Top 100 Quotes About Dam
#1. The dam of tears broke again and I cried softly, grateful for the love I didn't deserve because the gift of me didn't seem to be enough.
Denise Grover Swank
#2. Some types of environmental restoration projects are well-known; restored wetlands, for instance, or coal mine reclamation projects. Recently though, larger dam removal projects have started, a number of them in Washington state.
Matt Gonzalez
#3. Reduce the number of lawyers. They are like beavers - they get in the middle of the stream and dam it up.
Donald Rumsfeld
#4. Is that a True Story, Papa said. Well I won't say it's a Fact Story, Calley said, but Yes Sir I will say it is for god dam sure a True Story.
Bill Wittliff
#5. And I think that's important, to know how the water's gone over the dam before you start to describe it. It helps to have been over the dam yourself.
Annie Proulx
#6. History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we made today.
Henry Ford
#7. Whether it's veterans' disability claims, infrastructure projects, dam safety, or helping our farmers, what I am focused on is being useful for folks in the Hudson Valley.
Sean Patrick Maloney
#8. Where's the dam water fountain I'm thirsty?
Rick Riordan
#9. Naomi knew she should pray... Instead, she put her face in her hands and wept with all the force of a bursting dam.
Heather Blanton
#10. I eat meat because meat tastes like murder, and murder tastes pretty dam good!
Denis Leary
#11. That kiss was amazing; it had all the passion and longing we had been holding onto for so long. That is when the dam finally broke for me and I started crying. I knew right then that Hunter was the only one I wanted. He was my happily ever after.
Megan Smith
#12. A dramatic public display, Kay. The dam began to crumble with Columbine. It's not new, just the classification is. People have become addicted to attention, to fame. Profoundly disturbed individuals will kill and die for it.
Patricia Cornwell
#13. Evolution is a theory with more holes than a Dutch dam of swiss cheese.
Eoin Colfer
#14. If she tried to speak, it would all come out: Her pain, her fear. Her anger. Her tears. And then her efforts to be strong for the boy would have been for naught. So she kept it in, a dam against a raging river.
James Dashner
#15. Satan does not have a body, and his eternal progress has been halted. Just as water flowing in a riverbed is stopped by a dam, so the adversary's eternal progress is thwarted because he does not have a physical body.
David A. Bednar
#16. The dam of my eyes broke, and tears flooded the land.
James Sallis
#17. Damn you, Sassenach!" his voice said, from a very great distance. His voice was choked with passion. "Dam you! I swear if ye die on me, I'll kill you!
Diana Gabaldon
#18. We can't put up a protectionist dam on our own against the neo-liberal world market either. However, we can try, together with our European partners, to maintain the social character of Europe as much as possible.
Johan Huizinga
#19. I'm not great at talking to people. I have all these thoughts bunching up inside my head and then they come out like a dam bursting or something. I'm sorry.
Roland Merullo
#20. God is a great underground river that no one can dam up and no one can stop.
Meister Eckhart
#21. Computers shouldn't be unusable. You don't need to know how to work a telephone switch to make a phone call, or how to use the Hoover Dam to take a shower, or how to work a nuclear-power plant to turn on the lights.
Scott McNealy
#22. Every morning when I awake I ask myself whether I should write or blow up a dam. I tell myself I should keep writing, though I'm not sure that's right
Derrick Jensen
#23. The tempestuous stretch of river below that dam, however, represents something no less central to the national ethos: the fact that another aspect of our character as a people derives from an extended encounter with wilderness.
Kevin Fedarko
#24. A direful death indeed they had That would put any parent mad But she was more than usual calm She did not give a singel dam.
Marjorie Fleming
#25. Cussed fellow-critters! Kick up de damndest row as ever you can; fill your dam bellies 'till dey bust - and den die
Herman Melville
#26. They can stop a river by building a dam, but I will be damned if they can stop my river of blood flowing through my veins and heart.
Anthony Liccione
#27. Speak to me, fair maid!
Speak and do not go!
What sorrows have your eyes inlaid
With such black woe?
