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When I grew up in the early '90s, the new World Wide Web felt like a gimmick, and I had no idea of the changes in store. In the summers, I'd backpack through Europe, follow the Grateful Dead. I had a car and a tent and traveled around the Great Lakes and out West. Jack Kerouac was my guiding light, his 'On the Road' a sacred text. ~ Tony D'Souza
Great Lakes quotes by Tony D'Souza
The United Nations has been in the Great Lakes Region and Sahel for 50 years, mostly investing in peacekeeping. NOW is the time to invest in young people! ~ Babatunde Osotimehin
Great Lakes quotes by Babatunde Osotimehin
The day after high school, I was off to basic training at the Great Lakes Naval Station. You gotta understand, we didn't care about sports. We wanted to win the war. We wanted to win the war! And at the time, we didn't know if we would. ~ Bud Grant
Great Lakes quotes by Bud Grant
I had a lot of great lakes of ignorance that I was up against, I would write what I knew in almost like islands that were rising up out of the oceans. Then I would take time off and read, sometimes for months, then I would write more of what I knew, and saw what I could see, as much as the story as I could see. And then at a certain point I had to write out what I thought was the plot because it was so hard to keep it all together in my head. And then I started to write in a more linear way. ~ Rebecca Miller
Great Lakes quotes by Rebecca Miller
When I describe for my far-away friends the Northwest's subtle shades of weather - from gloaming skies of 'high-gray' to 'low-gray' with violet streaks like the water's delicate aura - they wonder if my brain and body have, indeed, become water-logged. Yet still, I find myself praising the solace and privacy of fine, silver drizzle, the comforting cloaks of salt, mold, moss, and fog, the secretive shelter of cedar and clouds.

Whether it's in the Florida Keys, along the rocky Maine coast, within the Gulf of Mexico's warm curves, on the brave Outer Banks; or, for those who nestle near inland seas, such as the brine-steeped Great Salk Lake or the Midwest's Great Lakes - water is alive and in relationship with those of us who are blessed with such a world-shaping, yet abiding, intimate ally.

Every day I am moved by the double life of water - her power and her humility. But most of all, I am grateful for the partnership of this great body of inland sea. Living by water, I am never alone. Just as water has sculpted soil and canyon, it also molds my own living space, and every story I tell.

…Living by water restores my sense of balance and natural rhythm - the ebb and flow of high tides and low tides, so like the rise and fall of everyday life. Wind, water, waves are not simply a backdrop to my life, they are steady companions. And that is the grace, the gift of inviting nature to live inside my home. Like a Chambered Nautilus I spin out my ~ Brenda Peterson
Great Lakes quotes by Brenda Peterson
Speech is as a pump, by which we raise and pour out the water from the great lake of Thought,
whither it flows back again. ~ John Sterling
Great Lakes quotes by John Sterling
I remember the big gaping hole left by my dad's absence in the months following the accident. He'd been the one who went to my parent-teacher conferences, the one who taught me mnemonics to memorize the Great Lakes and the Earth's atmospheres. Whenever I did something silly, my dad always made me feel better by telling me a story from the firehouse about someone who had done something even sillier. Sometimes you don't realize all the things a person does for you until they aren't there to do them anymore. ~ Paula Stokes
Great Lakes quotes by Paula Stokes
If the Poe Lock were ever rendered unusable due to a terrorist attack or natural disaster, it would halt commerce on the Great Lakes and these industries would be helpless. ~ Bart Stupak
Great Lakes quotes by Bart Stupak
In order that he might rob a neighbour whom he had promised to defend, black men fought on the coast of Coromandel and red men scalped each other by the great lakes of North America. ~ Thomas B. Macaulay
Great Lakes quotes by Thomas B. Macaulay
There's always been an assumption that ocean shipping coming in and out of the Great Lakes is critical to the economy. It isn't. ~ John Taylor
Great Lakes quotes by John Taylor
He pulled the truck onto the shoulder of the road and parked, cell phone tight in one hand, his eyes on the landscape before him. From here he could see the foothills rippling out like a blanket from the ragged edge of the mountains. They spread in loose folds until becoming the flat expanse of prairie that crossed all the way to the Great Lakes. July's bounty was a brash flare of colour: wind combed through golden tracts of wheat and sun-bright canola so brilliant he had to squint.
