Sand Quotations | Page 3

That's an exciting bird to find because they're so tiny and out on the sand where they're hard to find.

The farm will give younger kids an idea of where the apples they eat come from, where the eggs that Mom feeds them at home come from, before she buys them in the store. Having to dig for potatoes in the sand will make kids realize that it takes some effort to get to some foods,

The cement mixture with sand was not done properly and there is a lot of shoddy work done. It's making it harder for them to actually save lives because every time they pull a block, it disintegrates.

I just cold shanked my approach into the trees to the right of the fairway. I was stymied by a tree and had to hit a shot left-handed back into the fairway. From there I chunked a sand wedge that barely made the green. Then I somehow got down in two for a double.

In greenside bunkers, the big thing is to adapt your stance to the shot. It's rare that you get a flat lie in the sand, so I make sure to align my body to the slope. Then I blast the ball out by splashing the sand underneath it.

Immigration is directly related to it. We can't sit like ostriches with our heads in the sand any longer.

I missed two easy sand shots, ... If I get those two shots down, it would have been better. That took the momentum out of the round.

I never really liked weightlifting because there is no problem solving, whereas when I am fighting, I am trying to solve a problem, so I don't think about being tired. I box, wrestle, do jujitsu, run up sand dunes; every single day is something different so that I am mentally engaged. That's what makes me want to train longer.

If the parents win the upcoming case, it will definitely throw sand in the gears of the 'intelligent design' movement.

I had 128 yards to the front of the green, which is normally a pitching wedge. I used an 8-iron and a sand wedge to get on the green.

If we attempted to place sand on the beach now, it would be washed out rather quickly.

If you're on a beach and you're running behind a pickup truck and somebody throws sand in your face all the time, you start backing up a little bit.

If you're a beach person or a golfer, Key West is not for you. Most of the sand has been imported, and the water is shallow until you've waded far out, and all the way the sea floor is covered with yucky algae and sea grass.

If you go outside and dig down 8 inches and have pure sand that's where our fires occur. The plants are stressed, the ground is dry and we get these windy days. What could be a little fire could turn into a big fire quickly.

In the first year, it looked as if we were really gonna aim for the highest thing possible. And then, gradually, sort of like the waves eating away at a sand castle, you know, they just wore away, bit by bit and it's gotten more and more ordinary.

Interestingly the BOJ hasn't intervened where it last intervened and that confirms our view that they haven't drawn a line in the sand and they want to slow the pace of appreciation.

In past years late in the season in September we've been out here freezing with our socks on because the sand is so cold.

I have this mental picture of free guys and slave guys working side by side, along with these Irish guys who are shoveling sand and lugging lumber up to the fourth floor - and everybody sitting down having coffee. It just is almost unbelievable for us to picture, but that's the kind of inference you get from these records.

Investors know that what was going on on the Street with analysts was wrong, was corrupt and had to be changed, ... The smart business leaders are changing their ways. Those who are putting their heads in the sand are saying, 'Let's get rid of the cops who watch to make sure things get done honestly.'

If you move into the quicksand, this loose packing will collapse. We then have densely packed sand at the bottom, and water floating on top of it. It's the difficulty of getting water into this very densely packed sand that makes it difficult for you to pull your foot out.

I had a hole in the bottom of my foot, and I just kept working and walking on the sand every day, and yeah I got a bad infection, almost died, lost my leg and stuff, like the guy in the hospital now.

If there was a grain of sand on Kathy, it would have come out and it hasn't. She's run twice, she's beat them twice.

Clear Channel drew a line in the sand today with regard to protecting our listeners from indecent content, and Howard Stern's show blew right through it,

Chopin suffered from melancholia -- what today would be diagnosed as bipolar disorder, ... And by the end of their time together Sand was his caretaker, his nursemaid, and she'd had enough. But she was a crucial force in his life -- the person who gave him a home, a family.

The Word of God is ROCK. All else is sand.

Certainly there's a lot less sand behind those breakwaters since Hurricane Katrina, ... But, having said that, it looks like it could have been a lot worse.

Chew on this: Human teeth can detect a grain of sand or grit 10 microns in diameter. A micron is 1/25,000 of an inch. If you shrank a Coke can until it was the diameter of a human hair, the letter O in the product name would be about 10 microns across.

He stuck his head in the sand and deliberately avoided knowing what would have been obvious. We don't need to prove why.

The sand murmurs that it wants to swallow everything.

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

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

I cannot think of a better use of taxpayers' funds than to provide basic utilities to people who need it. We are not responsible for everything in their water. The have shallow-point sand wells that septic systems, road run-offs and fertilizers from farmers' fields can infiltrate. There has been no tritium found in those wells.

Grass? Give me a bucket of balls and a sand wedge. Sure I like grass.

For over three years, state leaders have stuck their heads in the sand and ignored the majority of Texans who want the state to make a real commitment to supporting and improving our children's schools.

