Dam Quotes

102 quotes by 89 authors

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
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
One of these days the dam of Gods mercy will give way to his justice. — Adrian Rogers
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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

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