Carol Plum-Ucci Quotes

If a life goes down the toilet, it comes out in a river and meets the sea.

Carol Plum-Ucci

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• I would love to go help baby sea turtles back into the ocean after hatching in Mexico.

  

  Tamara Feldman
  • Help
  • Baby
  • Sea

• I think there is an enormous sea change happening in the global workforce. It has a lot to do with globalization. I think that people used to have a hope for a career or meaningful employment, and its been reduced to internships, part-time work or just grossly underpaid work.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• On the last morning of Virginia's bloodiest year since the Civil War, I built a fire and sat facing a window of darkness where at sunrise I knew I would find the sea.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • War
  • Morning
  • Fire

• The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make its home for life. For this task, it has a rudimentary nervous system. When it finds its spot and takes root, it doesn't need its brain anymore so it eats it!

  

  Daniel Dennett
  • Life
  • Home
  • Rock

• The storm came. Lives were washed away. Ancient pains resurfaced. Now it is time for a sea of change.

  

  Tavis Smiley
  • Time
  • Change
  • Sea

• The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • People
  • Respect
  • Language

• One of the things that's frustrated me as a deep-sea explorer is how many animals there probably are in the ocean that we know nothing about because of the way we explore the ocean.

  

  Edith Widder
  • Deep
  • Sea
  • Ocean

• When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing - just sitting and looking at the sea, or watching the wind blowing the tree limbs, or waves rippling on a pond, a flickering candle or children playing in the park?

  

  Ralph Marston
  • Time
  • Children
  • Sea

• I grew up in Haifa and enjoyed the wonderful beaches and Mount Carmel that rolls into the Mediterranean Sea. From my early days at home, I remember a strong encouragement to study.

  

  Aaron Ciechanover
  • Up
  • Home
  • Remember

• I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Imagination
  • Doing
  • Sea

• Salt Lake City gave me a lot of surprises. How progressive the city actually is, for instance, compared to the rest of Utah - it's like this purple dot in a sea of red. And the government there is kind of a mix of conservative values and progressive ideas.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • City
  • Government
  • Rest

• I live in New Hampshire. We're in favor of global warming. Eleven hundred more feet of sea-level rises? I've got beachfront property. You tell us up there, 'By the end of the century, New York City could be underwater,' and we say, 'Your point is?'

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Up
  • Live
  • City

• I grew up sailing in the North Sea.

  

  Laura Dekker
  • Up
  • Sea
  • Sailing

• Anybody can pilot a ship when the sea is calm.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • Sea
  • Calm
  • Ship

• The science tells us that if we fail to reduce global warming pollution, global temperatures will rise to dangerous levels and unleash devastating extreme weather events and accelerate destructive sea level rise.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Science
  • Sea
  • Weather

• Shell Oil's decision to pull the plug on drilling for oil in the Chukchi Sea is a major victory for the Arctic.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Decision
  • Sea
  • Victory

• Further devastation of the air, land and sea is obviously a very real possibility, unless the attitudes of politicians and all who irresponsibly exploit our natural resources change significantly in the very near future and all collaborate and sacrifice for the good of the planet.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Good
  • Real
  • Future

• An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Nature

• For all at last return to the sea- to Oceanus, the ocean river, like the ever-flowing stream of time, the beginning and the end.

  

  Rachel Carson
  • Time
  • Nature
  • Beginning

• I grew up in North Devon, by the sea, and feel a special affinity for the landscape there, despite a lack of actual ancestry.

  

  Quentin S. Crisp
  • Up
  • Sea
  • Special

• We went through this business of me writing out all the parts for these old songs from Gravity and Speechless and we'd been performing that, but we don't do that any more.

  

  Fred Frith Aksak Maboul
  • Writing
  • Business

• Anybody that thought that I tried to protect the president has forgotten that I asked for the expansion of the Monica Lewinsky matter.

  

  Janet Reno

• The majority of people who fail to accumulate money sufficient for their needs are, generally, easily influenced by the opinion of others.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • People
  • Money
  • Opinion

• If a life goes down the toilet, it comes out in a river and meets the sea.

  

  Carol Plum-Ucci
  • Sea
  • Rivers