but characters written in the dust?

  Washington Irving

  Fall, Character, Dust

  Washington Irving (2006). “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories From the Sketch Book”, p.144, Penguin

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• Talent, and genius as well, is like a grain of pearl sand shifting about in the creative mind. A valued tormentor.

  Truman Capote

  Writing, Creative, Mind

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• Like a flash of lightning and in an instant the truth was revealed. I drew with a stick on the sand the diagrams of my motor. A thousand secrets of nature which I might have stumbled upon accidentally I would have given for that one which I had wrestled from her against all odds and at the peril of my existence.

  Nikola Tesla

  Odds, Secret, Lightning

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• The beauty of the landscape - where sand, water, reeds, birds, buildings, and people all somehow flowed together - has never left me.

  Zaha Hadid

  People, Water, Bird

  "I don't do nice". Interview with Jonathan Glancey, www.theguardian.com. October 9, 2006.

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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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• Hate is of all things the mightiest divider, nay, is division itself. To couple hatred, therefore, though wedlock try all her golden links, and borrow to tier aid all the iron manacles and fetters of law, it does but seek to twist a rope of sand.

  John Milton

  Couple, Hate, Law

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• The South is the land of the sustained sibilant. Everywhere, for the appreciative visitor, the letter "s" insinuates itself in the scene: in the sound of sea and sand, in the singing shell, in the heat of sun and sky, in the sultriness of the gentle hours, in the siesta, in the stir of birds and insects.

  E. B. White

  Sea, Land, Sky

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• I generalized rashly: That is what kills political writing, this absurd pretence that you are delivering a great utterance. You never do. You are just a puzzled man making notes about what you think. You are not building the Pantheon, then why act like a graven image? You are drawing sketches in the sand which the sea will wash away.

  Walter Lippmann

  Writing, Men, Thinking

  Walter Lippmann “Force and Ideas: The Early Writings”, Transaction Publishers

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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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• When the San Francisco Democrats treat foreign affairs as an afterthought, as they did, they behaved less like a dove or a hawk than like an ostrich - convinced it could shut out the world by hiding its head in the sand.

  Jeane Kirkpatrick

  Ostriches, San Francisco, World

  Jeane J. Kirkpatrick (2018). “Legitimacy and Force: State Papers and Current Perspectives: Volume 1: Political and Moral Dimensions”, p.594, Routledge

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