My dam is buried deep
Dark are my father's halls
And carrion fowl and wolves now keep
Their ruined walls
From: The Lay of Andomian and Beruldh
Alison Croggon
#28. Somehow the revolutionaries must approach the workers because the workers won't approach them. But it's difficult to know where to start; we've all got a finger in the dam. The problem for me is that as I have become more real, I've grown away from most working-class people.
John Lennon
#29. I need to use the Dam Bathroom, I need to use the Dam Snack bar, I want a Dam Tee-Shirt.
Rick Riordan
#30. If you want to see Chris Jericho drink a beer with Stone Cold Steve Austin, give me a doo-a dee-dee-dam, dee-dee-doo.
Chris Jericho
#31. Lawyers are like beavers: They get in the mainstream and dam it up.
John Naisbitt
#32. I was actually telling people that - by harnessing the atom - we could enter a new era of unlimited power that would do away with the need to dam our beautiful streams.
David R. Brower
#33. What did it clarify for you?" Pinky asked.
Mrs. Brown laughed. "Told me to keep doing and saying what I dam well please, and not be bamboozled by anyone. Life is too short - no mulling things over for a dozen years or so. What about you?"
"I wasn't on the ship
Kate Alcott
#34. It was interesting, I thought, that the memorial to Tip was grander than the memorial to the men who took part in the dam-busters raids, but then I remembered that this was England and Tip was a dog.
Bill Bryson
#35. Can our actions change our destiny? Or are they like sand piled against the breakage in a dam, merely delaying the inevitable?
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#36. One of these days the dam of Gods mercy will give way to his justice.
Adrian Rogers
#37. You can't argue with a river, it isgoing to flow.You can dam it up?put it to useful purposes?deflect it, but you can't argue with it.
Dean Acheson
#38. Go around asking a lot of dam fool questions and taking chances. Only through curiosity can we discover opportunities, and only by gambling can we take advantage of them.
Clarence Birdseye
#39. Our ideas held no water but we used them like a dam.
Modest Mouse
#40. Now the good gods forbid That our renowned Rome, whose gratitude Towards her deserved children is enrolled In Jove's own book, like an unnatural dam Should now eat up her own!
William Shakespeare
#41. All dams are ugly, but the Glen Canyon Dam is sinful ugly.
Edward Abbey
#42. In the 1960s, I personally lived the resounding impact of President Nasser's vision of constructing Aswan's High Dam as a 'national project' for controlling the Nile irrigation and the production of electricity.
Ahmed Zewail
#43. In our day, this global offensive plays a well-defines role. Its aim is to justify te very unequal income distribution between countries and social elates, to convince the poor that poverty is the result of the children they don't avoid having, and to dam the rebellious advance of the masses.
Eduardo Galeano
#44. One can grieve over all the water that has ever flowed over the dam.
William Maxwell
#45. Advice doesn't help lovers!
They're not the kind of mountain stream
you can build a dam across.
Rumi
#46. Skateboarders are envied by people because they just glide so free. Any time something moves like water, they'll make a dam. Every time something moves in nature, they want to stop it.
Mark Gonzales
#47. Tragedy can break the heart but not the dam of the tearducts while schmaltz can dissolve the most hardened sophisticate.
Cornelia Otis Skinner
#48. Sixty years of virginity tried in vain to dam the waters of instinct as they burst through the granite of good intentions,the rock of irreproachablee conduct.
Rene Crevel
#49. Fighting a losing battle is as good as tucking in stones in your pockets, jumping in a dam and hoping to float.
Nomthandazo Tsembeni
#50. It doesn't make you bad losing to Rob Van Dam ... it just makes you like everybody else.
Rob Van Dam
#51. They dam up the future. As long as you stay between these walls, whatever happens must happen to the right or the left of the stove ... Thus these objects serve at least to fix the limits of probability.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#52. Every artist wants his work to be permanent. But what is? The Aswan Dam covered some of the greatest art in the world. Venice is sinking. Great books and pictures were lost in the Florence floods. In the meantime we still enjoy butterflies.
