- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sand Quotes
Time measured grain by grain.
These sand quotes use the shoreline as a quiet metaphor for time and memory, comparing a lifetime to only a few scratches left in the sand and describing an hourglass slowly emptying into greater clarity. See more in our Beautiful quotes.
- Last Updated on Jul 31, 2026
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My favorite prayer is Footprints in the Sand. You know that prayer? I know the times that he carried me, you know? I kind of wore him out.
- Lasts
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
The 6th of August in the morning we saw an opening in the land and we ran into it, and anchored in 7 and a half fathom water, 2 miles from the shore, clean sand.
- Bravely
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- Nov 07, 2020
From the rugged cliffs of Cape Liptrap peninsula jutting bravely into the swells of Bass Strait, the coast arcs southeast, hugging the waters of Waratah Bay with sweeping flat lines of fine pale sand and knotty scrub.
- Child
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a little kid we had a sand box. It was a quicksand box. I was an only child... eventually.
- Our
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we sit by and become complacent and put our heads in the sand, we're complicit.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
The part I like best was my role in 'Blood and Sand.' If I had died, I would have liked to be remembered as an actor by that role - I think it my greatest.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Sand Pebbles has always been one of my favorite films, I suppose because its the most difficult film - from a physical and logistical standpoint - that I've ever made.
- Nov 07, 2020
Pier Angeli was in the movie called Sea of Sand that Guy Green directed where this idea came up.
- Circumstances
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- Nov 07, 2020
If all the circumstances of acting are made to easy, then there's no grain of sand to make the pearl.
- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
After 35 years of bone-crushing rock guitar playing, I'm finally starting to get my head out of the harmonic sand and learning how to play over chord changes.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind's eye only, fade out in sand.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020