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
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
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
Yes, there was music after all. The sound of the swamp rose up to him. The sound of frogs and crickets, of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Surely one may as profitably be soaked in the juices of a swamp for one day as pick his way dry-shod over… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Misquotation is quotology’s swamp. Amateur quoters mix and mangle Shakespeare and Scripture. Professors gaffe and printers bungle. It’s a mess we must… — Willis Regier Copy Share Image
Hope and the future for me are not in lawns and cultivated fields, not in towns and cities, but in the impervious… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Well, maybe not death panels, exactly, but unless we start allocating health-care resources more prudently – rationing, by its proper name –… — Steven Rattner Copy Share Image
Our suicidal poets (Plath, Berryman, Lowell, Jarrell, et al.) spent too much of their lives inside rooms and classrooms when they should… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The Fomorians skittered backward, away from me, looking justifiably confused. I mean, really, how many human women actually run to them? And… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I sink down into my body as into a swamp, fenland, where only I know the footing…. I’m a cloud, congealed around… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The Gerat Bald Swamp Hedgehog of Billericay displays, in courtship, his single prickle and does impressions of Holiday Inn desk clerks. Since… — Mike Harding Copy Share Image
In a swamp, as in meditation, you begin to glimpse how elusive, how inherently insubstantial, how fleeting our thoughts are, our identities.… — Barbara Hurd Copy Share Image
One can see now how the idea of heaven takes hold of men's consciousness, how it gains ground even when all the… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The ash her purple drops forgivingly And sadly, breaking not the general hush; The maple swamps glow like a sunset sea, Each… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
I can't make something 'useful' to me in a writing sense for a very long time. I don't have any journalistic instinct.… — Tim Winton 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
Am I more afraid Of taking a chance and learning I'm somebody I don't know, or of risking new territory, only to… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
There are no green thumbs or black thumbs. There are only gardeners and non-gardeners. Gardeners are the ones who ruin after ruin… — Henry Mitchell Copy Share Image
“For the city, his city, stood unchanging on the edge of time: the same burning dry city of his nocturnal terrors and… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
The novel is a formidable mass, and it is so amorphous - no mountain in it to climb, no Parnassus or Helicon,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Thoreau the “Patron Saint of Swamps” because he enjoyed being in them and writing about them said, “my temple is the swamp…… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
He almost danced to the fridge, found the three least hairy things in it, put them on a plate and watched them… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“In reference to the search for Lincoln's killers as it took to the Maryland swamps: "The method of searching the swamps is… — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
A swamp is where Gators live. We feel comfortable there, but we hope our opponents feel tentative. A swamp is hot and… — Steve Spurrier Copy Share Image
Just take them rascals [rapists, killers, child abusers] out in the swamp / Put 'em on their knees and tie 'em to… — Charlie Daniels Copy Share Image
Do not let your fire go out ... Do not let the Hero in your soul perish ... Check your road and… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Modern cyberspace is a deadly festering swamp, teeming with dangerous programs such as 'viruses,' 'worms,' 'Trojan horses' and 'licensed Microsoft software' that… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Armed with my sword and wand, I was all set for a stroll through the swamp to look for a hungry monster.… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Some people really expected he could do that, would do that. They're not expecting [Donald Trump] to target Hillary [Clinton], just to… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Little by little, studying the infinite possibilities of a loss of memory, he realized that the day might come when things would… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Would you leave me alone, you walking pair of boots! Let go of my easel, you refugee from a luggage factory. If… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Out of the choked Devonian waters emerged sight and sound and the music that rolls invisible through the composer's brain. They are… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
There are brains so large that they unconsciously swamp all individualities ties which come in contact or too near, and brains so… — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
Besides, Southerners are hospitable. They'll probably offer me lemonade." Excuse me? You're going to sit on a porch and drink lemonade while… — Nancy Werlin Copy Share Image
My coming to faith did not start with a leap but rather a series of staggers from what seemed like one safe… — Anne Lamott 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
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
Grief is like the wake behind a boat. It starts out as a huge wave that follows close behind you and is… — Jimmy Buffett 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
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