(75 quotes found)
“An ant may well destroy a whole dam.”
Chinese Proverbs
“I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind at all. . . . I do not weep at the world -- I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.”
Zora Neale Hurston
“Lawyers are like beavers: They get in the mainstream and dam it up.”
John Naisbitt
“He sometimes ran a purple ribbon through his typewriter and gushed where he should have dammed.”
T. E. Kalem
“That issue has gone under the bridge, under the next bridge, over the next dam and is gone.”
Nick Saban
“The eagle may soar; beavers build dams.”
Joseph S. Nye Jr.
“The Democrats are going to change the name of the Hoover Dam. That is the silliest thing I ever heard of in politics . . . Lord if they feel that way about it, I don't see why they don't just reverse the two words.”
Will Rogers
“A few years ago both dams were declared to be out of compliance with Virginia dam safety regulations by the Office of Dam Safety and Department of Conservation and Recreation.”
Cathy Riddle
“Never give up; for even rivers someday wash dams away.”
Arthur Golden
