Top 27 Sobel Quotes
#1. That extra special, elite, close feeling started under the stress Capt. Sobel created at Camp Toccoa. Under that stress, the only way the men could survive was to bond together. Eventually, the noncoms had to bond together in a mutiny.
Stephen E. Ambrose
#2. Any clock that can track this sideral schedule proves itself as perfect as God's magnificent clockwork.
Dava Sobel
Dava Sobel
#3. Sobel was Jewish, urban, with a commission from the National Guard. Hester had started as a private, then earned his commission from Officer Candidate's School (OCS). Most
Stephen E. Ambrose
#4. I was aware that on my skill as a painter would depend the physical and moral possession of the model ...
Paul Gauguin
#5. If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.
Joseph Wood Krutch
#6. One degree of longitude equals four minutes of time the world over, but in terms of distance, one degree shrinks from sixty-eight miles at the Equator to virtually nothing at the poles.
Dava Sobel
#7. Once you are aware that you can live a happy, fully satisfied life without causing harm to animals, being a carnivore is a tough thing to justify.
Adam Sobel
#8. He wrested the world's whereabouts from the stars, and locked the secret in a pocket watch.
Dava Sobel
#9. What's important is that children have an opportunity to bond with the natural world, to learn to love it and feel comfortable in it, before being asked to heal its wounds.
David Sobel
#10. If we want children to flourish, to become truly empowered, let us allow them to love the earth before we ask them to save it.
David Sobel
#11. The zero-degree parallel of latitude is fixed by the laws of nature, while the zero-degree meridian of longitude shifts like the sands of time.
Dava Sobel
#13. The heart of childhood, from seven to eleven, is the critical period for bonding with the earth.
David Sobel
#14. Wet sneakers and muddy clothes are prerequisites for understanding the water cycle.
David Sobel
#15. You realise that trying to keep your distance from me will not lessen my affection for you, he said.
John Green
#16. We pay for every little choice we make. You traded everyone else's life for yours. I traded my life for everyone else's.
Sister Souljah
#17. There are two ways to look at how life works and how people find their paths. One way is you take your time and try different things out. The other is you settle in early. I was into cooking very early.
Michael Mina
#18. Having established itself securely on shipboard, the chronometer was soon taken for granted, like any other essential thing, and the whole question of its contentious history, along with the name of its original inventor, dropped from the consciousness of the seamen who used it every day.
Dava Sobel
#19. Today, the latitude and longitude lines govern with more authority than I could have imagined forty-odd years ago, for they stay fixed as the world changes its configuration underneath them - with continents adrift across a widening sea, and national boundaries repeatedly redrawn by war or peace.
Dava Sobel
#20. The British Parliament, in its famed Longitude Act of 1714, set the highest bounty of all, naming a prize equal to a king's ransom (several million dollars in today's currency) for a "Practicable and Useful" means of determining longitude.
Dava Sobel
#21. I'm apologizing. For whatever I did. For whatever the guy who hurt you did. For the JFK assassination or the botched moon landing. Take your pick." ~Cain, Ghost of You
Kelly Moran
#22. They say everyone needs something to love.
Kate Morton
#23. I do transcendental meditation, which is, I suppose, derived from Vedic or Ayurvedic principles, which is sort of Hindu principles.
Russell Brand
#24. You can't bounce off the walls If there are no walls: outdoor schools make kids happier - and smarter
David Sobel
#25. 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
#26. Exploration of the natural world begins in early childhood, flourishes in middle childhood, and continues in adolescence as a pleasure and a source of strength for social action.
David Sobel
#27. In the wake of the Longitude Act, the concept of "discovering the longitude" became a synonym for attempting the impossible.
Dava Sobel
