Top 100 Sand Grain Quotes
#1. Just remember: If one bird carried every grain of sand, grain by grain, across the ocean, by the time he got them all on the other side, that would only be the beginning of eternity.
Truman Capote
#2. You don't need to be the tide to rise and fall,
you don't have to be a wave to touch the shore;
just be a little sand-grain and feel them all
Munia Khan
#3. To feel sabi is to feel keenly one's own sharp and particular existence amid its own impermanence, and to value the singular moment as William Blake did "infinity in the palm of your hand" - to feel it precise and almost-weightless as a sand grain, yet also vast.
Jane Hirshfield
#4. If one bird carried every grain of sand, grain by grain, across the ocean, by the time he got them all on the other side, that would only be the beginning of eternity. So blow your nose.
Truman Capote
#6. Infinity is present in each part. A loving smile contains all art. The motes of starlight spark and dart. A grain of sand holds power and might.
Madeleine L'Engle
#7. Some people can detect the odor molecules in a green bell pepper at a concentration of less than one part per trillion. That is like picking out one grain of sand from a mile-long beach.
Neil Shubin
#8. Like a grain of sand that gets into an oyster's shell. What if the grain doesn't want to become a pearl? Is it ever asked to climb out quietly and take up its old position as a bit of ocean floor?
Robin McKinley
#9. To be bound in a nutshell, see the world in two inches of ivory, in a grain of sand. Why not, when all of literature, all of art, of human endeavour, is just a speck in the universe of possible things.
Ian McEwan
#10. From the tiniest grain of sand to the brain of an Einstein, all existence, animate and inanimate, is the product of the same ninety-two elements that are themselves the harvest of the energy of the creation. At every turn an underlying commonality, a unity, emerges from within the diversity.
Gerald Schroeder
#11. When the beginnings of self destruction enter the heart, it seems no bigger than a grain of sand.
John Cheever
#12. FOR EVERY GRAIN OF SAND IN OUR WORLD, THERE ARE ONE MILLION STARS IN THE UNIVERSE.
Mark Twain
#13. From an endless beach of reality, we take a grain of sand and call it the world.
Robert M. Pirsig
#14. Through the mind like an oyster labors on and on, / A grain of sand is all we have
Sylvia Plath
#15. What we know is to what we do not know, as a grain of sand is to the beach.
Ivan Panin
#16. All persons are contained within a single individual, just as all time is in a moment, and the entire universe is in a grain of sand.
Brian Herbert
#17. The whole of the world could be deduced from the smallest grain of sand, if one studied it closely enough.
Christopher Paolini
#18. I hear nothing but the sound of my heart breaking into a million tiny pieces, each smaller than a single grain of sand.
Carrie Anne Noble
#19. In the fury of the moment/ I can see the Master's hand
In every leaf that trembles, in/ every grain of sand.
Bob Dylan
#20. The divine is everywhere, even in a grain of sand; there I represented it in the reeds.
Caspar David Friedrich
#21. What's the best place to hide a car? In an airport long-term lot. Like where's the best place to hide a grain of sand? On the beach
Lee Child
#22. Do I love you? My God, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches.
William Goldman
#23. From a grain of sand in the Pearl comes.
Confucius
#24. If we deliberately choose to obey God, then He will tax the remotest star and the last grain of sand to assist us with all His almighty power.
Oswald Chambers
#25. I believe that there are no innate, intrinsic differences among a human being , a baboon or a grain of sand.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
#26. You see, the world is as big as an elephant or small as a grain of sand, depending on you. You can let it stomp you, gore you, swallow you up. Or you can let it slip into your shell and turn into a pearl." -- Benjamin East
Jonathan Freedman
#27. Our life is but a grain of sand in the indifferent ocean of infinity.
Sergei Dovlatov
#28. My role in life is that of the grain of sand to the oyster-it irritates the oyster and out comes a pearl.
Ross Perot
#29. There's no scandal involved," she said airily. "I have no connection with you whatsoever. I have nothing to do with you. You are a thimble filled with water next to my ocean. You are a grain of sand to my beach. You are a tiny star in the sky. You're nothing to me.
Karen Ranney
#30. It wasn't the mountain ahead that wears you out, but the grain of sand in your shoe
Karen White
#31. Never let society to turn you into a grain of sand on the beach! Be different, be individual! Refuse to look alike with others! Leave your herd, only then you will have a real name and till then your name will remain as a grain of sand!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#32. I am hanging in the balance of a perfect finished plan, like every sparrow falling, like every grain of sand.
Bob Dylan
#33. There's more truth in a grain of sand than you'll ever hear from man, woman, saint or sage. We classicists would sooner trust a potsherd.
Casper Silk
#34. Talk of treasure is as common as sand. Truth is not contained in any one grain. One must know how to sift it from the legends and wishes of old men.
