Quotes About The Sierras

#1. My ties and ballasts leave me - I travel - I sail - My elbows rest in the sea-gaps. I skirt the sierras. My palms cover continents - I am afoot with my vision.

Walt Whitman

#2. west. He liked the mild climate, the Sierras making it something like Colorado with a seashore. It took him several years to overcome the natural though secret belief of true New Yorkers, that people living somewhere else had to be, in some sense, kidding.

Gregory Benford

#3. Growing up in northern California has had a big influence on my love and respect for the outdoors. When I lived in Oakland, we would think nothing of driving to Half Moon Bay and Santa Cruz one day and then driving to the foothills of the Sierras the next day.

Tom Hanks

#4. I suppose because we have no ruins and no curiosities, said Virginia satirically.

Oscar Wilde

#5. There's a choice?"
"Always. It's the outcome that sadly limits things.

Janny Wurts

#6. God bless all the little children in the world.

Richard Dawson

#7. I enjoyed singing and playing guitar but didn't have the stamina to make music-making a career. In reality, writing was my real gift, and as soon as I figured that out I never looked back.

Ann Powers

#8. These death sentences are cruel and unusual in the same way that being struck by lightning is cruel and unusual.

Potter Stewart

#9. Truly evil people aren't given the license to linger. The fact that you've been here so long since death means you don't have any reason to fear what comes next." As

Dean Koontz

#10. Mary seeks for those who approach her devoutly and with reverence, for such she loves, nourishes, and adopts as her children.

Bonaventure

#11. I don't want to write my life. I live my life. I want to make up a new world.

Peter Hedges

#12. If we split practice from the real thing, neither one of them will be very real.

Stephen Nachmanovitch

#13. I really had a chip on my shoulder, ... and it still comes out every now and then.

John Lennon

#14. Even though I play a professional sport now, I love college baseball.

Roger Clemens

#15. I once did hold it, as our statists do,
A baseness to write fair, and labour'd much
How to forget that learning; but, sir, now
It did me yeoman's service.

William Shakespeare

#16. dairy intake is "one of the most consistent dietary predictors for prostate cancer in the published literature," and those who consume the most dairy have double to quadruple the risk.

T. Colin Campbell

#17. More caution and perhaps more restraint are necessary in breaking a fast than in keeping it.

Mahatma Gandhi

#18. He had gone to the higher Sierras ... [about Ralph Waldo Emerson's death]

John Muir

#19. The easiest songs to write are pure fiction. There is no limit to how you can tell the story. I find it difficult when I'm replaying an event through a song.

Jason Mraz