Nature & World Sayings

To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.

I don't have a favorite planet. They're all my children.

I think the biggest problem we face is this disconnect between our clever brains and our loving hearts.

Drinkers of water, who are we? We are the people who will drink this water.

We may say most aptly that the Analytical Engine weaves algebraic patterns just as the Jacquard-loom weaves flowers and leaves.

It is not a question of whether man will fly to the moon but when.

The circumference of the Earth is 250,000 stadia.

The new star in Cassiopeia has confounded all the philosophers.

Nature is not a goddess, but a machine.

You know that Jeannin has the peony, Quost has the hollyhock, but I have the sunflower, in a way.

I am more and more fascinated by the reflections of colors in water. It is quite beyond me.

I am embarked on a wide ocean, boundless in its prospect, and in which, perhaps, no safe harbor is to be found.

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Women hold up half the sky.

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.

You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation.

I am the sun and the moon.

I am very fond of animals.

I don't like sea urchins! You could lose your hand, you could lose your foot. You could lose your hand getting it off your foot!