Quotes About Erosion

It is this entitlement mentality that is eroding the foundations this country was built upon. The entitlement mentality is bringing down the American empire and the world.

Hope erodes slowly, over time, until you wake up one night at three o'clock in the morning and realize: I am not meant for that kind of thing.

So many changes, eating away at the world like water dripping on a rock.

See the wild Waste of all-devouring years! How Rome her own sad Sepulchre appears, With nodding arches, broken temples spread! The very Tombs now vanish'd like their dead!

The Nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.

I am here tracing the History of the Earth itself, from its own Monuments.

Scientists have been struck by the fact that things that break down virtually never get lost, while things that get lost hardly ever break down.

El deseo destruye su objeto, destruyéndose a sí mismo en el proceso;

Remember that on any world the wind eventually wears away the stone, because the stone can only crumble; the wind can change.

attempting to understand what could have eroded our sense of community, an important role has traditionally been accorded to the privatization of religious belief that occurred in Europe and the United States in the nineteenth century. Historians have suggested that we began to disregard our neighbours at around the same time as we ceased communally to honour our gods.

In attacking these readings, Dyson was attacking the very reason for the group; in limiting the participation of one of its members, Dyson eroded its spirit. It is one thing to criticize an author. It is another to shut him down. There is a difference between conflict and contempt. Dyson delivered an axe blow to the root of the tree. The Inklings were shaken, and they never quite recovered.

A wave never strikes the shoreline twice

Time was a dry wind brushing away his youth and his strength.

You start by being idealistic, morally strong if you will, but then the rock of your moral strength is eroded, bit by bit, until you're, well, exhausted, and you do things that you never thought you would. Or you do things that you always feared you would.

The Grand Canyon is carven deep by the master hand; it is the gulf of silence, widened in the desert; it is all time inscribing the naked rock; it is the book of earth.

Since Lake Erie water can eat through a human body in under three minutes, a wood or aluminum boat in ten and a steel hull in twenty-five, this resort couldn't offer much by way of the usual swimming and boating

The erosion of a nation's concern for life and for individual rights, has always preceded the intrusion of tyranny.

Our drive to keep and preserve seems to have achieved only the obliteration of self and memory.

Honest to God, the Qubo is so slow that if you climbed into one this morning in Hunstanton and attempted to drive south as fast as possible, coastal erosion would swallow you up by Wednesday evening.

They were as old as erosions in a fishless desert. Everything

Overgrown, crumbling, tilted, full of cracks, returning to the soil. Paint fell from boards, plaster from walls. Unsupervised, matter was collapsing under its own weight.

The scary thing is a dramatic erosion of American position in the world - its economic, military position, as well as America's influence. Obama is not the man at the wheel desperately trying to conserve American power, influence and wealth. For ideological reasons, he wants the slipping to continue. He's actually the architect of it.

All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.

Now, to find dinosaurs, you hike around in horrible conditions looking for a dinosaur. It sounds really dumb, but that's what it is. It's horrible conditions, because wherever you have nice weather, plants grow, and you don't get any erosion, and you don't see any dinosaurs.