Kluane Np Quotes & Sayings

It is almost always impossible to get an abused child to admit who's abusing her. — Jodi Picoult

In 1973, America imported 30 percent of its crude oil needs. Today, that number has doubled to more than 60 percent. Gas prices are as high as they are now in part because we've had no comprehensive national energy policy for the past few decades. — Gary Miller

Earthquakes would be great if they could hit specific areas, like the parent lounge at a children's beauty pageant. — Dana Gould

You can't think yourself out of a box that's made of your thoughts. — Krishna Das

Once we build beyond a human scale, once we conceive ourselves as Titans or as gods, we are lost in magnitude; we cannot control or limit what we do. The statistics of magnitude call out like Sirens to the statistics of destruction. If we have built towering cities, we have raised even higher the cloud of megadeath. If people are as grass before God, they are as nothing before their machines ...
... Past the scale of the human, our works do not liberate us - they confine us. They cut off access to the wilderness of Creation where we must go to be reborn - to receive the awareness, at once humbling and exhilarating, grievous and joyful, that we are a part of Creation, one with all that we live from and all that, in turn, lives from us. They destroy the communal rites of passage that turn us the wilderness and bring us home again. — Wendell Berry

There is no better way to influence children than being their role model. — Eraldo Banovac

I measure everything, because I always think that if I've spent so much time making sure this recipe was exactly the way I want it, why would I want to throw things into a pot? — Ina Garten

I never work hard when I am working; I only work hard when I am not working. — Irving Caesar

I work, play and do everything in French. — Philippe Falardeau

My hands were weak, but I reached them out To feebler ones than mine, and over the shadow of my life Stole the light of a peace divine. — Frances Harper

I've been looking for a feeling like that everywhere I go. I've been waiting for someone to see all the good in me at every truck stop and intersection along the way. I've been waiting all my life for the moment to arrive when I can just stop. Stop looking — Elizabeth Wurtzel

I never realized before that taking care of someone makes you love them more than when they take care of you. — Helen Smith

My wife is my protector. Without her, I'm nothing. She wants to please me, and I want to please her. We've been together over 53 years. — Jack LaLanne