Famous Quotes & Sayings

David R. Brower

Some otherwise sane scientists have seriously proposed that we tuck this deadly garbage under the edges of drifting continents but how can they be sure the moving land masses will climb over the waste and not just push it forward?

Cheryl Strayed

Don't surrender all your joy for an idea you used to have about yourself that isn't true anymore.

Charles M. Schulz

A glacier will frequently move forward one foot while retreating three feet... Which reminds me a lot of myself!

Alexandra Guarnaschelli

Food is ever-changing and ever moving forward and getting more and more complex.

Brian Tracy

Every great move forward in your life begins with a leap of faith, a step into the unknown.

Ashley Greene

It's exciting to kind of move forward and take hold of the opportunity that "Twilight's" afforded us, but it's also kind of sad.

Ben Harper

We're always moving forward in different places physically and psychologically.

Dwyane Wade

My kids motivate me to keep moving forward. My kids are my everything.

Alber Elbaz

I certainly can't complain. I work six days a week, if not seven, and eighteen hours out of twenty-four - fortunately, with a great deal of pleasure. Why? Because I only do something if I want to do it; I need to feel a desire, to find pleasure in moving forward, creating, moving, inventing.

Charles Spurgeon

I do not know when I am more perfectly happy than when I am weeping for sin at the foot of the cross.

Alan Bennett

A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just as a shoe is shaped by the foot.

Chinua Achebe

If I hold her hand she says, ‘Don’t touch!’ If I hold her foot she says ‘Don’t touch!’ But when I hold her waist-beads she pretends not to know.

David Sedaris

My feet are completely flat, but for most of my life they were still shaped like feet. Now, thanks to bunions, they're shaped more like states, wide boring ones that nobody wants to drive through.

David Mitchell

Leaves turned to soil beneath my feet. Thus it is, trees eat themselves.

Dave Barry

UNIVAC: a device, which contained 20,000 vacuum tubes, occupied 1,500 square feet and weighed 40 tons; there was also a laptop version weighing 27 tons.

Bruno Latour

Be not the one who debunks but the one who assembles, not the one who lifts the rugs from under the feet of the naive believers but the one who offers arenas in which to gather.

Bryan Stevenson

Once we had a rail station in Montgomery that connected to Columbus and went all the way up to Virginia, slave traders could transport thousands of slaves at a fraction of the cost than they could transport by boat, and certainly by foot. And that's how Montgomery became such an active slave-trading space.

William Shakespeare

Thou shalt not stir one foot to seek a foe.

Kerry Smith

I talked to them about the glaciers before and they weren't so fussed about it because they said they could just work around them and they are retreating anyhow.

Bob Mann

Glaciers are slow-moving, melting and receding. As they move ... remains often times will melt out and become exposed.

John D. MacDonald

If you would be thrilled by watching the galloping advance of a major glacier, you'd be ecstatic watching changes in publishing.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Compare the torrent and the glacier. Both get where they are going.