Dams Quotes

85 quotes by 79 authors

For an economy built to last we must invest in what will fuel us for generations to come. This is our history - from the… — Cory Booker
Dams have harmed our wildlife and made rivers less useful for recreation. — Stephen Ambrose
But I never get attracted to fans cause the eager beaver could be the collapse of a dam — Drake
Americans seem sometimes to believe that if you are a thinker you must be a frowning bore, because thinking is so dam serious. — Jacques Maritain
If you want to see Chris Jericho drink a beer with Stone Cold Steve Austin, give me a doo-a dee-dee-dam, dee-dee-doo. — Chris Jericho
It doesn't make you bad losing to Rob Van Dam... it just makes you like everybody else. — Rob Van Dam
We must make this an insecure and inhospitable place for capitalists and their projects. We must reclaim the roads and plowed land, halt dam constructions,… — David Foreman
The number of people displaced by dams is estimated at between 40 million and 80 million, most of them in China and India. The costs… — Paul Brown
In descriptions of Nature one must seize on small details, grouping them so that when the reader closes his eyes he gets a picture. For… — Anton Chekhov
How much wilderness do the wilderness-lovers want? ask those who would mine and dig and cut and dam in such sanctuary spots as these. The… — Wallace Stegner
The brief legal emancipation of Jews during the Napoleonic wars released unparalleled economic, professional, and cultural energies. It was though a high dam had suddenly… — Amos Elon
At one level it's clear that the dam has broken. There's an inevitable move to use the Internet as a distribution medium and that's not… — Paul Otellini
We in Himalaya are facing a crisis of survival due to the suicidal activities being carried out in the name of developmentâ€¦ The monstrous Tehri… — Sunderlal Bahuguna
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 that… — Edward Abbey
All dams are ugly, but the Glen Canyon Dam is sinful ugly. — Edward Abbey
There's nothing to stop a man from writing unlessÂ that manÂ stops himself. If a man truly desires to write, then he will.Â Rejection and… — Charles Bukowski
The bigger the dam of patience, the worse the flood when the dam breaks. — Austin O'Malley
My hand does the work and I dont have to think; in fact, were I to think, it would stop the flow. Its like a… — Edna O'Brien
Go around asking a lot of dam fool questions and taking chances. Only through curiosity can we discover opportunities, and only by gambling can we… — Clarence Birdseye
God is a great underground river that no one can dam up and no one can stop. — Meister Eckhart

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