It was dog food. Beef livers with onions in a can. You open it up and it looks like vomit.

Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.

C.S. Lewis

When resources are degraded, we start competing for them, whether it is at the local level in Kenya, where we had tribal clashes over land and water, or at the global level, where we are fighting over water, oil, and minerals. So one way to promote peace is to promote sustainable management and equitable distribution of resources.

Wangari Maathai

Every scientific truth goes through three states: first, people say it conflicts with the Bible; next, they say it has been discovered before lastly, they say they always believed it.

Louis Agassiz

We need time to defuse, to contemplate. Just as in sleep our brains relax and give us dreams, so at some time in the day we need to disconnect, reconnect, and look around us.

Laurie Colwin

As the proud father of two teens and past Chairman to the Presidents Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, I am committed to educating parents and especially young people on ways to live a long, healthy and active life.

Lee Haney

Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.

Arnold Bennett

From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.

Sir Winston Churchill

I think to make any relationship work it just takes a tremendous amount of effort and accepting of one another.

Rebecca Romijn

Circles, like the soul, are neverending and turn round and round without a stop

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief.

George Washington

If you were to ask my agent, they would confirm this: I'm drawn to locations. What really drew me to 'The 4400,' aside from the fact that it was sci-fi, was the fact that it was shot in the city of my dreams: Vancouver.

Billy Campbell

Order is power.

Henri Frederic Amiel