Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase.

Dick Armey

Jamestown colony, when it was first founded as a socialist venture, dang near failed with everybody dead and dying in the snow,

Dave Barry

I now realize that the small hills you see on ski slopes are formed around the bodies of forty-seven-year-olds who tried to learn snowboarding.

Dave Barry

Snowboarding is an activity that is very popular with people who do not feel that regular skiing is lethal enough.

Cary Fukunaga

In snowboarding, you're constantly aware that people are so technically brilliant at what they do, and you feel like, "Ugh, I'll never be able to do that."

James Wolcott

I never accepted why there should be some invisible, wavy cutoff line separating Great Fiction from phosphorescent beauties and dollhouse miniatures, novels that contain a whole world in a snow globe.

Edmund Hillary

Despite all I have seen and experiences, I still get the same thrill out of glimpsing a tiny patch of snow in a high mountain gully and feel the same urge to climb toward it.

Catherynne M. Valente

...snow is the beginning and the end of everything...

Charles Simic

Only brooms Know the devil Still exists, That the snow grows whiter After a crow has flown over it

C. S. Lewis

Though under earth, and throneless now I be Yet while I lived all earth was under me.

Agnes Repplier

Science may carry us to Mars, but it will leave the earth peopled as ever by the inept.

Tove Jansson

When one's dead, one's dead... This squirrel will become earth all in his time. And still later on, there'll grow new trees from him, with new squirrels skipping about in them. Do you think that's so very sad?

Andrew Coates

Venus provides an extreme test for the atmospheric physics models that we have for Earth.

Kevin Baines

Venus has a lot of lessons to teach the Earth about how things could go awry.

Allan Paull

Ultimately we hope to be able to use it to launch satellites into low-Earth orbit.

David Mitchell

Faith, the least exclusive club on Earth, has the craftiest doorman.

David Sze

Every social network on Earth pitches me, and I say no to nearly every single one of them.

David Suzuki

It's not unexpected that shooting massive amounts of water, sand, and chemicals at high pressure into the earth to shatter shale and release natural gas might shake things up. But earthquakes aren't the worst problem with fracking.

Chris Chocola

Madam Speaker, before being elected to Congress, I ran a manufacturing business that did a significant percentage of our sales outside the United States.

Charlaine Harris

Episcopalians are pretty thin on the ground in the central United States.

Bruce Springsteen

You can't have a United States if you are telling some folks that they can't get on the train. There is a cracking point where a society collapses.

Charles Rangel

The United States is historically a nation of immigrants.

Madeleine Albright

I have always seen the United States as a force of good. And I have learned that there is the idealistic part about what we can do at the U.N. and there is a doable part. And I have learned what is more doable.

Dominique de Villepin

I grew up in the United States.

Denis McDonough

The bottom line is this. When it comes to preventing violent extremism and terrorism in the United States, Muslim Americans are not part of the problem, you're part of the solution.

Abraham Lincoln

I will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. It is not the Constitution as I would like to have it, but as it is, that is to be defended. The Constitution will not be preserved & defended until it is enforced & obeyed in every part of every one of the United States. It must be so respected, obeyed, enforced and defended, and let the grass grow where it may.

Alain Juppe

Any confrontation, such as a verbal one with the United States, would be harmful for everybody.