Lichens Quotes

#1. A woman's love, like lichens upon a rock, will still grow where even charity can find no soil to nurture itself.

Christian Nestell Bovee

#2. One could speculate that lichens would be among the last inhabitants to succumb on a dying earth at some distant point in the future.

Steven L. Stephenson

#3. Consider the Lichen. Lichens are just about the hardiest visible organisms on Earth, but the least ambitious.

Bill Bryson

#4. The black rock was sharp-edged, hot, and hard as corundum; it seemed not merely alien but impervious to life. Yet on the southern face of almost every rock the lichens grew, yellow, rusty-brown, yellow-green, like patches of dirty paint daubed on the stone.

Edward Abbey

#5. Climbing mattered. The danger bathed the world in a halogen glow that caused everything - the sweep of the rock, the orange and yellow lichens, the texture of the clouds - to stand out in brilliant relief. Life thrummed at a higher pitch. The world was made real.

Jon Krakauer

#6. Romance and poetry, ivy, lichens and wallflowers need ruin to make them grow.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#7. There is a low mist in the woods
It is a good day to study lichens.

Henry David Thoreau

#8. A broken clock is right two times a day.

Orson Scott Card

#9. She hadn't had quite this much attention from T.J. since they'd started dating. He must feel completely threatened. She wasn't sure if that amused her or worried her. But she turned off her phone just in case T.J. decided he had something more to say.

Robyn Carr

#10. Tallie looked for something to throw, but considering the fact that she threw like a girl, she dumped that plan in lieu of grabbing her new iron and swinging it like a bowling ball between the bad man's legs, where it connected with a nauseating _thunk_.

Stephanie Bond

#11. The most successful scientists in the history of the world are those who posed the right questions

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#12. This is one rule about mixing boys and girls: that a date always comes first.

Elizabeth Berg

#13. People who believe they are acting with the mandate of God, who see others who don't share their beliefs as inferior in the eyes of God, make dangerous leaders. Just ask Osama Bin Laden.

Ron Reagan

#14. I think if everyone would write down the funny stories from their own childhoods, the world would be a better place.

Jeff Kinney

#15. You don't read scripture, scripture reads you.

Mike Glenn

#16. We live in a world where a cunt has more fans than a scholar.

M.F. Moonzajer

#17. Here grew willows and alders, their trunks twisted like giants' sinews. Around them bark lichen bloomed blue-white in the darkness. It felt like a good place, where there was old magic.

Duncan Harper

#18. I got to experience a world championship with some great teammates.

Kirk Gibson

#19. I stole a lot from Gary Oldman. I stole the hairdo from his incarnation of Dracula. We cheated it just enough, so we couldn't get accused of copyright infringement.

Justin Theroux

#20. How frustrating it is to be out-argued by someone you know is dead wrong but is more eloquent.

Lawrence Fagg