We have ...drawn a line in the sand.

We're ostriches and the whole world is sand.

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

The body is so easily damaged, so easily disposed of, water and chemicals is all it is, hardly more to it than a jellyfish drying on sand.

I was sand, I was snow—written on, rewritten, smoothed over.

The SEALs place a premium on brute strength, but there's an even bigger premium on speed. That's speed through the water, speed over the ground, and speed of thought. There's no prizes for gleaming a set of well-oiled muscles in Coronado. Bulk just makes you slow, especially in soft sand, and that's what we had to tackle every day of our lives, mile after mile.

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

When obedience is in the ascendant, He will tax the remotest star and the last grain of sand to assist you with all His Almighty power.

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

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

Most Americans have their head in the sand about evolution.

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

Don't stop doing what you love. Don't let your future be ruined by a bunch of loony sand monkeys.

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

When the beginnings of self destruction enter the heart, it seems no bigger than a grain of sand.

You could tell it aggravated him a little bit, ... When the show was over, the guy said, 'I guess I'll just take this thing home, sand the paint off and let it rust.'

This is a joke. Kids have been playing (here) ... families have been walking all over. People have been laying out on the sand there. It's crazy. But I'll be glad when it's finally all cleaned up.

Technically speaking, you can build anything out of sand; it doesn't mean you do it.

The freedom of the sand seemed to give a stronger spirit of revolt, and some of the animals were only caught after a dangerous struggle.

The course was a living, changing thing, because every year he'd want to plant more trees or build another lake. One year, he thought one of the holes was too easy, so he put another sand trap in the spot where everyone was playing.

The first crops failed. The tomatoes grew large but fell off early. The sand could not hold them up.

Fear is like the wilderland - Stepping stones or sinking sand

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

Studios and networks who ignore either shift — whether the increasing sophistication of storytelling, or the constantly shifting sands of technological advancement — will be left behind,

The description of the air and sand going in his mouth when he inhaled while he was under the ground has never left me,

All of the public works directors sat down with me last week and we talked about sand bag inventory, preparation, debris flow, all those kinds of things .

The line in the sand for the CWCB is the nighttime flow.

Did no one tell him that pain lives in this sand, dug in and watered with our blood?

I don't know, there's something about you. Say there's an hourglass: the sand's about to run out. Someone like you can always be counted on to turn the thing over.

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

Faith is to the human what sand is to the ostrich.

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

Most newspaper companies still have their heads in the sand, but other media companies are aggressive.

I danced along a colored wind/ Dangled from a rope of sand

I don't believe it's all for nothing. It's not just written in the sand.

Every barrel of oil that comes out of those sands in Canada is a barrel of oil that we don't have to buy from a foreign source.

How massively the mountains stand, while low to the ground the sand blows. The sand blows on and on. And then there are no mountains, none at all, the sand has kissed and whispered them away. And still, the sand blows on.

The ephemeral nature of live performance is the part I love most - it's a monk's sand painting, carefully constructed, then wiped away in an instant.

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?

Writers begin with a grain of sand, and then create a beach.

There is a perennial classical question that asks which part of the motorcycle, which grain of sand in which pile, is the Buddha. Obviously to ask that question is to look in the wrong direction, for the Buddha is everywhere. But just as obviously to ask the question is to look in the right direction, for the Buddha is everwhere.

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.

One thought includes all thought, in the sense that a grain of sand includes the universe.

Like a sea-beast crawled forth, that on a shelf/ Of rock or sand reposeth, there to sun itself.

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

The sands are number'd that make up my life; Here must I stay, and here my life must end.

From a grain of sand in the Pearl comes.

To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour.

E's all 'ot sand an' ginger when alive, / An' 'e's generally shammin' when 'e's dead.

see the world in a grain of sand ... And eternity in an hour.

Sam Ran Over Sand or Sand Ran Over Sam,

Speak, speak, for underneath the cover thereThe sand is running from the upper glass,And when the last grain's through, I shall be lost.

Speak, speak, for underneath the cover there The sand is running from the upper glass, And when the last grain's through, I shall be lost.

You throw the sand against the windAnd the wind blows it back again.

In some pictures of Provincetown the persons of the inhabitants are not drawn below the ankles, so much being supposed to be buried in the sand.

All that mankind has ever learned is nothing more than a single grain of sand on a beach that reaches to infinity.

Nature makes the locust with an appetite for crops; man would have made him with an appetite for sand

We have a definite but unknown quantity of experience at our disposal. As soon as the hourglass is turned, the sand will begin to run out and once it starts, it cannot stop until it's all gone.

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.

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

Time is like a handful of sand - the tighter you grasp it, the faster it runs through your fingers.

And so castles made of sand fall in the sea, eventually.

I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.

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

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

You throw the sand against the wind and the wind blows it back again.