Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ben Harper

I really feel like the sky is the limit with the Innocent Criminals today.

Abraham Lincoln

I cannot imaging anyone looking at the sky and denying God.

Jean Paul

A sky full of silent suns.

Jerry Rice

Once you get your education it's going to open up so many doors for you. And the sky's the limit. So that's what I want to deliver to students.

Jerry Spinelli

The desert seems to be a brown wasteland of dry, prickly scrub whose only purpose is to serve as a setting for the majestic saguaros. Then, little by little, the plants of the desert begin to identify themselves: the porcupiny yucca, the beaver tail and prickly pear and barrel cacti, buckhorn and staghorn and devil's fingers, the tall, sky-reaching tendrils of the ocotillo.

James Buchan

Financial crises are like fireworks: they illuminate the sky even as they go pop.

James Cameron

The last I checked, 'Titanic' worldwide has grossed $1.3 billion. Imagine how much more it would have grossed if I had gotten the sky correct,

James Agee

This continent, an open palm spread frank before the sky.

James A. Garfield

Individuals may wear for a time the glory of our institutions, but they carry it not to the grave with them. Like raindrops from heaven, they may pass through the circle of the shining bow and add to its luster; but when they have sunk in the earth again, the proud arch still spans the sky and shines gloriously on.

Mikhail Saakashvili

We have not created any sort of democratic test for any nation.

William Shakespeare

A little fire is quickly trodden out, Which, being suffer'd, rivers cannot quench.

Tom Waits

You want soldiers who, when they get to a river after a long march, don't start rooting for their canteen in their pack, but just dive right in.

Jacques Barzun

You never step in the same river of thought twice, because neither you nor it are the same.

Gloria Steinem

The cleanup costs of polluting a river, injecting pesticides into the ground water, or putting noxious gases into the air have not been figured into the cost of the manufacturing or agribusiness that put them there in the first place. Historically, the economic incentive has been to pollute.

Norman MacCaig

I used to fish the Border rivers, but nowadays you have to queue up for a shot and I can't stand that.

Patrick Ness

And I look at her sitting there and she looks across the river and we wait as the dawn fully arrives, each of us knowing. Each of us knowing the other.

Ken Blanchard

A river without banks is a large puddle.

Margaret Atwood

You can wipe your feet on me, twist my motives around all you like, you can dump millstones on my head and drown me in the river, but you can’t get me out of the story. I’m the plot, babe, and don’t ever forget it.

Mary Oliver

Said the river: imagine everything you can imagine, then keep on going.