Canyon Quotations

I don't believe that anyone can see the Grand Canyon area for themselves and not know that we have to do everything we can to protect it for future generations.

Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

I just want to be able to sit on grass as long as I want to, without anybody telling me to leave. Everything is so restricted, here, in that you actually have to stand behind a line, you can't go up the Canyon and enjoy the view.

Am I the only one who can't seem to reconcile the grand canyon of cognitive dissonance I feel when people with much more important jobs than I have manage to score much lengthier times off?

Those Laurel Canyon days were great. I have a real fondness for that era, 'til about '68. Musically, it was wonderful, and there was this great innocence, an idyllic view of the world. After that, everything got a little... edgy.

There's not a single person in Arizona today who would say the Grand Canyon was a mistake.

New nemeses keep racing fresh, but I also find challenge in going longer, with only the distance as foe. I run my first 50-mile race, journey across the Grand Canyon and back, circumnavigate Mount St. Helens.

When the Americans were trying to conquer the Navajos, they felt this need to capture Canyon de Chelly like it was the Navajo capital. It was a meeting place and a sanctuary of last refuge. To control Canyon de Chelly was to control the Navajo people.

You can't say you're going to jump the Grand Canyon and then jump some other canyon.

The perfect party for me is having six to 12 people for dinner Friday or Saturday - good, fun friends, a lot of artists. I have a beautiful deck that looks over the canyon and Los Angeles on one side, so it's very pretty at night. It's a great opportunity to catch up with friends.

We are looking more and more like those Third World countries with a Grand Canyon between the haves and have-nots and a disappearing middle class.

Most people I've told about this think it's great. They really want to latch on to a good cause, ... But some of them say, 'Why do you have to hike the Grand Canyon ?'

People wonder what happens in the winter (at boatyards). Some think nothing happens, but a lot of things happen in winter. You don't necessarily have to go to the Grand Canyon and all that hoo-ha (to see wildlife).... You've got the heron and osprey.

Nearly every president in the past 100 years has declared national monuments, from Teddy Roosevelt creating the Grand Canyon National Monument to George W. Bush preserving 10 islands and 140,000 square miles of ocean waters in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.

But they were the most visible. When they announced their Canyon Ranch Living in Florida, with their big high-rise and that wonderful cuisine and even a medical component, they had an automatic clientele. So many people have had the experience of Canyon Ranch, it was a grand success right away.

Barry Goldwater and the Grand Canyon stand together; both unique, both monumental, both among the very best of God's creation. And I believe Barry Morris Goldwater will be remembered as long as each morning the sun continues to rise over the Grand Canyon,

If inequality is a gulley in other states, it is a deep canyon in Texas.

There is more than one way out of this canyon they are in right now,

I went to the Grand Canyon with my family when I was about 8 years old, and I had a very blah experience. I think the scale of it is too huge - you don't appreciate it.

Restoring the canyon is no longer an abstract notion now that people can actually experience its beauty.

My parents are both redheads, so they knew I was going to be a redhead. They just thought Bryce Canyon was very strong and it was red. And they thought it was beautiful. So they named me Bryce. And Dallas is where I was conceived. My parents are hippies.

I think I have lived in every part of L.A. except downtown. Everywhere from Topanga Canyon to Toluca Lake.

It did not have much of an impact on Canyon Lake or the Guadalupe River at all. It was just one event and it is going to take many events to get us back to normal.

Mall of America gets more visitors than Disney World, Grand Canyon and Graceland combined. People go to Bloomington just to see the mall, ... It's a sad commentary that commercial outlets like malls are more popular than historic and cultural sites or places of natural beauty. But it's one thing Americans do very well: consume.

We now have evidence that Saddam Hussein is in possession of cartoon trucks. Because (they) are cartoon trucks, that means that they can fall into a very deep canyon with an anvil attached to them and still survive.

Wind through these canyons runs like water does. It follows the canyon path.

We were so tense . . . I don't think we ever did relax and get in the flow of Canyon View basketball. But at the same time we did the things that you have to do be successful ? you guard, you rebound, you're unselfish and you make free throws going down the wire.

We'd like to have ownership of the canyon and feel we are in the best position to manage it.

The (controlled) flood of 1996 in the Grand Canyon is a good example. The idea that a single flood can make a difference was new. Our thinking was: If this was valuable in the canyon, can we begin to take the tools and apply them to other rivers?

We believe Knotty Head has the potential to be a significant development in the Green Canyon area. With continued drilling success, our plan would be to sanction a development project within the next 24 months.