Romare Bearden
#53. The spirit of rebellion is present in every great city, and the great task of wise government is to keep it dormant, for if it wakes it is a torrent which no dam can hold back.
Giacomo Casanova
#54. How prone poor Humanity is to dam up the minutest remnants of its freedom, and build an artificial roof to prevent it looking up to the clear blue sky.
E.T.A. Hoffmann
#55. The Theory of Evolution has more holes in it than a dam made out of Swiss cheese.
Eoin Colfer
#56. Free shackled rivers! ... The finest fantasy of eco-warriors in the West is the destruction of [Glen Canyon] Dam and the liberation of the Colorado [River].
David Foreman
#57. I've been diagnosed as being bi-polar but so have Florence Nightingale and King David ... which kinda leaves me in pretty dam good company ... if I must say so.
Timothy Pina
#58. The Quaker loves an ample brim, A hat that bows to no salaam; And dear the beaver is to him As if it never made a dam.
Thomas Hood
#59. When God's people are removed from this earth, you might as well try to dam up Niagara Falls with toothpicks as to stem the flood of lawlessness that will engulf mankind. Thank God for the restraining Spirit today!
Vance Havner
#60. I love like a leaky faucet or I love like a dam breaking. There is nothing in between.
Shinji Moon
#61. The summer of 1830 I ... blasted the tunnel through the rock to take water from the dam above the falls for the mill ... In 1831 we lowered the tunnel four feet, and built a new dam across the creek.
Ezra Cornell
#62. Secrets press inside a person. They press the way water presses at a dam. The secrets and the water, they both want to get out.
Franny Billingsley
#63. One may as well dam for water tanks the people's cathedrals and churches, for no holier temple has ever been consecrated by the heart of man.
John Muir
#64. While I remain troubled by the Corps' inability to fully justify the Model they used for their commercial traffic predictions, America clearly has an aging lock and dam infrastructure on the Mississippi.
Ron Kind
#65. The Democrats are going to change the name of the Hoover Dam. That is the silliest thing I ever heard of in politics ... Lord if they feel that way about it, I don't see why they don't just reverse the two words.
Will Rogers
#66. Hatred is like a dam waiting to burst, and when it does, it is more devastating than what you had originally intended.
Angelina Fleck
#67. England may as well dam up the waters of the Nile with bulrushes as to fetter the step of Freedom, more proud and firm in this youthful land than where she treads the sequestered glens of Scotland, or couches herself among the magnificent mountains of Switzerland.
Lydia M. Child
#68. I had thought you were a better man, Mr Reid, a man of your word, but I see that you are nothing but a paltry hommelette.'
'An omelette?'
'Yes, your word is not worth a dam.
Amitav Ghosh
#69. It was more than love at first sight. For Mallory it was as if a dam had burst and the impounded emotions of a young lifetime had found immediate release.
Wade Davis
#70. Hey, when two beavers walk into the house, the first one always tells the other one, Hey, shut the dam door!
Si Robertson
#71. If that isn't a declaration of love, I don't know what is. And the words tumble out of me - a dam breached.
E.L. James
#72. She poured us some more Scotch. It didn't seem to affect her any more than water affects Boulder Dam.
Raymond Chandler
#73. Anyone who has been around Washington politics long enough can't avoid this truism: Election-year money is like a rushing river that invariably finds cracks in any dam the reformers erect.
Nina Easton
#74. Undressing her was an act of recklessness, a kind of vandalism, like releasing a zoo full of animals, or blowing up a dam.
Michael Chabon
#75. So considering how the current official religion of China seems to be something like "Stand still while we bulldoze your house to build this dam" it's hard to put a finger on the relationship between ancient Chinese tales and any specific religion.
Cory O'Brien
#76. Furthermore, man is, by his instincts and his inherited dispositions, predestined to a social existence beyond the intimate family circle. Society must be conceived, therefore, as a part of nature, like a beaver's dam or the nests of birds.
Ernest Watson Burgess
#77. Words, like tranquil waters behind a dam, can become reckless and uncontrollable torrents of destruction when released without caution and wisdom.
