Socrates
Philosopher
"Our lives are but specks of dust falling through the fingers of time. Like sands of the hourglass, so are the days of our lives."
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Sand
107 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Jorge Luis Borges
Writer, Poet
"Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone."
Henry David Thoreau
Writer, Philosopher
"Time is like a handful of sand - the tighter you grasp it, the faster it runs through your fingers."
Pablo Picasso
Painter, Sculptor
"We have a definite but unknown quantity of experience at our disposal. As soon as the hourglass is turned, the sand will begin to run out and once it starts, it cannot stop until it's all gone."
Haruki Murakami
Writer
"I don't know, there's something about you. Say there's an hourglass: the sand's about to run out. Someone like you can always be counted on to turn the thing over."
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"I would like to bury all the hating eyes under the sand somewhere."
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"Heaven is in a grain of sand."
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"If we sit by and become complacent and put our heads in the sand, we're complicit."
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"From a grain of sand in the Pearl comes."
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"You throw the sand against the wind and the wind blows it back again."
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"Well, actually, I do the voiceover for Quentin Sands."
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"Time slips through our hands like grains of sand, never to return again."
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"In some pictures of Provincetown the persons of the inhabitants are not drawn below the ankles, so much being supposed to be buried in the sand."
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"If you keep your head in the sand, you don't know where the kick's coming from."
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"Nature makes the locust with an appetite for crops; man would have made him with an appetite for sand"
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"Building a godly life on the sand of scriptural illiteracy is impossible."
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"Sand. Everywhere. In the bed, in the shower, all over the floor. Grrrrr."
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"The ephemeral nature of live performance is the part I love most - it's a monk's sand painting, carefully constructed, then wiped away in an instant."
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"In our time, we have sifted the sands of Mars, we have established a presence there, we have fulfilled a century of dreams!"
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"How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them! If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee."
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"The passing of armies and the passing of sands in the desert are one."
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"I have loved you woman as surely as I have named you rust and sand and nylon."
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"I sat down in the sand, breathless with shame and failure. God, I thought, some defender of the weak. Some freedom fighter: Joan of Arc in sunscreen."
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"The magic of property turns sand to gold."
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"The sands are number'd that make up my life; Here must I stay, and here my life must end."
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