White Sands

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:

    “Less smooth than her Skin and less white than her breast
    Was this pollisht stone beneath which she lyes prest
    Stop, Reader, and Sigh while thou thinkst on the rest

    With a just trim of Virtue her Soul was endu’d
    Not affectedly Pious nor secretly lewd,
    She cut even between the Cocquet and the Prude.”
    —Matthew Prior (1664–1721)

    “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)