Quotes About Digging In The Sand

#1. Amanda raised her glass in a toast. "Here's a wet one to Saint Iris of the Hummocks!" Then she winced and scowled at Riker, who had kicked her under the table. Polly raised her glass and quoted from Hamlet: "And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.

Lilian Jackson Braun

#2. We lost money at church bingos and ate catfish deep-fried in lard.

Douglas Coupland

#3. You take a bunch of people who don't seem any different from you and me, but when you add them all together you get this sort of huge raving maniac with national borders and an anthem.

Terry Pratchett

#4. The righteousness of the flawed is frightening.

Kate Holden

#5. You were the the exception to the rule. You were the one person who made me rethink everything I ever believed in and I'm so happy that you did.

Beth Rinyu

#6. A determined soul can never be defeated in life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#7. By popular demand a king had been appointed, but if Israel thought that he would solve all their problems by leading them to conquests without reference to God's law, they were quite wrong.

Joyce G. Baldwin

#8. 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

#9. Like an old gold-panning prospector, you must resign yourself to digging up a lot of sand from which you will later patiently wash out a few minute particles of gold ore.

Dorothy Bryant

#10. Who told you it couldn't be done? And what great achievement has he to his credit that entitles him to use the word 'impossible' so freely?

Napoleon Hill

#11. For many people, the reluctance to embrace Christianity is as practical as it is intellectual. They want to know what the benefits of Christianity are, or what's in it for them.

Dinesh D'Souza

#12. (I'm) the only one to take out half a brain, although you would think, if you go to Washington, that someone had beat me to it.

Benjamin Carson

#13. The piebald mare paws at the sand; I see her digging out of the corner of my eye and hear her grinding her teeth. That bridle's her curse, this island her prison. She still smells of rot.

Maggie Stiefvater

#14. Fine, but when I get back to my room, I'm adding don't take shit from anyone to the list.

Jessica Sorensen

#15. We brewers don't make beer, we just get all the ingredients together and the beer makes itself.

Fritz Maytag

#16. I loved every minute of my childhood - sunbathing on the fire escape, digging for buried treasure in the back yard, pulling alewives out of the sand ... Then it was all taken away from me. I came back every summer to visit my father until I was 18, but I was always the outsider.

Jennifer Egan

#17. At 14 and 15, I was sort of my town's resident beatnik.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#18. Since we can produce all types of light by means of hot bodies, we can ascribe, to the radiation in thermal equilibrium with hot bodies, the temperature of these bodies, and thus every radiation, even that issuing from a phosphorescent body, has a certain temperature for every colour.

Wilhelm Wien