34 Sands Quotes for You to Enjoy

Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Time Great Men Our Our Lives Great Men Remind Footprints Make Leave Sublime Departing Behind Sands Us Lives

As young West Point cadets, our motto was 'duty, honor, country.' But it was in the field, from the rice paddies of Southeast Asia to the sands of the Middle East, that I learned that motto's fullest meaning. There I saw gallant young Americans of every race, creed and background fight, and sometimes die, for 'duty, honor, and their country.' Norman Schwarzkopf

Fight Sometimes Honor Country Young Duty Field Every Our Saw Background East East Asia Point Learned West West Point Motto Southeast Southeast Asia American Die Middle Young Americans Middle East Race Asia Rice Gallant Meaning Sands Fullest Creed

Shy is the oyster, fervent is the clam, peaceful is the ocean floor rocked by the sands of time. Bradley Chicho

Time Ocean Fervent Sands Peaceful Floor Shy

While it is well enough to leave footprints on the sands of time, it is even more important to make sure they point in a commendable direction. James Branch Cabell

Time Important Enough Direction More Point Footprints Well Make Well Enough Sure Leave Commendable While Sands Even

No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead. Van Wyck Brooks

Book Judge Three Lost Few Spent Has-Been Horn No-One He Until House Dead Sailing Been Years Fit Bumped Vessel Cape Sands Desert Rounded Two

The tar sands has changed Canada in the same way the fur trade has changed Canada. Andrew Nikiforuk

Changed Fur Way Trade Tar Canada Same Sands

Much of the U.S. Midwest is already running on bitumen. Do we want to extend this addiction? And at what cost? Or should we set other goals and say one to two million barrels of oil a day from the tar sands is all we really need to make the transition? Andrew Nikiforuk

The tar sands boom has become the world's largest energy project, the world's largest construction project, and the world's largest capital project. Andrew Nikiforuk

Construction World Become Energy Project Boom Tar Capital Sands Largest

The destructiveness of the tar sands is not inevitable. But Canadians and Albertans have become too tolerant of the politicians who compromise the nation's energy security as well as the next generation's future. Andrew Nikiforuk

Future Generation Become Inevitable Nation Politicians Energy Too Destructiveness Security Compromise Well Tar Canadians Energy Security Sands Next Who Tolerant

All my memories of being in Las Vegas with Bobby were great. Frank Sinatra brought us to the Sands Hotel in 1965. When we worked that lounge, it was a great lounge. I think it was bigger than the showroom. We were two 25-year-old dumb kids from Orange County in Las Vegas with The Rat Pack. Bill Medley

Great Memories Rat Think Frank Frank Sinatra Kids Brought Rat Pack Vegas Hotel Sinatra County Were Dumb Than Lounge Orange Orange County Being Bigger Pack Sands Us Worked Bobby Las Vegas Two

I have visited people whose health has been endangered by tar sands oil. I have watched neighbors struggle to recover from Superstorm Sandy. I have seen solar panels and wind turbines become an increasingly familiar part of the landscape. Frances Beinecke

Health Struggle People Solar Wind Seen Become Increasingly Solar Panels Neighbors Visited Has-Been Recover Part Been Tar Familiar Endangered Oil Sands Sandy Landscape Whose Watched

Tar sands oil is the dirtiest fuel on Earth. Because producing it consumes so much energy, a gallon of tar sands crude generates 17 percent more carbon pollution than conventional crude oil. Frances Beinecke

The British economy of the future must be built not on the shifting sands of boom and bust, but on the bedrock of prudent and wise economic management for the long term. It is only these firm foundations that we can raise Britain's underlying economic performance. Gordon Brown

Future Wise Management Long Shifting Boom Must Only Economic Firm Performance Long-Term Term Economy Underlying Built Bedrock Prudent Sands Bust Foundations Raise Britain British

What makes tar sands particularly odious is that the energy you get out in the end, per unit carbon dioxide, is poor. It's equivalent to burning coal in your automobile. James Hansen

Extracting oil from the tar sands is a nasty, polluting, energy-intensive business. Jeff Goodell

Business Nasty Tar Oil Polluting Sands

The process to generate energy using the Canadian tar sands is particularly dirty, producing one of the most noxious fossil fuels on the planet and leaving a devastated landscape in its wake. John Delaney

I've read plenty of J.G. Ballard, but I'm not really a Ballardian. I've met Ballardians, and I know when I can't compete. I like Ballard in his relatively unchallenging apocalyptic mode: 'Vermilion Sands,' 'The Drowned World,' 'The Burning World,' 'The Crystal World.' Lev Grossman

World Met Relatively Plenty Drowned Like Know Crystal Read His Mode Burning Sands Really Compete

Here are a few of the actors who have brought my novels to TV life: Bill Pullman, Holly Hunter, Frances McDormand, Julian Sands, Gena Rowlands, Rob Lowe, Julia Ormond, Chelsea Hobbs, Tate Donovan, Anne Heche, Max Martini, Campbell Scott, Kimberly Paisley-Williams, Alexa Vega, and the late legends Richard Kiley and Kim Hunter. Luanne Rice

Life Few Late Kim Hunter TV Brought Martini Anne Rob Chelsea Julia Campbell Scott Max Legends Tate Holly Richard Sands Bill Who Novels Actor Here

In the aftermath of 9/11 and in the build-up to the invasion of Iraq, few questioned the idea that the United States was likely to be the extant superpower for several decades to come. Few anticipated how quickly the neoconservative project would run into the sands - or that China would rise so quickly. Martin Jacques

Few Project Several States Run Would Rise Invasion Superpower Idea Come Likely Build-Up How Iraq Questioned Anticipated Quickly Decades Aftermath China Sands United United States

Here in Canada, the people who oppose the tar sands most forcefully are Indigenous people living downstream from the tar sands. They are not opposing it because of climate change - they are opposing it because it poisons their bodies. Naomi Klein

Change People Oppose Opposing Living Indigenous Indigenous People Poisons Most Because Climate Climate Change Tar Canada Sands Bodies Who Downstream Here

I saw Sinatra many times. I saw him at Caesars. I saw him at the Sands. Rene Angelil

Saw Sinatra Him Times Sands Many

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