Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marguerite Gardiner

The Temple of Diana is in the vicinity of the fountain, which has given rise to the conjecture that it originally constituted a portion of the ancient baths.

Michael Gartner

He's involved in a lot of central Iowa causes and issues and is just a terrific guy.

Surapong Suebwonglee

I know that there is a huge number of silent people in the Thai community who are not satisfied with the protesters.

Terje Langli

We must be alert. New things can turn up during a championship. So it is important that we are in constant touch with our suppliers.

Michael Jackson

the proceedings have been a nightmare for my family

Eminem

The details surrounding both my marriage and subsequent filing for divorce are private, and I had hoped to keep them that way for the sake of my family.

Eminem

I did not know that I would grow to be my mothers evil seed and do these evil deeds.

Daryl Newcomb

He loved his family and friends, and they loved him.

Trey Parker

I think people that have a brother or sister don't realize how lucky they are. Sure, they fight a lot, but to know that there's always somebody there, somebody that's family.

William Butler Yeats

No man has ever lived that had enough of children's gratitude or woman's love.

James Black

I have never wanted to check out the family folklore that we could be traced back to a dominie at the hamlet of Balquhidder in the Scottish highlands.

Joanne Ciulla

income, benefits, friends, reputation, and sometimes even family.

Joe Schmidt

That's scary, especially here, because this is such a family-oriented neighborhood.

Henry David Thoreau

The voice of nature is always encouraging.

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

... we might say that the earth has a spirit of growth; that its flesh is the soil, its bones the arrangement and connection of the rocks of which the mountains are composed, its cartilage the tufa, and its blood the springs of water.

Pope John Paul II

The earth will not continue to offer its harvest, except with faithful stewardship. We cannot say we love the land and then take steps to destroy it for use by future generations.

Pope Francis

The Church, in her wisdom, maintains the distinction between engaged and married couples -- they are not the same, today's culture and society have become rather indifferent to the delicate and serious nature of this passage.

Rachel Carson

Nature reserves some of her choice rewards for days when her mood may appear to be somber.

Rachel Carson

There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature.

Rachel Carson

For all at last return to the sea- to Oceanus, the ocean river, like the ever-flowing stream of time, the beginning and the end.

Rachel Carson

Only as a child's awareness and reverence for the wholeness of life are developed can his humanity to his own kind reach its full development.

Bobby Scott

The Federal prison population has increased more than 7-fold over the past 20 years.

Tom Piazza

The past in New Orleans cohabits with the present to an extent not even approximated in any other North American city.

Tom Petty

I should have known right then it was too good to last, God, it's such a drag when you're livin' in the past

Simone Elkeles

God take care of him, because he's my past and my future

Simone Elkeles

We need to look back sometimes and realize the past taught us to appreciate our future.

Simone de Beauvoir

from one minute to the next the present is merely an honorary past. It must be filled unceasingly anew to dissemble the curse it carries within itself; that is why Americans like speed, alcohol, thriller films and any sensational news: the demand for new things, and ever newer things, is feverish since nowhere will they rest.

Simone de Beauvoir

We must not confuse the present with the past. With regard to the past, no further action is possible.

Simone Weil

Death. An instantaneous state, without past or future. Indispensable for entering eternity.

Simone Weil

If Germany, thanks to Hitler and his successors, were to enslave the European nations and destroy most of the treasures of their past, future historians would certainly pronounce that she had civilized Europe.

Will Oldham

Too much emphasis is put on American roots music when people try and place me. You know, I grew up listening to punk.