The truck was balanced along the edge of an invisible wall which blocked Waterton from the rest of the world. He hadn't thought about how very real that barrier was; now that his phone was reconnected, it felt like a physical presence. He wasn't quite sure what he'd find on the other side. ~ Danika Stone
Great Lakes quotes by Danika Stone
Our Great Lakes, harbors, ports, and rivers provide not only vital resources for us to live, but an entire maritime way of life for so many people. The least we can do is protect it, and the way of life it provides for so many. ~ Candice S. Miller
Great Lakes quotes by Candice S. Miller
We're a people who pollute the very air we breathe. And our rivers. We're destroying the great lakes; Erie is already gone, and now we've begun on the oceans. We filled our atmosphere with radioactive fallout that put poison into our children's bones, and we knew it. We've made bombs that can wipe out humanity in minutes, and they are aimed and ready to fire. We ended polio, and then the United States Army bred new strains of germs that can cause fatal, incurable disease. We had a chance to do justice to our Negroes, and when they asked it, we refused. In Asia we burned people alive, we really did. We allow children to grow up malnourished in the United States. We allow people to make money by using our television channels to pursued our own children to smoke, knowing what it is going to do to them. This is a time when it becomes harder and harder to continue telling yourself that we are still good people. We hate each other. And we're used to it. ~ Jack Finney
Great Lakes quotes by Jack Finney
They are the largest collection of freshwater lakes in the world. They border eight U.S. states and the Canadian Providence of Ontario and at time have supplied water to one-third of Canadians and one-seventh of Americans. They're vaster than the entire New England region and define beachfront to many people who have never seen an ocean. ~ Susan Magsamen
Great Lakes quotes by Susan Magsamen
During the Tertiary period the whole valley of Mexico was one great lake. ~ Edward Burnett Tylor
Great Lakes quotes by Edward Burnett Tylor
The States which form the northern border of the United States westward from the Great Lakes to the Pacific coast include an area several times larger than France and could contain ten Englands and still have room to spare. ~ John Moody
Great Lakes quotes by John Moody
I'm convinced that the Great Lakes region will be at the center of an internally-focused North American economy when the hallucination of oil-powered globalism dissolves. Places like Buffalo, Cleveland, and Detroit will have a new life, but not at the scale of the twentieth century. ~ James Howard Kunstler
Great Lakes quotes by James Howard Kunstler
I went camping one time when I was twelve, to the Great Lakes. My friend stepped in really deep muddy water and started screaming and sinking. My mom ran up, and I was just standing there a foot away and wouldn't stick out my hand to pull him up. So I'm probably not the best person to take on a camping trip. ~ Norman Reedus
Great Lakes quotes by Norman Reedus
I should like a great lake of ale, for the King of Kings. I should like the family of heaven to be drinking it through time eternal. ~ Brigit Of Kildare
Great Lakes quotes by Brigit Of Kildare
Unquestionably, New York enjoyed enormous strategic significance. As Adams had already apprised Washington, it was the nexus of the Northern and Southern colonies ... the key to the whole Continent, as it is a Passage to Canada, to the Great Lakes, and to all the Indian Nations. ~ Joseph J. Ellis
Great Lakes quotes by Joseph J. Ellis
