Streamside Quotes & Sayings

To advance, however far, is profitless unless the ground gained can be consolidated, or the momentum sustained. — Ludovic Kennedy

Every blade of grass, every insect, ant, and golden bee, all so amazingly know their path, though they have not intelligence, they bear witness to the mystery of God and continually accomplish it themselves. — Fyodor Dostoevsky

Hey, Mr English guy! I think your egg is hatching. - Jacob Kowalski — J.K. Rowling

If you enjoy working with someone, you must work with them. Again and again and again. If you enjoy the atmosphere and your work, why should you stop yourself? — Sonakshi Sinha

My mother's father was from Sligo, and he used to say it was the hardest thing in the world to find a man alive in Dublin who wasn't in the GPO during the Easter Rising. Twenty brave men marched into that post office, he said, and thirty thousand marched out. — Lawrence Block

Some claim that computers will, by 2050, achieve human capabilities. Of course, in some respects they already have. — Martin Rees

People are weird. When we find someone with weirdness that is compatible with ours, we team up and call it love. — Dr. Seuss

He had been born into debt, as had his father and his father before him. Indenture and slavery were two words for the same thing. — Steven Erikson

By the 5th century B.C., however, most of the constellations had come to be associated with myths, and the Catasterismi of Eratosthenes completed the mythologization of the stars. — Errol Coder

Any man who retreats into a cave which has only one opening deserves to die. — Frank Herbert

In the future, I mean to be a fine streamside entomologist. I'm going to start on that when I am much too old to do any of the two thousand things I can think of that are more fun than screening insects in cold running water — Thomas McGuane

As the plant springs from, and could not be without, the seed, so every act of man springs from the hidden seeds of thought, and could not have appeared without them. — James Allen

Reading activates and exercises the mind.
Reading forces the mind to discriminate. From the beginning, readers have to recognize letters printed on the page, make them into words, the words into sentences, and the sentences into concepts.
Reading pushes us to use our imagination and makes us more creatively inclined. — Ben Carson

I have no desire to prolong uncertainty. — Clifton Webb