| "As we were driving, we saw a sign that said 'Watch For rocks.' Marta said it should read 'Watch For PRETTY rocks.' I told her she should write in her suggestion to the highway department, but she started saying it was a joke---just to get out of writing a simple letter And I thought I was lazy" »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
| "Find out what whiskey he drinks and send all of my generals a case, if it will get the same results. - in reply to comments about General Grant's drinking problems" »Abraham Lincoln |
| "they say some of my stars drink whiskey. But I have found that the ones who drink milkshakes don't win many ballgames." »Casey Stengel |
| "When it's third and ten, you can take the milk drinkers and I'll take the whiskey drinkers every time." »Max McGee |
| "Call on God, but row away from the rocks." »Indian Proverb |
| "A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind." »Antoine De Saint-Exupery |
| "Our way is not soft grass, it's a mountain path with lots of rocks. But it goes upward, forward, toward the sun." »Ruth Westheimer |
| "Music has charms to soothe the savage breast To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak." »William Congreve |
| "I felt invincible. My strength was that of a giant. God was certainly standing by me. I smashed five saloons with rocks before I ever took a hatchet." »Carry Nation |
| "Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education they grow there, firm as weeds among rocks." »Charlotte Bronte |
| "When we trust ourselves, ascents become descents, difficulties turn into easinesses, rocks transform into sands and swords into melting candles!.." »Mehmet Murat ildan |
| "Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness-a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster-children into strength and athletic proportion." »William Cullen Bryant |
| "the hand that rocks the cradleIs the hand that rules the world." »W.R. Wallace |
| "If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives.... But close up a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern." »Ursula K. LeGuin |
| "Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast, To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.N.B. This quote is commonly misquoted as savage beast." »William Congreve |
| "Even though I was their captive, the Indians allowed me quite a bit of freedom. I could walk about freely, make my own meals, and even hurl large rocks at their heads. It was only later that I discovered they were not Indians at all, but dirty clothes hampers." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
| "the trebling of the population in this small and impoverished country, flowing with milk and honey but not with sufficient water, rich in rocks and sand dunes but poor in natural resources and vital raw materials, has been no easy task Indeed, practical men, with their eyes fixed upon things as they are, regarded it as an empty and insubstantial utopian dream." »Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe |
| "Sometimes we want to get away from the busy and hectic city life to find solace in the raging waves of the ocean pounding on the rocks or the turbulent splashing of a bubbling waterfall. At other times we are amazed by the immovable silence of a mountain or the gentle caress of a river overjoyed tat its union with the sea. the topography of a region speaks to each one of us--a secret language that people from all facets of life understand and relate to." »Stuti Garg |
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