Sierra Quotes - Page 5

• It had been this way since my beginning, born on a forest lookout station in the High Sierras, surrounded by millions of acres of wilderness and many more animals than humans. Since infancy, the first faces I imprinted, the first faces I ever really loved, were animal.

  Brenda Peterson

  Animal, Acres, Way

  Brenda Peterson (2002). “Build Me an Ark: A Life with Animals”, p.35, W. W. Norton & Company

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• There is a big difference between the lower samadhis and the upper samadhis, like the difference between the Sierras and the Himalayas.

  Frederick Lenz

  Differences, Samadhi, Bigs

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• A lot of people are like, "You're doing commercials?" And I honestly feel like those Sierra Mist commercials are better than a lot of sitcoms I get offered. It's hard work, and I'm paid a lot of money, and I do it because I love the soda.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Hard Work, People, Soda

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. February 28, 2006.

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• I would say I was jock. I went to Sierra College. I was a big baseball player. Getting into the MLB was my dream - to become a left-handed pitcher for the Yankees. That's what I was hoping, but life kind of went the other way.

  Ryan Guzman

  Baseball, Dream, College

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Over the years, the diamond industry has had a devastating impact in countries such as Sierra Leone, Angola and the Congo, where profits from the sale of diamonds have been used to fund brutal wars, with disastrous effects on local communities.

  Sheherazade Goldsmith

  Country, War, Years

  "Green Scene: Pop the Right Questions". www.dailymail.co.uk. February 07, 2009.

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• Maybe when they no longer receive Sierra magazine in their mailboxes, journalists will understand how campaign finance reform abridges free speech.

  Matt Welch

  Reform, Campaigns, Magazines

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• Edgar Wayburn has worked to preserve the most breath-taking examples of the American landscape. In fact, over the course of more than a half-century, both as President of the Sierra Club and as a private citizen, he has saved more of our wilderness than any person alive.

  William J. Clinton

  President, Example, Citizens

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• It is rare that we use our thinking faculty as resolutely as an irishman his spade. To please our friends and relatives we turn out our silver ore in cartloads, while we neglect to workour mines of gold known only to ourselves far up in the Sierras, where we pulled up a bush in our mountain walk, and saw the glittering treasure. Let us return thither. Let it be the price of our freedom to make that known.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Thinking, Gold, Mountain

  Henry David Thoreau, David Gross (2007). “The Price of Freedom: Political Philosophy from Thoreau's Journals”, p.4, David M Gross

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• My ties and ballasts leave me - I travel - I sail - My elbows rest in the sea-gaps. I skirt the sierras. My palms cover continents - I am afoot with my vision.

  Walt Whitman

  Ties, Sea, Vision

  Walt Whitman (2011). “Leaves of Grass, 1860: The 150th Anniversary Facsimile Edition”, p.67, University of Iowa Press

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• So Merrill Lynch has launched its first campaign in years to advertise the accomplishments of its investment banking business. The ads feature things like Merrill's recapitalization of Sierra Pacific. I guess including "helping Enron achieve its earnings goals in 1999" might be a little awkward given that Merrill Lynch bankers are currently on trial in Houston for that "accomplishment."

  Bethany McLean

  Years, Accomplishment, Goal

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• I've been wanting to make a movie about the war in Sierra Leone, specifically, for more than 15 years.

  Cary Fukunaga

  War, Years, Sierra Leone

  Interview with Michael Moore, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 2, 2015.

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• Growing up in northern California has had a big influence on my love and respect for the outdoors. When I lived in Oakland, we would think nothing of driving to Half Moon Bay and Santa Cruz one day and then driving to the foothills of the Sierras the next day.

  Tom Hanks

  Growing Up, Thinking, Moon

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• The Nigerians have been very instrumental in preserving stability in Sierra Leone. They have done this at considerable cost in dollars and Nigerian lives. The US should encourage Nigeria to stay in Sierra Leone.

  Ed Royce

  Dollars, Cost, Done

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• I began taking pictures in the natural world to be able to show people what I was experiencing when I climbed and explored in Yosemite in the High Sierra.

  Galen Rowell

  Artist, People, Yosemite

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