Indeed, if I understand this global-warming business correctly, the danger is that the waters will rise and drown the whole of Massachusetts, New York City, Long Island, the California coast and a few big cities on the Great Lakes - in other words, every Democratic enclave will be wiped out leaving only the solid Republican heartland. Politically speaking, for conservatives there's no downside to global warming. ~ Mark Steyn
Great Lakes quotes by Mark Steyn
The insecticides kill the black flies, but also destroy much of the food chain for the bird, fish, and animal life which also inhabit those regions. The fish of the Great Lakes are laced with mercury from industrial plants, and fluoride from aluminum plants poisons the land and the people. Sewage from the population centers is mixed with PCBs and PBS in the watershed of the great lakes and the Finger Lakes, and the water is virtually nowhere safe for any living creatures. ~ Winona LaDuke
Great Lakes quotes by Winona LaDuke
Here in the Great Lakes region, a fourth year in a row of declining water levels has caused millions of dollars in losses for shipping companies, marinas and other businesses and prompted further restrictions on future water withdrawals for expanding suburbs. "A lot of people just can't believe that we may be running out of water, living this close to the Great Lakes," said Sarah Nerenberg, a water engineer with the Northeastern Illinois Planning Commission, which conducted the study on shortages. ~ Timothy Egan
Great Lakes quotes by Timothy Egan
We've got this proposal which has been languishing in the legislature, the Water Legacy Act, which is derived from a Republican task force on protecting the Great Lakes. Yet nothing has been done on it. ~ Jennifer Granholm
Great Lakes quotes by Jennifer Granholm
Best thing in a great victory is that it deprives the conqueror of the fear of defeat. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Great Lakes quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche
The letters I really love are from young actresses who were worried they had to fit a certain look. They say I've opened it up. And I don't just mean plus-size girls. You can push things now. With all the great performances in 'Bridesmaids', it changed how people see funny women. ~ Melissa McCarthy
Great Lakes quotes by Melissa McCarthy
In the past the man has been first; in the future the system must be first. ~ Frederick Winslow Taylor
Great Lakes quotes by Frederick Winslow Taylor
It is great happiness to be praised of them who are most praiseworthy. ~ Philip Sidney
Great Lakes quotes by Philip Sidney
I went to UC Davis because I wanted to be a vet. It's a great profession if it's right for you, but it's memorizing the bones and the muscles, and I am terrible at stuff like that. Also, there's a lot of blood and gore involved. ~ Bonnie Bassler
Great Lakes quotes by Bonnie Bassler
I know that I am very popular in Holland, in fact I have visited Amsterdam several times to publicize my books. I have a great publisher in Holland and they have published all of my books in Dutch. ~ Jackie Collins
Great Lakes quotes by Jackie Collins
... the miracle about steel is that you can hammer it so thin it's stretched to its limit, but that doesn't mean it will break. ~ Jodi Picoult
Great Lakes quotes by Jodi Picoult
Some people call that picturesque' said Sir Percival, pointing over the wide prospect with his half-finished walking-stick. 'I call it a blot on a gentleman's property. In my great-grandfather's time, the lake flowed to this place. Look at it now! It is not four feet deep anywhere, and it is all puddles and pools. I wish I could afford to drain it, and plant it all over. My bailiff (a superstitious idiot) says he is quite sure the lake has a curse on it, like the Dead Sea. What do you think, Fosco? It looks just the place for a murder, doesn't it?'
