Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter Ambenje

We can confidently say the rains have established. In many arid and semi-arid regions, the drought is already alleviating, the dams are filling up and there is water for livestock.

Paramahansa Yogananda

The ideal of an all-sided education for youth had always been close to my heart. I saw clearly the arid results of ordinary instruction, aimed only at the development of body and intellect.

Paul Conroy

The words impoverished, cluttered and arid come to my mind, ... The main roads were paved, but when you moved into the residential areas, the roads were just ruts in the sand.

David Hare

that the erotic charge is very important in his writing. It really doesn't matter whether he was gay or not, which is a rather arid argument, but what's more important is that he wrote in an openly sexual way. And sex is a vital part of his romanticism.

Johan Rockstrom

We see evidence that lakes and forests and wetlands can have different equilibria - so you have a savanna system that may be stable and thriving, but it can also tip over and become an arid steppe if pushed too far by warming, land degradation, and biodiversity loss.

Todd Zillweger

Most people forget the region of France especially is very similar with arid climate as Arizona and they're beautiful in our environment.

David Hemphill

When an evil spirit comes out of a man, it goes through arid places seeking rest and does not find it.

Kurt Schaefer

I think it's logical. Most of the federally-regulated dams tend to be fairly large dams that pose significant risk if there is a failure.

Kofi Annan

For everyone, everywhere, literacy is, along with education in general, a basic human right.

Glen Spain

At some point (the administration) is going to have to face up to the dams. The science leads to the dams and the law leads to the dams.

Paul Johnston

We have a study under way called the Lower Snake River Study. It is looking at three options. One is essentially to do nothing, the second is to significantly improve the dams to make them more fish friendly and the third is breaching the dams, ... These three options are still very much on the table.

Jim Hayes

We've been through a snow drought up until March.

Ronaldo Ronaldo

I hope I don't suffer another drought as long as that one,

Mike Gillespie

It's pretty dry down there. It's looking like a drought situation for a big part of the southwestern part of the country.

Maxwell Gaylard

It is the worst drought in a decade.

Dave Robinson

A worse drought than we have seen recently may loom in our future.

Rig Veda

As the counterpart of Zeus for the Greeks or Jupiter for the Romans, Indra is the god of the thunderstorm, who vanquishes drought and darkness.

Zam Fredrick

We hit a drought in the second period and Buford started hitting its free throws.

Juwan Howard

We hit a big-time drought in the fourth quarter. We kept our poise. We got some stops and rebounded the shots. In the past we folded.

Richard Peterson

Next week looks kind of low, ... We're headed into the late summer, pre-Labor Day drought for deals.

Kathleen Troia McFarland

While President Putin is busy redrawing the map of Europe, President Obama is busy filling out his brackets.

Sean Coste

I think that we had a lot of good looks from Kara inside in the post. Kim did a nice job filling in on the blocks.

Angus T. Jones

I'm on 'Two and a Half Men,' and I don't want to be on it. Please stop watching it, and filling your head with filth.

Ann Marsh

I'm not filling up, I'm only getting $10, then I'll go somewhere else when I have the time where it's not as expensive.

Thom Cooper

There are over 1,500 tickets sold to the performance, filling the majority of the main floor and grand tier. There are still some good seats available.

Laura Brown

They were down five games in the second. They did a good job of filling that spot for us today.

John McGee

It's not Kathy filling Mark's shoes. It's a different kind of shoe.

John McKenna

You can't just keep filling landfills with stuff when there is a use for it.

Natalie Massenet

When you see an item like that, you have to have it because it is filling a void. It is something you didn't know you wanted. It can be quite emotional.

Daljit Singh

The weather has suddenly changed. If it rains tonight (Tuesday) as well, we would have to see how much sweating is there on the track.

Steve Smith

When it rains it pours. That about sums it up.

Rick Riordan

The next microsecond, as the water erupted around me, I realized too late that I should've brought the entire Twenty-first Nome to help me.

Rick Riordan

Down in the water, Octavian yelled, “Get me out of here! I’ll kill you!” “Tempting,” Percy called down.

Rick Riordan

The metal blade hit her shoulder and passed cleanthrough her body as if she were made of water. HISSS!

William McDonough

We are proposing buildings that, like trees, are net energy exporters, produce more energy than they consume, accrue and store solar energy, and purify their own waste, water and release it slowly in a purer form.

Sappho

I will let my body flow like water over the gentle cushions.

Rebecca Stead

If you took every tear cried by everyone on earth on one single day and put them in a container, how big would that container need to be? Could you fill a water tower? Three water towers? It's one of those unknowable things. There has to be an answer, but we'll never know what it is.

Satish Kumar

Monks will have three begging bowls for their food: one for water, one for liquid food, one for dry food.

Wangari Maathai

In Kenya women are the first victims of environmental degradation, because they are the ones who walk for hours looking for water, who fetch firewood, who provide food for their families.

Saint Basil

If, therefore, there is any grace in the water, it is not from the nature of water but from the Spirit's presence there.