Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry David Thoreau

In society, in the best institutions of men, it is easy to detect a certain precocity. When we should still be growing children, we are already little men. Give me a culture which imports much muck from the meadows, and deepens the soil,--not that which trusts to heating manures, and improved implements, and modes of culture only!

Henry David Thoreau

The voice of nature is always encouraging.

Ron Rivera

It's football. It's kind of the nature of the game, the nature of the beast, and we'll find out.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Thou mayest as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading. Too much overcharges Nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. 'Tis thought and digestion which makes books serviceable, and give health and vigor to the mind.

Leonardo da Vinci

Now do you not see that the eye embraces the beauty of the whole world? It counsels and corrects all the arts of mankind... it is the prince of mathematics, and the sciences founded on it are absolutely certain. It has measured the distances and sizes of the stars it has discovered the elements and their location... it has given birth to architecture and to perspective and to the divine art of painting.

Leonardo da Vinci

I say that the power of vision extends through the visual rays to the surface of non-transparent bodies, while the power possessed by these bodies extends to the power of vision.

Leonardo da Vinci

Nature varies the seed according to the variety of the things she desires to produce in the world.

Leonardo da Vinci

There is no result in nature without a cause; understand the cause and you will have no need of the experiment.

Leonardo da Vinci

Nature never breaks her own laws.

Jon Wagner

It's a big honor for me and the kids. It should be a lot of fun.

Carolyn Brown

It's a wonderful thing to do to honor someone in perpetuity.

Steve Nelson

It's a wonderful honor. It's humbling. I'm honored.

Rebecca Garang

We want to keep his legacy alive. Keeping the peace is how we can honor his memory.

John Garang

We want to keep his legacy alive, ... Keeping the peace is how we can honor his memory.

Abel Ferrara

In the film business, it's basically honor among thieves.

Suzanne Gray

To win that kind of tournament really is an honor for them. To win it twice in a row (would be) even more of an honor.

John Matthews

We wanted to honor Jim Rosenblatt by naming this regatta after him.

Ron Jones

We've honored veterans before, and it's normally the men who get honored, but this year we thought we'd give it a twist and honor the women. You women need to be honored.