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To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour. William Blake

Flower, Gardening, World, Heaven, Wild

I love the sea's sounds and the way it reflects the sky. The colours that shimmer across its surface are unbelievable. This, combined with the colour of the water over white sand, surprises me every time. John Dyer

Love, Time, Water, Sea, Sky, Me

It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up. - Muhammad Ali

It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up. Muhammad Ali

Sports, Job, Fly, People, Waves, Birds

I typically enjoy a beautiful beach destination, as I find the water and sand to be the most replenishing. Elizabeth Berkley

Beautiful, Water, Beach, Destination

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

Beach, People, Big, Ball, Just One, Just

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

Mountain, Purpose, I Am, Potential, Grow

A beach is not only a sweep of sand, but shells of sea creatures, the sea glass, the seaweed, the incongruous objects washed up by the ocean. Henry Grunwald

Sea, Ocean, Beach, Glass, Shells, Only

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

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

Sea, Fall, Castles, Made, Even

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it. - Niccolo Machiavelli

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it. Niccolo Machiavelli

Life, See, Through, More, Hourglass, Our

I want to be a simple bride when I get married. I want a beach wedding where I am running around on the sand in a white dress. Sonakshi Sinha

Beach, Dress, Simple, I Am, Wedding

Have you ever walked along a shoreline, only to have your footprints washed away? That's what Alzheimer's is like. The waves erase the marks we leave behind, all the sand castles. Some days are better than others. Pat Summitt

Waves, Better, You, Others, Leave, Like

Every so often, we all gaze into the abyss. It's a depressing fact of life that eventually the clock expires; eventually the sand in the hourglass runs out. It's the leaving behind of everything that matters to us that hurts the most. Ben Shapiro

Life, Clock, Leaving, Matters, Abyss

It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out; it's the grain of sand in your shoe. - Robert W. Service

It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out; it's the grain of sand in your shoe. Robert W. Service

Mountain, Brainy, You, Shoe, Ahead, Your

Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons, a possession for all eternity. Oscar Wilde

Beauty, Beautiful, Time, Fall, Joy, Like

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand. Milton Friedman

Politics, Government, Desert, You, Years

Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone. - Jorge Luis Borges

Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone. Jorge Luis Borges

Stone, Nothing, Build, Must, Were, Built

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone. George Eliot

Life, Past, Moments, Know, Angels, See

Sometimes ideas are coming so fast that I have to stop doing one song to get another. But I don't forget the first one. If it works, it will always be there. It's like the truth: it will find you and lift you up. And if it ain't right, it will dissolve like sand on the beach. Prince

Truth, Beach, Ideas, Song, Doing, You

Bliss is the ocean, a towel on the sand, the sun out, the chance to swim in waves or walk dragging a stick behind you, a good book, a cold drink. Deb Caletti

Ocean, Walk, Good, Book, Sun, Chance

Even these stars, which seem so numerous, are as sand, as dust - or less than dust - in the enormity of the space in which there is nothing. Carl Sagan

Stars, Space, Nothing, Dust, Seem, Less

New Orleans lives by the water and fights it, a sand castle set on a sponge nine feet below sea level, where people made music from heartache, named their drinks for hurricanes and joked that one day you'd be able to tour the city by gondola. Nancy Gibbs

Music, Water, Sea, Day, City, People

The beauty of Maine is such that you can't really see it clearly while you live there. But now that I've moved away, with each return it all becomes almost hallucinatory: the dark blue water, the rocky coast with occasional flashes of white sand, the jasper stone beaches along the coast, the pine and fir forests somehow vivid in their stillness. Alexander Chee

Beauty, Water, Live, Blue, Dark, You

The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it. Jean Paul

Life, Wisdom, See, Through, More, Our

I don't think that anybody in any war thinks of themselves as a hero. The minute anybody presumes that they are heroes, they get their boots taken away from them and buried in the sand. Steven Spielberg

Hero, War, Think, Boots, Heroes, Away

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

Challenges, Me, Say, Mature, More, AIDS

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

Passion, Sun, Riding, Close, Second

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