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.

I don't do damsel in distress very well. It's hard for me to play a victim.

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.

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.

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

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.

I'd never been a good damsel in distress. I was a "hands-on" damsel.

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

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

There's damsels in distress out there, and we got all this beer.

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.

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

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

I have a fetish for damsels in distress.

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

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 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.