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Edward Abbey Quotes

May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: January 29, 1927 - March 14, 1989

Topics

Nature Mountains Clouds Amazing View

The thing that's depressing is teaching graduate students today and discovering that they don't know simple elemental facts of grammar. They really do not know how to scan a line; they've never been taught to scan a line. Many of them don't know the difference between 'lie' and 'lay,' let alone 'its' and 'it's.' And they're in graduate school!

Today Alone Simple Lie School Facts

Our constitutionally-based criminal justice system places a high value on protecting the innocent. Among its central tenets is the idea that it is better to let a guilty person go free than to convict someone without evidence beyond a reasonable doubt.

Justice Value Free Better Someone

The Babe was a great ballplayer, sure, but Cobb was even greater. Babe could knock your brains out, but Cobb would drive you crazy.

Great Crazy Drive You Out Brains

The comment that I've made is that if unaccompanied minors can cross the border, then certainly trained terrorists probably can, too.

Border Comment Made Cross Then Too

I'm stuck somewhere a small island in the middle of the Atlantic where I'm alone. Because in France, they're like, 'No, you're not like us, you're not a French guy.' And in America, they're like, 'You're not like us.' I'm really alone in my little thing.

Louis Leterrier

Alone Small America You Island Guy

My advice to the average investor in 1988 is to be patient and think long-term. It will take 18 months for confidence to get better and, in the meantime, this is absolutely no place for short-term money.

Louis Navellier

Confidence Money Think Better Advice

When a woman has her first child in places like Africa, they're really young. They can be 12, 13,14, so their frames are really small, and they're usually malnourished.

Woman Child Small Young First Child

You can never learn it all and I hope to continue my growth as a person and a musician.

Growth Hope Learn You Person Never

I was lucky enough to have it all. To be successful in business, to have children, to raise them on my own, and to travel and live my life. It was a lot of work, but it's a privilege to have been able to do it.

Diane von Furstenberg

Life Work Live Business Children

I wanted to do an R-rated cartoon since I watched 1981's 'Heavy Metal.'

Heavy Metal Cartoon Metal Heavy

People don't realize what's really going on in this country. There are a lot things that are going on that are unjust. People aren't being held accountable for. And that's something that needs to change. That's something that this country stands for: freedom, liberty and justice for all.

Colin Kaepernick

Change Freedom Justice People Going

The duty of a historian is simply to understand and then convey that understanding, no more than that.

Understanding Understand Duty More

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