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Sand Quotes

You may say what you want to, but in my opinion she had more sand in her than any girl I ever see; in my opinion she was just full of sand. It sounds like flattery, but it ain’t no flattery. And when it comes to beauty – and goodness too – she lays over them all.

– Mark Twain

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapter 28. Huck seems quite infatuated with Mary Jane Wilks, who promises to remember him forever and pray for him.

He behaved like an ostrich and put his head in the sand, thereby exposing his thinking parts.

– George Carman

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

– Herbie Mann

The sand stones had fragments of charcoal on some surfaces but found no recognisable fossils.

– George Mercer Dawson

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.

– Joe Biden

What’s special about Miami is the collision of cultures. And the white sand beaches and fantastic restaurants.

– Jeffrey Dean Morgan

I have played characters where I haven’t been absorbed – you know, what I call a typical film leading man role where you just have to look gorgeous and be attractive and charming. It bores me. I like a bit of dirt, a bit of sand in the oyster.

– Jeremy Irons

Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.

– Jorge Luis Borges

Even Castles made of sand, fall into the sea, eventually.

– Jimi Hendrix

We’re all making castles in the sand, wonderful tapestries, an exquisite corpse. But is it meaningful? No. It’s dogs barking. It doesn’t mean anything beyond our yelping, at the pain of being alive.

– Ariel Pink

I can’t swim, and I actually hate sand.

– Christine Teigen

The challenges surrounding HIV and AIDS are getting more complex and mature, and we just can’t stick our heads in the sand and say ‘it can’t happen to me.’

– Brande Roderick

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

– Alberta Hunter

We will admit that, out of the mud or sand which is found on the seashore or the beds of our rivers, at low water, shellfish or testaceous animals come forth, but it does not from thence by any means follow that they are produced without any regular course of generation.

– Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

On sand, you can never be sure of anything. An ordinary shot can take a wicked deflection at the last moment.

– Eric Cantona

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.

– Nadine Gordimer

On vacations: We hit the sunny beaches where we occupy ourselves keeping the sun off our skin, the saltwater off our bodies, and the sand out of our belongings.

– Erma Bombeck

If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water’s edge.

– Napoleon Hill

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

– Dan Jenkins

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

– Eric Bana

Have you ever walked along a shoreline, only to have your footprints washed away? That’s what Alzheimer’s is like. The waves erase the marks we leave behind, all the sand castles. Some days are better than others.

– Pat Summitt

Last year, in the year 2008, it just became normal to watch great American institutions crumble, almost dissolve like sand.

– George Packer

Writing on the beach is not what it’s cracked up to be. The sand blows, and you perspire, and the page gets all blotty and messed up, so I don’t do that anymore.

– Elmore Leonard

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

– Gamal Abdel Nasser

They dined on mince, and slices of quince, Which they ate with a runcible spoon; And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand, They danced by the light of the moon.

– Edward Lear

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.

– Ella Wheeler Wilcox

After I’ve sent my revised draft to my agent and editor, they suggest more improvement sand again, this revision phase can take anywhere from a few hours to a few months.

– Margaret Haddix

In interior decorating, the pig’s actually quite there. It’s used in paint for the texture, but also for the glossiness. In sandpaper, bone glue is actually the glue between the sand and the paper. And then in paintbrushes, hairs are used because, apparently, they’re very suitable for making paintbrushes because of their hard-wearing nature.

– Christien Meindertsma

The key is to hit the ball first, then the sand. Even if you catch it a bit thin, you’ll still get plenty of run. Hitting it fat is what you want to avoid.

– Ernie Els

The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

– Jean Paul

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