Quotes of Sand - somelinesforyou

“ You can't leave footprints in the sands of time if you are sitting on you butt, and who wants to leave butt prints in the sands of time! ”

- Bob Moawad

“ Many do with opportunities as children do at the seashore; they fill their little hands with sand, and then let the grains fall through, one by one, till all are gone. ”

- Thomas Jones

“ One by one the sands are flowing, One by one the moments fall; Some are coming, some are going; Do not strive to grasp them all. ”

- Adelaide Proctor

“ 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

“ The history of persecution is a history of endeavors to cheat nature, to make water run up hill, to twist a rope of sand. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it. ”

- Jean Paul Richter

“ The profits of good luck are perishable; if you build on fortune, you build on sand; the more advancement you achieve, the more dangers you run. ”

- Marquis de Racan

“ The wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hands, and eternity in an hour. ”

- Sir William Blake

“ We all leave footprints in the sand, the question is, will we be a big heal, or a great soul. ”

- Unknown

“ You must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will follow on that act. ”

- Ursula K. Le Guin

“ Lives of great men all remind us, We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us, Footprints on the sands of time. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Money is like sand, it can wash away. But, passion is innate and enduring. ”

- Steve Haile

“ It is our art that has an opportunity to leave a footprint in the sand. They don't wrap fish in our work. ”

- Henry Jacobsen

“ They dined on mince, and slices of quince, Which they ate with a runcible spoon; And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand, They danced by the light of the moon. ”

- Edward Lear

“ A scent of jasmine and a rasp of sand. ”

- James Morris

“ As a camel beareth labor, and heat, and hunger, and thirst, through deserts of sand, and fainteth not; so the fortitude of a man shall sustain him through all perils. ”

- John Ruskin

“ The Sand Pebbles has always been one of my favorite films, I suppose because its the most difficult film - from a physical and logistical standpoint - that I've ever made. ”

- Robert Wise

“ When I was a little kid we had a sand box. It was a quicksand box. I was an only child… eventually. ”

- Steven Wright

“ Hollywood is just too marvelous. One feels the footprints of all the immortals are here, but has a terrible feeling that they are in sand and won't last when civilization comes this way. ”

- James Whale

“ Genuine morality is preserved only in the school of adversity; a state of continuous prosperity may easily prove a quick sand to virtue. ”

- Johann Friedrich von Schiller

“ A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass. ”

- Hester Piozzi Thrale

“ The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone. ”

- George Eliot

“ Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe. ”

- Robert Service

“ It isn't the mountains ahead that wear you out, it's the grain of sand in your shoe. ”

- Unknown

“ The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it. ”

- Jean Paul Sartre

“ Vietnam is a jungle. You had jungle warfare. Kuwait, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, you have sand. from a historical basis, Middle East conflicts do not last a long time. ”

- Dan Quayle

“ Come unto these yellow sands, And then take hands: Courtsied when you have, and kiss'd The wild waves whist. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up. ”

- Muhammad Ali

“ When a man takes one step toward God, God takes more steps toward that man than there are sands in the worlds of time. ”

- The Work of the Chariot
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