There is no creature among all the Beasts of the world which hath so great and ample demonstration of the power and wisedom of almighty God as the Elephant.

- Edward Topsell-

Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn.

- Charlie Parker -

Many pictures turn out to be limp translations of the known world instead of vital objects which create an intrinsic world of their own. There is a vast difference between taking a picture and making a photograph.

- Robert Heinecken -

And that inverted Bowl they call the Sky, Whereunder crawling coop'd we live and die, Lift not your hands to it for help--for it As impotently moves as you or I.

- Omar Khayyam -

We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon.

- Konrad Adenauer -

The sun will set without thy assistance.

- The Talmud -

Good architecture is like a piece of beautifully composed music crystallized in space that elevates our spirits beyond the limitation of time.

- Tao Ho -

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe.

- Albert Einstein -

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

- Helen Keller -

Every land to its own custom, every wheel its own spindle.

- Portuguese proverb -

The materials of city planning are sky, space, trees, steel and cement in that order and in that hierarchy.

- Le Corbusier -

Children have more need of models than of critics.

- Joseph Joubert -

For the Eye altering alters all;
The Senses roll themselves in fear
And the flat Earth becomes a Ball

- William Blake -

I have learned that two people can look at the exact same thing and see something totally different.

- James Rhinehart -

Not only will atomic power be released, but someday we will harness the rise and fall of the tides and imprison the rays of the sun.

- Thomas Alva Edison -

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat. We must find each other.

- Mother Theresa -

Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.

- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne -

Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be.

- Kurt Vonnegut -

A bee is never as busy as it seems; it's just that it can't buzz any slower.

- Kin Hubbard -

With rushing winds and gloomy skies The dark and stubborn Winter dies: Far-off, unseen, Spring faintly cries, Bidding her earliest child arise; March!

- Bayard Taylor -

The soul is healed by being with children.

- English proverb -

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

- David Fyfe -

Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.

- Miriam Robbins -

The best way to keep young is to keep going in whatever it is that keeps you going. With me that's work, and a lot of it. And when a job is finished, relax and have fun.

- Ingrid Bergman -

You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.

- Russian proverb -

There is no love sincerer than the love of food.

- George Bernard Shaw -

The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it.

- Francis Bacon, Sr. -

How small a portion of our life it is that we really enjoy! In youth we are looking forward to things that are to come; in old age we are looking backward to things that are gone past; in manhood, although we appear indeed to be more occupied in things that are present, yet even that is too often absorbed in vague determinations to be vastly happy on some future day when we have time.

- C. C. Colton -

We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles.

- Thomas Edison -

Not what we give, but what we share,-- For the gift without the giver is bare.

- James Russel Lowell -

The Church says that the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the Church.

- Ferdinand Magellan -

Hey if God will send his angels
And if God will send a sign
And if God will send his angels
Would everything be alright

God has got his phone off the hook, babe
Would he even pick up if he could
Its been a while since we saw that child
Hanging round this neighbourhood
You see his mother dealing in a doorway
See father christmas with a begging bowl
Jesus sisters eyes are a blister
The high street never looked so low

- U2 -

As we begin to comprehend that the earth itself is a kind of manned spaceship hurtling through the infinity of space - it will seem increasingly absurd that we have not better organized the life of the human family.

- Hubert H. Humphrey -

Architecture is frozen music.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -

An arch never sleeps.

- James Fergusson -

A lake is the landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.

- Henry David Thoreau -

It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.

- Emailiano Zapata -

Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods
And day by day the dead leaves fall and melt.

- William Allingham -

In an age when man has forgotten his origins and is blind even to his most essential needs for survival, water along with other resources has become the victim of his indifference.

- Rachel Carson -

Stranger, if thou hast learned a truth which needs No school of long experience, that the world Is full of guilt and misery, and hast seen Enough of all its sorrows, crimes and cares, To tire thee of it, enter this wild wood And view the haunts of Nature.

- William Cullen Bryant -