Quotes About American Landscapes

#1. It's precisely the sense that we're different that makes us so banal.

Daniel Kehlmann

#2. Many merry Christmases, many happy New Years. Unbroken friendships, great accumulations of cheerful recollections and affections on earth, and heaven for us all.

Charles Dickens

#3. Where once the student was taught that the unexamined life was not worth living, he is now taught that the profitably lived life is not worth examining.

Benjamin Barber

#4. Does not ... the ear of Handel predict the witchcraft of harmonic sound?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#5. At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman.

Honore De Balzac

#6. I could never be French, I could never become German - I shall always remain American - the essence which is in me is American mysticism just as Davies declared it when he saw those first landscapes.

Marsden Hartley

#7. Misery is a river of tears that whispers my name in a constant hiss.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#8. I know that the only reason American landscapes sometimes disappoint me is that, just a century before I was born, the great rivers and prairies and wild forests still existed. And they were sublime.

John Burnside

#9. What you don't know can be your greatest asset

Sara Blakely

#10. Italy doesn't need American football. For what? I've been. Wine, women, song, shopping, unbelievable vistas and landscapes ... Do they need Titans vs. Panthers? Uh, no.

Michael Wilbon

#11. It is crucial that members of Congress cast votes that are supportive of the values upon which our nation was founded: equality, freedom, and opportunity for all people.

Joe Baca

#12. It's like my father always said to me, he said to me, he said, Roseanna Roseanadana, it's always something. If it isn't one thing
it's another! It's always something.

Gilda Radner

#13. I am persuaded that every time a man smiles - but much more so when he laughs - it adds something to this fragment of life.

Laurence Sterne

#14. Hollywood does not write parts for people like me, an elderly gentleman, and when they find out you're crippled, forget about it. No, I'll never work again.

Ricardo Montalban

#15. I don't know the American photographers as well, but I admit I love Ansel Adams. His landscapes are so crisp.

Vilmos Zsigmond

#16. I have always had a love for American geography, and especially for the landscapes of the South. One of my pleasures has been to drive across it, with no one in the world knowing where I am, languidly absorbing the thoughts and memories of old moments, of people vanished now from my life.

Willie Morris