“Second FigSafe upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand: Come and see my shining palace built upon the sand!”

“The Bible talks about building houses on sand and rock, but says nothing about a brick house built on a blanket.”

“All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand. ”

“My lovely shining fragile broken house is filled with flowers and founded on a rock.”

“Stand by the grey stone when the thrush knocks, and the setting sun with the last light of Durin’s Day will shine upon the key-hole.”

“The waters which we spread upon the desert have become blood. Blood upon our land! Behold our desert which could rejoice and blossom; it has lured the stranger and seduced him in our midst. They come for violence! Their faces are closed up as for the last wind of Kralizec! They gather the captivity of the sand. They suck up the abundance of the sand, the treasure hidden in the depths. Behold them as they go forth to their evil work. It is written: 'And I stood upon the sand, and I saw a beast rise up out of that sand, and upon the head of that beast was the name of God!”