Top 209 Sands Quotes & Sayings

The people who have sacrificed their view in order to get to the top have very often left no footprints in the sands of time.

Vacation: Two weeks on the sunny sands - and the rest of the year on the financial rocks.

You can't leave footprints in the sands of time while sitting down.

Shy is the oyster, fervent is the clam, peaceful is the ocean floor rocked by the sands of time.

We must not build on the sands of an uncertain and everchanging science...but upon the rock of inspired Scriptures.

There's no question that tar sands in Canada are probably the largest source of oil available to the U.S. over a long period of time. There's as much oil in the tar sands probably as there is in Saudi Arabia. The problem is, there's a huge capital requirement to develop that.

It is impossible to stand upright when one plants his roots in the shifting sands of popular opinion and approval.

I was signed to MGM. I was in Vegas for sixteen weeks at the Sands Hotel.

Our doom is, to be sifted by the wind, heaped up, smoothed down like silly sands. We are less permanent than thought.

For now is my grief heavier than the sands of the seas, she thought. This world has emptied me of all but the oldest purpose: tomorrow's life.

I did theater at Spelman until I graduated from there, and I got to work with such luminous actresses as Diana Sands in 'Macbeth.'

Death has shaken out the sands of thy glass.

The atoms of Democritus And Newton's particles of light Are sands upon the Red Sea shore, Where Israel's tents do shine so bright.

I do not know at what moment in life, if ever, we realise that we are neither George Sands nor Juliets. Of course, if we are not beautiful, we recognise early that beauty is nothing.

I longed from a tiny child to get away on my own. When I was five, I walked out along the sands from Redcar, nearly all the way to Hartlepool.

The red sands of Marrakesh, sprawling at the foot of the Atlas like a wounded Leviathan.

Pretty Polynesian baby over the sea, I remember the night, when we walked in the sands of Waikiki and I held you oh so tight.

All the best sands of my life are somehow getting into the wrong end of the hourglass. If I could only reverse it! Were it in my power to do sowould I?

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.

Talking wisely to the ignorant is throwing precious seeds to the desert sands!

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

Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With silken lines, and silver hooks.

Countless as the sands of the sea are human passions.

The oil corporations spend a lot of money to get, say, the tar sands pipeline through, but nobody's - you know, there are definitely environmentalists being paid - but a lot of people are acting for something other than financial compensation. So if the tar sands pipeline doesn't get made, it's because a huge amount of people are doing something that doesn't involve remuneration, money, etc., because we're not actually the self-interested financial instruments that economists like to imagine we are.

Well, actually, I do the voiceover for Quentin Sands.

Big rocks are envy of little sands because little sands can travel with the winds. Every littleness has its own big advantages!

Tar sands are attractive, but like biofuels, they will never replace Middle East oil.

The sands of time are quicksands ... so much can sink into them without a trace.

On the tawny sands and shelves trip the pert fairies and the dapper elves.

We write a subscript to our mortality. We make our lives tiny diamonds in the cosmic sands.

And they three passed over the white sands, between the rocks, silent as the shadows.

In our time, we have sifted the sands of Mars, we have established a presence there, we have fulfilled a century of dreams!

When we trust ourselves, ascents become descents, difficulties turn into easinesses, rocks transform into sands and swords into melting candles!

You cannot build your life with a consistent worldview that is on the shifting sands of moral relativism.

The world hid its head in the sands of convention, so that by seeing nothing it might avoid Truth.

Tar sands oil is dirtier, more corrosive, and worse for the environment than conventional oil.

The more people learn about the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, the worse it looks.

Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free, Silhouetted by the sea, circled by the circus sands

Expedients are for an hour, but principles are for the ages. Just because the rains descend and winds blow, we cannot afford to build on shifting sands.

I must seem like an ostrich who forever burries its head in the relativistic sands in order not to face the evil quanta.

The Creator of the seas, sands, and endless stars is reaching out to you this very day! He is offering the grand recipe for happiness, peace, and eternal life!

Junkies find veins in their toes when the veins in their arms collapse. Developing tars sands is the equivalent.

I will not be a common man. I will stir the smooth sands of monotony.

Tar sands oil is the dirtiest fuel on Earth. Because producing it consumes so much energy, a gallon of tar sands crude generates 17 percent more carbon pollution than conventional crude oil.

Here in Canada, the people who oppose the tar sands most forcefully are Indigenous people living downstream from the tar sands. They are not opposing it because of climate change - they are opposing it because it poisons their bodies.

That narrow stretch of sand knows nothing in the world better than it does the white waves that whip it , caress it , collapse on to it . The white foam knows nothing better than those sands which wait for it , rise to it and suck it in .but what do the waves know of the massed, hot, still sands of the desert just twenty , no , ten feet beyond the scalloped edge ? And what does the beach knows of depths, the cold, the currents just there, where-do you see it? - Where the water turns a deeper blue.

All the sands of the world even when they unite together cannot create the hardness of a single rock!

You may boldly say, you did not plough Or trust the barren and ungrateful sands With the fruitful grain of your religious counsels.

While it is well enough to leave footprints on the sands of time, it is even more important to make sure they point in a commendable direction.

My lungs taste the air of Time,Blown past falling sands.

When an oil company executive tells American families that we don't need to be concerned with tar sands pipeline safety, it's not only misleading, it's insulting.

At a certain point memory becomes a beach strewn with landmines, all life’s many losses buried in those sands.

If you would like to leave footprints in the sands of time, you had better wear work shoes.

As falls the dew on quenchless sands, blood only serves to wash ambition's hands.

If you're serious about climate targets, you don't build and expand the oil sands and move from coal-fired electricity to inefficient fracked gas.

Who soweth good seed shall surely reap; The year grows rich as it groweth old, And life's latest sands are its sands of gold!

Beatle bones and smokin' stones the dry sands fall.

Kisses are but like sands of gold and silver, found upon the ground which are not worth much themselves but as they promise a mine near too be dig'd.

Extracting oil from the tar sands is a nasty, polluting, energy-intensive business.

The sands of time cannot be stopped. Years pass whether we will them or not... but we can remember. What has been lost may yet live in memories.