Top 100 In The Sand Quotes
#1. The ostrich burying its head in the sand does at any rate wish to convey the impression that its head is the most important part of it.
Katherine Mansfield
#2. If you look at the various strategies available for dealing with a new technology, sticking your head in the sand is not the most plausible strategy.
Ralph Merkle
#3. I really need some answers."
"I know you do." Her hands came down. "I just can't believe you don't know anything."
"Believe it."
"How am I supposed to explain this to you?"
"With words. That'd work for me. Faster than drawing pictures in the sand with a stick.
Veronica Rossi
#4. It was possible to grow up in an instant, that you could look down and see the line in the sand dividing your life now from what it used to be.
Jodi Picoult
#5. From the foot of the pyramids I contemplate twenty centuries, buried in the sand ... I came here to hold on to fleeting life, and I see all about me only death ... I write this, not quite knowing what I'm saying, but I dry the ink with the dust of Egyptian queens.
Rachel
#6. It may be bliss not to know a tornado is coming because you have no need to worry or take action. But while your head is in the sand your bum is in the air, the tornado is still coming.
David Icke
#7. When your head is firmly in the sand, another part of your anatomy is fully exposed.
Don Feder
#8. In the eternal lazy morning of the Pacific, days slip away into months, months into years; the seasons are reduced to the faintest nuance by the great central fact of the sunshine; one might pass a lifetime, it seems, between two yawns, lying bronzed and naked in the sand.
Christopher Isherwood
#9. All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be, I learned in kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate-school mountain, but there in the sand pile at Sunday School.
Robert Fulghum
#10. And so it was that in the midst of chaos and color and light, in the glorious rebirth of a magical world, there remained two small vessels dark and drained. And those vessels were the heart and the soul of a brokenhearted young mage, sobbing alone in the sand.
Lisa McMann
#11. I walk among bodies still in the sand, People and that something they die for
S.L. Northey
#12. Los Angeles, give me some of you! Los Angeles come to me the way I came to you, my feet over your streets, you pretty town I loved you so much, you sad flower in the sand, you pretty town!
John Fante
#13. Be what you are, all that you are. Wear yourself proudly. It will require that you draw a line, but that line in the sand is your courage.
Christy Hall
#14. The absolute easiest thing to do is spend time, as often as one can, in tranquil or majestic nature. Look at butterflies. Walk barefoot in the sand. Put your feet in a clean, bubbling stream. Walk in a city park and feed the pigeons. Anything. Get out and take a walk.
Gary K. Smith
#15. It is easier to invest for cash flow during a financial crisis. So don't waste a good crisis by hiding your head in the sand. The longer the crisis lasts, the richer some people will become.
Robert Kiyosaki
#16. Estate taxes make every one of us nervous. If there's an owner who isn't, he has his head in the sand.
Dan Rooney
#17. Some people are averse to change, but the advertising model is going to change with or without the Hopper. What we're saying to the broadcasters is, 'There's a way for you not to put your head in the sand.'
Charlie Ergen
#18. We are all different. God made us that way. Drawing a line in the sand due to that is indeed unfortunate.
Jill Telford
#19. We grew up listening to alternative music from the '90s, and there was no shame in being on a major label and still making the music you wanted to make. I feel like rap rock came around and drew a line in the sand, and everybody that was like me ran away from that and started making indie-rock.
Nate Ruess
#20. Apothegms are in history, the same as pearls in the sand, or gold in the mine.
Desiderius Erasmus
#21. Are we etched in stone or just scratched in the sand
Waiting for the waves to come and reclaim the land?
tightrope - stone roses
Matt Squire
#22. Bury my head in the sand and go with the status quo or find myself in the rubble and move on. I'd chosen the latter and that had led me here to him. Heaven help me.
Jordan Silver
#23. God does not call us to rest seven days a week with our head in the sand. He calls us to make an impact wherever we are.