Andrew C. Katen
#35. An atom is as true as a grain of sand
and yet
The former can ne'er be felt until the mingling
Of many in unison
Lends form and substance to the invisible
---Dreams---
Ilene B. Benator
#36. One thought includes all thought, in the sense that a grain of sand includes the universe.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#37. I don't want to sit on the sidelines and not value the gift of being here. Instead of the idea of time ticking away, the grains of sand running out, I try to think of time as giving me another grain of sand, another gift. So time passing is an accumulation, rather than a diminishing.
Tori Amos
#38. Can we find "The Universe in a grain of sand"? Well perhaps, but a stone seems easier to visualize.
Peter J. Carroll
#39. If all the circumstances of acting are made to easy, then there's no grain of sand to make the pearl.
Peter Sarsgaard
#40. Hulkamania is like a single grain of sand in the Sahara desert that is Macho Madness.
Randy Savage
#41. Over time, however, doubts about spermism arose. According to Leeuwenhoek, a million human spermatozoa could fit in a grain of sand. That meant that if each sperm held a tiny person, God was horrendously wasteful of creatures made in his own
Ruth Kassinger
#42. Remember, the moon is reflected in one drop of water as it is the entire ocean-so it is with God. He is reflected in each living thing-in a grain of sand as the entire shore, one star as the whole universe. Each animal as in all creatures.
Ralph Helfer
#43. All the beaches of the world, could never amount to, nor implore the one grain of sand that I stand on, which is your love.
Anthony Liccione
#44. All you have to do is contemplate a simple grain of sand, and you will see in it all the marvels of creation.
Paulo Coelho
#45. a world in a grain of sand | And a heaven in a wild flower'.
Marina Warner
#46. Every man was conscious of his own insignificance, aware that he was but a grain of sand in that ocean of humanity, and yet at the same time had a sense of power as a part of that vast whole.
Leo Tolstoy
#47. Even a grain of sand united with an oyster can make a pearl.
Truth Devour
#48. I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.
Og Mandino
#49. In the 18th Century William Blake saw Heaven in a grain of sand. Most people nowadays can't even see the writing on the wall.
Dean Cavanagh
#50. I will live inside this hope until the very last grain of sand falls.
Sarah Fine
#51. Look here, before you and around you! There is not a grain of sand that has not been bathed in blood, and what is that grain of sand itself, if not the dust of death? But how rich this blood is, and how fertile is the dust!
Octave Mirbeau
#52. Sugar and sand may be mixed together, but the ant rejects the sand and goes off with the sugar grain; so pious men lift the good from the bad.
Ramakrishna
#53. When someone tells you it's a grain of sand, there's a moment where your reality falls apart and you have to reconstruct it. You have to step back and ask what the image is and what it means.
Vik Muniz
#54. Chew on this: Human teeth can detect a grain of sand or grit 10 microns in diameter. A micron is 1/25,000 of an inch. If you shrank a Coke can until it was the diameter of a human hair, the letter O in the product name would be about 10 microns across.
Mary Roach
#55. In a crowd we are "microbes" infecting everyone around us, a "grain of sand amid other grains of sand, which the wind stirs up at will." We are impulsive, irritable, irrational:
Jon Ronson
#56. You must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will follow on that act.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#57. Man is a living lie
a bitter jest Upon himself
a conscious grain of sand Lost in a desert of unconsciousness.
Amos Bronson Alcott
#58. To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity in an hour.
William Blake
#59. A grain of sand leads to the fall of a mountain when the moment has come for the mountain to fall.
Ernest Renan
#60. Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe.
Robert W. Service
#61. When you are so insignificant your choices don't really matter, the waves you create are like grain of sand landing in the ocean.
Brandon J. Barnard
#62. Faith as tiny as a grain of sand allows us to move mountains.
Paulo Coelho
#63. Every particle of the world is a mirror. In each atom blazes forth the light of a thousand suns. Open the heart of a raindrop and you will find a hundred oceans. In a grain of sand lies the seed of a thousand beings.
Mahmud Shabistari
#64. Writers begin with a grain of sand, and then create a beach.
Robert Black
#65. With the right attitude, human beings can move mountains. With the wrong attitude, they can be crushed by the smallest grain of sand.
Jim Rohn
#66. A Quote from Monty's journal in GOD MUST BE WEEPING. I felt as anonymous as a grain of sand.
J.D. Winston
#67. Individually, every grain of sand brushing against my hands represents a story, an experience, and a block for me to build upon for the next generation.
Raquel Cepeda
#68. I just stood there, like a grain of sand amongst a
million others on a beach.
Jeff Erno
#69. ...there was no escaping the monsters, not even on this island, no bigger on a map than a grain of sand, protected by mountains of fog and sharp rocks and seething tides. Not anywhere. That was the awful truth...
Ransom Riggs
#70. Each star, numbered. Each star, named! Like every grain of sand. Every hair on his head. Every trouble that filled his day. Created. Numbered. Known.
