Quotes by category:Swamps

A town is saved, not more by the righteous men in it, than by the woods and swamps that surround it.

Henry David Thoreau

swamps righteous-man men

Hope and the future for me are not in lawns and cultivated fields, not in towns and cities, but in the impervious and quaking swamps.

Henry David Thoreau

swamps fields cities

I see less difference between a city and a swamp than formerly.

Henry David Thoreau

swamps differences cities

Making a logging-road in the Maine woods is called "swamping" it, and they who do the work are called "swampers." I now perceivedthe fitness of the term. This was the most perfectly swamped of all the roads I ever saw. Nature must have coöperated with art here.

Henry David Thoreau

swamps nature art

The most primitive places left with us are the swamps, where the spruce still grows shaggy with usnea.

Henry David Thoreau

swamps primitive wilderness

Nancy Pelosi said that when it comes to cleaning up government, the Democrats have drained the swamp. The only problem with that is what's left after you drain the swamp: snakes everywhere.

Jay Leno

swamps snakes government

I just started calling myself 'Swamp A-.' Like, I have swamp a- right now. I had major swamp a- because I was wearing these Spanx to hold in my gut ... It's like the bayou up in that region.

Jessica Simpson

swamps calling pregnancy

Stride with a proud disdain through the swamp of human inadmissibility.

Joachim Peiper

swamps stride proud

I thought I recognized you." Really? He remembered me looking like Swamp Thing? How flattering.

Josh Lanyon

swamps flattering remembered

I spent most of my 20s with these alligator wrestlers in the swamps of South Florida.

Karen Russell

alligators swamps florida

Science does not rest upon solid bedrock. The bold structure of its theories rises, as it were, above a swamp. It is like a building erected on piles. The piles are driven down from above into the swamp, but not down to any natural or 'given' base; and if we stop driving the piles deeper, it is not because we have reached firm ground. We simply stop when we are satisfied that the piles are firm enough to carry the structure, at least for the time being.

Karl Popper

swamps doe science

Barrons has something the rest of us don't have. I don't know what it is, but I feel it all the time, especially when we're standing close. Beneath the expensive clothes, unplaceable accent, and cultured veneer, there's something that never crawled all the way out of the swamp. It didn't want to. It likes it there.

Karen Marie Moning

swamps clothes want

Hold us accountable. There's no accountability in Washington. Drain the swamp.

Kellyanne Conway

swamps drains accountability

What gave it away? When she loaded me bound and gagged into the back of her truck? Or when she actually said. "I'm ready to kill you and throw your body inn the swamp? "Hey for a while there, it looked like you were going to talk your way out of it. I didn't want to interfere.

Kelley Armstrong

swamps hey body

We've got to have major health care reform because that is the 800-pound gorilla. That is the thing that can swamp the boat fiscally for the United States.

Kent Conrad

swamps united-states reform

i'm alternatingly brilliant and witless-and sleepless: bed is just a swamp to roll in.

Marilyn Hacker

swamps brilliant bed

You don't know me yet," I said. "Rory was telling me she lives in a swamp," Charlotte said. "That's right," I said, turning up my accent a little. "These are the very first shoes I've ever owned. They sure do pinch my feet." Jerome gave a little snort.

Maureen Johnson

swamps shoes feet

Besides, Southerners are hospitable. They'll probably offer me lemonade." Excuse me? You're going to sit on a porch and drink lemonade while I plow a swamp with a goat's horn?" Yes, ma'am. And I aim to wear my seamless shirt while you do it.

Nancy Werlin

swamps goats drink

Donald Trump is my leader. And if he decides to drop the swamp and the alligator, I will drop the swamp and the alligator.

Newt Gingrich

alligators swamps leader

With one glance he had got himself trapped in the brown fundament of her eyes, he was in danger of sinking, as if into a soft, brown swamp, and he had to close his own eyes for a second to get out of it.

Patrick Süskind

swamps eye danger