'My good Percival!' remonstrated the Count. 'What is your solid English sense thinking of? The water is too shallow to hide the body; and there is sand everywhere to print off the murderer's footsteps. It is, upon the whole, the very worst place for a murder that I ever set my eyes on. ~ Wilkie Collins
Great Lakes quotes by Wilkie Collins
The greatest efforts in sports came when the mind is as still as a glass lake. ~ Timothy Gallwey
Great Lakes quotes by Timothy Gallwey
I eat fish, chicken, vegetables and other healthier foods. I do love a great steak. ~ Bill Engvall
Great Lakes quotes by Bill Engvall
The great affair, the love affair with life, is to live as variously as possible, to groom one's curiosity like a high-spirited thoroughbred, climb aboard, and gallop over the thick, sunstruck hills every day. ~ Diane Ackerman
Great Lakes quotes by Diane Ackerman
Great moments are born from great oppurtunities. ~ Herb Brooks
Great Lakes quotes by Herb Brooks
She had always envied the wind. So free. Blowing where it listed. Through the hills. Over the lakes. What a tang, what a zip it had! What a magic of adventure! ~ L.M. Montgomery
Great Lakes quotes by L.M. Montgomery
I've learned a lot of tricks from working with a lot of great producers over the years, and I think I should write a book about it! ~ Ace Frehley
Great Lakes quotes by Ace Frehley
The old gods have the beauty and goodness of the sun, the sea, the wind, the mountains, great wild animals; splendid, powerful, and dangerous realities that do not come within the sphere of human morality, and are in no way concerned about the human race. ~ A.H. Armstrong
Great Lakes quotes by A.H. Armstrong
The physician said, 'I was told you would be difficult. Very well. The better it heals, the less your back will trouble you with stiffness, both now and later in life, so that you will be better able to swing a sword around, killing a great many people. I was told you would be responsive to that argument. ~ C.S. Pacat
Great Lakes quotes by C.S. Pacat
It's great to be a blonde. With low expectations it's very easy to surprise people. ~ Pamela Anderson
Great Lakes quotes by Pamela Anderson
Peter's hands had ceased trembling. He had been granted perspective. This was not Gethsemane: he wasn't headed for Golgotha, he was embarking on a great adventure. He'd been chosen out of thousands, to pursue the most important missionary calling since the Apostles had ventured forth to conquer Rome with the power of love, and he was going to do his best. ~ Michel Faber
Great Lakes quotes by Michel Faber
We can know what the Lord wants us to do - and experience 'the blessing which hath been bestowed upon us, that we have been made instruments in the hands of God to bring about this great work' (Alma 26:3). . . .

"To truly be an instrument in the hands of God, in order to fully have that blessing bestowed upon us in 'the day of this life' in which we 'perform [our] labors' (Alma 34:32), we must, as Elder Maxwell says, 'finally submit ourselves' (Ensign, Nov. 1995, 24) to the Lord. ~ Anne C. Pingree
Great Lakes quotes by Anne C. Pingree
To create mass discord, make the people believe there is great prestige for being the first to speak an idea. ~ Tom Althouse
Great Lakes quotes by Tom Althouse
I hear voices. A shout. A laugh. Clay's laugh. I strained to see through the night. Fog had rolled in from Lake Ontario, but I could hear him laughing. The concrete turned to grass. The fog wasn't from the lake, but from a pond. Our pond. I was at Stonehaven, bounding through the back acres. Clay was running ahead of me. ~ Kelley Armstrong
Great Lakes quotes by Kelley Armstrong
What is prudence in the conduct of every private family can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom. ~ Adam Smith
Great Lakes quotes by Adam Smith
for a great dancer has no time, no generation, he moves eternally through the world, so that any dancer in any age may recognize him. ~ Zadie Smith
Great Lakes quotes by Zadie Smith
Begin to chase your dreams with great passion. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Great Lakes quotes by Lailah Gifty Akita
People want to look at you and see your whole future laid out the way they know it, and I was saying that didn't happen. People aren't born with I'M GREAT! flashing on their foreheads. ~ Walter Dean Myers
Great Lakes quotes by Walter Dean Myers
While a battle is raging one can see his enemy mowed down by the thousand, or the ten thousand, with great composure; but after the battle these scenes are distressing, and one is naturally disposed to do as much to alleviate the suffering of an enemy as a friend. ~ Ulysses S. Grant
Great Lakes quotes by Ulysses S. Grant
This principle applies to your family pet, for instance, which I believe are wonderful because they put you into a great emotional state. When you feel love for your pet, that's a great state of love that's going to bring goodness into your life, what a gift that is. ~ James Arthur Ray
Great Lakes quotes by James Arthur Ray
Some of us were born to hate and some of us were born to be great. ~ T.I.
Great Lakes quotes by T.I.
