Top 1044 Sand Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

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

There's only one way to prepare for playing beach volleyball, and that's by getting in the sand.

If we sit by and become complacent and put our heads in the sand, we're complicit.

I never kick my ball in the rough or improve my lie in a sand trap. For that I have a caddie.

Write today's worries in sand. Chisel yesterday's victories in stone.

If you keep your head in the sand, you don't know where the kick's coming from.

If all the circumstances of acting are made to easy, then there's no grain of sand to make the pearl.

The introduction of resistance in form of sand and hill is too important to be ignored.

The sand-castle virtues are all swept away in the tidal destruction, the moral melee.

Elaboration is not beauty, and sand-paper never finished a piece of bad work.

Depression can be the sand that makes the pearl. Most of my best work came out of it.

The threat is desertification. My response is a sandstone wall made from solidified sand.

Hulkamania is like a single grain of sand in the Sahara desert that is Macho Madness.

Any fool can turn a blind eye but who knows what the ostrich sees in the sand.

I'm a culture person when I'm working, so my downtime is beach time: sand, surf and a barbecue.

I've always wanted to ride a sail barge and drive a sand skiff.

Until they put that sand and dirt in my face I will not sit in church all day.

All self-effort is but sinking sand. Christ alone is the Rock of our salvation.

Bastian had climbed a dune of purplish-red sand and all around him he saw nothing but hill after hill of every imaginable color. Each hill revealed a shade or tint that occured in no other. The nearest was cobalt blue, another was saffron yellow, then came crimson red, then indigo, apple green, sky blue, orange, peach, mauve, turquoise blue, lilac, moss green, ruby red, burnt umber, Indian yellow, vermillion, lapis lazuli, and so on from horizon to horizon. And between the hill, separating color from color, flowed streams of gold and silver sand.

From an endless beach of reality, we take a grain of sand and call it the world.

I always say, if you keep your head in the sand, you don't know where the kick's coming from.

My daughter, Charlotte Strawbridge, has recorded an album, and my favourite song from that is 'Empires Made Of Sand.'

It's only a world, after all, and they're just sand grains in the desert, worlds.

In this big ball of people, I'm just one grain of sand on this beach.

Worry and anxiety are sand in the machinery of life; faith is the oil.

I am the infinite sea, and all worlds are but grains of sand upon my shore.

To be a rebel is not to be a revolutionary. It is more often by a way of spinning one's wheels deeper in sand.

It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out; it's the grain of sand in your shoe.

That's the hell of sand castles. They are always doomed. That's part of their beauty — their impermanence.

The cycle hit the beach and spun out. Emma went into a rolling crouch as she flew free of it, keeping her elbows in, pushing the air hard out of her lungs. She turned her head as she hit the sand, slapping her palms down to roll herself forward, absorbing the impact of the fall through her arms and shoulders, her knees folding up into her chest. The stars wheeled crazily overhead as she spun, sucking in her breath as her body slowed its rolling. She came to a stop on her back, her hair and clothes full of sand and her ears full of the sound of the wildly crashing ocean.

Nothing like the road to rub all the sand out of your soul.

Fish have water, the bushmen of the Kalahari have sand, and Houstonians have interior décor.

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

Riding is my passion, but a very close second is sun, sand, and surf.

Putting our heads in the sand won't stop the inexorable advancement of technology.

For me exotic means beaches, palm trees and sand and frolicking in the ocean

I dig in the sand, and I play with pretty pictures, so I never really left kindergarten.

Manchester City are built on sand and I don't mean that because their owners are from the Arab countries.

I have a very ostrich mentality. I feel like I have my head in the sand so no one can see me.

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.

Chicago is one of my favorite cities because it has great sand, weather and an enthusiastic crowd.

My heart is sand and Orion's cruel tide has washed it away from me, scattered it, lost it.

Moonflowers blossom in the sand hills before dawn, just as I followed him.

They defended the grains of sand in the desert to the last drop of their blood.

Fear is like the wilderland - Stepping stones or sinking sand

Sand. Everywhere. In the bed, in the shower, all over the floor. Grrrrr.

There is no hope the future will but turn the old sand in the falling glass of time.

But be careful; sand is already broken but glass breaks. The shoes are for dancing, not running away.

Too many people write their blessings in the sand but engrave their sorrows in marble

The house that is built upon the sand will crumble at the first sign of a windstorm.

As a handful of sand thrown into the ocean, so are the sins of all flesh as compared with the mind of God.

Here's all I know about Dubai: It's one of those somewhere-over-there places where they make sand.

It is one thing to do your dance on a beach and quite another to collaborate intimately with the sand.

We don't want to bury our heads in the sand about serious issues.

If it's hemorrhaging cash, you've got to do something about it. You can't live with your head in the sand.

Sometimes, that mountain you've been climbing, is just a grain of sand.

We all have hourglass figures; your sand just settles in different places.

I grew up with a big backyard that led to the sand dunes of Lake Michigan.

Harbour Island in the Bahamas is beautiful, with turquoise water and pink sand.

When building sand castles on the beach, we can ignore the waves but should watch the tide.