This collection holds 331 sand quotes, drawn from writers, leaders, artists and thinkers across the QuoteForever archive. The most quoted voices here are William Blake, George H. W. Bush and Chrissy Teigen.

They are ordered so that each author has a say before anyone repeats, which means the first page gives you the range of the topic rather than one writer's back catalogue.

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Heaven is in a grain of sand.

We have ...drawn a line in the sand.

I can't swim, and I actually hate sand.

From a grain of sand in the Pearl comes.

The magic of property turns sand to gold.

The Word of God is ROCK. All else is sand.

What a rope of sand we are without a leader.

We're ostriches and the whole world is sand.

Death has shaken out the sands of thy glass.

We love to race in the sand dunes in Glamis.

You change or you hide your head in the sand.

God is everywhere, in the smallest grain of sand.

A handful of sand is an anthology of the universe.

Faith is to the human what sand is to the ostrich.

'Tusk' was clearly a line in the sand that I drew.

I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.

The sand murmurs that it wants to swallow everything.

Well, actually, I do the voiceover for Quentin Sands.

Putting our heads in the sand is not a wise strategy.

Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.

Even Castles made of sand, fall into the sea, eventually.

I danced along a colored wind/ Dangled from a rope of sand

Nothing like the road to rub all the sand out of your soul.

Most Americans have their head in the sand about evolution.

I was sand, I was snow—written on, rewritten, smoothed over.

Fear is like the wilderland - Stepping stones or sinking sand

The real danger is a politics that buries its head in the sand.

I've always wanted to ride a sail barge and drive a sand skiff.

Movies are written in sand: applauded today, forgotten tomorrow.

I would like to bury all the hating eyes under the sand somewhere.

Our life is but a grain of sand in the indifferent ocean of infinity.

The passing of armies and the passing of sands in the desert are one.

I will not be a common man. I will stir the smooth sands of monotony.

In this big ball of people, I'm just one grain of sand on this beach.

Riding is my passion, but a very close second is sun, sand, and surf.

And all around is the desert; a corner of the mournful kingdom of sand.

I don't believe it's all for nothing. It's not just written in the sand.

Time slips through our hands like grains of sand, never to return again.

Sand. Everywhere. In the bed, in the shower, all over the floor. Grrrrr.

Building a godly life on the sand of scriptural illiteracy is impossible.

On the tawny sands and shelves trip the pert fairies and the dapper elves.

Moonflowers blossom in the sand hills before dawn, just as I followed him.

I grew up with a big backyard that led to the sand dunes of Lake Michigan.

We all have hourglass figures; your sand just settles in different places.

What we know is to what we do not know, as a grain of sand is to the beach.

Elaboration is not beauty, and sand-paper never finished a piece of bad work.

I have loved you woman as surely as I have named you rust and sand and nylon.

Skiing sand in midday sun was impossible - the sand becomes hot and abrasive.

We write our names in the sand: and then the waves roll in and wash them away.

Apothegms are in history, the same as pearls in the sand, or gold in the mine.

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