Phil Callaway
#24. Leaders with principles are less likely to get bullied or pushed around because they can draw clear lines in the sand ... The softest pillow is a clear conscience. - Narayana Murthy, founder and CEO, Infosys
Bill George
#25. The challenges surrounding HIV and AIDS are getting more complex and mature, and we just can't stick our heads in the sand and say 'it can't happen to me.'
Brande Roderick
#26. Precept is instruction written in the sand; the tide flows over it and the record is gone; example is graven on the rock, and the lesson is not soon lost.
William Ellery Channing
#27. I'm also big on journaling. You can write in the sand or on a watermelon or whatever suits you, but the key is to get it out of your head and out of your heart and down your arms and into something, a keyboard or piece of paper.
Deborah King
#28. I think of you, of the lake, of the city, of the burning days on the shore, in the sand, of the shadowy paths, of the musical breath of the air. The water is quiet, blue, I'd like to lie in a boat in the reeds, I don't want to speak, everything around me will tell you what I'm sensing.
Ingeborg Bachmann
#29. Madness is an ostrich who sticks her head in the sand while a pack of hyenas closes in around her.
Dan Brown
#30. Many people find bald, unvarnished truths so disturbing, they prefer to ram their heads in the sand and start dreaming at the first sign of scientific reality.
Charlie Brooker
#31. Rapid and repeated probing, so typical of these wading birds, is thought to allow them to build up a composite three-dimensional image of food items hidden in the sand.24
Tim Birkhead
#32. There is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing.
Toni Morrison
#33. Sometimes you have got to look at things really positively - without putting your head in the sand, you have got to manage the negatives and keep putting a positive slant on it, keep trying to find answers.
Brian McDermott
#34. Draw your line in the sand. Make your decision now and start taking action to really live your dream. By not taking bold steps to live your dream, not only are you missing out on fully living, but the world is missing out on the greatness you have to offer. Be bold!
Les Brown
#35. I am beyond good and evil at this point. I am beyond the lines drawn in the sand by society at this juncture. I am beyond fear, beyond religion, beyond the morals and mores. I am Lord of the Fucking Flies. Do you understand?
Jason S. Hornsby
#36. I want a love as deep as the sea, A love that will forever carry me, Away....Where I can go far away from this land...to forget about the love I lost in the sand.
Christopher St. John Sampayo
#37. All the nations that ever lived have left their footsteps in the sand. The traces fade with every tide, the echoes grow faint, the images are fractured, the human material is atomized and recycled. But if we know where to look, there is always a remnant, a remainder, an irreducible residue.
Norman Davies
#38. Write in the sand the flaws of your friend.
Pythagoras
#39. The ostrich-approach of burying your head in the sand, when confronting your areas of weakness, becomes a self-set trigger for failure.
Archibald Marwizi
#40. Everything comes home, my mother used to say; every word spoken, every shadow cast, every footprint in the sand. It can't be helped; it's part of what makes us who we are.
Joanne Harris
#41. The children themselves repaid her griefs with small joys. These joys were so small that they could not be seen, like gold in the sand, and in her bad moments she saw only the griefs, only sand; but there were also good moments, when she saw only joys, only gold.
Leo Tolstoy
#42. It is our art that has an opportunity to leave a footprint in the sand. They don't wrap fish in our work.
Hugh Newell Jacobsen
#43. Maybe roll in the sand with a rock and roll man.
Jimmy Buffett
#44. We must not adopt the world's view and then tweak it to make it Christian. We must draw a line in the sand and stand firm in the radical teachings of Christ and His gospel. We must preach the truth and be the examples of the truth we preach.
Paul Washer
#45. My Ego taught me a new pride, I teach it to men: No longer to bury the head in the sand of heavenly things, but to carry it freely, an earthly head which creates meaning for the earth!
Friedrich Nietzsche
#46. Two lost things that had survived the seas and arrived on a coastline. What did they do? They implanted themselves in the sand and grew into trees and lined the beaches. Sometimes a lot can come of being all washed up. You can really grow.
Cecelia Ahern
#47. Like Salvador Dali's paintings of watches melting in the sand, time wanders at its own curious pace whenever you're on vacation in a foreign country.
