People generally have more feeling for canals and roads than education. However, I hope we can advance them with equal pace. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
One learns little more about a man from his feats of literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal. — Frank Moore Colby Copy Share Image
In Amsterdam, the river and canals have been central to city life for the last four centuries, — Janet Echelman Copy Share Image
If anything can rival Venice in its beauty, it must be its reflection at sunset in the Grand Canal. — Peggy Guggenheim Copy Share Image
I always scout locations first. The apartments, the railway tracks, the café, the canal - I figure out the geography of the… — Claire Denis Copy Share Image
She's as plastic as you are. If you ever have kids, they'll come out of the birth canal with Fisher-Price stamped on… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips Copy Share Image
dating you would be like a series of unnecessary root canals interspersed with occasional makeout sessions. — John Green Copy Share Image
We should keep [the Panama Canal]. After all, we stole it fair and square. — S. I. Hayakawa Copy Share Image
Nothing so challenges the American spirit as tackling the biggest job on earth…Americans are stimulated by the big job; the Panama Canal,… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
When you have a cavity in your tooth and you let it get worse, eventually you have to get a root canal.… — Olivia Newton-John Copy Share Image
If a drought strikes them, animals perish--man builds irrigation canals; if a flood strikes them, animals perish--man builds dams; if a carnivorous… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The physiologist who succeeds in penetrating deeper and deeper into the digestive canal becomes convinced that it consists of a number of… — Ivan Pavlov Copy Share Image
The perennial wonder of Venice is to peer at herself in her canals and find that she exists-incredible as it seems. It… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
The main lesson to be learned from the Love Canal crisis is that in order to protect public health from chemical contamination,… — Lois Gibbs Copy Share Image
No wonder the tulip is the patron flower of Holland. Looking at it one almost smells fresh paint laid on in generous… — Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth Copy Share Image
Taste, when once obtained, may be said to be no acquiring faculty, and must remain stationary; but knowledge is of perpetual growth… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Behavior runs in deep channels that were cut during early childhood, and it is very difficult to alter them. In order to… — James Dobson Copy Share Image
I miss that time. The cities back then, just after the forests died, were full of wonders, and you'd stumble on them--these… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is raining DNA outside. On the bank of the Oxford canal at the bottom of my garden is a large willow… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
So I went to New York City to be born again. It was and remains easy for most Americans to go somewhere… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
We all come into existence as a single cell, smaller than a speck of dust. Much smaller. Divide. Multiply. Add and subtract.… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
Holland is a dream, Monsieur, a dream of gold and smoke-smokier by day, more gilded by night. And night and day that… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Lincoln was a modernizer, so to speak. He believed in economic development. As a Whig before the war he favored what we… — Eric Foner Copy Share Image
The first western gardens were those in the Mediterranean basin. There in the desert areas stretching from North Africa to the valleys… — Penelope Hobhouse Copy Share Image
I had rather get a root canal without anesthesia than to call your customer service office for help. — Jon Jones Copy Share Image
I believe that painting should come through the avenues of meditation rather than the canals of action. — Mark Tobey Copy Share Image
Who's Britannica to tell me that the Panama Canal was built in 1914? If I want to say that it was built… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
Amsterdam has more than 150 canals and 1,250 bridges, but it never seems crowded, nor bent and bitter from fleecing the tourist. — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
Maria Canals-Barrera is Cuban and from Miami and I'm part Cuban and from Miami, so needless to say she became a quick… — Bella Thorne Copy Share Image
It's nice, this. The canal." He looks at me. "You." "I'll bet you say that to all the canals. — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
We landed, in fact, parallel to a canal, like there were two runways: one for us and one for waterfowl. — John Green Copy Share Image
The digestive canal represents a tube passing through the entire organism and communicating with the external world, i.e. as it were the… — Ivan Pavlov Copy Share Image
I've come to look upon death the same way I look upon root-canal work. Everyone else seems to get through it all… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image