{"quotes":[{"text":"When angels carry you they leave no footprints in the sand.","author":"Maria Dorfner","tags":["angels","faith","footprints","sand","walking"],"id":2953,"author_id":"Maria+Dorfner"},{"text":"Who can count the sand by the sea?","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["count","inspiration","nature","sand","science","sea","wise-words"],"id":3461,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"Grains of sand will only flow with the winds, Kenton, never against them.","author":"Brandon Sanderson","tags":["friendship","sand","survivors"],"id":18341,"author_id":"Brandon+Sanderson"},{"text":"Sometimes you have got to look at things really positively - without putting your head in the sand, you have got to manage the negatives and keep putting a positive slant on it, keep trying to find answers.","author":"Brian McDermott","tags":["sand","look","you "],"id":23344,"author_id":"Brian+McDermott"},{"text":"If it's dive-bombing you from the air, bury yourself in the sand. It might lose sight of you. Also, no one likes to eat food covered in sand. No one.","author":"Andrew Shaffer","tags":["food","humor","sand"],"id":24110,"author_id":"Andrew+Shaffer"},{"text":"When the tidal waves wildly behavingMy bare feet on the shore busy savingThe calm warmth leaking out of the sandTo let my heart feel peacefully tanned!","author":"Munia Khan","tags":["bare-feet","barefoot","busy","feel","feeling","feet","heart","ocean","oceanic","oceans","poetry","sand","save","sea","seashore","shore","shores","tanned","tanning","tidal","tidal-wave","tidal-waves","warm","warmth","waves","wild"],"id":26441,"author_id":"Munia+Khan"},{"text":"One by one, they guessed aloud about what Lotto had meant by this sculpture: nautilus, fiddlehead, galaxy. Thread running off its spindle. Forces of nature, perfect in beauty, perfectly ephemeral, they guessed. He was too shy to say time. He’d woken with a dry tongue and the urge to make the abstract concrete, to build his new understanding: that this was the way that time was, a spiral.He loved the uselessness of all the effort, the ephemerality of the work. The ocean encroached, it licked their feet. It pushed around the outside wall of the spiral, fingering its way in. When the water had scooped the sand from the lifeguard's chair, revealing white like bone beneath, something broke, and the fragments spun into the future. This day would bend back and shine itself into everything.","author":"Lauren Groff","tags":["circle-of-life","fate","fateents","life","sand","spiral","time"],"id":26548,"author_id":"Lauren+Groff"},{"text":"I love like I’m thirsty. Can I offer you a tall glass of Sahara sand?","author":"Dark Jar Tin Zoo","tags":["desert","drink","food","funny","hospitality","humor","kindness","love","sahara","sand","thirst","thirsty"],"id":38943,"author_id":"Dark+Jar+Tin+Zoo"},{"text":"It is not only the viability and variety of the seed that makes the harvest look plumpy. Sometimes, the soil must value the value of the seed. When the soil is not supportive, the seed's value becomes a waste!","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["bumper","bumper-harvest","clay-soild","fertile","food-for-thought","good-environment","harvest","infertile","israelmore-ayivor","loam","loamy-soil","manure","place","position","sand","sandy-soil","seed-of-greatness","seeds","setting","soils","support","valuable","value","values","variety","vary","viability","viable","waste"],"id":40938,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"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.","author":"William Blake","tags":["flower","world","sand "],"id":41161,"author_id":"William+Blake"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":82,"pages":9,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}