Writing a screenplay, I'm like, "All I'm responsible for is that final script, and I take great effort and pride in that." But once I give it to someone to make, I can disassociate with it entirely and not worry that my vision isn't being represented, because I understand fully that that's not how it works. ~ Daniel Clowes
Great Lakes quotes by Daniel Clowes
The great radio telescopes of the world are constructed in remote locations for the same reason Paul Gauguin sailed to Tahiti: For them to work well they must be far from civilization. ~ Carl Sagan
Great Lakes quotes by Carl Sagan
But in the great hour Heaven sent the German people a great man, Herr von Cuno. ~ Adolf Hitler
Great Lakes quotes by Adolf Hitler
Ever you retreat from others rather than risk discovering they hold you in poor esteem. Yet by that, you also fail to learn how often you are adored. When a man chooses to risk himself, Mr. Rafferdy, he may indeed have his fingers nipped. But he may reap great rewards as well. ~ Galen Beckett
Great Lakes quotes by Galen Beckett
Golfers should not fail to realize that it is a game of great traditions, of high ideals of sportsmanship, one in which a strict adherence to the rules is essential. ~ Francis Ouimet
Great Lakes quotes by Francis Ouimet
By making this wine known to the public, I have rendered my country as great a service as if I had enabled it to pay back the national debt. ~ Thomas Jefferson
Great Lakes quotes by Thomas Jefferson
Amor fati: this is the very core of my being - And as to my prolonged illness, do I not owe much more to it than I owe to my health? To it I owe a higher kind of health, a sort of health which grows stronger under everything that does not actually kill it! - To it, I owe even my philosophy. ... Only great suffering is the ultimate emancipator of spirit, for it teaches one that vast suspiciousness which makes an X out of every U, a genuine and proper X, i.e., the antepenultimate letter. Only great suffering; that great suffering, under which we seem to be over a fire of greenwood, the suffering that takes its time - forces us philosophers to descend into our nethermost depths, and to let go of all trustfulness, all good-nature, all whittling-down, all mildness, all mediocrity, - on which things we had formerly staked our humanity. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Great Lakes quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche
2 The Lord's works are great, studied by all who delight in them. c ~ Anonymous
Great Lakes quotes by Anonymous
Papa Roach is actually a band that's great at playing arenas. Not every band is suited for that environment. But besides the huge energy you guys bring, the songs are very grand and anthemic. "Kick in the Teeth" being an example as a song that's made for huge crowd sing-alongs, not tiny little club shows. ~ Tony Palermo
Great Lakes quotes by Tony Palermo
A loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and thou. ~ Omar Khayyam
Great Lakes quotes by Omar Khayyam
I was blind and heart broken and didn't want to do anything and Gus burst into my room and shouted, "I have wonderful news!" And I was like, "I don't really want to hear wonderful news right now," and Gus said, "This is wonderful news you want to hear," and I asked him, "Fine, what is it?" and he said, "You are going to live a good and long life filled with great and terrible moments that you cannot even imagine yet! ~ John Green
Great Lakes quotes by John Green
Girls who have a strong belief system are beautiful in a great way. ~ Kevin Jonas
Great Lakes quotes by Kevin Jonas
Advancing the agenda of America's wealthiest winners under such circumstances would ordinarily be a hard sell. After all, in 2011, twenty-four million Americans were still out of work. The Great Recession had wiped out some $9 trillion in household wealth. But after forty years, the conservative nonprofit ecosystem had grown quite adept at waging battles of ideas. The think tanks, advocacy groups, and talking heads on the right sprang into action, shaping a political narrative that staved off the kind of course correction that might otherwise have been expected. ~ Jane Mayer
Great Lakes quotes by Jane Mayer
We do not look in great cities for our best morality. ~ Jane Austen
Great Lakes quotes by Jane Austen
There will be a great imbalance in our strengths if we fight, because I am prepared to die and you are desperate to live. ~ Tehmina Durrani
Great Lakes quotes by Tehmina Durrani
Writers are great lovers. They fall in love with other writers. That's how they learn to write. They take on a writer, read everything by him or her, read it over again until they understand how the writer moves, pauses, and sees. That's what being a lover is: stepping out of yourself, stepping into someone else's skin. ~ Natalie Goldberg
Great Lakes quotes by Natalie Goldberg
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