Alas, where is there still a sea in which one could drown: thus our lament resounds – across shallow swamps. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I eat like a tortoise eats, if you've ever seen a tortoise eating. Like some prehistoric swamp thing. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The most primitive places left with us are the swamps, where the spruce still grows shaggy with usnea. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
This house better get cleaned up in six months. The swamp is going to have to be drained pretty quickly. — Ron Wyden Copy Share Image
...like a scene from the swamps of Louisiana or the mind of Poe on opium. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Stride with a proud disdain through the swamp of human inadmissibility. — Joachim Peiper Copy Share Image
You may think that those aeroplanes in this city on 9/11 came out of a clear, blue sky. I believe they emerged… — George Galloway Copy Share Image
Down through the years certain fads of slang had come and gone, and their vestiges could be found in Janie's and Mabel's… — Dolores Hitchens Copy Share Image
Earthly riches are like the reed. Its roots are sunk in the swamp, and its exterior is fair to behold; but inside… — Anthony of Padua Copy Share Image
Environmentalists changed the word jungle to rain forest, because no one would give them money to save a jungle. Same with swamps… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Inch by inch I conquered the inner terrain I was born with. Bit by bit I reclaimed the swamp in which I'd… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
As many truths as men. Occasionally, I glimpse a truer Truth, hiding in imperfect simulacrums of itself, but as I approach, it… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Unless you know the mountains and the forests, the defiles and impasses, the lay of the marshes and swamps, you cannot maneuver… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
Without the help of selfishness, the human animal would never have developed. Egoism is the vine by which man hoisted himself out… — Blaise Cendrars Copy Share Image
As a young child I wanted to be a writer because writers were rich and famous. They lounged around Singapore and Rangoon… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
This is a unique aquarium in that a large portion of its collection features freshwater species, and it specializes in fish, amphibians… — John Grant Copy Share Image
Nobody has ever thought himself to death. The chief danger confronting us is not age. It is laziness, sloth, routine, stupidity, -… — Gilbert Highet Copy Share Image
When I would re-create myself, I seek the darkest wood, the thickest and most interminable and to the citizen, most dismal, swamp.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Barrons has something the rest of us don't have. I don't know what it is, but I feel it all the time,… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
When cyclones tear up Oklahoma and hurricanes swamp Alabama and wildfires scorch Texas, you come to us, the rest of the country,… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
And all that weirdness isn't just going on outside. It's in you too, right now, growing in the dark like magic mushrooms.… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The die is cast in Canada: there are two ethnic and linguistic groups; each is too strong and too deeply rooted in… — Pierre Trudeau Copy Share Image
I have watched the river and the sea for a lifetime. I have seen rivers rob soil from the roots of trees… — Keri Hulme Copy Share Image
To love a swamp, however, is to love what is muted and marginal, what exists in the shadows, what shoulders its way… — Barbara Hurd Copy Share Image
As a believer, I know that Jesus Christ has a plan and it's not going to be my plan. It's not always… — Jennie Finch Copy Share Image
With calm, knowledgeable precision, Daniel Ziblatt wades into the adjacent swamps of federalism and nineteenth-century European history, emerging with hands full of… — Charles Tilly Copy Share Image
I mean, if you pause over what it means at the age of 76 that Eleanor Roosevelt wrote, the happiest single day… — Blanche Wiesen Cook Copy Share Image
Donald Trump needs to stay focused and remember the promises to you, the American people. You know the promises, repeal and replace… — Sean Hannity Copy Share Image
I was born into all that, all that mess, the over-crowded swamp and the over-crowded sematary and the not-crowded-enough town, so I… — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
“Do they still call it infatuation? That magic ax that chops away the world in one blow, leaving only the couple standing… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I spent most of my 20s with these alligator wrestlers in the swamps of South Florida. — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
A town is saved, not more by the righteous men in it, than by the woods and swamps that surround it. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
