Salinas Valley Quotes

#1. THE SALINAS VALLEY is in Northern California. It is a long narrow swale between two ranges of mountains, and the Salinas River winds and twists up the center until it falls at last into Monterey Bay.

John Steinbeck

#2. Just because we can ship organic lettuce from the Salinas Valley, or organic cut flowers from Peru, doesn't mean we should do it, not if we're really serious about energy and seasonality and bioregionalism.

Joel Salatin

#3. The first few years after Samuel came to Salinas Valley there was a vague distrust of him. And perhaps Will as a little boy heard talk in the San Lucas store. Little boys don't want their fathers to be different from other men. Will might have picked up his conservatism right then.

John Steinbeck

#4. I work hard for the audience. It's entertainment. I don't need validation.

Denzel Washington

#5. It seems that cancer is a direct result to injury. If you smoke, you damage your lung tissue, and then lung cancer arises. If you drink, you damage your liver, and then liver cancer occurs.

Eva Vertes

#6. I'm not greedy at all. Sometimes I pinch myself because of what I've got.

Amy Childs

#7. Ability to persevere begins with you, the individual. However, change is rarely easy. In fact, sometimes it is downright formidable.

Paul G. Stoltz

#8. Unfortunately he's just sold all his stock. We gave him the funds today." "Sold everything?" "I tried to persuade him not to, but he came in on Monday and said he'd decided not to tempt fate." The clerk smiled. "Said he'd had a sign from St. Anthony.

Edward Rutherfurd

#9. Every day I get letters from people thanking me for helping them to become successful, whether because of their personal growth or because of economic rewards. A few of my former students have even become millionaires.

Frederick Lenz

#10. The person who looks outward dreams, the person who looks inward awakens.

Carl Jung

#11. Let us be bold. Let us be brave. Let us be together.

Brad Henry

#12. I was a computer guy with an expensive dream.

Ed Catmull

#13. Service learning is all about the process: it builds in reflection, takes weeks or months, and culminates in a community celebration.

Katy Farber

#14. Quite often in history action has been the echo of words. An era of talk was followed by an era of events. The new barbarism of the twentieth century is the echo of words bandied about by brilliant speakers and writers in the second half of the nineteenth.

Eric Hoffer

#15. Preparing to survive a typical day of being Digby's friend wasn't that different from preparing to survive the apocalypse.

Stephanie Tromly