Firma Quotes

#1. To step into God's will is a step into a different realm, even though your feet remain on firma terra.

Toni Sorenson

#2. Do not underestimate what you specific conventional, nor covetousness others. He who envies others does not terra firma organization of intellect.

Gautama Buddha

#3. Diplomats willing to sit for an interview usually prefer the terra firma of CNN over the whoopee cushion of Comedy Central.

Kevin Bleyer

#4. The earth is mankind's ultimate haven, our blessed terra firma. When it trembles and gives way beneath our feet, it's as though one of God's checks has bounced.

Gilbert Adair

#5. I like terra firma; the more firma, the less terra.

George S. Kaufman

#6. It's been said that parents should give their children roots and wings. That was a perfect description of my parents. Even in a wheelchair, my father was a dreamer with his head in the clouds and my mother was the roots with both feet planted firmly on terra quaking firma.

Richard Paul Evans

#7. I know where The List is-my father has taken me to see it many times. Maybe for just this reason. And I know what it is: The List of Alien Outlaws on Terra Firma. And I know who I am: Daniel, son of Graff, son of Terfdon- The Alien Hunter. No last name, just Daniel X.

James Patterson

#8. Clear moments are so short.
There is much more darkness. More
ocean than terra firma. More
shadow than form.

Adam Zagajewski

#9. I stay on terra firma: the more firm, the less terror.

Ann Widdecombe

#10. For fog was merely a cloud that wasn't too smitten with itself to visit terra firma.

Jan Karon

#11. To desire the same things and to reject the same things, constitutes true friendship.
[Lat., Idem velle et idem nolle ea demum firma amicitia est.]

Sallust

#12. People like terra firma, and they should be allowed to walk where they wish.

Stephen Gardiner

#13. A book should contain pure discoveries, glimpses of terra firma, though by shipwrecked mariners, and not the art of navigation by those who have never been out of sight of land.

Henry David Thoreau

#14. A ship is a bit of terra firma cut off from the main; it is a state in itself; and the captain is its king.

Herman Melville

#15. Ignorance is the evil - knowledge will be the remedy. Knowledge not of what sort of beings we shall be hereafter, or what is beyond the skies, but a knowledge pertaining to terra firma, and we may have all the power, goodness and love that we have been taught belongs to God himself.

Ernestine Rose

#16. Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth) I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.

Erica Jong

#17. Citizenship is what makes a republic - monarchies can get along without it.

Mark Twain

#18. We need to interrogate "reverence," for idolization can be another way one is objectified and not really taken seriously.

Bell Hooks

#19. Why is it that private insurance companies are not in trouble because people are getting older? Aren't they subject to the same demographics? The difference is that they've accumulated a fund, not a pay-in, pay-out system.

Milton Friedman

#20. How would you like a job where when you made a mistake, a big red light goes on and 18,000 people boo?

Jacques Plante

#21. Tolstoy said, happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story - then what does that make us? ...

John Geddes

#22. I took some me time. I think that's a really important thing to do for yourself, especially in this business. And now I feel like I'm in a really good, positive place in my life.

Ashlee Simpson