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“Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.”

Source: Selected letters of Don Marquis

“You know what your problem is, it's that you haven't seen enough movies - all of life's riddles are answered in the movies.”

Knows Enough Problem Funny Havens Movie Reincarnation Riddle Grand Canyon Enough Movie

Author:Steve Martin

“I believe in evolution. But I also believe, when I hike the Grand Canyon and see it at sunset, that the hand of God is there also.”

Believe Hands I Believe Evolution I Believe In Sunset Hiking Canyons Hands Of God Grand Canyon God Is There

Author:John McCain

“Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube; there are some things one would rather have done than do.”

Done Fun Adventure Climbing Funny Travel Floating Adventurous Tubes Canyons Grand Canyon

Book:A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

“We've got to step up our conservation efforts before it's too late. We're not protecting our lands and natural resources. Take the Grand Canyon for example; I'm sure that at one time it was a beautiful piece of land, and just look at the way we've let it go.”

Way Looks Beautiful Natural Effort Steps Pieces Land Example Late Resources Too Late One Time Conservation Let It Go Natural Resources Step Up Canyons Grand Canyon Before It's Too Late

Author:Pat Paulsen

“Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.”

Men Has Beens Age Environment Rivers Environmental Mars Conservation Canyons Nature And Environment Grand Canyon

Book:In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena

Source: In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena

“Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all holes, or games, are created equal.”

“Life is supposed to be a series of peaks and valleys. The secret is to keep the valleys from becoming Grand Canyons.”

Life Is Secret Becoming Series Supposed To Be Valleys Canyons Grand Canyon Peaks And Valleys Mountains And Valleys

Author:Bernard Williams

“When the last living thing Has died on account of us, How poetical it would be If Earth could say, In a voice floating up Perhaps From the floor Of the Grand Canyon, "It is done." People did not like it here.”

People Ifs Done Would Be Earth Lasts Voice Accounts Died Floating Living Things Canyons Grand Canyon

Book:A Man Without a Country

Source: A Man Without a Country

“The really wonderful moments of joy in this world are not the moments of self-satisfaction, but self-forgetfulness. Standing on the edge of the Grand Canyon and contemplating your own greatness is pathological. At such moments we are made for a magnificent joy that comes from outside ourselves.”

“bergeron's epitaph for the planet, i remember, which he said should be carved in big letters in a wall of the grand canyon for the flying-saucer people to find was this: WE COULD HAVE SAVED IT, BUT WE WERE TOO DOGGONE CHEAP. only he didn't say "doggone.”

People Should Said Bigs Remember Planets Wall Letters Saved Flying Epitaph Canyons Grand Canyon Flying Saucers

Book:Hocus Pocus

Source: Hocus Pocus

“Just sit tight. Reinforcements should be here soon. Hopefully nothing happens before-" Lightning crackled overhead. The wind picked up with a vengeance. Worksheets flew into the Grand Canyon, and the entire bridge shuddered. Kids screamed, stumbling and grabbing the rails. "I had to say something," Hedge grumbled. He bellowed into his megaphone: "Everyone inside! The cow says moo! Off the skywalk!" "I thought you said this thing was stable!" Jason shouted over the wind. "Under normal circumstances," Hedge agreed, "which these aren't.”

Should Said Happens Kids Wind Circumstances Normal Hopefully Bridges Cows Stable Lightning Vengeance Flew Jason Rail Stumbling Canyons Overhead Grabbing Grand Canyon Reinforcement

Author:Rick Riordan

“All right, cupcakes. You are about to see the Grand Canyon. Try not to break it. The skywalk can hold the weight of seventy jumbo jets, to you featherweights should be safe out there. If possible, try to avoid pushing each other over the edge, as that would cause me extra paperwork.”

Ifs Should Trying Causes Break Safe Weight Edges Extras Pushing Seventies Jet Canyons Cupcakes Grand Canyon Paperwork Over The Edge Pushing Each Other

Author:Rick Riordan

“It has been well said that an author who expects results from a first novel is in a position similar to that of a man who drops a rose petal down the Grand Canyon of Arizona and listens for the echo.”

Men Writing Firsts Wells Has Beens Said Results Novel Position Rose Echoes Arizona Petals Canyons Grand Canyon Well Said Rose Petals

Author:P. G. Wodehouse

“A doctor once told me I feel too much. I said, so does god. that’s why you can see the grand canyon from the moon.”

Feels Doe Said Too Much Wonderful Moon Doctors Broken Heart Canyons Grand Canyon

Book:Take Me With You

Source: Take Me With You

“All of life’s riddles are answered in the movies.”

