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Quotes About Sand

We love to race in the sand dunes in Glamis.
~ Robby Gordon
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
Abstraction can be a powerful tool, but it can also lead to heads buried in the sand. In
~ Peter Lucas
It was a clear, impenetrable hole in the ship: a circular viewport into an alien terrarium where, out past the ghostly reflection of his own face, strange hyperbaric creatures built monstrous artifacts out of sand and coral. Their eyes twinkled like green stars in the gloom.
~ Peter Watts
having a line of coloured sand drawn around Phnom Penh to give the city magical protection.
~ Philip Short
There's only one way to prepare for playing beach volleyball, and that's by getting in the sand.
~ Kerri Walsh Jennings
It's nice at the beach. You don't have to wear a shirt.
~ Karch Kiraly
I love the beach.
~ Hunx
I prefer to go to the beach in the summer!
~ Massimiliano Allegri
I really love the beach.
~ Samin Nosrat
I used to go to the beach everyday in Rio!
~ Marcelo
I just like the beaches in the summer, man.
~ Rob Gronkowski
Fear is like the wilderland - Stepping stones or sinking sand
~ Joni Mitchell
worry and anxiety are sand in the machinery of life, and faith is the oil
~ Abraham Verghese
I take pride in this great wall, and I plaster it with dust and sand lest a least hole should be left in this name; and for all the care I take I lose sight of my true being.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth.
~ Rachel Carson
Growing up in Australia, we didn't really go on holiday. We lived beside the beach, so when I walked out of the back gate I was on the sand.
~ John Torode
There's nothing better for kids than a bucket and shovel at the beach.
~ Thomas Gibson
I'm a total beach bum.
~ Amyra Dastur
I'm a beach bum, so I'm more comfortable in western wear.
~ Ileana D'Cruz
As a child, I spent a lot of summers going to the beach with family friends.
~ Jenny Han
Skiing sand in midday sun was impossible - the sand becomes hot and abrasive.
~ Candide Thovex
I have known beaches, but I have no particular fondness for them. I don't like sand in my crevices. I don't like sand at all. I don't enjoy all that sunshine and heat without the benefit of climate control.
~ Roxane Gay
I spent the next two hours down there, first sitting in the sand, sifting and swirling, watching the grains fall from the webs of my dusty hands and then walking down by the water, collecting those little pieces of beach glass. There were more of them than I thought. They were surprisingly strong. I tried to snap one in half to see if the inside was still shiny and clear like regular glass, but it wouldn't break. Its scuffy exterior was like scar tissue. (67)
~ Wendy Blackburn