Dams Quote by Arthur Golden Download Open image “Never give up; for even rivers someday wash dams away.” — Arthur Golden ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Dams Rivers Someday
From being a dream, dams have become a very cynical corrupt enterprise; a way of letting governments lay their hands on huge sums of… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
“Dams are built with the intent of a 100-year lifetime — just long enough for societies to become completely dependent on them” — Daniel Lenihan Copy Share Image
The bigger the dam of patience, the worse the flood when the dam breaks. — Austin O'Malley Copy Share Image
Dams have harmed our wildlife and made rivers less useful for recreation. — Stephen Ambrose Copy Share Image
We have over 30 dams in Puerto Rico, and I think only one works. We're here in the rain forest, and we have plenty… — Eduardo Bhatia Copy Share Image
Never give up because you never know what the tide will bring in the next day. — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
An unspoiled river is a very rare thing in this Nation today. Their flow and vitality have been harnessed by dams and too often… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
The wise treat yesterday's problems as water under a bridge. Where the unwise will treat them as a place to build a dam. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To drown a river beneath its own impounded water, by damming, is to kill what it was and to settle for something else. When… — David Quammen Copy Share Image
As more and more new houses get built, they just suck the water out of rivers. — Paul Whitehouse Copy Share Image
He was like a song I'd heard once in fragments but had been singing in my mind ever since. — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
Sometimes we get through adversity only by imagining what the world might be like if our dreams should ever come true. — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
When we fight upstream against a rocky undercurrent, every foothold takes on a kind of urgency. — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
“Oh I'm sure you're right," Auntie said. "Probably she's just as you say. But she looks to me like a very clever girl, and… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
“I'm not sure this will make sense to you, but I felt as though I'd turned around to look in a different direction, so… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
“We human beings are only a part of something very much larger. When we walk along, we may crush a beetle or simply cause… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
If you aren't the woman I think you are, then this isn't the world I thought it was. — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
You know, the men go to tea houses with the expectation that they will have a nice quiet evening and not read about it… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
Adversity is like a strong wind. I don't mean just that it holds us back from places we might otherwise go. It also tears… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
“Most nights I lay on my futon I was sick with anxiety, and felt a pit inside myself as big and empty as if… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
Of course, a sign doesn't mean anything unless you know how to interpret it. — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
“I knew even then that she was right. An en is a karmic bond lasting a lifetime. Nowadays many people seem to believe their… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
The flood of photos sweeps away the dams of memory. Never before has a period known so little about itself. In the hands of… — Siegfried Kracauer Copy Share Image
No man-made structure in all of American history has been hated so much, by so many, for so long, with such good reason, as… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
There comes a day of public ceremonial, and a chance to make a speech… A million voters with IQs below 60 have their ears… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I started inventing things, and then I couldn't stop, like beavers, which I know about. People think they cut down trees so they can… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
All this piling up of one technology on top of another-railroad on steamboat, interstate highway on railroad, hydroelectric dam on watermill-had reduced the Mississippi… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
When dams were erected on the Columbia, salmon battered themselves against the concrete, trying to return home. I expect no less from us. We… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
Go around asking a lot of dam fool questions and taking chances. Only through curiosity can we discover opportunities, and only by gambling can… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The spirit of rebellion is present in every great city, and the great task of wise government is to keep it dormant, for if… — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image
Tragedy can break the heart but not the dam of the tearducts while schmaltz can dissolve the most hardened sophisticate. — Cornelia Otis Skinner Copy Share Image
The river is of the earth and it is free. It is rigorously embanked and bound, and yet it is free. To hell with… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
An unspoiled river is a very rare thing in this Nation today. Their flow and vitality have been harnessed by dams and too often… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
A direful death indeed they had That would put any parent mad But she was more than usual calm She did not give a… — Marjorie Fleming Copy Share Image