William Arthur Ward
#78. Sacredam!" he cried, when his eyes lit upon Buck. "Dat one dam bully dog! Eh? How moch?
Jack London
#79. Cussing your daddy when he is crippled so he can't beat your teeth down your throat for it. Well, it is sire and dam in a man like a horse, and no way to get yourself a boy without there is half woman in him.
Oakley Hall
#80. In each of us there is internal knowledge, a gentle voice, beckoning us
toward well-being. It tells us to let go, to stay in the river of present experience, not to dam up our lives by worrying about potential futures or bemoaning past mistakes.
Marcey Shapiro
#81. Vitamin B proved to be not one vitamin but several, which is why we have B1, B2, and so on. To add to the confusion, Vitamin K has nothing to do with an alphabetical sequence. It was called K because its Danish discoverer, Henrik Dam, dubbed it "koagulations viatmin" for its role in blood clotting.
Bill Bryson
#82. Do what boxers do, sway with the punches. Don't resist. If any of what happens at work gets to you, just let it. You won't be able to shut it out in the long term anyway. Take it bit by bit, release it like a dam, don't let it collect until the wall develops cracks.
Jo Nesbo
#83. If I can get that DAM trio back together again - "get the band back together" - and put on a concert of David Bowie's electronic music, that's the way I want to remember David, moving forward into the future of music.
Carlos Alomar
#84. Let us find the dam snack bar before it's too late said Zoe.
Rick Riordan
#86. My hand does the work and I don't have to think; in fact, were I to think, it would stop the flow. It's like a dam in the brain that bursts.
Edna O'Brien
#87. Of course i put the car in park, because when a beauitful girl starts undressing in you vehicle you put the dam car in park!
Brittainy C. Cherry
#88. But love is much like a dam; if you allow a tiny crack to form through which only a trickle of water can pass, that trickle will quickly bring down the whole structure and soon no one will be able to control the force of the current.
Paulo Coelho
#89. It had been many months since I'd shed tears for Tomaso, but grief is like that. It's not a continuous process; it comes in waves. You can keep it at bay for a time, like a dam holding back a lake, but them something triggers an explosion inside of you, shattering the wall and letting loose a flood.
Paul Adam
#90. The Egyptian Nile, though it does have its own particular hazards, is subject to none of what I find in Rhode Island. Since the Aswan High Dam was built in 1973, the Nile has become something of a grand canal. It is wide, flat, slow, and so calm it verges on the geriatric.
Rosemary Mahoney
#91. Ok that's enough from both of you. I am a bit more concerned about the fact that they all have these fancy martial arts type shit but only one of these fuckers is equipment with a god dam gun to hit the field.
Ana Elise Meyer
#92. The good thing about Dennis [ Mathis] is, even though he's a white, he respected that I was doing something quirky with my English. He loved it when I would mix up the Americanisms and say, "That's water over the dam."
Sandra Cisneros
#93. Men may dam it and say that they have made a lake, but it will still be a river. It will keep its nature and bide its time, like a caged animal alert for the slightest opening. In time, it will have its way; the dam, like the ancient cliffs, will be carried away piecemeal in the currents.
Wendell Berry
#95. The modern drama, operating through the double channel of dramatist and interpreter, affecting as it does both mind and heart,is the strongest force in developing social discontent, swelling the powerful tide of unrest that sweeps onward and over the dam of ignorance, prejudice, and superstition.
Emma Goldman
#96. The beaver told the rabbit as they stared at the Hoover Dam: No, I didn't build it myself, but it's based on an idea of mine
Charles Hard Townes
#97. Every saved soul was a pebble into the stream that was my broken heart. I threw every pebble in and hoped the water would dam, hoped the hurt would fade, hoped the memories would fade. But the stream never dried, the hurt never ceased, and my pain never healed.
Alessandra Torre
#98. Grace is alive, living waters. If I dam up the grace, hold the blessings tight, joy within dies ... waters that have no life.
Ann Voskamp
#100. But I never get attracted to fans cause the eager beaver could be the collapse of a dam
Drake
