Grand Canyon Quotes
54 Grand Canyon quotes by 45 unique authors
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Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube; there are some things one would rather have done than do.
— Edward Abbey
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It doesn't have to be the Grand Canyon, it could be a city street, it could be the face of another human being - Everything…
— A.C. Grayling
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Every season has its peaks and valleys. What you have to try to do is eliminate the Grand Canyon.
— Andy Van Slyke
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It's like trying to describe what you feel when you're standing on the rim of the Grand Canyon or remembering your first love or the…
— Harrison Schmitt
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The big, blazing truth about man is that he has a heaven-sized hole in his heart, and nothing else can fill it. We pass our…
— Peter Kreeft
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I had so much fun touring the Grand Canyon area with the Sierra Club. I love to get outdoors and enjoy nature. We went kayaking,…
— Nolan Gould
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Working with Jack [Nicholson] is sort of like standing in front of the Grand Canyon.
— Diane Keaton
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I had a few fibroids removed, and they left me with a Grand Canyon of scar tissue in my uterus. The doctors weren't sure I'd…
— Holly Marie Combs
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I love my country, by which I mean I am indebted joyfully to all the people throughout its history, who have fought the government to…
— Ani DiFranco
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Politicians wanted to mine the Grand Canyon for zinc and copper, and Theodore Roosevelt said, No.
— Douglas Brinkley
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As a ballplayer, (Dizzy) Dean was a natural phenomenon, like the Grand Canyon or the Great Barrier Reef. Nobody ever taught him baseball and he…
— Red Smith
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The most refined skills of color printing, the intricate techniques of wide-angle photography, provide us pictures of trivia bigger and more real than life. We…
— Daniel J. Boorstin
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I believe in a benevolent God not because He created the Grand Canyon or Michelangelo, but because He gave us snacks.
— Paul Rudnick
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I think everybody should just turn off their TV machines and make up their own songs about whatever comes to mind-their couch, their friends their…
— Unknown Author
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What can be more soul shaking than peering through a 100-inch telescope at a distant galaxy, holding a 100-million-year-old fossil or a 500,000-year-old stone tool…
— Michael Shermer
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The wonders of the Grand Canyon cannot be adequately represented in symbols of speech, nor by speech itself. The resources of the graphic art are…
— John Wesley Powell
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You cannot see the Grand Canyon in one view, as if it were a changeless spectacle from which a curtain might be lifted, but to…
— John Wesley Powell
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There's a grand-canyon sized gulf between explanation and experience.
— Jad Abumrad
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In fact, just about all the major natural attractions you find in the West- the Grand Canyon, the Badlands, the Goodlands, the Mediocrelands, the Rocky…
— Dave Barry
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The Grand Canyon is living evidence of the power of water over a period of time. The power may not manifest immediately. Water can be…
— Frederick Lenz
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What they [Jim deMint and the oil lobby] do care about is the precedent. If they open up ANWR (Arctic National Wildlife Refuge), they'll think…
— Barbara Boxer
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Well, once you've been in the Canyon and once you've sort of fallen in love with it, it never ends...it's always been a fascinating place…
— Barry Goldwater
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The elements that unite to make the Grand Canyon the most sublime spectacle in nature are multifarious and exceedingly diverse.
— John Wesley Powell
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Myths that need clarification: "No matter how many times you see the Grand canyon, you are still emotionally moved to tears." False. It depends on…
— Erma Bombeck
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A rill in a barnyard and the Grand Canyon represent, in the main, stages of valley erosion that began some millions of years apart.
— George Gaylord Simpson
Who Wrote These Grand Canyon Quotes
45 authors contributed a total of 54 Grand Canyon Quotes, led by these top contributors: