Advice to children crossing the street: Damn the lights. Watch the cars. The lights ain't never killed nobody. —Jackie "Moms" Mabley More about this quote Tags: attention advice danger Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
More quotations tagged with “danger” Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come. —Matt Groening More about this quote Tags: love fear risk danger Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything - or nothing. —Nancy Astor More about this quote Tags: life danger change Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world. —John le Carre More about this quote Tags: danger perspective desk Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email We are impressed with nature's power, but by projecting upon this power an image of the feminine, the mother, we reassure ourselves — for surely a mother will always be loving toward us, continue to feed us, clothe us, and carry away our wastes, and never kill us, no matter how much toxic waste we put in the soil or how many CFCs in the ozone. The sense of nature as inexhaustible mother encourages us to feel there are no limits to a finite planet, while the sense of nature as benign and ever-loving mother permits us to continue disregarding a crescendo of warnings. —Elizabeth Dodson Gray More about this quote Tags: power danger nature environmentalism mother feminine Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email To everyone's surprise, wildlife abounds in the deserted environs of the doomed [Chernobyl] nuclear plant. Elk, wild pigs, wolves, and rabbits all seem to be flourishing. These animals have somehow learned to cope with the high levels of radiation. Who knows, perhaps there are mutations: A pig that can climb. A rabbit with a prehensile tail. An elk with a unicorn's horn. Cells are quick-change artists. Life loves life. Humans may end, but the world won't. —Sybil Smith More about this quote Tags: life danger nature disaster animals wildlife nuclear power mutation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come. —Matt Groening More about this quote Tags: love fear risk danger Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything - or nothing. —Nancy Astor More about this quote Tags: life danger change Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world. —John le Carre More about this quote Tags: danger perspective desk Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We are impressed with nature's power, but by projecting upon this power an image of the feminine, the mother, we reassure ourselves — for surely a mother will always be loving toward us, continue to feed us, clothe us, and carry away our wastes, and never kill us, no matter how much toxic waste we put in the soil or how many CFCs in the ozone. The sense of nature as inexhaustible mother encourages us to feel there are no limits to a finite planet, while the sense of nature as benign and ever-loving mother permits us to continue disregarding a crescendo of warnings. —Elizabeth Dodson Gray More about this quote Tags: power danger nature environmentalism mother feminine Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
To everyone's surprise, wildlife abounds in the deserted environs of the doomed [Chernobyl] nuclear plant. Elk, wild pigs, wolves, and rabbits all seem to be flourishing. These animals have somehow learned to cope with the high levels of radiation. Who knows, perhaps there are mutations: A pig that can climb. A rabbit with a prehensile tail. An elk with a unicorn's horn. Cells are quick-change artists. Life loves life. Humans may end, but the world won't. —Sybil Smith More about this quote Tags: life danger nature disaster animals wildlife nuclear power mutation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email