R. B. Hayes Quotes

It's me! It's me! It's always me! [Darren when asked who smelled so good at the MTV Live interview in New York]

An acre of windy prairie could produce between $4,000 and 10,000 worth of electricity per year - which is far more than the value of the land's crop of corn or wheat.

We've made some heroic efforts, but the Earth as a whole is in worse shape today than 30 years ago, ... There's been 30 more years of greenhouses gases, species extinctions and population growth.

When we held the first Earth Day, everyone said it was a success because of the huge turnout. It was probably the largest planned event across the country.

Zeroes are important. A million seconds ago was last week. A billion seconds ago, Richard Nixon resigned the presidency. A trillion seconds ago was 30,000 BC, and early humans were using stone tools.

There really wasn't an environmental movement 30 years ago. The Sierra Club national office in 1969 consisted of one full-time volunteer.

The sunshine that strikes American roads each year contains more energy than all the fossil fuels used by the entire world.

The way defences are operating these days, the other team'starts picking you up when you walk out of the hotel lobby.

A successful magazine has to build a myth its readers can believe in.

The faster we travel, the less there is to see.

All my dogs have been scamps and thieves and troublemakers and I've adored them all.

When it comes to staying tuned: if you rest, you rust.

An actress always knows when she's hit it and mostly you haven't; but once or twice I think I hit it right, so maybe that's good enough for one life.

I'm leaving the screen because I don't think I am very good in the pictures and I have this beautiful dream that I'm elegant on the stage.

I think the kids today need to hear more about morals and values.

I was going through some emotional turmoil. You can tell by the tunes on the album that I was going through a break-up of my marriage. It was the only way I could express myself.

The rappers have gone in and created a lot of hit music based upon my influence. And theyll tell you if you ask.

It is no use describing a house; the reader will fix the scene in some spot he knows himself.

Then India, everyone has his own idea of India.

An ugly knife lay buried in the heart of Mad Carew,'Twas the 'Vengeance of the Little Yellow God'.

Life can be beautiful, profound, and awe-inspiring, even without an irate god threatening us with eternal torment.

As Christians try to force prayer into public schools, they often settle for a 'moment of silence.' But that supposedly innocuous 'moment of silence' is a deafening roar to a nonbeliever.

I have been to Iraq on a number of occasions. I was with the first group that went in.

It is now true that this is God's Country, if equal rights-a fair start and an equal chance in the race of life are everywhere secured to all.

Shall the railroads govern the country, or shall the people govern the railroads? Shall the interest of railroad kings be chieflyregarded, or shall the interest of the people be paramount?

One thing you may be sure of, I was not a party to covering up anything.

I hope you will be benefitted by your churchgoing. Where the habit does not Christianize, it generally civilizes. That is reason enough for supporting churches, if there were no higher.

Fighting battles is like courting girls: those who make the most pretensions and are boldest usually win.

I regard the inflation acts as wrong in all ways. Personally I am one of the noble army of debtors, and can stand it if others can. But it is a wretched business.

For character, to prepare for the inevitable I recommend selections from [Ralph Waldo] Emerson. His writings have done for me far more than all other reading.

You know I am given to antiquarian and genealogical pursuits. An old family letter is a delight to my eyes. I can prowl in old trunks of letters by the day with undiminished zest.

General [John] Pope is impulsive and hasty, but energetic, and, what is of most importance, patriotic and sound--perfectly sound.I look for good results.

My policy is trust, peace, and to put aside the bayonet. I do not think the wise policy is to decide contested elections in the States by the use of the national army.

If any of my men kill prisoners, I'll kill them.

The melancholy thing in our public life is the insane desire to get higher.

Strikes and boycotting are akin to war, and can be justified only on grounds analogous to those which justify war, viz., intolerable injustice and oppression.

I too mean to be out of politics. The ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment gives me the boon of equality before the law, terminates my enlistment, and discharges me cured.

I do not think a revival of business will be greatly postponed by [Samuel J.] Tilden's election. Business prosperity does not, inmy judgment, depend on government so much as men commonly think.

Youth, however, is a defect that she is fast getting away from and may perhaps be entirely rid of before I shall want her.

We people in camp are merely big children, wayward and changeable.

I would strenuously urge a single term of six years.

Busy replying to letters from divers office-seekers. They come by the dozens.

The California fever is not likely to take us off.... There is neither romance nor glory in digging for gold after the manner of the pictures in the geography of diamond washing in Brazil.

My father and mother in 1817 were forty-nine days on the road with their emigrant wagons [from Vermont] to Ohio. More than two days for each hour that I spent in the same journey.

If you want to be free, all you have to do is let go.

Some people say that compassion is the purest form of love because it neither expects nor demands anything in return.

Computers don't lie, but liars can compute.

The sight of somebody meditating needs to become commonplace.

In war, the first casualty is truth.

Give a poet a pen