Best Endangered Quotations
136 Endangered quotes by 118 unique authors
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It is the hope of those who work toward the breakout from planet Earth that the establishment of permanent, self-sustaining colonies of humans off-Earth will…
— Gerard K. O'Neill
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To be a painter now is to be part of a very small, endangered species.
— Howard Hodgkin
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For over 30 years the Endangered Species Act has suffered from many fundamental flaws, the most notable being a blatant disregard for property rights,.
— Chris Cannon
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The environmental assessment should give us the answers to all the issues that have been raised: potential lead migration, endangered species, noise abatement and proper…
— Steven Hall
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The reason I vote Democrat is because I think it's better to pay billions for oil to people who hate us, but not drill our…
— David Letterman
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Sam Harris fearlessly describes a moral and intellectual emergency precipitated by religious fantasies--misguided beliefs that create suffering, that rationalize violence, that have endangered our nation…
— Janna Levin
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Take the crocodile, for example, my favorite animal. There are 23 species. Seventeen of those species are rare or endangered. They're on the way out,…
— Steve Irwin
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Anybody who spends time off of Louisiana's shores can recognize that these oysters are not endangered. To classify them as such risks great harm to…
— Bobby Jindal
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The knife of corruption endangered the life of New York City. The scalpel of the law is making us well again.
— Ed Koch
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Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
— James Madison
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Even though the album is an endangered species, can we try and make a coherent and good one, even if it's like making a horse…
— Chris Martin
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When elected officials abandon our environment and ruin our natural resources, public health is endangered. I know the importance of providing a clean environment for…
— Gwen Moore
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Please think of me like an endangered species and just observe me quietly from far away. If you try to talk to me or touch…
— Haruki Murakami
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In our production-oriented society, being busy, having an occupation, has become one of the main ways, if not the main way, of identifying ourselves. Without…
— Henri Nouwen
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There's so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic.
— Lily Tomlin
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The whale is endangered, while the ant continues to do just fine.
— Bill Vaughan
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Life and liberty can be as much endangered from illegal methods used to convict those thought to be criminals as from the actual criminals themselves.
— Earl Warren
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In prehistoric times, Homo sapiens was deeply endangered. Early humans were less fleet of foot, with fewer natural weapons and less well-honed senses than all…
— Robert Winston
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Bubble gum angels swooped from top margins or scraped their wings between teeming paragraphs, maidens with golden hair dripped sea blue tears into the books…
— Jeffrey Eugenides
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Since, in the long run, every planetary civilization will be endangered by impacts from space, every surviving civilization is obliged to become spacefaring--not because of…
— Carl Sagan
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Somewhere in the archives of crudest instinct is recorded the truth that it is better to be endangered and free than captive and comfortable.
— Tom Robbins
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The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come. When in a state of security he does not forget the…
— Confucius
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What do you do when you see an endangered animal that eats only endangered plants?
— Steven Wright
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Those doves below, the ones utterly cared for, never endangered ones, cannot know tenderness.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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Apparently textbooks were an endangered species here in Bixby, Oklahoma.
— Scott Westerfeld
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