Top 1200 Desert Sand Quotes & Sayings - Page 11
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Last updated on December 13, 2024.
The Dolomites are the most beautiful rock mountains in the world, but in a few million years they will just be desert.
Writing anything, it sorta starts the way you'd build a castle at the beach. You're just taking your hands and you're mounting up sand.
You know the words from the Bible: 'Build not on sand, but on rock....' Tyrant leaders respect only firmness...and laugh at persons who give in to them.
The 6th of August in the morning we saw an opening in the land and we ran into it, and anchored in 7 and a half fathom water, 2 miles from the shore, clean sand.
it was possible to grow up in an instant, that you could look down and see the line in the sand dividing your life now from what it used to be.
I wanted to serve. It was Desert Storm. I thought, 'I was a rich kid, and America's been good to me.'
What is the sound of one hand clapping? What is the weight of a single grain of sand? The answer is equal to my interest in the message you are about to leave. So make it short.
I liken all jobs to decorating. If you don't do the preparation, sand down and prime first, you won't get a good paint job, and that's the same as everything in life.
I couldn't take my eyes off him. Like a desert wanderer afraid of mirages, I gazed at my oasis, but he was real.
Thorns may hurt you, men desert you, sunlight turn to fog; but you're never friendless ever, if you have a dog.
It gets cold in the desert at night, particularly up in the mountains; the stars hammer on the rock and strike frost.
I guess humans like to watch a little destruction. Sand castles, houses of cards, that's where they begin. Their great skills is their capacity to escalate.
My father became the Mayor of Indian Wells, California, a tony desert enclave of rich, conservative Republicans.
When you're in the desert, you look into infinity.... It makes you feel terribly small, and also in a strange way, quite big.
I don't believe space exists. You're not gonna put a camera on a roomba, stick it in the desert, and tell me it's Mars.
Sand-strewn caverns, cool and deep, Where the winds are all asleep; Where the spent lights quiver and gleam; Where the salt weed sways in the stream.
Reclusive? The inner city will secure your privacy better than any desert cave.
When we attempt to define and describe God, both language and thought desert us, and we are as helpless as fools and savages.
When I made my student film, a feature, nobody wanted to talk to me and I was, like, in the desert for 12 years.
Stats are important to me, especially the ones related to scoring. You're going to miss fairways and greens out here, so how you play from the sand really matters.
When you're in the desert you witness acts of power. When you're in the world of the tonal, drop all that nonsense, become logical and orderly and have fun with that.
We Americans think, in every country in transition, there's a Thomas Jefferson hiding behind some rock or a James Madison beyond one sand dune.
When someone tells you it’s a grain of sand, there’s a moment where your reality falls apart and you have to reconstruct it. You have to step back and ask what the image is and what it means.
Note to self: Pasty-skinned programmers ought not stand in the Mojave desert for multiple hours.
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.
Yet the wonder of it all is that, while engaged in a seemingly endless struggle, the Israelis have managed to turn a desert into a garden.
In the desert, an old monk had once advised a traveler, the voices of God and the Devil are scarcely distinguishable.
I tried to convey to the boy how people's lives are often altered by curved lines read slowly from paper, sand, or stone.
Individually, every grain of sand brushing against my hands represents a story, an experience, and a block for me to build upon for the next generation.
If Dubai could be built over mere sand and is one of the richest countries in the world today - why not make the most of the country we've been blessed with?
Precept is instruction written in the sand; the tide flows over it and the record is gone; example is graven on the rock, and the lesson is not soon lost.
Look at climate change; don't put your head in the sand. Understand that it is going to have profound effects on our resources and so much else.
For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the star that is not reached and the harvest that is sleeping in the unplowed ground.
Hear this Robert Zimmerman, I wrote a song for you, about a strange young man called Dylan with a voice like sand and glue.
When with care we have raised an imaginary treasure of happiness, we find at last that the materials of the structure are frail and perishing, and the foundation itself is laid in the sand.
In the high mountains and desert beings can affect you. Most aren't malicious, but some will lure you to your death.
If I were planning to be stranded on a desert island, I wouldn't take Freud's books with me, because I've already read them all.
My own grandfathers were a submarine commander and a 'desert rats' tank operator in the Second World War.
We black men seem the sole oasis of simple faith and reverence in a dusty desert of dollars and smartness.
We write dust epitaphs for our vanquished enemies and watch them blow away in the desert wind.
The dunes are changed by the wind, but the desert never changes. That's the way it will be with our love for each other
Looks like a sand pile my kids have been playing in for a long time - it's all beat up - no definition - just a lot of bumps and holes.
Critic, relent!Your hope for repentanceWill meet with disapppointment.For this is the life,Not desert tents,Not camel's milk!
All of the great prophets of modern times have come from the desert and were uneducated: Mohammed, Jesus and myself.
The women who are pool waitresses are another worldly species. They're half-desert lizards. They never have sunburns.
Life gets so ridiculous, you just have to brush it off like sand and laugh. I think the laughter is good medicine for crap-itis.
Globalization has taken a hit in that there is some sand in the gears because most of us have supply chains that are all over the world that we've had to lengthen.
I think the American West really attracts me because it's romantic. The desert, the empty space, the drama.
A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never failing spring in the desert.
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!
The glacier knocks in the cupboard, The desert sighs in the bed, And the crack in the teacup opens A lane to the land of the dead.
Every time I come, I'm still amazed at the breadth California has. Big Sur, Yosemite, the desert... I love it.
... politics are nothing but sand and gravel: it is art and life that feed us until we die. Everything else is ambition, hysteria or hatred.
A handful of red sand from the hot clime
Of Arab deserts brought,
Within this glass becomes the spy of Time,
The minister of Thought.
The greening of the desert means sowing seeds in people's hearts and creating a green paradise of peace on earth.
On the one hand, I want to go off and live in the desert with my dog and sculpt things out of adobe.
I'd love to be a movie star. That'd be great. But I lost the looks awhile ago. They slipped right through my hands like sand in an hourglass.
You should not see the desert simply as some faraway place of little rain. There are many forms of thirst.
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?
The Democratic Party will never desert the freedoms of our people under the guise of pretending to protect them.
