John Wesley Powell Quotes

We have an unknown distance yet to run, an unknown river to explore. What falls there are, we know not; what rocks beset the channel, we know not; what walls ride over the river, we know not. Ah, well! we may conjecture many things.

John Wesley Powell

• May
• Distance
• Explore
• River
• Unknown

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Quotes to Explore

• I decided that I wanted a farm back in 1940 when I was with the Dodgers. I tried to find one within commuting distance of New York.

  

  Larry MacPhail
  • Distance
  • New York
  • Farm

• Sometimes a famous subject may even outlive his own obituary writer.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • May
  • Sometimes
  • Famous

• I knew the moment it happened, it was a miracle. I could have been kissing her when she threw up. It would have scarred me for life. I may never have recovered.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Life
  • Moment
  • Miracle

• I may have managed to build a successful technology startup that had gone public by the time my three kids hit their 13th birthdays, but don't think that bought my wife and me any special respect from our teenagers.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Time
  • May
  • Kids

• One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • Time
  • May
  • Mountain

• Well, only Japanese may understand it, but I'm like a goat or something that likes high places.

  

  Tamae Watanabe
  • May
  • High
  • Like

• We went out for six weeks a year. We first started in Mexico and we did that for so many years that we finally said we've got to explore and start going globally. And then we started going all over the world.

  

  Gavin MacLeod
  • World
  • Start
  • Explore

• Thank you for the sacrifices you and your families are making. Our Vietnam Veterans have taught us that no matter what are positions may be on policy, as Americans and patriots, we must support all of our soldiers with our thoughts and our prayers.

  

  Zack Wamp
  • May
  • Support
  • Thoughts

• Be kind to one another. You may need each other when you are older.

  

  Patricia Polacco
  • May
  • You
  • Need

• I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.

  

  Pablo Neruda
  • Up
  • Poetry
  • Rain

• You may not like the idea of putting money into a home when you're moving out. But it's demanded by the market. You need to show it off. You don't have to rip out the kitchen and bathroom. But maybe replace the tiles or the countertops. Get professional advice.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Money
  • May
  • Home

• Get yourself into every audition that you can. Even in those for smaller roles, you'll never know when someone may recommend you for a bigger one.

  

  Sam Claflin
  • May
  • Know
  • Yourself

• I know we can't always know what medical surprises may happen during childbirth. But my hope is to go fully natural - no epidural, no interventions. Wish me luck.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • May
  • Hope
  • Wish

• A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Real
  • Trying
  • May

• Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • May
  • Silent
  • Hear

• Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death.

  

  Jackie Kennedy
  • People
  • Important
  • May

• A show hosted by a black had never been accepted, so the first time that knob's turned on, people are judging against all they have ever been taught. I may have been the first black in the house.

  

  Flip Wilson
  • People
  • Time
  • May

• Every kid has a laptop; everyone can make music, so in order to stand out, I think it's important to find that sonic identity, I think my sonic identity - and mine is finding these weird sounds that may not necessarily sound that musical, and make them sound musical.

  

  Flume
  • Music
  • Important
  • May

• A very faithful drawing may actually tell us more about the model but despite the promptings of our critical intelligence it will never have the irrational power of the photograph to bear away our faith.

  

  Andre Bazin
  • May
  • Power
  • Faith

• I [read] "The Book of Unknown Americans," which is by a friend of mine, Cristina Henriquez, and is about two Latino, immigrant families who live in Delaware. I'm interested in reading things from different perspectives.

  

  Laila Lalami
  • Different
  • Live
  • Book

• 'Terrible' is not a word I would use in shooting romantic scenes with Scott Speedman.

  

  Jessy Schram
  • Romantic

• When 5150 came out rock was king. Post Nirvana and Pearl Jam 1996 is a different story.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • Different
  • Rock
  • Story

• Today, somewhere in America, more foreclosures. More auctions. Another farmer plots his own death. And another. There is an art to making your death by combine look like an accident.

  

  Carolyn Chute
  • Art
  • America
  • Today

• We have an unknown distance yet to run, an unknown river to explore. What falls there are, we know not; what rocks beset the channel, we know not; what walls ride over the river, we know not. Ah, well! we may conjecture many things.

  

  John Wesley Powell
  • May
  • Distance
  • Explore