Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert M. Pirsig

The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.

Wally Amos

It doesn't matter how many say it cannot be done or how many people have tried it before; it's important to realize that whatever you're doing, it's your first attempt at it.

Washington Irving

There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

William Hazlitt

The more you do, the more you can do.

Ken Hensley

It is always encouraging and kind when people say nice things about my work but I know that it is not me that did it then and it is not me that is doing it now. It is God living in me and for that I will always be grateful.

Bear Bryant

If we'd beaten 'em, I wouldn't be going out.

Joel Osteen

You need to get ready because I have explosive blessings coming your way.

Joyce Carol Oates

Honorary degrees and lifetime achievement awards are very encouraging. I know that it might sound strange that a writer who has published many books still needs encouragement, but this is true.

Eric Thomas

If you can look up, you can get up.

Richard Baxter

You will cast away your cards and dice when you find the sweetness of youthful learning.

Reinhold Niebuhr

God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other. This prayer was first printed in a monthly bulletin of the Federal Council of Churches and has become enormously popular. It has been circulated in millions of copies.

Woody Allen

Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.

William Wordsworth

Great men have been among us; hands that penn'd And tongues that utter'd wisdom--better none

William Wordsworth

Wisdom sits with children round her knees.

Richard Dawkins

Textbooks describe DNA as a blueprint for a body. It's better seen as a recipe for making a body, because it is irreversible. But today I want to present it as something different again, and even more intriguing. The DNA in you is a coded description of ancient worlds in which your ancestors lived. DNA is the wisdom out of the old days, and I mean very old days indeed.

Robert Lowell

What can the dove of Jesus give You now but wisdom, exile? Stand and live, The dove has brought an olive branch to eat.

Robert M. Hutchins

Nature will not forgive those who fail to fulfill the law of their being. The law of human beings is wisdom and goodness, not unlimited acquisition.

Sarah McLachlan

The more we take, the less we become.

John Ide

It is not hiking on trails. This is a very strenuous activity.

Robert Louis Stevenson

I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.

Ella Henderson

I love hiking to the top of mountains in L.A. and seeing incredible landscapes. It really inspires me.

Johnny Weissmuller

How can a guy climb trees, say Me Tarzan, You Jane, and make a million?

Emmy Rossum

Ideal date is doing something new, either hiking a new place I've not been, or learning something weird and new like pottery.... and then a meal.

Bill Janklow

There's a world out there, and you've got to look at both sides of the mountain in your lifetime.

Paul Schubert

We can no longer be simply a hiking association. We must reach out.

Brownie McGhee

When I was hitch-hiking, people had to follow me, 'cause I didn't stay long.

Roger Taylor

I like Target. I like the ones in the Midwest, personally. We don't really have those in England yet.