Max Lucado
#71. The more we wait, the more everything and everyone looks like a grain of sand escaping between our fingers before vanishing into the wind.
Fabio Moon
#72. The world is a grain of sand on the beach of Eternity. Eternity is a grain of sand on the beach of Infinity. The ocean of Nirvana connects both Eternity and Infinity without connecting them. Know this and you will be free.
Frederick Lenz
#73. How light the raindrop's contents are;
how gently the world touches me.
From View With a Grain of Sand
Wislawa Szymborska
#74. To see a world in a grain of sand, and a heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand, and eternity in an hour.
William Blake
#75. Talent, and genius as well, is like a grain of pearl sand shifting about in the creative mind. A valued tormentor.
Truman Capote
#76. Actually I think Art lies in both directions - the broad strokes, big picture but on the other hand the minute examination of the apparently mundane. Seeing the whole world in a grain of sand, that kind of thing.
Peter Hammill
#77. If you took all the sand from all the beaches, all the desserts, and all the oceans and called that the Universe, our whole solar system would be less than one grain of sand.
Seth Shostak
#78. In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth.
Rachel Carson
#79. No, the only good in life lay in not being - or, if one had to be, then in being a tree, a stone, or even less than that, the grain of sand that cannot bleed beneath the grinding heel of a passer-by.
Emile Zola
#80. I'm looking for a grain of sand on an infinite beach.
Blake Crouch
#81. When obedience is in the ascendant, He will tax the remotest star and the last grain of sand to assist you with all His Almighty power.
Oswald Chambers
#82. Sometimes that mountain you've been climbing is just a grain of sand, and what you've been up there searching for forever, is in your hands. When you figure out love is all that matters after all it sure makes everything else seem so small.
Carrie Underwood
#83. What is the sound of one hand clapping? What is the weight of a single grain of sand? The answer is equal to my interest in the message you are about to leave so make it short.
Mitch Hertzog's voice mail message.
Meg Cabot
#84. When we choose deliberately to obey Him, then, with all His almighty power, He will tax the remotest star and the last grain of sand to assist us.
Oswald Chambers
#85. Every grain of sand or silt carried out by the rivers and deposited at sea displaces a corresponding amount of water.
Rachel Carson
#86. The right thing to do would be for you to acknowledge that you feel something for me that's remotely close to what I feel for you. I've asked only for a single grain of sand from you, Persephone, while I'm the whole fucking beach at your feet...
Linda Robertson
#87. Amid this vast and overwhelming space and in these boundless solar archipelagoes, how small is our own sphere, and the earth, what a grain of sand!
Hippolyte Taine
#88. I prefer them broken.'
'Why is that?' Victor said.
Dor looked at the grain of sand in his fingers.
'Because I am the sinner who created them.
Mitch Albom
#89. A name with a gently exotic ring to it, like birdsong, like a grain of sand in the far-off Gobi Desert or the northern steppes, whipped up by the wind, carried by storms, swirling through the sky, travelling, crossing whole countries without knowing quite how, and ending up in the crook of my ear.
Dai Sijie
#90. I know that's really horrible, but that's how I do it in my head. I'm going to die. It doesn't matter. I don't matter. I'm a grain of sand. As a grain of sand, I may as well go out and relate to people and enjoy my short time on this planet that I have. Who knows what's coming next?
Kathleen Hanna
#91. Mom said when she brought us beachcombing? She told us to always believe in something more. She told us to look at what was right in front of us, and we'd see that even a grain of sand was a miracle. That even a bit of glass was a message, that the universe was full of tricks and clues and signs.
Nancy Thayer
#92. Where is the subject that does not branch out into infinity? For every grain of sand is a mystery; so is every daisy in summer, and so is every snowflake in winter. Both upwards and downwards, and all around us, science and speculation pass into mystery at last.
William Mountford
#93. If you think about it, finding true love is a lot like finding a particular grain of sand on the beach.
Chrissy Anderson
#94. I wonder if we might pledge ourselves to remember what life is really all about - not to be afraid that we're less flashy than the next, not to worry that our influence is not that of a tornado, but rather that of a grain of sand in an oyster! Do we have that kind of patience?
Fred Rogers
#95. There is nothing but God, nothing but the Goddess, nothing but Spirit in all directions, and not a grain of sand, not a speck of dust, is more or less Spirit than any other.
Ken Wilber
#96. Because a grain of sand is a moment of creation, and the universe has taken millions of years to create it.
Paulo Coelho
#98. A little bird moves a mountain of sand one grain at a time it picks up one grain every million years and when the mountain has been moved the bird puts it all back again and that's how long eternity is and that's a very long time to be dead
Jenny Downham
#99. All that mankind has ever learned is nothing more than a single grain of sand on a beach that reaches to infinity.
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
#100. I wonder if it hurts, being carved out like this, one grain of sand at a time. I wonder if the rocks realize that for every part of themselves they lose, they gain something beautiful
Elissa Janine Hoole