Laurie Nadel
#48. It is never prudent to bury our heads in the sand when in distress or faced with adversity; to place our hands over our eyes in a feeble attempt to hide from the inevitable.
Carlos Wallace
#50. He is like the fox, who effaces his tracks in the sand with his tail.
{Describing the writing style of famous mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss}
Niels Henrik Abel
#51. I write because I hope.I write because I have faith.
Hope.Hope alike a fresh flower grows in the sand of my heart .
Faith.Faith alike the Sea will be perishing only when Sea disappears .
Katerina Kostaki
#52. The question is: how bad do things have to get before you will do something about it? Where is your line in the sand? If you don't enforce the constitutional limitations on your government very soon, you are likely to find out what World War III will be like.
Michael Badnarik
#53. Some people simply bury their heads in the sand and refuse to think about the sorrow of the world, but this is an unwise course, because, if we are entirely unprepared, the tragedy of life can be devastating.
Karen Armstrong
#54. No footprints in the sand. Pebbles and bits of weed are strung in scalloped lines. Three outer islands bear low stone forts; a green lantern glows on the tip of a jetty. It feels appropriate somehow, to have reached the edge of the continent, to have only the hammered sea left in front of him.
Anthony Doerr
#55. Some people find the golden ring swimming in their cereal in the morning, slip it on their finger and go skipping through life. And others drop it in the sand at the beach & spend the rest of their life digging to get it back.
Raye Morgan
#56. In greenside bunkers, the big thing is to adapt your stance to the shot. It's rare that you get a flat lie in the sand, so I make sure to align my body to the slope. Then I blast the ball out by splashing the sand underneath it.
Jordan Spieth
#57. Most newspaper companies still have their heads in the sand, but other media companies are aggressive.
Rupert Murdoch
#58. Fractal geometry is everywhere, even in lines drawn in the sand. It's the cycle of life ... You see fractals in plants, in flowers. Within the human lung are branches within branches.
Ron Eglash
#59. Any fool can turn a blind eye but who knows what the ostrich sees in the sand.
Samuel Beckett
#60. Whisper to the flashing water your real name, write your signature in the sand, and shout your identity to the sky until it answers to you in thunder.
Christopher John Farley
#61. Life is singing also in the sand crunching under the slow and heavy steps of the guards, when we know how to listen to it.
Rosa Luxemburg
#62. Everybody's life is either a warning or an example. You've got to decide what you're gonna be and you have to draw a line in the sand.
Tony Robbins
#63. Blue jean baby, LA lady, seamstress for the band. Pretty eyed, pirate smile, you'll marry a music man. Ballerina, you must have seen her dancing in the sand.
Elton John
#64. Baptism was to put a line of demarcation between your past sins when you are buried with Him by Baptism-you are burying your past sins-eradicating them-putting a line in the sand saying that old man is dead and he is no longer alive any more and I rise up to walk in the newness of life.
T.D. Jakes
#65. If everyone could just live near the ocean, I think we'd all be happier. It's hard to be down about anything knee deep in the sand.
Crystal Woods
#66. If we draw a line in the sand, our love ought to be more evident to the world than our doctrine.
Joe Battaglia
#67. But I want to spend the whole trip out here, with the ocean replenishing her treasures like an old shopkeeper as I sleep alongside her in the sand.
Sarah Ockler
#68. I don't believe it's all for nothing. It's not just written in the sand.
Robbie Robertson
#69. I think every little girl's dream is to be a mermaid or to see a mermaid. [When I was younger] I would go to the beach and cover myself in the sand. People from different cultures and centuries have the same idea of what mermaids are ... so that's maybe a cool thing to think about.
Emma Roberts
#70. You can't draw lines in the sand like that. Humour's a tsunami that doesn't care about your little lines.
S.A. Tawks
#71. The footprint of the savage traced in the sand is sufficient to attest the presence of man to the atheist who will not recognize God, whose hand is impressed upon the entire universe.
