Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Shenstone

Patience is the panacea; but where does it grow, or who can swallow it?

William Golding

He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.

William Prescott

In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.

Wilkie Collins

This is the story of what a Woman's patience can endure, and what a Man's resolution can achieve.

Tony Dang

I just say thanks for their patience. But I'm going to rebuild Eden.

Henry Rollins

I have not the smarts or patience for political office.

Mahatma Gandhi

To lose patience is to lose the battle.

John Ciardi

Patience is the art of caring slowly.

Evan Harris

Patience may be a virtue, but quitting is an art.

Paul Tracy

We took our lunch break to sneak down the beach and see the waves.

Bobby Hernandez

He flagged down the Miami Beach officer on duty there, and the officer was able to apprehend the subject.

Ric Keller

If we don't act, drilling will be allowed only 3 miles off Florida's east coast beaches.

Robert M. Pirsig

From an endless beach of reality, we take a grain of sand and call it the world.

Walt Whitman

WE two boys together clinging, One the other never leaving, Up and down the roads going, North and South excursions making, Power enjoying, elbows stretching, fingers clutching, Arm'd and fearless, eating, drinking, sleeping, loving. No law less than ourselves owning, sailing, soldiering, thieving, threatening, Misers, menials, priests alarming, air breathing, water drinking, on the turf or the sea-beach dancing, Cities wrenching, ease scorning, statutes mocking, feebleness chasing, Fulfilling our foray.

Walt Whitman

To me the sea is a continual miracle; The fishes that swim - the rocks - the motion of the waves - the ships, with men in them, what stranger miracles are there?

Sarah Dessen

Once, she'd been a pro at decompressing, loved to sit on the back deck of the beach house in one of our splintery Adirondack chairs for hours at a time, staring at the ocean. She never had a book or the paper or anything else to distract her. Just the horizon, but it kept her attention, her gaze unwavering. Maybe it was the absence of thought that she loved about being out there, the world narrowing to just the pounding of the waves as the water moved in and out.

Sarah Dessen

The thing is, you can’t always have the best of everything. Because for a life to be real, you need it all: good and bad, beach and concrete, the familiar and the unknown, big talkers and small towns.

Sarah Dessen

I honestly don't have many creative outlets. I'm not crafty - although motherhood has forced me to try to be - and I can only draw trees, beaches, and clouds. I'm a so-so cook except for deviled eggs. Writing has always been the one thing I feel that I am pretty good at doing. But it's enough, thank goodness.

Richard Louv

Increasingly the evidence suggests that people benefit so much from contact with nature that land conservation can now be viewed as a public health strategy.

Richard Le Gallienne

I meant to do my work today But a brown bird sang in the apple tree And a butterfly flitted across the field And all the leaves were calling me.

Robert Redford

I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?

Wallace Stevens

Frogs eat Butterflies, Snakes eat Frogs, Hogs eat Snakes, Men eat Hogs.

Wallace Stevens

Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!

Willa Cather

I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.

Vladimir Horowitz

Everyone goes to the forest; some go for a walk to be inspired, and others go to cut down the trees.

William Blake

Hold infinity in the palm of your hand.

William Blake

To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wildflower.