Quotes About Dams

#1. The river is of the earth and it is free. It is rigorously embanked and bound, and yet it is free. To hell with restraint, it says, I have got to be going. It will grind out its dams. It will go over or around them. They will become pieces.

Wendell Berry

#2. The eagle may soar; beavers build dams.

Bill Vaughan

#3. Never give up; for even rivers someday wash dams away.

Arthur Golden

#4. In 1975, the collapse of a cascade of Chinese dams during a flood killed a hundred and seventy-one thousand people, but the event is rarely discussed, and the names of the victims are largely unrecorded today.

Evan Osnos

#5. Human civilization has been changing the Earth's environment for millennia, often to our detriment. Dams, deforestation and urbanization can alter water cycles and wind patterns, occasionally triggering droughts or even creating deserts.

Jamais Cascio

#6. In these cases, the mind knows what it's doing better than the guile, because the mind flows, the guile dams up, that is, the mind stride but the guile limps. And that's no guileless statement, however, and that's no Harvard like, as MIT will measure soon with computers and docks of Martian data.

Jack Kerouac

#7. We have an extensive system of highways, ports, locks and dams, and airports.

Jerry Costello

#8. Most of the locks and dams on the upper Mississippi River system are over 60 years old and many are in serious need of repair and rehabilitation.

Ron Kind

#9. We must make this an insecure and inhospitable place for capitalists and their projects. We must reclaim the roads and plowed land, halt dam constructions, tear down existing dams, free shackled rivers and return to wilderness millions of acres of previously settled land.

David Foreman

#10. You said please," I whispered, smiling when his relief flooded my emotions with the force of a thousand dams breaking. "I'm never going to let you live that down.

Jeaniene Frost

#11. Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age.

Bertrand Russell

#12. Poor Eric came home to see his brother, only to find (Zap!Pow!Dams burst!Bombs go off!Wasps fry:ttssss!) he's got a sister.

Iain Banks

#13. The agent causing the most immediate damage to species in fresh water are dams, great boosters of local economies but unfortunately chief demons of aquatic habitat destruction. Their

Edward O. Wilson

#14. Environmental groups are not completely against dams. We approve of appropriate development.

Ma Jun

#15. The Pacific Northwest depends on inexpensive renewable energy from our dams.

Cathy McMorris Rodgers

#16. Development is not about factories, dams and roads. Development is about people. The goal is material, cultural and spiritual fulfilment for the people. The human factor is of supreme value in development.

Rajiv Gandhi

#17. The sound of water escaping from mill-dams, etc., willows, old rotten planks, slimy posts, and brickwork.those scenes made me a painter and I am grateful.

John Constable

#18. He lids squeezed closed. They were the dams to the silver trails of his soul leaking out.

Dan Skinner

#19. We depend on our rivers and dams for energy, transportation, irrigation and recreation and I will continue this year to fight for what's best for the Pacific Northwest.

Cathy McMorris Rodgers

#20. There are certain things that Americans expect their government to do. Our infrastructure is vitally important. Putting people back to work with construction is important. Our roads, our bridges, our sewers, our waterways, our dams - this is what makes our country so special.

Valerie Jarrett

#21. Funny, there had been a time when building things was what America did. From massive dams to towering skyscrapers, from mechanized factories to moon rockets, the nation had created, had viewed that as part of the national identity.

Marcus Sakey

#22. As a mighty river which when properly harnessed by dams and canals, creates a vast reservoir of water, prevents famine and provides abundant power for industry; so also the mind, when controlled, provides a reservoir of peace and generates abundant energy for the human uplift.

B.K.S. Iyengar

#23. We tiptoed the tops of beaver dams, hopped hummocks, went wading, looked at spring flowers, tried to catcha snake, got lost and found. How fine it was to move at a meandery, child's pace.

David Sobel

#24. Dams have harmed our wildlife and made rivers less useful for recreation.

Stephen Ambrose

#25. It was a sign of decaying culture, of course, that dams had been built against the further development of ideas.

