Craig Childs Quotes

#1. I don't want to ruin this girl, but I'm not sure if I can stop now.

J.A. Huss

#2. This is not wilderness for designation or for a park. Not a scenic wilderness and not one good for fishing or the viewing of wildlife. It is wilderness that gets into your nostrils, that runs with your sweat. It is the core of everything living, wilderness like molten iron.

Craig Childs

#3. In the latter case it is often government that organizes the conquest, and religion that justifies it.

Jared Diamond

#4. There are two easy ways to die in the desert - thirst and drowning.

Craig Childs

#5. There were a lot of fools at that conference - pompous fools - and pompous fools drive me up the wall. Ordinary fools are all right; you can talk to them, and try to help them out.

Richard Feynman

#6. This far north the sun was still up, although very low, riding through the mountains as if looking for something it lost on the ground.

Craig Childs

#7. There is a drop of blood in the snow before me ... The coyote ... is in estrus ... spurred to let out a bit of herself, sending a message, telling everyone she was now ready, that the clock of her winter was ticking toward spring.

Craig Childs

#8. Because if you are truly passionate about something, if you are willing to take a risk, then life will give you a chance. David

Erik Hamre

#9. Like any stage of the hydrologic process, we have our own peculiarities, our organs making us nothing more than water pools or springs of bizarre shape, filled with pulsing tubes and chambers.

Craig Childs

#10. It is as true as breath. It is as important as the words of children.

Craig Childs

#11. The land is not old. It only changes, becoming one thing and the next. We are the ones who ascribe age, the brevity of our lives demanding a beginning, middle and end.

Craig Childs

#12. Paris is one of my favorite cities, but Paris during Fashion Week is everything!

Brad Goreski

#13. If you are not happy with the song, don't sing it. Simple as that - no-one forces you to do it.

Rebecca Ferguson

#14. Christ did not die to make good works merely possible or to produce a half-hearted pursuit. He died to produce in us a passion for good deeds. Christian purity is not the mere avoidance of evil, but the pursuit of good.

John Piper

#15. In the desert, the two primary elements are stone and water. Stone comes in abundance, exposed by weathering and a lack of vegetation. It is a canvas. Water crosses this stone with such rarity and ferocity that it tells all of its secrets in the shapes left behind.

Craig Childs

#16. We'll watch 'Britain's Got Talent,' 'X Factor,' 'Come Dine with Me' and 'Masterchef.' But we don't watch 'Big Brother,' which is rubbish. I certainly won't be tuning into the new series of 'Celebrity Big Brother' either. I think it's awful, exploitative and vulgar.

Terry Wogan

#17. My parents, Romanian immigrants, struggled to provide me a better life than the ones they had left in their homeland. They worked hard to give me every opportunity in life, and once I showed natural talent as a young gymnast, they spent every last penny on my training.

Dominique Moceanu

#18. There's nothing more fun than being out on stage and getting the vibe from the crowd. There's nothing like being on a set where you are there to make other people happy and to make them laugh. That's the best job in the world.

Miley Cyrus

#19. Most animals show themselves sparingly. The grizzly bear is six to eight hundred pounds of smugness. It has no need to hide. If it were a person, it would laugh loudly in quiet restaurants, boastfully wear the wrong clothes for special occasions, and probably play hockey.

Craig Childs

#20. Writing blurbs for books means you have to read the book, and it cuts into the business of bookselling. So every time I get a blurb from a bookseller, I try to write a thank you note.

Gabrielle Zevin

#21. The moon is the better storyteller for this event. Our ancient craters are smoothed over by erosion and tectonic motion. With no erosion, no wind, and no liquid water on the moon, craters can remain perfectly visible for billions of years, an orbiting catalog of impacts.

Craig Childs

#22. I've seen people where it rules their lives, you know, who want to be thinner or have bigger boobs, and how it wears them down. And I just don't want that in my life.

Adele

#23. Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic.

Theodor Adorno

#24. Your fellow soldiers had to know that you had their back. That was rule one, lesson one, and above all else. If the enemy goes after you, he goes after me too.

Harlan Coben

#25. There are so many of us now that we threaten to devour the world with our touching, starting with the things we adore most. At the same time, we obviously yearn for contact, and I fear what would happen if we were cut off from a distinctive, on-the-ground relationship with the past.

Craig Childs

#26. His fear came from needing her. It was the danger to her life that frightened him.

Anne Osterlund