The part of the canyon I loved the most is still under 500 feet of water. I was lucky enough to have seen it in its pristine state.

The park is still going to be noisier than it should be from a business that the FAA seems to want to refuse to regulate. Grand Canyon National Park should be a place where nature prevails, not the almighty dollar.

What Cosmo did was report on what was true out in the real world, but was never reported before. Some of the principles were based on 'Sex and the Single Girl,' which said that if you're single and 33, you don't have to go to the Grand Canyon and throw yourself in.

We don't want Rock Canyon (Elementary) to die the way Wasatch nearly died and Joaquin did die.

We had quite a bit of mud and water flow down Ash Canyon here. It backed up pretty well at the intersection.

The trade gap is a canyon and I see no reasonable expectation of it narrowing anytime soon.

It was a challenge moving into a larger theater, but we found it actually plays better in bigger space. You get a better sense of the remoteness of the Grand Canyon setting.

Probably half a dozen people who live in the canyon also have homes in St. George or Mesquite.

Adding a second station in northern Gold Canyon, along with the move of the other Gold Canyon station to U.S. 60 should significantly improve our response times in an area that needs improvement,

As a taxpayer, a native of Canyon County and a citizen of this United States, I seek to serve my community.

A well at this site would not be deep enough, only a narrow canyon not suited for water production.

A three-run lead in the Grand Canyon with that club is not a safe lead. But our guys, when they had to, made terrific pitches.

A three-run lead in the Grand Canyon isn't safe with that club. They do a great job of pressuring you and they have power through the lineup.

You not playing condo canyon golf. We're out in the Arkansas River Valley. We don't require carts, and we encourage you to walk. It's truly a walk in a woods.

They're seeking to move routes in such a manner that there's less and less of the Grand Canyon to show people.

At least for now the canyon is preserved.

It's like trying to describe what you feel when you're standing on the rim of the Grand Canyon or remembering your first love or the birth of your child. You have to be there to really know what it's like.

It's primarily a research craft. We do a lot of work with the Environmental Research Lab. I've photographed every inch of the Colorado River from the Grand Canyon down through Mexico to the Sea of Cortez.

Taking action to acquire Billy Mack Canyon was simply being responsive to our mission.

The mines are more developed north of the Grand Canyon, but we are very excited about the prospects south of the Canyon between Flagstaff and the national park. We still have a ways to go before this becomes an all-out rush.

Their experience in the Canyon County jail that's the only thing she had to say to me. Thank goodness they're no longer in jail.

The issue about giving me my special use permit will be between the City of Canyon and the school. They have to work that out, and I feel confident that I'll get my special use permit.

The canyon is the spiritual (place) of the Navajo people." ()

The canyon is narrow; the road through there is windy, and it has icing problems. It's not an area we can just ignore.

I'm a pretty active person. I love yoga, crossfit, Zumba, and got to get that occasional hike in at Runyon Canyon when I can. I also love mentoring youth.

I had a date with a boy one night to hike up the switchbacks at Adams Canyon and watch the sunset. When my date came to my house that night to pick me up, he came to the door and my dad answered and invited him in.

If you don't go out and get that caliber of ballplayer, it's just a Grand Canyon in our lineup pretty much. It's the biggest hole ever.

In the early '70's, Keith and I were in a band called Canyon that played around the area, in places like the Jolly Ox. We met Randy, and one Monday night we got together, sang a few songs and I think we all knew we had something special brewing. By Wednesday, I had borrowed a bass guitar and we had a gig at this new club in Chattanooga, Yesterday's, and our first show was Thursday night. We knew 20 songs. When I think back on it, I'm still amazed.

Canyon Ferry, Hauser and Holter are the most heavily fished reservoirs in the state, if you combine both summer and winter.

Certainly this Joaquin Canyon is the most remarkable in many ways of all I have entered.

I felt something like a divine urge to bombard that whole canyon of shadow, where ambulances collected suicides whose hands were full of rings.

The glories and the beauties of form, color, and sound unite in the Grand Canyon - forms unrivaled even by the mountains, colors that vie with sunsets, and sounds that span the diapason from tempest to tinkling raindrop, from cataract to bubbling fountain.

The first concert that my parents took me to was in this canyon in Saudi Arabia called Buttermilk Canyon. You sleep under the stars in the desert, and ex-pats - German, Swiss, Canadian, American - would play classical music that filled the whole canyon.