Watatunga Quotes & Sayings

This man [Alexander von Humboldt] is as knowledgeable as a whole academy. — Claude Louis Berthollet

He turned and looked at the boy. Maybe he understood for the first time that to the boy he was himself an alien. A being from a planet that no longer existed. The tales of which were suspect. He could not construct for the child's pleasure the world he'd lost without constructing the loss as well and he thought perhaps the child had known this better than he. He tried to remember the dream but he could not. All that was left was the feeling of it. He thought perhaps they'd come to warn him. Of what? That he could not enkindle in the heart of the child what was ashes in his own. Even now some part of him wished they'd never found this refuge. Some part of him always wished it to be over. — Cormac McCarthy

As I view it, in every family a record should be kept ... that record should be the first stone, if you choose, in the family altar. It should be a book known and used in the family circle; and when the child reaches maturity and goes out to make another household, one of the first things that the young couple should take along should be the records of their families, to be extended by them as life goes on ... each one of us carries, individually, the responsibility of record keeping, and we should assume it. — John Andreas Widtsoe

Perhaps the most valuable thing he taught me (his father) was that there is no contradiction between devotion to work and enjoyment of life and people — Ahmed H. Zewail

Eating is one of the great beauties in life. One of my favorite recreations ... eating with friends, the service, the ambience. — LeRoy Neiman

His can of pepper spray was bigger than my can of pepper spray. — Janet Evanovich

If life is a process of self-sustaining action, then this is the distinctly human mode of action and survival: to think--to produce--to meet the challenges of existence by a never-ending effort and inventiveness. — Ayn Rand

Because, in fact, women, feminists, do read my poetry, and they read it often with the power of their political interpretation. I don't care; that's what poetry is supposed to do. — Diane Wakoski

It is the unseen and the spiritual in people that determines the outward and the actual. — Oswald Chambers

If we were to remove the Bible from public schools we would be wasting so much time punishing crimes and taking so little pains to prevent them. — Benjamin Rush