The Grand Canyon is carven deep by the master hand; it is the gulf of silence, widened in the desert; it is all time inscribing the naked rock; it is the book of earth.
~quote about Arizona by Donald Culross Peattie, The Road of a Naturalist, 1941
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~quotes on Clothing by Henry David Thoreau, Walden Why do people give each other flowers? To celebrate various important occasions, they're killing living creatures? Why restrict it to plants? Sweetheart, let's make up. Have this deceased squirrel.
~sayings on Flowers by The Washington Post Our government has become too responsive to trivial or ephemeral concerns, often at the expense of more important concerns or an erosion of our liberty, and it has made policy priorities more dependent on where TV journalists happen to point their cameras.... As a nation we have lost our sense of tragedy, a recognition that bad things happen to good people. A nation that expects the government to prevent churches from burning, to control the price of bread or gasoline, to secure every job, and to find some villain for every dramatic accident, risks an even larger loss of life and liberty.
~quotations on Government by William A. Niskanen, For a Less Responsive Government, Cato Policy Report, 1996 If four or five guys tell you that you're drunk, even though you know you haven't had a thing to drink, the least you can do is to lie down a little while
~friendship and sister quotes by Joseph Schenck The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart.
~saying about friendshipsister by Iris Murdoch, The Red and the Green
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~quote about Jealousy by Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, The Conspiracy of Fiesco, 1783 Health - what my friends are always drinking to before they fall down
~quotes on Party Invitations by Phyllis Diller America is just the country that shows how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society.
~sayings on America by Peter Kroptkin, speech, 1891 The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.
~quotations on Teachers by Edward Bulwer-Lytton The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.
~friendship and sister quotes by Ayn Rand A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be.
~saying about friendshipsister by Douglas Pagels We're all born brave, trusting, and greedy, and most of us remain greedy.
~quote about Trust by Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966 For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death guests at a table which we did not spreadThe sun, the earth, love, friends, our very breath are parts of the banquet.... Shall we think of the day as a chance to come near
~quotes on Thanksgiving Day by Rebecca Harding Davis I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.
~sayings on Writing by Norman Mailer I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it
~quotations on Death by Mark Twain All great work is preparing yourself for the accident to happen.
~friendship and sister quotes by Sidney Lumet Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made, and forgot to put a soul into.
~saying about friendshipsister by Henry Beecher, Life Thoughts, 1858 Without the rain, sunshine wouldnt be so appreciated
~quote about Unknown by Not Sure We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.
~quotes on Peace by William Ewart Gladstone We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.
~sayings on Books Reading by Ralph Waldo Emerson If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
~quotations on American football by Erma Bombeck To teach is to learn twice.
~friendship and sister quotes by Joseph Joubert, Pensées, 1842 Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
~saying about friendshipsister by Abraham Lincoln Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.
~quote about Books Reading by Charles W. Eliot Hunger is the best sauce in the world.
~quotes on Food by Cervantes Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want rain without thunder and lightning
~sayings on Freedom by Frederick Douglass Slow down and everything you are chasing will come around and catch you.
~quotations on Stress by John De Paola Every mile is two in winter
~friendship and sister quotes by George Herbert A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
~saying about friendshipsister by Lao-Tzu He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation... For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent.... We, therefore... solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States.
~quote about Taxes by The Declaration of Independence of the Thirteen Colonies, 1776 Better have a friend who does both good and evil, than one who does neither.
~quotes on Friendship by Money is important, but I don't want to spend all my life working for it
~sayings on Financial by Robert Kiyosaki I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
~quotations on Adversity by Agatha Christie A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counsellor, a multitude of counsellors.
~friendship and sister quotes by Henry Ward Beecher Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.
~saying about friendshipsister by Roger Miller The difference between a job and a career is the difference between forty and sixty hours a week
~quote about Boss Day by Robert Frost Men are probably nearer the central truth in their superstitions than in their science.
~quotes on Philosophical by Henry David Thoreau
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