Basin Quotes
43 quotes by 41 authors
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Jesus gave us a model for the work of the church at the Last Supper. While his disciples kept proposing more organization - Hey, let's…
— Philip Yancey
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With nine degrees of warming, computer models project that Australia will look like a disaster movie. Habitats for most vertebrates will vanish. Water supply to…
— Jeff Goodell
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Other sound than the owl's voice there was none, save the falling of a fountain into its stone basin; for, it was one of those…
— Charles Dickens
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There is a basin in the mind where words float around on thought and thought on sound and sight. Then there is a depth of…
— Zora Neale Hurston
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my mother was taught the ch'an concept of happiness, which was to find satisfaction in small things. i was taught to appreciate the fresh air…
— Anchee Min
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Underneath my stiffened gown Is the softness of a woman bathing in a marble basin, A basin in the midst of hedges grown So thick,…
— Amy Lowell
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We'd thought that we were among the first humans to invade this basin, but humans had invaded everything, everywhere. They didn't have to walk into…
— John Marsden
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A short distance away is the Tidal Basin, ringed by cherry trees that every year produce flowers, an event to which Washingtonians react as though…
— Dave Barry
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And I will now rock the brown basin from side to side so that my ships may ride the waves. Some will founder. Some will…
— Virginia Woolf
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In that moment Ged understood the singing of the bird, and the language of the water falling in the basin of the fountain, and the…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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Deep inside her (ih her harrowed soul) she felt a glowing ember of fury at the man responsible for this. Tha man who had put…
— Stephen King
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I have lived through war, and lost much. I know what's worth the fight, and what is not. Honor and courage are matters of the…
— Diana Gabaldon
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The idea was to have a basin inverted on his head and his hair cut to the shape of it. Skill and money were not…
— Janet Frame
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Rhoda comes now, having slipped in while we were not looking. She must have made a tortuous course, taking cover now behind a waiter, now…
— Virginia Woolf
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I sometimes find, and I am sure you know the feeling, that I simply have too many thoughts and memories crammed into my mind. “At…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Our Savior kneels down and gazes upon the darkest acts of our lives. But rather than recoil in horror, he reaches out in kindness and…
— Max Lucado
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Four thousand years ago, we, the people of the Indus River basin, had cities that were laid out on grids and boasted underground sewers, while…
— Mohsin Hamid
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Legislation for the Caribbean basin has led to more jobs in the Dominican Republic.
— Elliott Abrams
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We access virtually every producing basin, whether for natural gas or crude oil, in the U.S. and Canada.
— Richard Kinder
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I have traveled the entire state and spent a lot of time out of doors. So I have known the landscape of the Columbia Basin…
— David Guterson
Who Wrote These Basin Quotes
41 authors contributed a total of 43 Basin Quotes, led by these top contributors: