Dams Quotes

Never give up; for even rivers someday wash dams away.

Reduce the number of lawyers. They are like beavers - they get in the middle of the stream and dam it up.

The eagle may soar; beavers build dams.

Americans seem sometimes to believe that if you are a thinker you must be a frowning bore, because thinking is so dam serious.

Don't talk to me about rules, dear. Wherever I stay I make the goddam rules.

The Pacific Northwest depends on inexpensive renewable energy from our dams.

It doesn't make you bad losing to Rob Van Dam... it just makes you like everybody else.

Undressing her was an act of recklessness, a kind of vandalism, like releasing a zoo full of animals, or blowing up a dam.

Words, like tranquil waters behind a dam, can become reckless and uncontrollable torrents of destruction when released without caution and wisdom.

God is a great underground river that no one can dam up and no one can stop.

The bigger the dam of patience, the worse the flood when the dam breaks.

People who will not turn a shovel full of dirt on the project (Muscle Shoals Dam) nor contribute a pound of material, will collect more money from the United States than will the People who supply all the material and do all the work. This is the terrible thing about interest.

One of these days the dam of Gods mercy will give way to his justice.

If I can get that DAM trio back together again - "get the band back together" - and put on a concert of David Bowie's electronic music, that's the way I want to remember David, moving forward into the future of music.

Dams have harmed our wildlife and made rivers less useful for recreation.

All dams are ugly, but the Glen Canyon Dam is sinful ugly.

For everyone, everywhere, literacy is, along with education in general, a basic human right.

Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope... Especially for girls and women, it is an agent of family health and nutrition.

The brief legal emancipation of Jews during the Napoleonic wars released unparalleled economic, professional, and cultural energies. It was though a high dam had suddenly been breached.

No man-made structure in all of American history has been hated so much, by so many, for so long, with such good reason, as that Glen Canyon Dam at Page, Arizona, Shithead Capital of Coconino County.

Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age.

The Theory of Evolution has more holes in it than a dam made out of Swiss cheese.

The great monuments are raised up like dams, pitting the logic of majesty and authority against all the shady elements: it is in the form of cathedrals and palaces that Church and State speak and impose silence on the multitudes.

Like water leaking through a dam," said Piper. "Yeah," smiled Percy. "We've got a dam hole." "What?" Piper asked. "Nothing," he said. "Inside joke.

Evolution is a theory with more holes than a Dutch dam of swiss cheese.

The Quaker loves an ample brim, A hat that bows to no salaam; And dear the beaver is to him As if it never made a dam.

I eat meat because meat tastes like murder, and murder tastes pretty dam good!

Whether its veterans disability claims, infrastructure projects, dam safety, or helping our farmers, what I am focused on is being useful for folks in the Hudson Valley.

Secrets press inside a person. They press the way water presses at a dam. The secrets and the water, they both want to get out.

Regret, already sogging me down, burst its dam. It seeped into my legs, it pooled in my heart.

At one level it's clear that the dam has broken. There's an inevitable move to use the Internet as a distribution medium and that's not going to stop.