Cloud Cuckoo Land Quotes

#1. Human society is based on want. Life is based on want. Wild-eyed visionaries may dream of a world without need. Cloud-cuckoo-land. It can't be done.

H.G.Wells

#2. The government's living in its own cloud cuckoo land and it's a cloud of greenhouse gases.

Bob Brown

#3. It seems like cloud cuckoo land. If anyone is suggesting that I would go to Parliament and suggest the abolition of the Pound Sterling - no! We have made it quite clear that we will not have a single currency imposed upon us.

Margaret Thatcher

#4. The truth is Canada is a cloud-cuckoo-land, an insufferably rich country governed by idiots, its self-made problems offering comic relief to the ills of the real world out there, where famine and racial strife and vandals in office are the unhappy rule.

Mordecai Richler

#5. Both formerly and now, it is only suffering that I describe, and the cessation of suffering.

Gautama Buddha

#6. Felix had gone to live in a lotus land of his imagination. Where what is desired is dreamed of as already happened, where obstacles dissolve under the weight of desire, and where reality has vanished entirely.

Iain Pears

#7. Someone who is self assured celebrates the accomplishments of others.

Thea Harris

#8. How had it begun? Like everything: with mothers and fathers. Because of Lydia's mother and father, because of her mother's and father's mothers and fathers.

Celeste Ng

#9. Darzee was a feather-brained little fellow who could never hold more than one idea at a time in his head.

Rudyard Kipling

#10. When the concept of human spirit is understood as the mode of consciousness in which the individual feels connected to the Cosmos as a whole, it becomes clear that ecological awareness is spiritual in its deepest sense.

Fritjof Capra

#11. The physician must not only be the healer, but often the consoler.

Harriot Kezia Hunt

#12. In high school, when you're a top player, there are ways of getting eligible, ways of getting out of going to class. It made going to the next level, which is college, that much harder.

Chad Ochocinco