Grand Canyon Quotes - Page 2

• 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.

  Peter Kreeft

  Faith, Inspiration, Heart

  Peter Kreeft (1988). “Fundamentals of the Faith: Essays in Christian Apologetics”, p.159, Ignatius Press

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• 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.

  Pat Paulsen

  Beautiful, Land, Effort

  "Paulsen's Running - But Where Is He?" by David Holmstrom, www.csmonitor.com. February 05, 1992.

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• 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.

  Steve Martin

  Funny, Movie, Problem

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

  Douglas Brinkley

  Zinc, Politician, Canyons

  "Presidential historian Douglas Brinkley". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. January 24, 2011.

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• If you are working, almost like with layers of the Grand Canyon, there's history within those layers.

  Leonardo Drew

  Layers, Canyons, Ifs

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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.

  Andrea Gibson

  Broken Heart, Moon, Doctors

  Andrea Gibson (2018). “Take Me With You”, p.135, Penguin

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• 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.

  Dave Barry

  Erosion, Mountain, Facts

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• With what you don't know about me, I could just about fill the Grand Canyon.

  Kevin Smith

  Canyons, Knows

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

  Kent Hovind

  Colorado River, Rivers, Form

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

  Don Marquis

  Education, Learning, Knowledge

  Don Marquis, William McCollum (1982). “Selected letters of Don Marquis”, Northwoods Pr

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• 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.

  Holly Marie Combs

  Doctors, Tissues, Able

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

  Andy Van Slyke

  Sports, Psychology, Trying

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

  Edward Abbey

  Fun, Adventure, Climbing

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.38, RosettaBooks

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

  Steve Martin

  Movie, Riddle

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• 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.

  Beck

  Song, Work, Thinking

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• 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.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Dream, Photography, Real

  Daniel J. Boorstin (2012). “The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America”, p.170, Vintage

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• The difference between a healthy environment and an unhealthy environment can be summed up in one word, and it's not 'CO2' or 'climate' or 'temperature.' It's 'development.' [...] Whether you're drinking clean drinking water, listening to a thunderstorm with pleasure instead of fear, or going to the Grand Canyon, you should be thanking Big Coal, Big Oil, and Big Gas.

  Alex Epstein

  Drinking, Oil, Differences

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• 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.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Wall, People, Flying

  Kurt Vonnegut (1997). “Hocus Pocus”, p.102, Penguin

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• 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?

  Michael Shermer

  Spring, Space, Hands

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• The grand canyon which yawns between the writer's concept of what he wants to capture in words and what comes through is a cruel abyss.

  Fannie Hurst

  Want, Canyons, Capture

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• If you're ever if you're ever thinking, “Oh, but I'm a waste of space and I'm a burden,” remember: that also describes the Grand Canyon. Why don't you have friends and family take pictures of you from a safe distance? Revel in your majestic profile?

  Maria Bamford

  Inspirational, Family, Distance

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• But to carve the Grand Canyon, Earth required millions of years. To excavate Meteor Crater, the universe, using a sixty-thousand-ton asteroid traveling upward of twenty miles per second, required a fraction of a second. No offense to Grand Canyon lovers, but for my money, Meteor Crater is the most amazing natural landmark in the world.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Years, Twenties, World

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

  Paul Rudnick

  Believe, Snacks, Canyons

  Paul Rudnick (2009). “I Shudder: And Other Reactions to Life, Death, and New Jersey”, Harper

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• I have permits to be the first person in the world to walk across the Grand Canyon so that's a process we'll start working on. I'd say within three to five years I'll accomplish that as well.

  Nik Wallenda

  Years, Three, World

  "Niagara Falls tightrope walk: Nik Wallenda succeeds". www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2012.

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• 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.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Voice, People, Would Be

  Kurt Vonnegut (2011). “A Man Without a Country”, p.137, Seven Stories Press

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