Quotes with air-pollutant

Quotes 41 till 60 of 161.

  • Chief Seattle How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land? The idea is strange to us. If we do not own the freshness of the air and the sparkle of the water, how can you buy them? Every part of the earth is sacred to my people.
    Chief Seattle
    Suquamish Tribe chief (1786 - 1866)
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  • George Burns I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty.
    George Burns
    American Comedy Actor (1896 - 1996)
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  • Henry Miller I didn't have to think up so much as a comma or a semicolon; it was all given, straight from the celestial recording room. Weary, I would beg for a break, an intermission, time enough, let's say, to go to the toilet or take a breath of fresh air on the balcony. Nothing doing!
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • William Shakespeare I durst not laugh for fear of opening my lips and receiving the bad air.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Fred Astaire I just put my feet in the air and move them around.
    Fred Astaire
    American dancer, singer, actor and choreographer (1899 - 1987)
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  • Anne Rice I love New Orleans physically. I love the trees and the balmy air and the beautiful days. I have a beautiful house here.
    Anne Rice
    American author of gothic fiction (1941 - 2021)
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  • Oscar Wilde I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life. We are not sent into the world to air our moral prejudices. I never take any notice of what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Margaret Thatcher I seem to smell the stench of appeasement in the air.
    Margaret Thatcher
    British Prime Minister (1979-1990) (1925 - 2013)
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  • Burt Rutan I spent about seven years during the Vietnam War flight-testing airplanes for the Air Force. And then I went in and I had a lot of fun building airplanes that people could build in their garages. And some 3,000 of those are flying. Of course, one of them is around-the-world Voyager.
    Burt Rutan
    American aerospace engineer and entrepreneur (1943 - )
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  • Assata Shakur I think that the movement against the World Bank, against the globalization process that is happening, is very positive. We need a globalization, a globalization of people who are committed to social justice, to economic justice. We need a globalization of people who are committed to saving this earth, to making sure that the water is drinkable, that the air is breathable.
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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  • William Shakespeare I told you, sir, they were red-hot with drinking; so full of valor that they smote the air, for breathing in their faces, beat the ground for kissing of their feet.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Buzz Aldrin I was the first Navy, Marine or Air Force person who had been an astronaut to return back to the Air Force. I had certain expectations about what would be a reasonable and desirable position to be assigned to after my years of service.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Luigi Pirandello I would love to spend all my time writing to you; I'd love to share with you all that goes through my mind, all that weighs on my heart, all that gives air to my soul; phantoms of art, dreams that would be so beautiful if they could come true.
    Luigi Pirandello
    Italian poet, playwright and Nobel laureate in literature (1934) (1867 - 1936)
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  • Audie Murphy I'm glad that it didn't take as long to get Shepard off the ground as it's taken this series. I'd begun to think the Congo would be ahead of us in the space race before Whispering Smith ever got on the air.
    Audie Murphy
    American soldier, actor and songwriter (1925 - 1971)
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  • Bertrand Piccard I'm learning kite surfing. It's a little surfboard you have on your feet with straps, and you have a big kite like a power glider in the air that pulls you. You don't need waves to move, and it makes a big spray of water as you go.
    Bertrand Piccard
    Swiss psychiatrist (1958 - )
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  • Andrew Motion I've found a different way to scent the air: already it's a by-word for despair.
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  • Buzz Aldrin I've led a life of such structured discipline and always had a goal in mind of knowing what I was doing, from West Point to the Air Force combat, MIT, looking for new things to study and get involved in. And then I got into the space program, and how disciplined can you get?
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Doris Lessing If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.
    Doris Lessing
    British novelist (1919 - 2013)
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  • Cass Sunstein If the air quality is terrible in Los Angeles, if a particular university is unusually expensive, if crime is on the rise in Dallas, or if a company has a lot of recalled toys, transparency can spur change. Whenever public or private institutions have to answer to the public, their performance is likely to improve.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Assata Shakur If we are not committed to saving this earth we will be buying designer air filters and gas masks with little Nike swishes on them.
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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