When I was a little kid we had a sand box. It was a quicksand box. I was an only child... eventually.
Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.
There can be no more burying our heads in the sand by being afraid to even mention the words 'climate change' aloud.
Healthy camel crickets spend a lot of their waking hours grooming, so I have learned to recognize the ones that will soon die because they walk about encrusted with sand and bits of litter, having lost all interest in keeping clean.
Even Castles made of sand, fall into the sea, eventually.
The sand stones had fragments of charcoal on some surfaces but found no recognisable fossils.
If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.
The Chinese people have only family and clan groups; there is no national spirit. Consequently, in spite of four hundred million people gathered together in one China, we are, in fact, but a sheet of loose sand.
The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
From the rugged cliffs of Cape Liptrap peninsula jutting bravely into the swells of Bass Strait, the coast arcs southeast, hugging the waters of Waratah Bay with sweeping flat lines of fine pale sand and knotty scrub.
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.
What's special about Miami is the collision of cultures. And the white sand beaches and fantastic restaurants.
They dined on mince, and slices of quince, Which they ate with a runcible spoon; And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand, They danced by the light of the moon.
Last year, in the year 2008, it just became normal to watch great American institutions crumble, almost dissolve like sand.
Here's all I know about Dubai: It's one of those somewhere-over-there places where they make sand.
We Americans think, in every country in transition, there's a Thomas Jefferson hiding behind some rock or a James Madison beyond one sand dune.
I'm especially drawn to the sand dunes. I love driving around and exploring them by dune buggy.
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.
If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge.
Enclosed by a sand berm four miles around and 160 feet high, the Baghdad Nuclear Research Facility entombs what remains of reactors bombed by Israel in 1981 and the United States in 1991. It has stored industrial and medical wastes, along with spent reactor fuel.