Quotes of Ravine - somelinesforyou

“ What seest thou else In the dark backward and abysm of time? - The Tempest. Act i. Sc. 2. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ The British tourist was asked what he thought of the Grand Canyon.. and wrote back 'gorge-ous'. ”

- Unknown

“ Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo. ”

- Don Marquis

“ Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo. ”

- Don Marquis

“ Barry Goldwater and the Grand Canyon stand together; both unique, both monumental, both among the very best of God's creation. And I believe Barry Morris Goldwater will be remembered as long as each morning the sun continues to rise over the Grand Canyon. ”

- Bruce Babbitt

“ The tragedy is that Dell didn't win it - we lost it. ”

- Unknown

“ Life is supposed to be a series of peaks and valleys. The secret is to keep the valleys from becoming grand Canyons. ”

- Bern Williams

“ The elements that unite to make the Grand Canyon the most sublime spectacle in nature are multifarious and exceedingly diverse. ”

- John Powell

“ When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you. ”

- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“ A child's fear is a world whose dark corners are quite unknown to grownup people; it has its sky and its abysses, a sky without stars, abysses into which no light can ever penetrate. ”

- Julian Green

“ If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you. ”

- John Milton

“ If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you. ”

- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“ Have you ever been to the proper desert? The most extraordinary thing is the silence. There's nothing to move out there. I got such a buzz out of it. ”

- Kristin Scott Thomas

“ Two to three years down the road, other companies not on a model like Dell's will be in trouble. ”

- Jimmy Johnson

“ When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all holes, or games, are created equal. ”

- George Will

“ Turn, gentle Hermit of the Dale, And guide my lonely way To where you taper cheers the vale With hospitable ray. ”

- Oliver Goldsmith

“ Even if a minefield or the abyss should lie before me, I will march straight ahead without looking back. ”

- Zhu Rongji

“ Now blooms the lily by the bank, The primrose down the brae; The hawthorn's budding in the glen, The milkwhite is the slae. ”

- Robert Burns

“ Take no revenge that you have not pondered beneath a starry sky, or on a canyon overlook, or to the lapping of waves and the mewing of a distant gull. ”

- Robert Brault

“ It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure. ”

- Joseph Campbell

“ Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings. ”

- Elisabeth Kubler Ross

“ The lead dog gets the best view. The rest of the dogs view is butt ugly. Of course, the lead dog is also the first to fall into the ravine. ”

- Richard Saunders

“ In fact, just about all the major natural attractions you find in the West - the Grand Canyon, the Badlands, the Goodlands, the Mediocrelands, the Rocky Mountains and Robert Redford - were caused by erosion. ”

- Dave Barry

“ The one thing that we should stick to is to figure out how to become better human beings, but in order to do that we have to go to the second level which is to work on defining the palette of what a better human being is made of, and creativity is one of them. ”

- Herbie Hancock

“ The best quality tea must have creases like the leather boot of Tartar horsemen, curl like the dewlap of a mighty bullock, unfold like a mist rising out of a ravine, gleam like a lake touched by a zephyr, and be wet and soft like a fine earth newly swept by rain. ”

- Yu Lu

“ The wind whips through the canyons of the American Southwest, and there is no one to hear it but us - a reminder of the 40,000 generations of thinking men and women who preceded us, about whom we know almost nothing, upon whom our civilization is based. ”

- Carl Edward Sagan

“ My parents are both redheads, so they knew I was going to be a redhead. They just thought Bryce Canyon was very strong and it was red. And they thought it was beautiful. So they named me Bryce. And Dallas is where I was conceived. My parents are hippies. ”

- Bryce Dallas Howard

“ I just want to be able to sit on grass as long as I want to, without anybody telling me to leave. Everything is so restricted, here, in that you actually have to stand behind a line, you can't go up the Canyon and enjoy the view. ”

- Franka Potente

“ There is a canyon of difference between doing your best to glorify God and doing whatever it takes to glorify yourself. The quest for excellence is a mark of maturity. The quest for power is childish. ”

- Max L. Lucado
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