Quotes About Sand

Engine loves his branch line. One day, when he stopped at a small station, some children looked sad. "They've closed our playground and our favorite sand pit." "Teacher says the sand is soiled and too dirty to play in.

Teacher says the sand is soiled and too dirty to play in." "Please help us, Thomas.

Come, for the House of Hope is built on sand bring wine, for the fabric of life is as weak as the wind.

He reached down, pulled on a piece of seaweed and came up with a handful of gleaming white shells, shook off the water and tossed them on to the sandy bank. I attempted to do likewise, and came up with a handful of slime and a few broken bits of twig, one of which had a tiny but very angry-looking crab clinging to it.

We sat on the verandah drinking beer before we left, the hotel dark behind us. The moonlight was so strong we could see the grains of white sand glittering individually where it had been flung across the tarmac by the ox-wagon wheels. The heavy-hanging, pointed leaves of the gum-trees shone like tiny spears. I

He'd always, all of his life, loved the sound of breaking water. Nothing that had happened had changed that. The crawling of water over sand, the hush of a word no … no … no … not even that had changed his love of the power of the sea.

All we have to do is follow its track in the sand.' 'What sand?' said Jerott. 'Don't be pessimistic,' said Lymond.

society in which consumption has to be artificially stimulated in order to keep production going is a society founded on trash and waste, and such a society is a house built upon sand.

They both sat on the pavement and watched with a certain unease as huge children bounced heavily along the sand and wild horses thundered through the sky taking fresh supplies of reinforced railings to the Uncertain Areas.

They came out of the temple into the sunshine with the sand yellow and warm about their feet.

Watching all this from the sidelines was Chopin's pupil Jane Stirling, who was only too ready to move into the space vacated by Sand. She and her wealthy elder sister Katherine Erskine had been part of Chopin's Paris circle for the past four years, and Stirling, his pupil since 1844, was now receiving up to three lessons a week.

The Aralqum Desert is too new, too large, and its outline too changeable to be on any maps. It's a desert that used to be called the Aral Sea. The new name is gaining favor, although it's not quite as exotic as it sounds. Qum is Uzbek for "sand.

I dig in the sand, and I play with pretty pictures, so I never really left kindergarten.

Sand is one of the best exfoliates out there! Take a handful of sand and rub it on your skin in small circles. When you're done, wash it off and presto... you get spa like skin, without the price tag.

A beach is not only a sweep of sand, but shells of sea creatures, the sea glass, the seaweed, the incongruous objects washed up by the ocean.

Sand is a way of life for an oyster. If you are soft and tender and must live on the sandy floor of the ocean, making pearls becomes a necessity if you are to live well.

Genius has no taste for weaving sand.

It was late afternoon, and the sun laid sharp golden halo on the ridges of the dunes, glinting on the grey-green leaves of the scrub. Behind the line of dunes that closed the valley to the south, the sea was peacefully snoring. Blue shadow crept across the flat sand floor, and the air grew sharp.

I'm a California kid, so I love the beach.

I ski, I surf, I scuba dive... any sport that starts with an 's.'

One day during filming, George Clooney was wearing his surf shirt and board shorts, and my six-year-old daughter was in the background as an extra, playing in the sand - playing herself. She and Clooney suddenly looked equally Hawaiian, equally related to the place I call home.

Riding is my passion, but a very close second is sun, sand, and surf.

I'm a culture person when I'm working, so my downtime is beach time: sand, surf and a barbecue.

Vu iz do a vasser on a zamd? Vu is do a melech on a land? Dos vasser fun oyg iz on zamd. Der melech in kortn iz on land. Where is there water without sand? Where is there a king without land? Tears from the eyes are withoud sand. The king of cards has no land. (p. 72)