Movie Riddle Grand Canyon

Author:Steve Martin

“He had no idea where the stereotype of dumb giggly blondes came from. Ever since he'd met Annabeth at the Grand Canyon last winter,when she'd marched toward him with that Give me Percy Jackson or I’ll kill you expression, Leo had thought of blondes as much too smart and much too dangerous.”

Giving Ideas Lasts Dangerous Expression Mets Smart Give Me Winter Dumb No Idea Stereotype Canyons Annabeth Annabeth Chase Grand Canyon Leo Valdez Mark Of Athena

Author:Rick Riordan

“It doesn't have to be the Grand Canyon, it could be a city street, it could be the face of another human being - Everything is full of wonder.”

Humans Faces Human Beings Cities Wonder Streets Atheist Canyons Grand Canyon City Streets

Author:A.C. Grayling

“Every season has its peaks and valleys. What you have to try to do is eliminate the Grand Canyon.”

Trying Sports Psychology Seasons Valleys Canyons Sports Psychology Grand Canyon Peaks And Valleys

Author:Andy Van Slyke

“The big, blazing truth about man is that he has a heaven-sized hole in his heart, and nothing else can fill it. We pass our lives trying to fill the Grand Canyon with marbles. As Augustine said: Thou hast made us for Thyself, and our hearts are restless until they rest in Thee.”

Source: Fundamentals of the Faith: Essays in Christian Apologetics

“I had so much fun touring the Grand Canyon area with the Sierra Club. I love to get outdoors and enjoy nature. We went kayaking, mountain biking, hiking, and even rode mules. To do all these things in one of the most stunning natural areas in the world just made it more amazing. I don't believe that anyone can see the Grand Canyon area for themselves and not know that we have to do everything we can to protect it for future generations.”

“Working with Jack [Nicholson] is sort of like standing in front of the Grand Canyon.”

Fronts Standing Canyons Grand Canyon Nicholson

Author:Diane Keaton

“I had a few fibroids removed, and they left me with a Grand Canyon of scar tissue in my uterus. The doctors weren't sure I'd be able to reproduce. I was prepared for a rough road, and then out of nowhere we conceived.”

Able Left Doctors Prepared Rough Scar Tissues Canyons Grand Canyon Uterus Scar Tissue

Author:Holly Marie Combs

“I love my country, By which I mean, I am indebted joyfully, To all the people throughout its history, Who have fought the government to make right, Where so many cunning sons and daughters, Our foremothers and forefathers, Came singing through slaughter, Came through hell and high water, So that we could stand here, And behold breathlessly the sight, How a raging river of tears, Cut a grand canyon of light... Why can't all decent men and women, Call themselves feminists? Out of respect, For those who fought for this...”

“Politicians wanted to mine the Grand Canyon for zinc and copper, and Theodore Roosevelt said no.”

Said Wanted Mines Politician Canyons Copper Grand Canyon Theodore Zinc

Author:Douglas Brinkley

“As a ballplayer, (Dizzy) Dean was a natural phenomenon, like the Grand Canyon or the Great Barrier Reef. Nobody ever taught him baseball and he never had to learn. He was just doing what came naturally when a scout named Don Curtis discovered him on a Texas sandlot and gave him his first contract.”

Firsts Natural Taught Baseball Barriers Phenomenon Contracts Texas Dean Canyons Dizzy Reefs Grand Canyon Natural Phenomena Great Barrier Reef Sandlot

Author:Red Smith

“The most refined skills of color printing, the intricate techniques of wide-angle photography, provide us pictures of trivia bigger and more real than life. We forget that we see trivia and notice only that the reproduction is so good. Man fulfils his dream and by photographic magic produces a precise image of the Grand Canyon. The result is not that he adores nature or beauty the more. Instead he adores his camera - and himself.”

Source: The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America

“I believe in a benevolent God not because He created the Grand Canyon or Michelangelo, but because He gave us snacks.”

Believe I Believe I Believe In Benevolent Canyons Snacks Grand Canyon

Book:I Shudder: And Other Reactions to Life, Death, and New Jersey

Source: I Shudder: And Other Reactions to Life, Death, and New Jersey

“I think everybody should just turn off their TV machines and make up their own songs about whatever comes to mind-their couch, their friends their loaves of bread. Everybody's got their own songs. There should be so many songs out there that it all turns into one big sound and we can put the whole thing into a pickup truck and let it roll off the edge of the Grand Canyon.”

