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  • The grand canyon which yawns between the writer's concept of what he wants to capture in words and what comes through is a cruel abyss.

  • I dont believe that anyone can see the Grand Canyon area for themselves and not know that we have to do everything we can to protect it for future generations.

  • I could throw 56-pound words clear across the Grand Canyon. As a matter of course, I went into politics.

    Matter   Pounds   Canyons  
    "The Silver-Tongued Sunbeam". Time, June 8, 1962.
  • In golf, 'close' is like the north and south rim of the Grand Canyon.

  • You cannot see the Grand Canyon in one view, as if it were a changeless spectacle from which a curtain might be lifted, but to see it you have to toil from month to month through its labyrinths.

    Views   Labyrinth   Toil  
    John Wesley Powell (2008). “Canyons of the Colorado”, p.397, Cosimo, Inc.
  • I believe in evolution. But I also believe, when I hike the Grand Canyon and see it at sunset, that the hand of God is there also.

    Believe   Sunset   Hands  
    "John McCain on Education". 2007 GOP primary debate, at Reagan library, hosted by MSNBC, www.issues2000.org. May 3, 2007.
  • The Colorado River did not form the Grand Canyon. The Grand Canyon was formed as the flood went down.

  • I get very upset when money is being cut and people can't visit the Grand Canyon.

    Cutting   People   Upset  
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  • If you're ever if you're ever thinking, “Oh, but I'm a waste of space and I'm a burden,” remember: that also describes the Grand Canyon. Why don't you have friends and family take pictures of you from a safe distance? Revel in your majestic profile?

  • The most refined skills of color printing, the intricate techniques of wide-angle photography, provide us pictures of trivia bigger and more real than life. We forget that we see trivia and notice only that the reproduction is so good. Man fulfils his dream and by photographic magic produces a precise image of the Grand Canyon. The result is not that he adores nature or beauty the more. Instead he adores his camera - and himself.

    Daniel J. Boorstin (2012). “The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America”, p.170, Vintage
  • I have permits to be the first person in the world to walk across the Grand Canyon so that's a process we'll start working on. I'd say within three to five years I'll accomplish that as well.

    Years   Three   World  
    "Niagara Falls tightrope walk: Nik Wallenda succeeds". www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2012.
  • Every season has its peaks and valleys. What you have to try to do is eliminate the Grand Canyon.

  • Places come to exist in our imaginations because of stories, and so do we. When we reach for a "sense of place," we posit an intimate relationship to a set of stories connected to a particular location, such as Hong Kong or the Grand Canyon or the bed where we were born, thinking of histories and the evolution of personalities in a local context. Having "a sense of self" means possessing a set of stories about who we are and with whom and why.

    William Kittredge (2010). “The Nature of Generosity”, p.13, Vintage
  • Law Number XXXVI: The thickness of the proposal required to win a multimillion dollar contract is about one millimeter per million dollars. If all the proposals conforming to this standard were piled on top of each other at the bottom of the Grand Canyon it would probably be a good idea.

    Winning   Law   Ideas  
  • The glories and the beauties of form, color and sound unite in the Grand Canyon - forms unrivaled even by the mountains, colors that vie with sunsets, and sounds that span the diapason from tempest to tinkling raindrop; from cataract to bubbling fountain.

    Sunset   Color   Mountain  
  • It has been well said that an author who expects results from a first novel is in a position similar to that of a man who drops a rose petal down the Grand Canyon of Arizona and listens for the echo.

    Writing   Men   Echoes  
    "Cocktail Time". Book by P. G. Wodehouse, 1958.
  • Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube; there are some things one would rather have done than do.

    Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.38, RosettaBooks
  • A rill in a barnyard and the Grand Canyon represent, in the main, stages of valley erosion that began some millions of years apart.

    Erosion   Years   Valleys  
  • Majestic doesn't appeal to us. We [Americans] like the Grand Canyon better with Clarence and Arlene parked in front of it, smiling.

  • All right, cupcakes. You are about to see the Grand Canyon. Try not to break it. The skywalk can hold the weight of seventy jumbo jets, to you featherweights should be safe out there. If possible, try to avoid pushing each other over the edge, as that would cause me extra paperwork.

  • We didn't have a generation gap, we had a generation Grand Canyon.

  • The really wonderful moments of joy in this world are not the moments of self-satisfaction, but self-forgetfulness. Standing on the edge of the Grand Canyon and contemplating your own greatness is pathological. At such moments we are made for a magnificent joy that comes from outside ourselves.

    Greatness   Self   Joy  
  • Trying to fill the God-sized hole in our hearts with things other than God is like trying to fill the Grand Canyon with marbles.

    Heart   Trying   Holes  
  • All of life’s riddles are answered in the movies.

  • The church as we know it today seems a million miles from the New Testament church. That may be a great generalization, but I will stand on it. There is a gulf between our average Christianity and the church of New Testament that makes the Grand Canyon look like a cavity in someone's tooth.

    Average   Church   May  
  • The wonders of the Grand Canyon cannot be adequately represented in symbols of speech, nor by speech itself. The resources of the graphic art are taxed beyond their powers in attempting to portray its features. Language and illustration combined must fail.

    John Wesley Powell (2008). “Canyons of the Colorado”, p.394, Cosimo, Inc.
  • The difference between a healthy environment and an unhealthy environment can be summed up in one word, and it's not 'CO2' or 'climate' or 'temperature.' It's 'development.' [...] Whether you're drinking clean drinking water, listening to a thunderstorm with pleasure instead of fear, or going to the Grand Canyon, you should be thanking Big Coal, Big Oil, and Big Gas.

  • The Grand Canyon is living evidence of the power of water over a period of time. The power may not manifest immediately. Water can be very powerful, like a tidal wave.

    Powerful   Water   Taoism  
  • Maybe you weren't born with a silver spoon in your mouth, but like every American, you carry a deed to 635 million acres of public lands. That's right. Even if you don't own a house or the latest computer on the market, you own Yosemite, Yellowstone, the Grand Canyon, Golden Gate National Recreation Area, and many other natural treasures.

  • The big, blazing truth about man is that he has a heaven-sized hole in his heart, and nothing else can fill it. We pass our lives trying to fill the Grand Canyon with marbles. As Augustine said: Thou hast made us for Thyself, and our hearts are restless until they rest in Thee.

    Peter Kreeft (1988). “Fundamentals of the Faith: Essays in Christian Apologetics”, p.159, Ignatius Press
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