Sand Quotes

“And so castle made of sand fall into the sea, eventually.”

“Unhappy they who raise their hopes upon the shifting sand.”

“To see a world in a grain of sand/And a heaven in a wild flower.”

“A wise man can pick up a grain of sand and envision a whole universe.”

“...the entire universe was there within a grain for our understanding.”

“Close to 70 percent of all sand grains on the earth are made of quartz.”

“The crust of a tan man imbibed by the sand; soaking up the thirst of the land.”

“The huge variety of sand grains is astounding, and each one has a story to tell.”

“I don't like sand. It's coarse, and rough, and irritating, and it gets everywhere.”

“Sand grains comes in variety of shapes, which can make measuring its size quite tricky.”

“It isn’t the mountain ahead that wears you out – it is the grain of sand in your shoe.”

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

“The sand grain has become a symbol of permanence and fragility of our – and - nature’s works.”

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“It has been estimated that on the order of a billion sand grains are born around the world every second.”

“Sand is somewhat like beauty – we know it when we see it, or touch it, but it seems difficult to describe.”

“History is a child building a sand castle by the sea and that child is the whole majesty of man’s power in the world.”

“The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.”

“I wrote my name upon the sand;
I thought I wrote it on thine heart.
I had no touch of fear, that words,
Such words, so graven, could depart.”

“...the noise made by a single grain of sand moving with the waves is one of a series of tiny perceptions that we accumulate to hear the roar of the ocean.”