Almost 70 percent of U.S. ag exports travel the upper Mississippi River and the Illinois waterway system.

There is no shadow of protection to be had by sheltering behind the slender stockades of visionary speculation, or by hiding behind the wagon-wheels of pacific theories.

Madame Chiang KaiShek

Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.

Anton Chekhov

Money doesn't talk, it swears.

Bob Dylan

What difference does it make, whether we keep our silence because force us or because we're afraid they might force us?

Orson Scott Card

But if you have a solid walk with the Lord, then you won't fear that failure.

Cliff Richard

All that the hand of man can uprear, is either overturned by the hand of man, or at length by standing and continuing consumed: as if there were a secret opposition in Fate (the unevitable decree of the Eternal) to control our industry, and countercheck all our devices and proposing. Possessions are not enduring, children lose their names. . . .

William Drummond

Natural beauty is essentially temporary and sad; hence the impression of obscene mockery which artificial flowers give us

John Updike

They are trying to make me into a fixed star. I am an irregular planet.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Birds have wings they're free they can fly where they want when they want. They have the kind of mobility many people envy.

Roger Tory Peterson

Death is nature's way of making things continually interesting. Death is the possibility of change. Every individual gets its allotted lifespan, its chance to try something new on the world. But time is called and the molecules which make up leaf and limb, heart and eye are disassembled and redistributed to other tenants.

Peter Steinhart

The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.

Joseph Joubert

If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.

Samuel Butler