Famous Quotes
- "We don't do things we aren't good at by nature. I wouldn't play basketball because I'm only 5' 1"". Find what you enjoy - whether it's racing, flying a helicopter, being a doctor, or stitching clothes together. Once you've done that, you have the passion you need."
- Danica Patrick on Nature
- 'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'
- W. H. Auden on Nature
- A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art.
- Louis Nizer on Nature
- A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.
- A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.
- Umberto Eco on Nature
- A civilized nation can have no enemies, and one cannot draw a line across a map, a line that doesn't even exist in nature and say that the ugly enemy lives on the one side, and good friends live on the other.
- Thor Heyerdahl on Nature
- A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.
- C. Northcote Parkinson on Nature
- A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
- A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson on Nature
- A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.
- Alexander Pope on Nature
- A good face they say, is a letter of recommendation. O Nature, Nature, why art thou so dishonest, as ever to send men with these false recommendations into the World!
- Henry Fielding on Nature
- A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca on Nature
- A hatred of failure has always been part of my nature.
- Paul Getty on Nature
- A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
- Samuel Butler on Nature
- A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
- Ingrid Bergman on Nature
- A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule.
- Michael Pollan on Nature
- A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine.
- Anne Bronte on Nature
- A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.
- Carl Reiner on Nature
- A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
- Walt Whitman on Nature
- A peace is of the nature of a conquest for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.
- William Shakespeare on Nature
- A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have.
- Wallace Stevens on Nature
- A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge on Nature
- A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.
- Hubert H. Humphrey on Nature
- A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those that are of civil natures and genteel dispositions are as much nearer to celestial creatures as those that are rude and cruel are to devils.
- Margaret Cavendish on Nature
- A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks.
- Thomas Jefferson on Nature
- A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature, and swings there as easily as a star.
- Edwin Hubbel Chapin on Nature
- A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.
- Tennessee Williams on Nature
- A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.
- Hal Borland on Nature
- Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.
- Josef Albers on Nature
- According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero on Nature
- Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.
- H. G. Wells on Nature
- Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson on Nature
- After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.
- Walt Whitman on Nature
- Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy.
- Dorothy Thompson on Nature
- Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.
- Russell Baker on Nature
- Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
- All a musician can do is to get closer to the sources of nature, and so feel that he is in communion with the natural laws.
- John Coltrane on Nature
- All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
- Alexander Pope on Nature
- All art is but imitation of nature.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca on Nature
- All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.
- Walt Disney on Nature
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
- All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.
- All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.
- All men by nature desire knowledge.
- All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.
- Abraham Lincoln on Nature
- All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.
- Marie Curie on Nature
- All nature is but art unknown to thee.
- Alexander Pope on Nature
- All that I say is, examine, inquire. Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your opinions, the for and against. Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.
- Frances Wright on Nature
- All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.
- John Adams on Nature
- All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.
- Thomas Browne on Nature
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