White Sands may refer to:
- White Sands, New Mexico, United States
- White Sands Missile Range, formerly the White Sands Proving Ground, a military installation in New Mexico hosting:
- White Sands Test Center, operated by the United States Army
- White Sands Test Facility, operated by NASA, and including:
- White Sands Space Harbor
- White Sands National Monument, adjacent to missile range
- Whitesands, a town in Vanuatu
- White Sands Shopping Centre, in Pasir Ris, Singapore
- White Sands, Alberta, Canada, a summer village in Stettler County
- White Sands (film), a 1992 Warner Bros. motion picture directed by Roger Donaldson
Famous quotes containing the words white and/or sands:
“The white man regards the universe as a gigantic machine hurtling through time and space to its final destruction: individuals in it are but tiny organisms with private lives that lead to private deaths: personal power, success and fame are the absolute measures of values, the things to live for. This outlook on life divides the universe into a host of individual little entities which cannot help being in constant conflict thereby hastening the approach of the hour of their final destruction.”
—Policy statement, 1944, of the Youth League of the African National Congress. pt. 2, ch. 4, Fatima Meer, Higher than Hope (1988)
“That land is like an Eagle, whose young gaze
Feeds on the noontide beam, whose golden plume
Floats moveless on the storm, and in the blaze
Of sunrise gleams when Earth is wrapped in gloom;
An epitaph of glory for the tomb
Of murdered Europe may thy fame be made,
Great People! as the sands shalt thou become;
Thy growth is swift as morn, when night must fade;
The multitudinous Earth shall sleep beneath thy shade.”
—Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)