Canals Quote by S. I. Hayakawa Download Open image “We should keep [the Panama Canal]. After all, we stole it fair and square.” — S. I. Hayakawa ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Canals Fairs Panama Panama canal Peace Should Squares War
My impression about the Panama Canal is that the great revolution it is going to introduce in the trade of the world is in… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
The problem was that Panama technically belonged to Colombia, which refused to sign a treaty leasing it to the United States. So Roosevelt sent… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
“The Panama Canal,' says Abdiel Perez, 'is like a wound that humans inflicted on the Earth--one that nature is trying to heal.” — Alan Weisman Copy Share Image
“Panama still more extraordinary machines would work an even more astonishing success. The wonderful thing was that the American dredges did” — David McCullough Copy Share Image
Panama is a country that's been dealing with issues of identity since its very birth. It was born on Wall Street. It was born… — Edgar Ramirez Copy Share Image
Everybody in America who didn't come over the Bering Strait ice bridge stole his land from somebody else. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
We on this continent should never forget that men first crossed the Atlantic not to find soil for their ploughs but to secure liberty… — Superman Copy Share Image
We can still maintain our coasts and oceans for the generations to come, who deserve what we have. — Aaron Peirsol Copy Share Image
We landed, in fact, parallel to a canal, like there were two runways: one for us and one for waterfowl. — John Green Copy Share Image
We must make this an insecure and inhospitable place for capitalists and their projects. We must reclaim the roads and plowed land, halt dam… — David Foreman Copy Share Image
Despite the never-ending debate on the question of the role of government in America, there's been a strong tradition of protecting our undisputed, important… — Walt Mossberg Copy Share Image
The language we share is at the core of our identity as citizens, and our ticket to full participation in American political life. We… — S. I. Hayakawa Copy Share Image
It is the individual who knows how little they know about themselves who stands the most reasonable chance of finding out something about themselves… — S. I. Hayakawa Copy Share Image
So I will say it with relish. Give me a hamburger but hold the lawsuit. — S. I. Hayakawa Copy Share Image
How anybody dresses is indicative of his self-concept. If students are dirty and ragged, it indicates they are not interested in tidying up their… — S. I. Hayakawa Copy Share Image
Language is a unifying instrument which binds people together. When people speak one language they become as one, they become a society. — S. I. Hayakawa Copy Share Image
The English Language Amendment says above all, 'Let's see to it that our children, our young people, learn English. Let us not deny them… — S. I. Hayakawa Copy Share Image
We live in a highly competitive society, each of us trying to outdo the other in wealth, in popularity or social prestige, in dress,… — S. I. Hayakawa Copy Share Image
People who think of themselves as tough-minded and realistic, among them influential political leaders and businessmen as well as go-getters and hustlers of smaller caliber, tend to take it for granted that human nature is selfish and that life is a struggle in which only the fittest may survive. According to this philosophy, the basic law by which man must… — S. I. Hayakawa Copy Share
If everybody is rewarded just for being alive, you get the same sort of effect as you do when you reward every student just for being enrolled. You destroy not only education, you destroy society by giving A's to everyone. This is a philosophical consideration that bothers me very much as I sit in the United States Senate and see… — S. I. Hayakawa Copy Share
In the case of drama (stage, movies, television ), there appear to be people in almost every audience who never quite fully realize that a play is a set of fictional, symbolic representations. An actor is one who symbolizes other people, real or imagined. [...] Also some years ago it was reported that when Edward G. Robinson, who used to… — S. I. Hayakawa Copy Share
Good teachers never say anything. What they do is create the conditions under which learning takes place. — S. I. Hayakawa Copy Share Image
When you have a cavity in your tooth and you let it get worse, eventually you have to get a root canal. If you… — Olivia Newton-John Copy Share Image
Actors do have good and bad sides. It's because the passage down the birth canal distorts the face. People born by caesarean section are… — Richard Griffiths Copy Share Image
My daughter squealed again and both Bubba and I winced. It’s not an attractive sound, that. It’s high-pitched and it enters your ear canals like hot glass. No matter how much I love my daughter, I will never love her squealing. Or maybe I will. Maybe I do. Driving down 93, I realized once and for all, that I love… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share
The citizens of Love Canal provided an example of how a blue-collar community with few resources can win against great odds (a multi-billion-dollar international… — Lois Gibbs Copy Share Image
The problem was that Panama technically belonged to Colombia, which refused to sign a treaty leasing it to the United States. So Roosevelt sent… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
All this piling up of one technology on top of another-railroad on steamboat, interstate highway on railroad, hydroelectric dam on watermill-had reduced the Mississippi… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
I miss that time. The cities back then, just after the forests died, were full of wonders, and you'd stumble on them--these princes of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One learns little more about a man from his feats of literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal. — Frank Moore Colby Copy Share Image
dating you would be like a series of unnecessary root canals interspersed with occasional makeout sessions. — John Green Copy Share Image
I have had a number of patients with breast cancer, all of whom had root canals on the tooth related to the breast area… — John Diamond Copy Share Image
The digestive canal represents a tube passing through the entire organism and communicating with the external world, i.e. as it were the external surface… — Ivan Pavlov Copy Share Image
People generally have more feeling for canals and roads than education. However, I hope we can advance them with equal pace. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
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