Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Paul Evans

Man has left footprints on the moon but still hasn't walked on the ocean floor.

Tupac Shakur

For quiet times disappear listen to the ocean

Tracy Kidder

The ocean doesn't care about you. It makes your boat feel tiny. The oceans are great promoters of religion, or at least of humility-but not in everyone.

Tracy Kidder

... "You may not see the ocean, but right now we are in the middle of the ocean, and we have to keep swimming.

Robinson Jeffers

Nature knows that people are a tide that swells and in time will ebb, and all their works dissolve ... As for us: We must uncenter our minds from ourselves. We must unhumanize our views a little and become confident as the rock and ocean that we are made from.

Robert E. Lee

Life processes take place in an aqueous medium. All organisms are composed mostly of water, whether they dwell in the oceans, lakes, and rivers, or on the land. Because the physical and chemical properties of water are well suited to the requirements of life, it is no accident that life is a water-based phenomenon.

Robert M. Fresco

Everything that ever walked or crawled on the face of the earth, swum the depths of the ocean or soared through the skies left its imprint here

Satish Kumar

Without the land, the rivers, the oceans, the forests, the sunshine, the minerals and thousands of natural resources we would have no economy whatsoever

Sarah McLachlan

I threw bitter tears at the ocean, but all that came back was the tide.

Richard Paul Evans

The first casualty of hitting rock bottom is vanity.

Rick Derringer

I was almost kind of trapped by my own success into only doing rock.

William Wordsworth

Monastic brotherhood, upon rock Aerial.

Richard Rohr

Your false self is always that which is passing away. Your true self doesn't go up or down, it's constant - it's a rock. Once you learn how to live there, what others say about you, your failures or successes - these don't send you on a roller coaster ride down or up. It's really the only way to peace. There's no other way to be peaceful except in the true self.

Tracy Morgan

I love 30 Rock because Tina Fey allows me to fly over the cuckoo nest once a week.

Robert Wyatt

I have never felt in tune with the whole rock industry.

Robert Plant

The way I see it, rock n' roll is folk music.

Robert Plant

The trouble is now, with rock'n'roll and stuff, it gets so big that it loses what once upon a time was a magnificent thing, where it was special and quite elusive and occasionally a little sinister and it had its own world nobody could get in.

Robert Plant

Lately, I'm spending more and more time working with non-rock musicians and leaving the mainstream - almost dissolving into another world, musically.

Chinua Achebe

Let the kite perch and let the eagle perch too – If one says no to the other, let his wing break.

C. S. Lewis

They say, 'The coward dies many times'; so does the beloved. Didn't the eagle find a fresh liver to tear in Prometheus every time it dined?

Chanakya

A person becomes great not by sitting on some high seat, but through higher qualities. A crow does not become an eagle by simply sitting on the top of a palatial building.

William Shakespeare

The world is grown so bad, That wrens make prey where eagles dare not perch.

Brian Miller

The 'Crue' is not the hardest band to cover. There are no harmonies like the Eagles.

Edgar Allan Poe

The Romans worshipped their standard; and the Roman standard happened to be an eagle. Our standard is only one tenth of an eagle,--a dollar, but we make all even by adoring it with tenfold devotion.

Sir Sidney

Eagles we see fly alone; and they are but sheep which always herd together

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Shall eagles not be eagles? wrens be wrens? If all the world were falcons, what of that? The wonder of the eagle were the less, But he not less the eagle.

E. O. Wilson

We use pandas and eagles and things. I'd love to see a wilderness society with an angry-looking wolverine as their logo.