113 Sand Quotes for You to Enjoy

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

Great Year Great American Dissolve Crumble Almost Like Institutions Became Normal American Just Sand Watch Last Last Year

I wrote in my first book that I was broken, and now it just makes me mad every time. This is why writing words in books is so precarious. This is why Jesus only wrote in the sand, right? I just - I hate that I wrote that. Glennon Doyle Melton

I think glass has so many different forms. Sometimes it comes off as something so breakable and fragile, but it's amazingly strong. It starts as sand, and it takes on different lives, but it is breakable. Goapele

Strong Sometimes Think Starts Something Takes Glass Amazingly Off Different Forms Sand Many Lives Fragile

My father had owned a ranch when he was younger, in Montana, and he remembered riding his horse across the prairie and seeing some large bones sticking out of the ground. He was enough of a geologist, being a sand and gravel man, to have a pretty good notion that they were dinosaur bones. Jack Horner

Good Man Father Enough Montana Ranch Out Dinosaur Seeing Some Pretty Pretty Good Horse Had He Remembered Sticking Prairie Geologist Were His Owned Being Sand Younger Across Notion Ground Large Riding Gravel Bones

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. Jenna Morasca

Best You Skin Circles Out Small Tag Price Take Like Without Off Handful Get Done Sand Your Wash Rub

I loved every minute of my childhood - sunbathing on the fire escape, digging for buried treasure in the back yard, pulling alewives out of the sand... Then it was all taken away from me. I came back every summer to visit my father until I was 18, but I was always the outsider. Jennifer Egan

Me Father Fire Every Digging Back Summer Visit Out Minute Outsider Taken Until Yard Always Came Escape Childhood Buried Loved Sand Then Away Treasure Pulling

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

Me You Man Gorgeous Typical Bit Characters Bores Charming Dirt Absorb Leading Leading Man Like Know Look Attractive Call Been Role Just Where Sand Film Played

If it's hemorrhaging cash, you've got to do something about it. You can't live with your head in the sand. Jim Ratcliffe

You Live About Cash Something Head Got Sand Your

I am not a great French woman. George Sand, Marguerite Duras and Simone de Beauvoir are great French women. Juliette Binoche

Great Woman Women French French Women Am George Sand

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. Kaui Hart Hemmings

Day Home Daughter Extra Related Herself Background One Day Wearing Hawaiian Looked She Call Equally Surf George His George Clooney Shirt Clooney Place Board Sand Shorts Suddenly Playing Filming

A lot of the things I've talked about are being a human being, being respectful, and really just caring about others, and trying to draw the line in the sand when it comes to hate and divisiveness. Kenny Stills

Hate Human Being Others Caring Respectful Draw About Talked Line Lot Trying Human Just Being Sand Really Things

There's only one way to prepare for playing beach volleyball, and that's by getting in the sand. Kerri Walsh Jennings

Way One-Way Beach Only Only One Way Volleyball Getting Sand Prepare Playing

There's something incredibly sexy about sand and sweat and dunes photographed like women's backs. Kristin Scott Thomas

Women Incredibly Backs Photographed Sexy About Something Like Sand Sweat

I think the biggest thing to being an elite-level bobsledder is grit. You have to really want it. It's a very blue-collar sport. We do a lot of the work ourselves; we sand the runners, we wash the sled, we help maintain the sled. Obviously, we have a sled mechanic that travels with us, but a lot of the work we do ourselves. Lauren Gibbs

Work You Mechanic Think Ourselves Runners Maintain Sport Obviously Lot Very Blue-Collar Being Want Biggest Biggest Thing Sand Grit Us Really Help Wash Travels Thing

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. Lennie James

Me You Remember Roof Made Breath Nothing Down Took Our Once Sun Degrees All-Around Pretty Feel Hotel Also Around Sahara Go Up Did Sitting Tiny Sand Your Film Away Awe-Inspiring Watching

One billion grains of sand come into existence in the world each second. That's a cyclical process. As rocks and mountains die, grains of sand are born. Some of those grains may then cement naturally into sandstone. And as the sandstone weathers, new grains break free. Some of those grains may then accumulate on a massive scale, into a sand dune. Magnus Larsson

World Free Mountains Those Scale Some Born New Come Massive Existence Rocks Dune Accumulate Die May Cement Grains Break Process Sand Then Cyclical Naturally Billion Each Second

Sand dunes are almost like ready-made buildings in a way. All we need to do is solidify the parts that we need to be solid, and then excavate the sand, and we have our architecture. We can either excavate it by hand, or we can have the wind excavate it for us. Magnus Larsson

Architecture Wind Our Way Solid Almost Like Parts Buildings Ready-Made Hand Either Sand Then Us Need

The threat is desertification. My response is a sandstone wall made from solidified sand. Magnus Larsson

Made Response Threat Wall Sand

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

Few Months More Take Hours Editor Revised Revision Improvement After Anywhere Again Sent Sand Agent Phase Draft Suggest

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