Isaac Asimov

#26. Stops at the end of the road collected Clyde Lidgards like dams collected silt.

C.J. Box

#27. With irrigation channels and rivers running dry and municipal water storage dams reaching record lows, California's politicians are getting desperate for solutions to a drought that seemingly has no end.

Marc Levine

#28. When producing low-heat Portland cement the percentage of C2S is increased and that of C3S and C3A is decreased. This type of cement is of particular use in construction of dams, massive foundation, etc. to reduce the production of heat.

P.C. Varghese

#29. The great monuments are raised up like dams, pitting the logic of majesty and authority against all the shady elements: it is in the form of cathedrals and palaces that Church and State speak and impose silence on the multitudes.

Georges Bataille

#30. In California, there are huge problems because of dams. I'm against big dams, per se, because I think that they are economically unfeasible. They're ecologically unsustainable. And they're hugely undemocratic.

Arundhati Roy

#31. Have you ever had a "worst mom ever" day? Take heart, so have we all. Take my friend's advice. Apologize to your children. Ask God for forgiveness. Get over it and stop letting Satan drag you down. Spend time with the Lord getting a new attitude, and He'll help you leave the dams to the beavers!

Lysa TerKeurst

#32. Dams are the temples of secular India and almost worshipped. They are huge, wet cement flags that wave in our minds. They're the symbol of nationalism to many.

Arundhati Roy

#33. Dams are built with the intent of a 100-year lifetime - just long enough for societies to become completely dependent on them

Daniel Lenihan

#34. I think the world is a series of broken dams and floods, and my cartoons are tiny little lifeboats.

Sherman Alexie

#35. All dams are ugly, but the Glen Canyon Dam is sinful ugly.

Edward Abbey

#36. For the good of our environment, the good of the economy, and the good of the Nation, I strongly urge support of the upper Mississippi locks and dams project.

Leonard Boswell

#37. Even though this generation still believes in the miracle working power of God, they must no longer wait for God to bring water from the rocks, but rather construct dams, develop water systems, subdue the power of the ocean and thereby give glory to God almighty.

Sunday Adelaja

#38. The brief legal emancipation of Jews during the Napoleonic wars released unparalleled economic, professional, and cultural energies. It was though a high dam had suddenly been breached.

Amos Elon

#39. History does seem to be just one long succession of murders, doesn't it?

Jeanne M. Dams

#40. No man-made structure in all of American history has been hated so much, by so many, for so long, with such good reason, as that Glen Canyon Dam at Page, Arizona, Shithead Capital of Coconino County.

Edward Abbey

#41. There is sadness and evil in the world, yes. There is also goodness and beauty and justice. The one is as real as the other, and we must keep that fact firmly in mind or lose all sense of proportion.

Jeanne M. Dams

#42. At one level it's clear that the dam has broken. There's an inevitable move to use the Internet as a distribution medium and that's not going to stop.

Paul Otellini

#43. The bigger the dam of patience, the worse the flood when the dam breaks.

Austin O'Malley

#44. But I never get attracted to fans cause the eager beaver could be the collapse of a dam

Drake

#45. 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

#46. Words, like tranquil waters behind a dam, can become reckless and uncontrollable torrents of destruction when released without caution and wisdom.

William Arthur Ward

#47. 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

#48. It doesn't make you bad losing to Rob Van Dam ... it just makes you like everybody else.

Rob Van Dam

#49. Sometime I'll get around to asking why the English nobility have so blasted many names that a conversation about them is like reading a Russian novel. I have a private suspicion it's done on purpose to confuse foreigners.

Jeanne M. Dams

#50. [A] pile driver was improvised by mounting a large steam donkey engine, a steam hammer, and a timber tower on a barge.

Ray Bottenberg

#51. For everyone, everywhere, literacy is, along with education in general, a basic human right.

Kofi Annan

#52. I need to use the Dam Bathroom, I need to use the Dam Snack bar, I want a Dam Tee-Shirt.

Rick Riordan

#53. God is a great underground river that no one can dam up and no one can stop.

Meister Eckhart