Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eric Hoffer

Nature attains perfection, but man never does.

Eric Berne

The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

The Amen of nature is always a flower.

Ellen G. White

Nature is the mirror of divinity.

Erasmus Darwin

By firm immutable immortal laws Impress'd on Nature by the GREAT FIRST CAUSE, Say, MUSE! how rose from elemental strife Organic forms, and kindled into life; How Love and Sympathy with potent charm Warm the cold heart, the lifted hand disarm; Allure with pleasures, and alarm with pains, And bind Society in golden chains.

Emily Dickinson

Some keep the Sabbath going to church, I keep it staying at home, with a bobolink for a chorister, and an orchard for a dome.

Jason Bay

The neat thing about this tournament is the nature of it, and how quick it is. A nice win here, you step it up in one game, and all of a sudden people take note, not just of the team but the players on it.

The nature of the store, it's very small. We want a one-on-one relationship with our customers.

Robert Graham

The nature of the lost-wax process is that there is no original in the popular sense.

Grant Hill

Even with medicine, you can do everything right and something can happen. That's just the nature of it.

I want to be there with the girls, but nature called.

They were the kind and nature of expenditures that have been permitted in the past and were permitted under her contract.

None of the arguments presented were of a serious nature and do not stand up to criticism.

Ron Rivera

It's football. It's kind of the nature of the game, the nature of the beast, and we'll find out.

John Sculley

I'm an optimist. You can't be an entrepreneur if you're not essentially an optimist, so I'm an optimist by nature.

James Garner

People who don't know me think I'm easy-going, but I'm a pessimist by nature and an old curmudgeon.

All souls are equal and alike and have the similar nature and qualities.

Nalini Nadkarni

When we come to understand nature, we are touching the most deep and most important parts of ourself.

I've always wanted to answer all the questions that nature posed for us.

Nas

I think the hip-hop purists are purists through and through. They're here to criticize all of us. That's just how it is. We as MC's criticize each other. That's the nature of hip-hop.

Neil Young

I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature.

Niccolo Machiavelli

...people are by nature fickle, and it is easy to persuade them of something, but difficult to keep them persuaded.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.

Nhat Hanh

What we most need to do is to hear within us the sound of the Earth crying.

Nhat Hanh

We inter-breath with the rain forests, we drink from the oceans. They are part of our own body.

Nhat Hanh

The true miracle is not walking on water or walking in air, but simply walking on this earth.

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.

R. Buckminster Fuller

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.

Leonardo da Vinci

When the sun is covered by clouds, objects are less conspicuous, because there is little difference between the light and shade of the trees and the buildings being illuminated by the brightness of the atmosphere which surrounds the objects in such a way that the shadows are few, and these few fade away so that their outline is lost in haze.

Leonardo da Vinci

Given the cause nature produces the effect in the briefest manner that it can employ.

Leonardo da Vinci

Very great charm of shadow and light is to be found in the faces of those who sit in the doors of dark houses. The eye of the spectator sees that part of the face which is in shadow lost in the darkness of the house, and that part of the face which is lit draws its brilliancy from the splendour of the sky. From this intensification of light and shade the face gains greatly in relief and beauty by showing the subtlest shadows in the light part and the subtlest lights in the dark part.

Leonardo da Vinci

A single and distinct luminous body causes stronger relief in the objects than a diffused light; as may be seen by comparing one side of a landscape illuminated by the sun, and one overshadowed by clouds, and illuminated only by the diffused light of the atmosphere.