Quotes About The Three Gorges Dam

#1. The Negro and all things negroid had become a fad, and Harlem had become a shrine to which feverish pilgrimages were in order ... Seventh Avenue was the gorge into which Harlem cliff dwellers crowded to promenade.

Wallace Thurman

#2. From deep quiet gorges and wilderness of the holy mountain came to her wonderful, like silver mist, dreams and silently whispered into her ears that she was designed for extraordinary deeds.

Osyp Nazaruk

#3. My school was six miles away from where I lived on the farm. I had to walk and run, there and back every day, through gorges and over rivers. If I was late, there was a very big stick waiting for me.

Haile Gebrselassie

#4. It is manifestly contrary to the law of nature, however defined, that a handful of people should gorge themselves with superfluities while the hungry majority goes in need of necessities.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#5. We must walk alone, but fight together - for One cause, instead of against each other.

Renee Paule

#6. Drink, live like the Greeks, eat, gorge.

Plautus

#7. This is what I love about the Kimberley ... wild gorges, fresh water and there's always a chance of a barra taking your lure.

Malcolm Douglas

#8. Troubles are only mental; it is the mind that manufactures them, and the mind can gorge them, banish them, abolish them.

Mark Twain

#9. Clarissa is still sometimes shocked, more than thirty years later to realize that it was happiness; that the entire experience lay in a kiss and a walk. The anticipation of dinner and a book.

Michael Cunningham

#10. In the game of life, less diversity means fewer options for change. Wild or domesticated, panda or pea, adaptation is the requirement for survival.

Cary Fowler

#11. The German lives in a state of perpetual intestinal embarrassment due to an excess of beer and the pork sausages on which he gorges himself.

Umberto Eco

#12. I've been a fan of Kenny Bob's for almost 20 years, and he's always made me laugh, and laugh hard! He is just, flat-out, a great entertainer!

Bob Goen

#13. As we learn to embrace our authentic longings and feelings - and cultivate self-empathy and the corresponding compassion toward others - our society will gradually evolve in a direction that is more tolerant, humane, and enlightened.

John Amodeo

#14. The Thanksgiving tradition is, we gorge. Hey, what about at Thanksgiving we simply consume a considerable measure? However we do that consistently! Goodness. Imagine a scenario where we consume a ton with individuals who pester the heck out of us.

Jim Gaffigan

#15. Aren't the gorges beautiful? This year, two girls jumped into one holding hands. They didn't get into the sorority they wanted. They wanted Tri-Delt.

Kurt Vonnegut

#16. But this time, so far as I can tell, my mother has not made her husband her desire incarnate, though she does love him very much. And for his part, so far as I can tell, he doesn't try to talk her out of her self-deprecation, nor does he abet it. He simply loves her. I am learning from him.

Maggie Nelson

#17. The loneliest Chinese man I ever met lived halfway up the Three Gorges, in Sichuan Province.

Paolo Bacigalupi

#18. Sometimes I'd yell questions at the rocks and trees, and across gorges, or yodel - "What is the meaning of the void?" The answer was perfect silence, so I knew.

Jack Kerouac

#19. Gold was not altogether certain what, anatomically, a gorge was, but he knew that his was rising.

Joseph Heller

#20. Swerve me? The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails, whereon my soul is grooved to run. Over unsounded gorges, through the rifled hearts of mountains, under torrents' beds, unerringly I rush! Naught's an obstacle, naught's an angle to the iron way!

Herman Melville

#21. Among the gorges and ravines that hang on Los Angeles's shoulders like a necklace, Topanga - nestled in the cleavage of the Santa Monica Mountains - is the most singular of ornaments.

Steve Erickson

#22. I'm honored if I can inspire somebody else.

Demi Moore

#23. To fatten a pig, a farmer will feed him well. The pig must think his life a paradise, never knowing he gorges himself so that he will be fatter for the knife later on.

David Anthony Durham

#24. There are many of us who should be in a position to bring peace to the world.

Shirley Temple

#25. Around existence twine, (Oh, bridge that hangs across the gorge!) ropes of twisted vine.

Matsuo Basho

#26. Oh, come on. Drama is just life with the dull bits cut out."
"Well, I'm ready for a long patch of boredom.

D.L. Orton

#27. It is all very well for 2% of the population to live in a monastic state of meatlessness while everyone else gorges their way towards environmental meltdown or the nearest heart clinic. Vegetarianism is good for the willing minority, but not much use as a campaign tool.

Tristram Stuart