Dams Quotes

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

  Arthur Golden

  Giving Up, Rivers, Never Quit

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

  Austin O'Malley

  Patience, Break, Bigger

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• The eagle may soar; beavers build dams.

  Bill Vaughan

  Eagles, May, Beavers

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• But love is much like a dam; if you allow a tiny crack to form through which only a trickle of water can pass, that trickle will quickly bring down the whole structure and soon no one will be able to control the force of the current.

  Paulo Coelho

  Love, Water, Able

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• Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Block, Order, Law

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2011). “Why We Can't Wait”, p.62, Beacon Press

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

  Stephen Ambrose

  Rivers, Wildlife, Made

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• You can't argue with a river, it isgoing to flow.You can dam it up?put it to useful purposes?deflect it, but you can't argue with it.

  Dean Acheson

  Rivers, Flow, Purpose

  On the fruitlessness of keeping Russian fishermen from waters that should be off limits. Quoted in David S McLellan Dean Acheson: The State Department Years (1976).

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

  Meister Eckhart

  Rivers

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

  Adrian Rogers

  Giving, Justice, Way

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• Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope.

  Kofi Annan

  Reading, Bridges, Full Potential

  Kofi Atta Annan (1998). “The quotable Kofi Annan: selections from speeches and statements by the Secretary-General”, United Nations

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• Men may dam it and say that they have made a lake, but it will still be a river. It will keep its nature and bide its time, like a caged animal alert for the slightest opening. In time, it will have its way; the dam, like the ancient cliffs, will be carried away piecemeal in the currents.

  Wendell Berry

  Animal, Men, Lakes

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• But I never get attracted to fans cause the eager beaver could be the collapse of a dam

  Drake

  Humble, Rapper, Hip Hop

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

  Maria Callas

  Talk To Me, Don't Talk To Me, Dear

  "Wild Women Talk Back : Audacious Advice for the Bedroom, Boardroom, and Beyond". Book by Autumn Stephens, p. 142, 2004.

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

  Edward Abbey

  Ugly, Canyons

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.47, RosettaBooks

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• My hand does the work and I dont have to think; in fact, were I to think, it would stop the flow. Its like a dam in the brain that bursts.

  Edna O'Brien

  Thinking, Hands, Brain

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

  William Arthur Ward

  Water, Reckless, Destruction

  William Arthur Ward (1968). “Thoughts of a Christian Optimist: The Words of William Arthur Ward”

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• You might as well try and dam Niagara Falls with toothpicks as to stop the reform wave sweeping our land.

  Billy Sunday

  Fall, Land, Trying

  Billy Sunday (1970). “Billy Sunday speaks”

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• The beaver told the rabbit as they stared at the Hoover Dam: No, I didn't build it myself, but it's based on an idea of mine

  Charles Hard Townes

  Inspirational, Ideas, Rabbits

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• We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today.

  Henry Ford

  Life, History, Live In The Moment

  Chicago Tribune 25 May 1916 (interview with Charles N. Wheeler)

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• From being a dream, dams have become a very cynical corrupt enterprise; a way of letting governments lay their hands on huge sums of money; a way of centralizing resources; a way of snatching rivers away from the poor and giving them to the rich. And so in a sense they've become monuments to corruption.

  Arundhati Roy

  Letting Go, Dream, Government

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I was actually telling people that - by harnessing the atom - we could enter a new era of unlimited power that would do away with the need to dam our beautiful streams.

  David R. Brower

  Beautiful, People, Needs

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• I think the world is a series of broken dams and floods, and my cartoons are tiny little lifeboats.

  Sherman Alexie

  Thinking, Broken, Cartoon

  "Excerpt: 'The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian'", www.npr.org. November 20, 2007.

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• Most of the locks and dams on the upper Mississippi River system are over 60 years old and many are in serious need of repair and rehabilitation.

  Ron Kind

  Years, Rivers, Needs

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

  Kofi Annan

  Full Potential, Literacy, Basic Education

  Kofi Atta Annan (1998). “The quotable Kofi Annan: selections from speeches and statements by the Secretary-General”, United Nations

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• Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope. It is a tool for daily life in modern society. It is a bulwark against poverty, and a building block of development, an essential complement to investments in roads, dams, clinics and factories.

  Kofi Annan

  Block, Bridges, Essentials

  Kofi Atta Annan (1998). “The quotable Kofi Annan: selections from speeches and statements by the Secretary-General”, United Nations

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