Diane Ackerman Quotes

In the winter, I enjoy cross-country skiing and raising orchids and amaryllises. If I could grow tropical flowers as perennials, I would, especially hibiscus and mandavilla.

Diane Ackerman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 7, 1948

Topics

WinterFlowersSkiingGrowEnjoy

If you believe that the greatest challenge you've got is credibility, then the way you get that is you earn it, right? That's not something that any set of policy makers can bestow.

Joe Kennedy III

ChallengeBelieveYouWayRight

Some people want fame, popularity and huge sales. I've always hoped to have a really long career. So I've tried to make each of my creative decisions and business decisions to allow for longevity. As a side effect I got really famous and really big. I didn't realize the two could go together.

Jewel

WorkYourselfEndYouWantRhythm

I have always loved the wild places between the Sierra Nevada range and the Rocky Mountains. The east face of the Sierra Nevada is steep and largely unknown, a wonderful setting.

Ann Maxwell

MountainsFaceLovedUnknownWild

Unfortunately, a lot of kids don't read anymore. I don't know what we can do about that.

Jean Smart

KnowKidsReadUnfortunatelyAbout

I don't know that the Libertarian Party has an official position on the separation of church and state.

Michael Badnarik

ChurchPartyKnowSeparationState

Access to a college degree is critical.

John Sharp

CollegeCollege DegreeDegreeAccess

If you want to experience joy in your life, you have to be able to step outside yourself and become part of a cause that is much larger than you; one that brings a greater good to a greater community.

Srikumar Rao

LifeGoodCommunityExperienceJoy

Man can now fly in the air like a bird, swim under the ocean like a fish, he can burrow into the ground like a mole. Now if only he could walk the earth like a man, this would be paradise.

Tommy Douglas

BirdWalkOceanManFlyFish

We are already witnessing a transformation in the U.S. economy to increased production of lower carbon energy through fuel switching to natural gas and expansion of wind, solar, geothermal, and other renewable non-carbon intensive energy sources.

Martin O'Malley

WindTransformationEnergySolarGas

None of us, in our culture of comfort, know how to prepare ourselves for dying, but that's what we should do every day. Every single day, we die a thousand deaths.

Joni Eareckson Tada

CultureDayDeathDieEvery Day

Canada should always open its doors to those who are oppressed or in cases of emergency. When Canada offered refuge to 50,000 boat people in Vietnam in the 1970s, I was particularly proud to be Canadian.

David Suzuki

PeopleProudBoatDoorsCanadaOpen

In the late 1980s the amount of German films was down to four or five percent of the market, and the remaining 95 percent were American. It is now 20 to 30 percent German productions.

Wim Wenders

AmericanLateDownNowMarketFour

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