Famous Quotes & Sayings

Greg Collins

Preserving the agricultural land out in that part of Visalia has been important to me since 1975, and I haven't wavered from that position for 30 years.

John Roberts

Roe v. Wade is the settled law of the land, ... It's a little more than settled.

Kamika Smith

Rocks were landing right on the viewing area.

Ahmed Qorei

Please protect this land. It is for you and yours to protect.

Larry Kelly

Pierre said, 'If he can get clearance, give us a shout and we'll see what the lay of the land is at that point.

Barry Lopez

The land urges us to come around to an understanding of ourselves.

Barry Lopez

We keep each other alive with our stories. We need to share them, as much as we need to share food. We also require for our health the presence of good companions. One of the most extraordinary things about the land is that it knows this—and it compels language from some of us so that as a community we may converse about this or that place, and speak of the need.

Barry Lopez

The land is like poetry: it is inexplicably coherent, it is transcendent in its meaning, and it has the power to elevate a consideration of human life.

C. S. Lewis

I can promise you none of these things. No sphere of usefulness; you are not needed there at all. No scope of your talents; only forgiveness for having perverted them. No atmosphere of inquiry, for I will bring you to the land not of questions but of answers, and you shall see the face of God. (pg 40)

Jim Lord

Reasonable people have to find that reasonable line.

Stephanie Laurens

Real people are never central characters in my works.

Tom Tremont

Really, what people want is more simplicity in their life. They want a sanctuary.

Jyoti Amge

Regular people should not underestimate people who are small. In every aspect, they can do the things that normal people can.

Robert Hamilton

Our policy is to let our people know first.

Alex Halavais

Part of it is it's a really safe place for people to talk about this.

Hanya Yanagihara

Part of adulthood is searching for the people who understand you.

Joel Edgerton

Particularly when you're making a movie of a book, people are always waiting with their knives - you know?

Jack Horn

Part of the problem, ... is there are so many more things that can be done for people - drug therapies are better, but more expensive. And there are more and better scanning technologies, which are also more expensive.

Mohandas Gandhi

Real suffering, bravely borne, melts even a heart of stone. Such is the potency of suffering. And there lies the key to Satyagraha.

Howard Dean

President Bush has failed to put together a plan, so despite the bravery and sacrifice of our troops, we are not making the progress that we should be in Iraq.

Fred Furth

Some of the braver ones did ask, and I'm going to prove Wal-Mart ignored their pleas to hire more help.

Michael R. Bloomberg

Our bravest and finest carried out what was the most successful urban evacuation in modern history,

English 19th Century Proverbs

Robin Hood could brave all weathers but a thaw wind.

Charles Caleb Colton

Physical courage, which engages all danger, will make a person brave in one way; and moral courage, which defies all opinion, will make a person brave in another.

Carl Sagan

Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe.

Jeff Francoeur

I was just in second grade, and I'm watching the Braves go to the World Series, ... I mean, the World Series! I figure it's a once-in-a-lifetime thing.

Nick Fry

I think they (the stewards) made a brave decision and good on them.