Dam Quotes
102 quotes by 89 authors
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The Quaker loves an ample brim, A hat that bows to no salaam; And dear the beaver is to him As if it never made…
— Thomas Hood
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When the sun shouts and people abound One thinks there were the ages of stone and the age of bronze And the iron age; iron…
— Robinson Jeffers
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One of these days the dam of Gods mercy will give way to his justice.
— Adrian Rogers
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The summer of 1830 I... blasted the tunnel through the rock to take water from the dam above the falls for the mill... In 1831…
— Ezra Cornell
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When dams were erected on the Columbia, salmon battered themselves against the concrete, trying to return home. I expect no less from us. We too…
— Derrick Jensen
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Every morning when I awake I ask myself whether I should write or blow up a dam. I tell myself I should keep writing, though…
— Derrick Jensen
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Men may dam it and say that they have made a lake, but it will still be a river. It will keep its nature and…
— Wendell Berry
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A direful death indeed they had That would put any parent mad But she was more than usual calm She did not give a singel…
— Marjorie Fleming
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There is a lake that one day refused to flow away and threw up a dam at the place where it had before flowed out…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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People who will not turn a shovel full of dirt on the project (Muscle Shoals Dam) nor contribute a pound of material, will collect more…
— Thomas A. Edison
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He wondered what kind of blueprint beavers had for creating such a structure-or did they simply start aimlessly weaving stuff together until they had a…
— Patrick F. McManus
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Some types of environmental restoration projects are well-known restored wetlands, for instance, or coal mine reclamation projects. Recently though, larger dam removal projects have started,…
— Matt Gonzalez
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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 from…
— Jonathan Raban
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When God's people are removed from this earth, you might as well try to dam up Niagara Falls with toothpicks as to stem the flood…
— Vance Havner
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Unexplained pain may sometimes direct our attention to something unacknowledged, something we are afraid to know or feel. Then it holds us to our integrity,…
— Rachel Naomi Remen
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The beaver told the rabbit as they stared at the Hoover Dam: No, I didn't build it myself, but it's based on an idea of…
— Charles Hard Townes
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I was actually telling people that - by harnessing the atom - we could enter a new era of unlimited power that would do away…
— David R. Brower
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Now the good gods forbid That our renowned Rome, whose gratitude Towards her deserved children is enrolled In Jove's own book, like an unnatural dam…
— William Shakespeare
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The Democrats are going to change the name of the Hoover Dam. That is the silliest thing I ever heard of in politics . .…
— Will Rogers
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We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we…
— Henry Ford
Who Wrote These Dam Quotes
89 authors contributed a total of 102 Dam Quotes, led by these top contributors: