Dana Carvey Critics Choice Quotes & Sayings

Teachers should be held in the highest honor. They are the allies of legislators; they have agency in the prevention of crime; they aid in regulating the atmosphere, whose incessant action and pressure cause the life-blood to circulate, and to return pure and healthful to the heart of the nation. — Lydia Sigourney

The corridor smelled of water in the bottoms of purple vases and the piano was banging just beyond this emptiness. — John Hawkes

Most conservatives just want to turn back the clock to a time before the income tax - 100 years or so. I would like to turn the clock back thousands of years to a time when people lived in small communities and took care of each other. — Pete Seeger

It has become somewhat trite, nowadays, to say that after so many years of destruction it is a kind of miracle that Paris is still standing, a miracle we thrill to every day. But if the beauty of Paris has survived wars, how extraordinary that it can do nothing against the pickaxes of the Parisians themselves when they make up their minds to demolish something, nor against the vagaries of their architects left to their own devices! — Julien Green

In the current [Carter] administration, who can use the White House swimming pool and tennis courts is decided at the very highest level. President Ford did not bother himself with such minor details. He let me swim in the pool. He only got upset when I tried to walk across the water. — Henry A. Kissinger

You can't show me the Earth from space and fly right past the moon, entice me into this magical machine and invite me to come with you, and then ask me to stay behind! — Elizabeth Newton

America is a democracy and has no Hitler, but I am afraid for her future; there are hard times ahead for the American people, troubles will be coming from within and without. America cannot smile away their Negro problem nor Hiroshima and Nagasaki. There are cosmic laws. — Albert Einstein

What do you have that you did not receive? And if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it? — Various

No effort is complete without prayer - without definite recognition that the best human endeavor is of no effect if it has not God's blessing behind it. — Mahatma Gandhi

The petty thief is imprisoned but the big thief becomes a feudal lord. — Zhuangzi

I think trials are inherently dramatic and interesting and are always going to be part of the news. — Jeffrey Toobin

Dig down into the blood depths of hormonal bedrock, where violence and sex and power grow fibrously entwined. It's a murky, complicated place down there. No telling what you'll drag up once you start excavating. — Richard K. Morgan