Acanthus Quotes

#1. Here sleeps Saon, of Acanthus, son of Dicon, a holy sleep: say not that the good die.

Callimachus

#2. The breadfruit is a superb tree, about 60 feet high, with deep green, shining leaves, a foot broad, sharply and symmetrically cut, worthy, from their exceeding beauty of form, to take the place of the acanthus in architectural ornament, and throwing their pale green fruit into delicate contrast.

Isabella Bird

#3. after all, our purpose in theoretical physics is not just to describe the world as we find it, but to explain - in terms of a few fundamental principles - why the world is the way it is.

Steven Weinberg

#4. I will take a new approach to death, because what is important about death is not the dead. It's the living. Those of us left behind.

Jael McHenry

#5. When we find a fossil, we mark it. Today, we've got great technology: we have GPS. We mark it with a GPS fix, and we also take a digital photograph of the specimen, so we could essentially put it back on the surface, exactly where we found it.

Louise Leakey

#6. Great material progress has not been matched by great spiritual progress. Quite the opposite. Indeed, from this point of view perhaps man has never been so poor as since he became so rich.
Letters against the war: Letter from the Himalayas, 2008.

Tiziano Terzani

#7. Successful families try to work together toward solutions instead of resorting to criticism and contention.

Ezra Taft Benson

#8. Kolya was a braggart, a know-it-all, a Jew-baiting Cossack, but his confidence was so pure and complete it no longer seemed like arrogance, just the mark of a man who had accepted his own heroic destiny.

David Benioff

#9. There's no reason to hold yourself back and say you can't do something in life unless you go for it and try to do it.

Russell Westbrook

#10. Songwriters aren't always performers, and even performing songwriters aren't always the kind of show-biz performers you think they'd be.

Lyle Lovett

#11. If not wisdom then certainly truth. If you've nothing to lose you've nothing to fear losing.

James A. Moore

#12. There are the holding actions, the changing actions, and the vision of the future - what we want to see happen for the Earth. All are essential.

Joanna Macy