Quotes About Sand

I play volleyball on the beach. It's a great way to work out and have fun.

Twelve barrels of water are required to make one barrel of bitumen. This produces 400 million gallons a day of toxic wastewater at the tar sand mines.

MORE MICA THAN SAND.

A handful of red sand from the hot clime Of Arab deserts brought, Within this glass becomes the spy of Time, The minister of Thought.

Through you I go back to the origin of the sign, to the free writing sketched by wind on the sea and the sand, to the wild writing of the birds. — Marguerite Duras, C'est Tout / No More , transl. Richard Howard (Seven Stories Press, 1998) (via mothwood)

Olhem as areias mortas dos desertos, o corpo morto das crianças: a imortalidade não passa por ali, ela para e contorna.

The landscape of the desert changes very gradually as little breezes lift grains of sand and move them, sometimes a few feet, sometimes miles and miles, so that at the end of the day, when the sun sets, the face of the desert is completely different from the landscape it had in the morning when the sun rose on it.

Satan demands to sift us like sand through his fingers, and God, knowing everything, allows it.

nothing is lifelesswhen the moon writes its screedon the silvern sand silence-From the poem:"The Universe In Blossom

The wind had flung the sand thirty thousand feet into the sky above the desert in a blinding cloud from the Niger to the Nile, and somewhere in it was the airplane.

Solía decir que algunas personas no eran capaces de distinguir y encontrar las perlas entre la arena, o únicamente tenían la fuerza de carácter para quitar la arena de unas cuantas perlas y terminaban sólo con una gargantilla.

glass that the sea tossed up after years of being tumbled and turned by the waves and the salt water, finally landing on the sand as beautiful,

I'm quite a restless holidaymaker - I can't lie down on the sand and don't like too much heat.

She discovered that a great deal of the suffering in this world is due not so much to original sin, but to a kind of original stupidity, an unimaginative, stubborn stupidity.

I'm not sure that there's anything more horrible than staying in a furnished room in Paris, especially

Taisez-vous, sotte et impertinente créature ; vos phrases de roman nous ennuient.

Do you think there are any sand paintings in our field now?" Benny asked hopefully. "No," answered Mr. Pond, smiling. "There haven't been any Indians here for many years." "I'd rather have Indians here than whoever is living in that hut," said Jessie.

I did a film once in the Sahara. It was pretty awe-inspiring. I remember sitting up on the roof of our hotel, watching the sun go down, and all around me, for 360 degrees, was nothing but sand. It took your breath away but also made you feel tiny.

i am nothing but bits of paper, grains of sand pressed hot against hard flesh, campfires burning bright against the still night. i am man?flesh human life walking ~ dreaming, twitching under the noonday sun.

Earth is our mother. It's as fertile and nurturing as farmland; as moist as soil and as dry as sand. In its physical manifestations (such as stones), earth represents the densest of the elements.

Time seems to me a drift, a shifting of sand. And my mind is shifting with it. I am wearing away.

Once a day, take some 'Beach Time.'

FOR EVERY GRAIN OF SAND IN OUR WORLD, THERE ARE ONE MILLION STARS IN THE UNIVERSE.

Then pretty soon Sherburn sort of laughed; not the pleasant kind, but the kind that makes you feel like when you are eating bread that's got sand in it.