Decades Quote by Garrison Keillor Download Open image “Lake Wobegon, the little town that time forgot and the decades cannot improve.” — Garrison Keillor ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Decades Lake wobegon Time
My recollection of a hundred lovely lakes has given me blessed release from care and worry and the troubled thinking of our modern day.… — Hamlin Garland Copy Share Image
Growing up, some of my best memories are visiting my grandparents who had a house on a lake not too far from Waukesha. — Nick Viall Copy Share Image
“In the seventeenth century, in less than forty years, twenty-six lakes were emptied.” — Edmondo De Amicis Copy Share Image
It's a sleepy, wonderful, idyllic town but there's a curse on it from 100 years ago, ... The people who died in this kind… — Selma Blair Copy Share Image
Ah, Jenks? It’s not a lake, it’s a friggin’ freshwater ocean. Did you see the size of the tanker going under the bridge when… — Kim Harrison Copy Share Image
I remember Geauga Lake. I remember Six Flags. I remember going to the mall. I hung out there. These big, grand places that served… — Seph Lawless Copy Share Image
Mine wasn't a lakes-and-boats kind of childhood. I grew up on a Glasgow council estate with a single mother. For our holidays, we went… — Kelly Macdonald Copy Share Image
“Anywhere people lived memory collected like sediment on the bed of a river, dropping from the flow of time to become fixed in the… — Adam Haslett Copy Share Image
We did have a beautiful cottage in the Lake District which we spent lots of time in when I was younger. — Phoebe Dynevor Copy Share Image
I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung… — Hamlin Garland Copy Share Image
God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny. — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
The socially redeeming aspect of golf lies in the vast number of lawyers and bankers and managers who play it, and when you think… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
Ha! Easy for nuns to talk about giving up things. That's what they do for a living. — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
This is the big reason most humorists fail. Drunks don't read books. — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
Before the world was made, when it was only darkness and mist and waters, God was well aware of Lake Wobegon, my family, our… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
On investments, 1998: Where I'm from we don't trust paper. Wealth is what's here on the premises. If I open a cupboard and see,… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
“The rich can afford to be progressive. Poor people have reason to be afraid of the future.” — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
English is the perfect language for preachers because it allows you to talk until you think of what to say. — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
“If you can't read a simple goddam sign and follow one simple goddam instruction then get your fat butt the hell out of here.” — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
“The Gospel is meant to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.” — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
Nature will eventually do what nature has always done. It will respond in a self-stabilizing manner over the long term with moderate variability over… — John H. Sununu Copy Share Image
Music's free and music's for everyone to enjoy and express and interpret. It transcends countries and times and decades. — Bat for Lashes Copy Share Image
I should have liked to get married, but over many decades I have lived essentially alone. I go to sleep when I'm tired, get… — Felix Dennis Copy Share Image
In a couple of decades you have half of the wells that are drilled right now, and you're talking about numbers in the millions… — Josh Fox Copy Share Image
Among the many factors that make a return to halcyon days of the first decades of the postwar era virtually impossible is the decline… — Robert Gilpin Copy Share Image
We're focused on providing innovations in software, driving the continuous improvement for a much better experience, and there's a lot going on here that… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
UN peacekeeping operations are now increasingly complex and multi-dimensional, going beyond monitoring a ceasefire to actually bringing failed States back to life, often after decades of conflict. The blue helmets and their civilian colleagues work together to organize elections, enact police and judicial reform, promote and protect human rights, conduct mine-clearance, advance gender equality, achieve the voluntary disarmament of former… — Kofi Annan Copy Share
But we need to be very clear: because of our decades of collective denial, no gradual, incremental options are now available to us. — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
It's funny, I used to say on 'That 70's Show', you could really put us in any decade, and it was about the people… — Laura Prepon Copy Share Image
So a truthful assessment of how America is doing in the war on terror as a result of President Bush's war on Iraq is… — John Olver Copy Share Image
... many folks take them seriously because they just 'know' that evolution can never be seen in the immediate here and now. In fact,… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Nothing evades our attention as persistently as that which we take for granted... the decades roll on without even a suggestion that perhaps the… — Marion Brady Copy Share Image
