Sand Quotes - Page 9

• Once the will is resolved, one's spirit is strengthened. Even a peasant's will is hard to deny, but a samurai of resolute will can sway ten thou­sand men.

  Yoshida Shoin

  Men, Samurai, Spirit

  "Yoshida Shoin Zenshu" by Yoshida Shoin, vol. V, 1938.

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• You can do one of two things. You can bury you head in the sand and believe what everyone tells you - that you will always be that young, that thin and that fabulous. Or you can use all the things you have - talent, contacts, knowledge - and do something different.

  Cat Deeley

  Believe, Two, Different

  "Nerdy but nice" by Tim Jonze, www.theguardian.com. April 29, 2011.

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• We often love to think now of the life of men on beaches,--at least in midsummer, when the weather is serene; their sunny lives onthe sand, amid the beach-grass and bayberries, their companion a cow, their wealth a jag of driftwood or a few beach plums, and their music the surf and the peep of the beech-bird.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Beach, Men, Thinking

  Henry David Thoreau (2008). “Cape Cod: Illustrated Edition of the American Classic”, p.242, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• somewhere in sands of the desert
  A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
  A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
  Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
  Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.

  William Butler Yeats

  Moving, Men, Bird

  William Butler Yeats (2015). “A Vision: The Revised 1937 Edition: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats”, p.192, Simon and Schuster

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• Perchance the time will come when we shall not be content to go back and forth upon a raft to some huge Homeric or Shakespearean Indiaman that lies upon the reef, but build a bark out of that wreck and others that are buried in the sands of this desolate island, and such new timber as may be required, in which to sail away to whole new worlds of light and life, where our friends are.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Lying, Islands, Light

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.365, Penguin

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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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• A foolish man... built his house upon the sand.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Men, Foolish Man, House

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• Snow-white moslem head-dress around a dead black face!
  Beautiful were your sand-papering words against our skins!

  Margaret Walker

  Beautiful, White, Snow

  Margaret Walker, “For Malcolm X”

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• My role in life is that of the grain of sand to the oyster-it irritates the oyster and out comes a pearl.

  Ross Perot

  Oysters, Pearls, Roles In Life

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• The magic of property turns sand to gold.

  Arthur Young

  Magic, Gold, Turns

  Arthur Young (1792). “Travels During the Years 1787, 1788, and 1789: Undertaken More Particularly with a View of Ascertaining the Cultivation, Wealth, Resources, and National Prosperity of the Kingdom of France”, p.74

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• Draw your line in the sand. Make your decision now and start taking action to really live your dream. By not taking bold steps to live your dream, not only are you missing out on fully living, but the world is missing out on the greatness you have to offer. Be bold!

  Les Brown

  Dream, Greatness, Decision

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• I was really surprised at the success of 'House of Sand and Fog,' because it is so awfully dark. Believe it or not, when writing it, I never had the word 'tragedy' in my head - I wasn't trying to write a dark book at all.

  Andre Dubus

  Believe, Book, Writing

  "The Exchange: Andre Dubus III". Interview with Kate Bittman, www.newyorker.com. March 17, 2011.

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• I'm one of those writers who can't talk about what they're working on. The entire four years I was writing 'House of Sand and Fog,' my wife never saw a word of it. I just have to keep it in the womb, and then everyone can have a crack at it.

  Andre Dubus

  Writing, Fog, Years

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• My head is buried in the sands of tomorrow, while my tail feathers are singed by the hot sun of today.

  John Barrymore

  Today, Sun, Hot

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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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• It is hard to know what other way men can come to truth, to lay hold of it, if they do not dig and search for it as for gold and hid treasure; but he that does so, must have much earth and rubbish, before he gets the pure metal; sand, and pebbles, and dross usually lie blended with it, but the gold is nevertheless gold, and will enrich the man that employs his pains to seek and separate it.

  John Locke

  Pain, Lying, Men

  John Locke (1727). “The Works of John Locke”, p.392

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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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