Hugh Miller
#72. I am no writer. Her sparkling eyes made my fingers write words in the sand. Her radiant smile made my pen write words in the air. Her beautiful soul made my typewriter type poems for eternity. I am no writer.
Avijeet Das
#73. A polarizing mission statement forces the reader to choose between two sides of a line drawn in the sand. Rare is the business owner who has the courage to craft such a statement.
Roy H. Williams
#74. If you stick your head in the sand like an ostrich, pretending you don't exist - why get upset when the world agrees with you/
Christina Engela
#75. Don't just ask questions. Know how the answers to the questions will change your behavior. In other words, draw a line in the sand before you run the survey.
Alistair Croll
#76. When with care we have raised an imaginary treasure of happiness, we find at last that the materials of the structure are frail and perishing, and the foundation itself is laid in the sand.
Samuel Rogers
#77. Sticking your head in the sand does not prevent the tide from coming in.
K.J.
#78. 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.
Anne Lamott
#79. There's always a place for the angry young man with his fist in the air and his head in the sand. He's never been able to learn from mistakes, he can't understand why his heart always breaks.
Billy Joel
#80. Soft soft heart, love falls apart, soft soft lips, mine not his, spell it out in the sand, I am just a simple man. Soft soft heart, fly away come back.
Carlene Love
#81. They danced slow circles in the sand, Javier singing the words to the Spanish version of the song, the melancholy music putting a strange ache in his chest, an ache he saw reflected in her eyes. Was she feeling what he was feeling?
Pamela Clare
#82. 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
#83. I live with one foot in the sand and one in the snow. There's European egocentricity, and the African opposite. I normally say that my African experience has made me a better European.
Henning Mankell
#84. When you bury your head in the sand, at least you don't get slapped in the face.
Kim Askew
#85. The ocean is a Turing machine, the sand is its tape; the water reads the marks in the sand and sometimes erases them and sometimes carves new ones with tiny currents that are themselves a response to the marks.
Neal Stephenson
#86. She carefully placed the little crab back in the sand and nudged it toward the surf. Run for your life, Pinchy. I've seen the way this man eats.
Olivia Cunning
#88. Like every girl who grew up being read fairy tales, I thought love was all about big gestures. But now I understand exactly what Grandma meant. It's the heart he drew in the sand on our honeymoon, driving miles to get me the best chicken noodle soup when I was sick, making me coffee every morning.
Jillian Dodd
#89. Sticking your head in the sand might make you feel safer, but it's not going to protect you from the coming storm.
Barack Obama
#90. If it's dive-bombing you from the air, bury yourself in the sand. It might lose sight of you. Also, no one likes to eat food covered in sand. No one.
Andrew Shaffer
#91. I always say, if you keep your head in the sand, you don't know where the kick's coming from.
Herbie Mann
#92. I love being outdoors, playing beach tennis, going for runs in the sand, or doing a three-hour hike with my best girlfriend, Mieko.
AnnaLynne McCord
#93. Most Americans have their head in the sand about evolution.
Rafael Cruz
#94. When the San Francisco Democrats treat foreign affairs as an afterthought, as they did, they behaved less like a dove or a hawk than like an ostrich - convinced it could shut out the world by hiding its head in the sand.
Jeane Kirkpatrick
#95. A big tent is great and all, but there has to be a line in the sand, and I'm pretty sure the desire to legislate other women's bodies is it.
Andi Zeisler
#96. Character is the line in the sand between the worst of the good people and the best of the bad ones
Johnny Flora
#97. I sat cross-legged in the sand and contemplated my life. Well, there, and what difference did it make? What's going to happen to me up ahead?
Jack Kerouac
#98. When you draw a line in the sand, be careful it is not low tide.
Dixie Waters
#99. Stop the bullsh*t. Stop drawing lines in the sand like previous generations [have done].
Michael Skolnik
#100. For every summons to a shining city on the hill or a promise of change we can believe in, we are presented with hundreds of examples of mudslinging and appeals to mob mentality. Rudeness is recast as honesty, greed is presented as ambition, and lines in the sand blur and move.
Nikki Stern
