26 Movie Quotes about Sand (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Mar 17, 2025

Memorable quotes about sand, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

1 Though childhood slips like sand through a sieve.

Julie Andrews as Mary Poppins in Mary Poppins

2 What'd you expect? Norman spends more time in the sand than David Hasselhoff.

Christopher McDonald as Shooter Mcgavin in Happy Gilmore

3 The beating heart of Rome is not the marble of the Senate. It's the sand of the Colosseum.

Derek Jacobi as Senator Gracchus in Gladiator (2000)

4 Oh, I love a picnic. Acres and acres of sand, and all of it in your food.

Humphrey Bogart as Dix Steele in In a Lonely Place

5 This ain't Mexico. It's Acapulco, man! Aca-sun-and-the-sand-Pulco!

Ernest Borgnine as Dominic Santini in Airwolf (1984)

6 What do they got? A lot of sand.

Jodi Benson as Princess Ariel in The Little Mermaid (1989)

7 On golden sand is where I'd lay and if I only had my way I'd play till the sun sets beyond the horizon.

Chris Sanders as Stitch in Lilo & Stitch (2002)

8 Look at this. It's worthless. Ten dollars from a vendor in the street. But I take it, I bury it in the sand for a thousand years, it becomes priceless... Like the Ark.

Paul Freeman as Dr. René Belloq in Indiana Jones - Raiders of the Lost Ark

9 One grain of sand. It is all that remains of my vast empire.

Tami Stronach as The Childlike Empress in The NeverEnding Story (1984)

10 Beware the ground on which you stand. The floor is quicker than the sand.

Robin Williams as Alan Parrish in Jumanji (1995)

26 Movie Quotes about Sand (+ Sound Clips)

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