Stewart Udall (Stewart Lee Udall) Quotes

The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth.

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• The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Nature
  • Earth
  • Flower

• President Obama, like every other leader on Earth, is still going to be looking out for national and economic interests. States don't cease to be states overnight just because they get a great visionary as their new president.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Great
  • Earth
  • Leader

• We have points in common with the FDP, particularly when it comes to tax.

  

  Otto Schily
  • Common
  • Tax
  • Particularly

• There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Earth
  • Humanity
  • Nothing

• Humans have changed ecosystems more rapidly and extensively than in any comparable period of time in human history, largely to meet rapidly growing demands for food, fresh water, timber, fiber and fuel. This has resulted in a substantial and largely irreversible loss in the diversity of life on Earth.

  

  Gary Larson
  • Life
  • Time
  • History

• It is impossible for capitalists and laborers to have common interests.

  

  Samuel Gompers
  • Impossible
  • Common
  • Laborers

• It is death that goes down to the center of the earth, the great burial church the earth is, and then to the curved ends of the universe, as light is said to do.

  

  Harold Brodkey
  • Great
  • Death
  • Earth

• I don't know who made the Earth. I woke up one morning, and it's here. I make the best of it.

  

  Ed Asner
  • Up
  • Earth
  • Morning

• When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Earth
  • Light
  • Yourself

• Carbonaceous meteorites that fall to the Earth... have several percent to as much as 10 percent of complex organic matter in them.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Earth
  • Fall

• By the sympathy of your human hearts for sin ye shall scent out all the places - whether in church, bedchamber, street, field, or forest - where crime has been committed, and shall exult to behold the whole earth one stain of guilt, one mighty blood spot.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Earth
  • Church
  • Sympathy

• Breakfast had been prepared by the kitchen maid, an indifferent performer who had used the scorched earth policy on the bacon again.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Earth
  • Kitchen
  • Breakfast

• With Earth's first Clay They did the Last Man knead, And there of the Last Harvest sow'd the Seed: And the first Morning of Creation wrote What the Last Dawn of Reckoning shall read.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Earth
  • Morning

• Jesus Pietro was worried. The Sons of Earth, if they got this far, would go straight to the vivarium to free their compatriots. But if Matthew Keller was his own agent... If the ghost of Alpha Plateau was not a rebel, but a thing with its own unpredictable purpose... Jesus Pietro worried.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Free
  • Earth
  • Purpose

• We will not go to Heaven,Goetz, and even if we both entered it, we would not have eyes to see each other, nor hands to touch each other. Up there, God gets all the attention.... We can only love on this earth and against God.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Up
  • God
  • Earth

• Africa is the one place on earth where Prince Harry can be truly himself. He describes Botswana as his 'second home,' but this magical country is even more than that - it is his haven, his safe harbour.

  

  Penny Junor
  • Country
  • Home
  • Earth

• At 7, I was shooting 3s with so much ease that the guys at the neighborhood park were impressed. Michael Jordan was one of the best humans to walk the earth in my eyes, third only to Jesus and my mother.

  

  Angie Thomas
  • Mother
  • Earth
  • Eyes

• Subjugation of women and of the Earth are one and the same.

  

  Anohni
  • Women
  • Earth

• When profits are pursued by geographic interchange of goods, so that commerce for profit becomes the central mechanism of the system, we usually call it "commercial capitalism." In such a system goods are conveyed from ares where they are more common (and therefore cheaper) to areas where they are less common (and therefore less cheap). This process leads to regional specialization and to division of labor, both in agricultural production and in handicrafts.

  

  Carroll Quigley
  • Common
  • Labor
  • Capitalism

• It's essential to have sacred time for writing. All successful authors have some daily commitment to keep on-track and moving forward.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Moving

• I know people socially who live in countries where the wealth gap is more extreme than it is in America, and they live with full-time security. They live with the threat of getting kidnapped, or they live with the threat of people invading their homes.

  

  Jamie Johnson
  • People
  • Time
  • Live

• I'm a harsh critic of the status quo.

  

  Andrew Cuomo
  • Critics
  • Harsh
  • Status Quo

• We shall have a harder Christmas than we have known since the war.

  

  Edward Heath
  • War
  • Christmas

• The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth.

  

  Stewart Udall
  • Earth
  • Common
  • Reverence