Pastoral Resources

Who owns the assets of our Nation? Increasingly, foreign interests own our assets, and we owe them money. No wonder people think our country is headed in the wrong direction. It is.

There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and commerce.

Stevie Wonder's records introduced me to '70s soul when I was 12 or 13.

I've always been strong-minded, but I wonder.

Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wonder whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.

Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings.

As a singer, I might have fallen among thieves. I wonder if I'd still be alive by now.

I wonder if I ever thought of an ideal reader... I guess when I was in my 20s and in New York and maybe even in my early 30s, I would write for my wife Janice... mainly for my poet friends and my wife, who was very smart about poetry.

As soon as I found out how compartmentalized the industry was, I realized, Well, no wonder the cartoons are so bad.

It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.

Science shows us truth and beauty and fills each day with a fresh wonder of the exquisite order which governs our world.

Not all lucid dreams are useful but they all have a sense of wonder about them. If you must sleep through a third of your life, why should you sleep through your dreams, too?

Probably millions of Americans got up this morning with a cup of coffee, a cigarette and a donut. No wonder they are sick and fouled up.

I'm the most insecure guy in Hollywood. If you had it good all your life, you figure it can't ever get bad, but when you had it bad, you wonder how long a thing like this will last.

I love the Midwest. I think about it every day. I wonder if I would rather have a little farm in the Midwest, in Illinois or Wisconsin, or would I rather have like a little getaway up in the mountains of Colorado.

There are three types of baseball players: those who make it happen, those who watch it happen, and those who wonder what happens.

I never met anyone who didn't have a very smart child. What happens to these children, you wonder, when they reach adulthood?

I don't dictate, you don't dictate to Stevie Wonder, not successfully.