Catherine Crook de Camp Quotes

We Americans tend to be a prodigal lot. We are as careless with our personal resources as we are with the resources of nature, squandering both as if there were no end to the gifts of earth and sea and sky.

Catherine Crook de Camp

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• Your friends will be as careless with your life as they are with their own.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Life
  • Friends
  • Careless

• 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

• You aren't your work, your accomplishments, your possessions, your home, your family... your anything. You're a creation of your Source, dressed in a physical human body intended to experience and enjoy life on Earth.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • Work
  • Family

• Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Nature
  • Earth
  • Mountains

• There is a one-in-300 chance that Earth will be struck on March 16, 2880, by an asteroid large enough to destroy civilization and possibly cause the extinction of the human race. But, on the bright side, Prince could re-release his hit song with the new refrain 'We're gonna party like its twenty-eight seventy-nine.'

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Song
  • Earth
  • Party

• 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

• There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Earth
  • Humanity
  • Nothing

• Mangroves, salt marshes and sea grass lock away carbon at up to five times the rate of tropical forests.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Up
  • Sea
  • Grass

• The most important thing about Spaceship Earth - an instruction book didn't come with it.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Important
  • Book
  • Earth

• We are accustomed in England to chalk in rolling downs, except where bitten into by the sea, but elsewhere it is riven and presents cliffs, and these cliffs are not at all like that of Shakespeare at Dover but overhang, where hard beds alternate with others that are friable.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Sea
  • Hard
  • England

• To me the earth's most explosive and pernicious evil is racism, the inability of God's creatures to live as One, especially in the Western world.

  

  Malcolm X
  • World
  • God
  • Live

• The only ultimate disaster that can befall us, I have come to realise, is to feel ourselves to be at home here on earth.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Home
  • Earth

• The garden is a raging sea, The hurricane is snarling;Oh, happy you and happy me!Isn't the lightning darling?

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Happy
  • Sea
  • Garden

• 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

• The Rhapsody is not a composition at all. It's a string of separate paragraphs stuck together - with a thin paste of flour and water… I don’t think there has been such an inspired melodist on this earth since Tchaikovsky… but if you want to speak of a composer, that's another matter.

  

  Leonard Bernstein
  • Together
  • Earth
  • Water

• I like to draw, produce paintings, do something with my fingers - but I am very normal, down-to-earth person.

  

  Marion Bartoli
  • Earth

• What is there more unruly than the sea, with its winds, its tornadoes, and its tempests? And yet in what department of her works has Nature been more seconded by the ingenuity of man than in this, by his inventions of sails and of oars?

  

  Pliny the Elder
  • Nature
  • Sea

• When the seagulls follow the trawler, it's because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea.

  

  Eric Cantona
  • Sea

• Let a new earth rise. Let another world be born. Let a bloody peace be written in the sky. Let a second generation full of courage issue forth; let a people loving freedom come to growth.

  

  Margaret Walker
  • People
  • World
  • Earth

• In the Egyptian and Eastern cosmogonies, and in the Greek version of them, no very definite meaning can, in general, be attached to the term 'destruction of the world,' for sometimes it would seem almost to imply the annihilation of our planetary system, and at others a mere revolution of the surface of the earth.

  

  Charles Lyell
  • World
  • Earth
  • Revolution

• My mom always knew I would be able to take care of myself, but my dad was afraid.

  

  Dominique Moceanu
  • Dad
  • Mom

• Hosts of merchants encumber the cities, and the streets are cluttered with solicitors who swarm without limit or purpose.

  

  Charles Fourier
  • Purpose
  • Cities
  • Merchants

• The workplace should have a place where the kids can visit. They should have places at the mother's or the father's work where professionals can have their kids visit them whenever they feel like it.

  

  Eric Braeden
  • Work
  • Kids
  • Mother

• We Americans tend to be a prodigal lot. We are as careless with our personal resources as we are with the resources of nature, squandering both as if there were no end to the gifts of earth and sea and sky.

  

  Catherine Crook de Camp
  • Earth
  • Sea
  • Sky