Thinking Should Mind Whole Bigs Song Turns Sound Work Tvs Machines Edges Bread Truck Couches Turn Off Canyons Grand Canyon Pickups Pickup Trucks

Author:Beck

“What can be more soul shaking than peering through a 100-inch telescope at a distant galaxy, holding a 100-million-year-old fossil or a 500,000-year-old stone tool in one's hand, standing before the immense chasm of space and time that is the Grand Canyon, or listening to a scientist who gazed upon the face of the universe's creation and did not blink?”

“The wonders of the Grand Canyon cannot be adequately represented in symbols of speech, nor by speech itself. The resources of the graphic art are taxed beyond their powers in attempting to portray its features. Language and illustration combined must fail.”

Art Language Wonder Failing Speech Resources Symbols Features Attempting Graphic Illustration Canyons Grand Canyon Graphic Art

Book:Canyons of the Colorado

Source: Canyons of the Colorado

“You cannot see the Grand Canyon in one view, as if it were a changeless spectacle from which a curtain might be lifted, but to see it you have to toil from month to month through its labyrinths.”

Ifs Might Views Months Toil Curtains Labyrinth Canyons Grand Canyon

Book:Canyons of the Colorado

Source: Canyons of the Colorado

“There's a grand-canyon sized gulf between explanation and experience.”

Explanation Canyons Grand Canyon

Author:Jad Abumrad

“In fact, just about all the major natural attractions you find in the West- the Grand Canyon, the Badlands, the Goodlands, the Mediocrelands, the Rocky Mountains and Robert Redford- were caused by erosion.”

Facts Natural Mountain Majors West Attraction Canyons Erosion Grand Canyon Rocky Mountain

Author:Dave Barry

“The Grand Canyon is living evidence of the power of water over a period of time. The power may not manifest immediately. Water can be very powerful, like a tidal wave.”

May Water Powerful Periods Evidence Wave Taoism Manifest Very Powerful Canyons Grand Canyon Tidal Waves

Author:Frederick Lenz

“What they [Jim deMint and the oil lobby] do care about is the precedent. If they open up ANWR (Arctic National Wildlife Refuge), they'll think they can do anything to the environment - anything at all. Drilling in Yosemite? In the Grand Canyon? What's next?”

Ifs Thinking Care Next Can Do Environment Environmental Oil Refuge Wildlife Precedent Arctic Canyons Grand Canyon Drilling Yosemite Anwr

Author:Barbara Boxer

“Well, once you've been in the Canyon and once you've sort of fallen in love with it, it never ends...it's always been a fascinating place to me, in fact I've often said that if I ever had a mistress it would be the Grand Canyon.”

Ifs Wells Said Ends Facts Would Be Conservative Fallen Fascinating Mistress Canyons Grand Canyon

Author:Barry Goldwater

“The elements that unite to make the Grand Canyon the most sublime spectacle in nature are multifarious and exceedingly diverse.”

Elements Diverse Sublime Canyons Grand Canyon

Book:Canyons of the Colorado

Source: Canyons of the Colorado

“Myths that need clarification: "No matter how many times you see the Grand canyon, you are still emotionally moved to tears." False. It depends on how many children the out-of-towners brought with them who kicked the back of your seat from Phoenix to Flagstaff and got their gum caught in your hair.”

Needs Children Stills Matter Tears Hair Depends Moved Caught Myth Seats Phoenix Gum Canyons Grand Canyon Clarification

Author:Erma Bombeck

“A rill in a barnyard and the Grand Canyon represent, in the main, stages of valley erosion that began some millions of years apart.”

Years Millions Stage Valleys Canyons Erosion Grand Canyon

Author:George Gaylord Simpson

“I believe in science and evolution. I've been to the Grand Canyon.”

Believe I Believe Evolution I Believe In Canyons Grand Canyon

Author:Bill Walton

“The Colorado River did not form the Grand Canyon. The Grand Canyon was formed as the flood went down.”

Form Rivers Flood Canyons Colorado Grand Canyon Colorado River

Author:Kent Hovind

“The Grand Canyon is carven deep by the master hand; it is the gulf of silence, widened in the desert; it is all time inscribing the naked rock; it is the book of earth.”

Book Hands Earth Silence Rocks Masters Naked All Time Desert Arizona Canyons Grand Canyon

Author:Donald C. Peattie

“In golf, 'close' is like the north and south rim of the Grand Canyon.”

Golf South Canyons Rims Grand Canyon North And South

Author:Johnny Miller

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