Top 1200 Sands Of Time Quotes & Sayings

Death has shaken out the sands of thy glass.

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.

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

It seemed to me that man himself was like a half-emptied bottle of pale ale, which Time had drunk so far, yet stoppled tight for a while, and drifting about in the ocean of circumstances, but destined ere-long to mingle with the surrounding waves, or be spilled amid the sands of a distant shore.

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

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

Countless as the sands of the sea are human passions.

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

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

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

Beatle bones and smokin' stones the dry sands fall.

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

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

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

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

Time keeps no measure when true friends are parted, No record day by day; the sands move not for those who, loyal-hearted, friendship's firm laws obey.

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

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

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

You’d better get busy, though, buddy. The goddam sands run out on you every time You turn around. I know what I’m talking about. You’re lucky if you get time to sneeze In this goddam phenomenal world.

What would happen if history could be rewritten as casually as erasing a blackboard? Our past would be like the shifting sands at the seashore, constantly blown this way or that by the slightest breeze. History would be constantly changing every time someone spun the dial of a time machine and blundered his or her way into the past. History, as we know it, would be impossible. It would cease to exist.

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.

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.

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.

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

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!

In 'A Room With a View' there's a lovely scene with Julian Sands and Helena Bonham-Carter in a wheat field. It was simply the right time of day: late afternoon, that golden light, wheat and poppies... So romantic. But I had no idea it would turn out that well, since we so rarely shoot in a studio.

Surely in a matter of this kind we should endeavor to do something, that we may say that we have not lived in vain, that we may leave some impress of ourselves on the sands of time.

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.

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

Our lives are but specks of dust falling through the fingers of time. Like sands of the hourglass, so are the days of our lives.

As your life is in His hands, so are the days of your life. But don’t let the sands of time get into the eye of your vision to reach those who sit in darkness. They simply must hear.

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

Each of us has... all the time there is. Those years, weeks, hours, are the sands in the glass running swiftly away. To let them drift through our fingers is tragic waste. To use them to the hilt, making them count for something, is the beginning of wisdom.

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.

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

It constantly amazes me that men and women wander the earth marveling at the highest mountains, the deepest ocean, the whitest sands, the most exotic islands, the most intriguing birds of the air and fish of the sea - and all the time never stop to marvel at themselves and realize their infinite potential as human beings.

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

Do you remember the church across the sands? You stood outside and planned to travel the lands, where the pilgrims go. So you packed your world up inside a canvas sack, set off down the highway with your rings and Kerouac. Someone said they saw you in Nepal a long time back. Tell me why you look away, don't you have a word to say?

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

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

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.

Let us be banded together as one man; let us contend earnestly for the faith once delivered to the saints; let us pray with fervour, let us live in holiness, let us preach constantly, and preach with fire, and let us so live, that we may impress our age, and leave our footprints on the sands of time.

All my records feel like a diary of the time and headspace they were made in and 'Black Sands' documents this in real time for me. A transition of falling in love with beatmaking again. An appreciation of a place and time and an anticipation for what was going to happen next.

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

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

From the inheritance series book one Eragon. Broom 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 on in memories, that which you will hear is imperfect and fragmented yet treasure it for without you it does not exist.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

The books that I do, the stories I write - I'm glad I'm able to do them, but they will quickly be swallowed up by the sands of time. Sometimes it frustrates me that I'm not able to do bigger, more important, more significant things. I guess you have to be content to do whatever it is you can do.

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

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.

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.

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.

Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.

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