Cole Thomas Quotes

#1. We are still in Eden; the wall that shuts us out is our own ignorance and folly.

Thomas Cole

#2. If I live to be old enough, I may sit down under some bush, the last left in the utilitarian world, and feel thankful that intellect in its march has spared one vestige of the ancient forest for me to die by.

Thomas Cole

#3. Assumptions should never be the basis of any understanding.

Steven Redhead

#4. As a single atom man is an enigma: as a whole he is a mathematical problem. As an individual he is a free agent, as a species the offspring of necessity.

William Winwood Reade

#5. The ills of discrimination are still with us. We have to continue the tenacity and vigilance of the 1960s. Racial understanding is not something we find; it's something we create.

Thomas Cole

#6. A cock should always know his limits and never have his eyes on the big heights like an eagle!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#7. I never succeed in painting scenes, however beautiful, immediately upon returning from them. I must wait for a time to draw a veil over the common details ...

Thomas Cole

#8. A movement only becomes a movement of substance, size, and power when the artists say 'we want to add our voice.'

Kumi Naidoo

#9. Listen with your eyes as well as your ears.

Graham Speechley

#10. A good traveler leaves no track.

Lao-Tzu

#11. Though American scenery is destitute of many of those circumstances that give value to the European, still it has features, and glorious ones, unknown to Europe...the most distinctive, and perhaps the most impressive, characteristic of American scenery is its wildness

Thomas Cole

#12. Man, I love coming home. St. Louis is actually hard to capture.

Chingy

#13. The sky is the soul of all scenery. It makes the earth lovely at sunrise and splendid at sunset. In the one it breathes over the earth a crystal-like ether, in the other a liquid gold.

Thomas Cole

#14. As a soccer player, the goal isn't to be very bulky. It is more important to even your body out. Make sure your body is well rounded. You can't really focus on one area. Everything has to be balanced.

Jozy Altidore

#15. How lovely are the portals of the night, when stars come out to watch the daylight die.

Thomas Cole

#16. Do you realize what we accomplished today? Today the spaceship was born.

Walter Dornberger

#17. If the imagination is shackled, and nothing is described but what we see, seldom will anything truly great be produced either in Painting or Poetry

Thomas Cole

#18. None know how often the hand of God is seen in a wilderness but them that rove it for a man's life.

Thomas Cole

#19. Nothing is invented and brought to perfection all at once.

Thomas Cole

#20. Overall, rocks, wood and water, brooded the spirit of repose, and the silent energy of nature stirred the soul to its innermost depths.

Thomas Cole

#21. To walk with nature as a poet is the necessary condition of a perfect artist.

Thomas Cole

#22. How I have walked ... day after day, and all alone, to see if there was not something among the old things which was new!

Thomas Cole

#23. Amid those scenes of solitude ... the mind is cast into the contemplation of eternal things.

Thomas Cole

#24. It was not that the jagged precipices were lofty, that the encircling woods were the dimmest shade, or that the waters were profoundly deep; but that over all, rocks, wood, and water, brooded the spirit of repose, and the silent energy of nature stirred the soul to its inmost depths.

Thomas Cole

#25. There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program - your tax-dollar will go further.

Wernher Von Braun

#26. Cole Thomas.'
The name, like an incantation, was on her lips.

Danika Stone

#27. Unseen, one summer eve, you kissed me in four places.

James Joyce