Famous Quotes & Sayings

Calvin Coolidge

There is new life in the soil for every man. There is healing in the trees for tired minds and for our overburdened spirits, there is strength in the hills, if only we will lift up our eyes. Remember that nature is your great restorer.

Dale Carnegie

Close your eyes. You might try saying. . . something like this: "The sun is shining overhead. The sky is blue and sparkling. Nature is calm and in control of the world-and I, as nature's child, am in tune with the Universe." Or-better still-pray!

E. B. White

"What's miraculous about a spider's web?" said Mrs. Arable. "I don't see why you say a web is a miracle--it's just a web." "Ever try to spin one?" asked Mr. Dorian.

E. B. White

I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.

Anne Bronte

A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine.

Robert Frost

For hard it is to keep from being King When it's in you and in the situation.

Thomas Starr King

Nature is hieroglyphic. Each prominent fact in it is like a type; its final use is to set up one letter of the infinite alphabet, and help us by its connections to read some statement or statute applicable to the conscious world.

Thomas Merton

Creation was given to people as a clean window through which the light of God could shine into people's souls. Sun and moon, night and day, rain, sea, the crops, the flowering tree, all these things were transparent. They spoke to people not of themselves but only of Him who made them. Nature was symbolic. But the progressive degradation of humans led them further and further from this truth. Nature became opaque.

Stephen Harper

If we are willing to be still and open enough to listen, wilderness itself will teach us.

Barack Obama

I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.

Dolly Parton

My favorite movies of all times is 'Doctor Zhivago,' and I love 'Gone With the Wind.' I'd love to play some Southern belle or something where I owned a plantation.

Derek Walcott

Damn wind shift sudden as a woman mind.

Chuck Close

There are things about signing on to a process over the long term that protect you from the buffeting winds of change.

Ami Ayalon

Once we agree on the future, the present will be much easier. A captain who does not know where he wants to sail, there is no wind on Earth that will bring him there. We have first to decide where we want to go, where we want to sail.

George Horace Lorimer

The solution to our energy needs must go through a show of respect for nature, not, once again, a policy that does violence to our hills.

Hugh Kingsmill

Behind the big names of twentieth-century literature there stands a shadow cabinet of writers waiting to take over once the Wind of Change has blown. My own vote goes to Hugh Kingsmill as leader of this opposition.

George Herbert

Corn is cleaned with wind, and the Soul with chastening

Friedrich Nietzsche

One cannot read the New Testament without acquired admiration for whatever it abuses not to speak of the "wisdom of this world," which an impudent wind bag tries to dispose of "by the foolishness of preaching."

Paul Jensen

Rain, sleet, snow or strike, we'll get to work.

Chris Proulx

There's no snow and it's not -20 C, so it's actually pretty cool.

George R. R. Martin

Jon Snow: I'm not afraid to die. Mormont: Nor life, I hope.

George R. R. Martin

I don't ever want t' leave this cave, Jon Snow. Not ever

George Bernard Shaw

Everybody who does not live in a prostitute's bed and on a diet of cocaine snow is called an ascetic nowadays.

Bethenny Frankel

In life, no two days are the same for me. It's like a snowflake.

Henry David Thoreau

The Great Snow! How cheerful it is to hear of!

Leonard Maltin

If you're willing to go along for this farcical ride, you'll find 'Dead Snow 2' to be one terrific zombie movie.

A. A. Milne

In a very little time they got to the corner of the field by the side of the pine wood where Eeyore's house wasn't any longer. 'There!' said Eeyore. 'Not a stick of it left! Of course, I've still got all this snow to do what I like with. One mustn't complain.