Quotes on Lines In The Sand

There is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing.

Everybody's life is either a warning or an example. You've got to decide what you're gonna be and you have to draw a line in the sand.

...where were answers to the truly deep questions? Religion promised those, though always in vague terms, while retreating from one line in the sand to the next. Don't look past this boundary, they told Galileo, then Hutton, Darwin, Von Neumann, and Crick, always retreating with great dignity before the latest scientific advance, then drawing the next holy perimeter at the shadowy rim of knowledge.