Underground Quotes

290 quotes by 257 authors

Before the Civil War, Canada was at the top of the underground railroad. If you made it into Canada, you were safe unless someone came… — Margaret Atwood
On some summer days in New York City, the air hangs thickly visible, like the combined exhalations of eight million souls. Steam rising from vents… — Diane Ackerman
For every prohibition you create, you also create an underground. — Jello Biafra
I'm a comic nerd. I'm a former serious collector for much of my childhood and early teen years I wanted to draw underground comics. — Anthony Bourdain
Washington, D.C., has everything that Rome, Paris and London have in the way of great architecture - great power bases. Washington has obelisks and pyramids… — Dan Brown
The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green. — Thomas Carlyle
Fear has many eyes and can see things underground. — Miguel de Cervantes
Compassion is like springwater under the ground. Your life is like a pipe that can tap into that underground spring. When you tap into it,… — Dainin Katagiri
Hippy is an establishment label for a profound, invisible, underground, evolutionary process. For every visible hippy, barefoot, beflowered, beaded, there are a thousand invisible members… — Timothy Leary
However vague they are, dreams have a way of concealing themselves and leave us no peace until they are translated into reality, like seeds germinating… — Lin Yutang
If ever we needed in this country to adopt a new attitude towards homosexuality, this is the time. Instead of treating it as a crime,… — Tommy Douglas
There is something about poverty that smells like death. Dead dreams dropping off the heart like leaves in a dry season and rotting around the… — Zora Neale Hurston
If there is anything I have learned about men and women, it is that there is a deeper spirit of altruism than is ever evident.… — Albert Schweitzer
It is true that I am a writer, and I was married to a composer, and I have lived in a small village in New… — Jamaica Kincaid
We're all made of stories. When they finally put us underground, the stories are what will go on. — Charles de Lint
Mixtape legend, underground kings... Looking for the right way to do the wrong things — Drake
Girl they love me like I'm Prince, like the new kid with the crown. Bunch of underground kings, thought you knew how we get down. — Drake
It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creeds into law if it acquires the political power to do… — Robert A. Heinlein
When your dreams tire, they go underground and out of kindness that's where they stay. — Libby Houston
Rising oil prices have focused the world's attention on the depletion of oil reserves. But the depletion of underground water resources from overpumping is a… — Lester R. Brown

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