Famous Quotes & Sayings

Billy Graham

Every year during their High Holy Days, the Jewish community reminds us all of our need for repentance and forgiveness.

Margaret Mead

Earth Day is the first holy day...and is devoted to the harmony of nature... The celebration offends no historical calendar, yet it transcends them all.

Laurence Sterne

Shall we be destined to the days of eternity, on holy-days, as well as working-days, to be showing the relics of learning, as monks do the relics of their saints - without working one - one single miracle with them?

Denis Hayes

It is already too late to avoid mass starvation

Barry Commoner

We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of human habitation.

Barry Commoner

The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it.

Chief Seattle

There is no such place as away.

Barbara Kingsolver

A careless way of sauntering across the earth and breaking open its treasures, a terrible dependency on sucking out the world's best juices for ourselves-these may also be our enemies. The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.

Ann Douglas

Human beings cannot live without stories.

Albert Einstein

Strange is our situation here upon earth.

Vandana Shiva

We are either going to have a future where women lead the way to make peace with the Earth or we are not going to have a human future at all.

Margaret Atwood

The threat to the planet is us. It's actually not a threat to the planet - it's a threat to us.

Octavio Paz

The truth is that the history of Mexico is a history in the image of its geography: abrupt and tortuous. Each historical period is like a plateau surrounded by tall mountains and separated from the other plateaus by precipices and divides.

Dennis Farina

I love England and the historical aspect of it.

Alison Weir

I feel very strongly that where the facts exist, a historical novelist should use them if they're writing about a person who really lived, because a lot of people come to history through historical novels. I did. And a lot of people want their history that way.

Ed Harris

I don't have the luxury of the firsthand historical knowledge that you have. You'll probably find the same thing with the board.

Virginia Henley

I love to read history books, which is where I get my ideas. I also read historical romance for pleasure.

Ismail Haniya

We are optimistic that our people will go to vote in this historical event.

Nicolas Berggruen

I was living in Paris, which is a very beautiful, very wonderful place, but a tight place as a city, a tight place culturally. Its people are very brilliant, thoughtful, the place functions, but it's a historical place in some ways, like a big museum.

Lauren Willig

I never sat down and said, 'I'm going to write historical fiction with strong romantic elements.' It was just the way the stories went.

William Gibson

I don't think nostalgia is a healthy modality. But nostalgia and a sense of history are not the same thing. Nostalgia is a dysfunction of the historical impulse, or a corruption of the historical impulse.