#sand

Swift as shadow, short as any dream ↗

— William Shakespeare

#dreams

There were thousands of abolitionists who were free traders. ↗

— Robert Toombs

#free #thousands #traders #were #who

An ordinary man can surround himself with two thousand books and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy. ↗

— Augustine Birrell

#books #happy #himself #least #man

Archaeology is the peeping Tom of the sciences. It is the sandbox of men who care not where they are going; they merely want to know where everyone else has been. ↗

— Jim Bishop

#been #care #else #everyone #going

Every summer my husband and I pack our suitcases, load our kids into the car, and drive from tense, crowded New York City to my family's cottage in Maine. It's on an island, with stretches of sea and sandy beaches, rocky coasts, and pine trees. We barbecue, swim, lie around, and try to do nothing. ↗

— Hope Davis

#barbecue #beaches #car #city #coasts

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others. ↗

— Mark Twain

#either #geniuses #live #others #themselves

Our Constitution was not written in the sands to be washed away by each wave of new judges blown in by each successive political wind. ↗

— Hugo Black

#blown #constitution #each #judges #new

I make a mean peanut butter and jelly sandwich. ↗

— Jack Black

#i #jelly #make #mean #peanut

Let us not be afraid to see the hatred that consumes the lives of hundreds of thousands of Arabs who sit around us and wait for the moment when their hands will be able to reach our blood. ↗

— Moshe Dayan

#afraid #arabs #around #blood #consumes

Our school education ignores, in a thousand ways, the rules of healthy development. ↗

— Elizabeth Blackwell

#education #healthy #ignores #our #rules