There are six communities in the United States named Big Sandy
- Big Sandy, Montana in Chouteau County
- Big Sandy, Nebraska in Thayer County, Nebraska
- Big Sandy, Tennessee in Benton County
- Big Sandy, Texas in Upshur County
- Big Sandy, West Virginia in McDowell County
- Big Sandy, Wyoming in Sublette County, Wyoming
and
- Big Sandy River in Ohio
It may also refer to:
- Big Sandy & His Fly-Rite Boys, a California band
- United States Penitentiary, Big Sandy in Inez, Kentucky
- The nickname of the main dirt track at Belmont Park in Elmont, New York
Famous quotes containing the words big and/or sandy:
“Charles Foster Kane: Look, Mr. Carter. Here is a three-column headline in the Chronicle. Why hasn’t the Inquirer a three-column headline?
Carter: News wasn’t big enough.
Charles Foster Kane: Mr. Carter, if the headline is big enough, it makes the news big enough.”
—Orson Welles (1915–1985)
“So near along life’s stream are the fountains of innocence and youth making fertile its sandy margin; and the voyageur will do well to replenish his vessels often at these uncontaminated sources.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)