Kounovsk Quotes & Sayings

It was an epochal moment for western migration, and few Americans who read about the women summiting South Pass failed to grasp the symbolism of their timing. It was July 4, 1836. The first white women had crossed the Rockies on Independence Day. — Rinker Buck

There comes a time when a house owns you and you know you have to get free of it, and go on with the rest of your life. — Anne Rice

Women are at once the guardians and the well-spring of the world's faith, morality, and tenderness; and if ever they are degraded to a commonplace level with men, this fine essential quality will be impaired, and their weakness will have to beg and follow where now it guides and controls. — John Boyle O'Reilly

I had to go see the Glee concert with my daughter - oh my God, shoot me. — Melissa Etheridge

The had compatible silences. — David Levithan

People who live with largeness of soul are occupied by large problems. — John Ortberg

My dad had been born in Mexico and his family had to leave during the Mexican revolution. — Mitt Romney

Poxviruses keep herds and swarms of living things in check, preventing them from growing too large and overwhelming their habitats. Viruses are an essential part of nature. If all the viruses on the planet were to disappear, a global catastrophe would ensue, and the natural ecosystems of the earth would collapse in a spectacular crash under burgeoning populations of insects. Viruses are nature's crowd control, and a poxvirus can thin a crowd in a hurry. — Richard Preston

I do not like the raw sound of the human voice in unison unless it is under the discipline of music. — Flannery O'Connor

We want to see ... the efficient production and use of energy, so that the products we produce and the way we produce them pose no threat to the world's natural environment ... economic development ... so that more and more of the world's population can enjoy ... the things which the energy industry supplies ... (and) a society in which ideas and knowledge move freely. — John Browne, Baron Browne Of Madingley

The unthinkable occurred: two communist countries went to war with each other. — Neil Sheehan

Liberty, the very opposite of ownership and control, cannot, then, result from political action, either at the polls or the barricades, but rather evolves out of attitude. If it results from anything, it may be levity. — Tom Robbins