34 Quotes by George R. Stewart

Men go and come, but earth abides.

If there is a God who made us and we did wrong before His eyes—as George says—at least we did wrong only because we were as God made us, and I do not think that He should set traps. Oh, you should know better than George! Let us not bring all that back into the world again—the angry God, the mean God—the one who does not tell us the rules of the game, and then strikes us when we break them. Let us not bring Him back.

The trouble you're expecting never happens; it's always something that sneaks up the other way.

the original route, whether called U. S. 40 or something else, will furnish the main-traveled road until someone disproves the geometrical proposition that a straight line is the shortest distance between points.

As we must always remember, the most important freight that a road carries may be neither household goods, nor livestock, nor munitions of war—but ideas!

Between the plan and the fulfillment stands always the frail barrier of a human life.

Why we Americans should be so dendrophilic in our homes, and so dendrophobic in our business-districts is another subject of study which should be referred to our anthropologists.

Between the plan and the fulfillment lies always the hazard: heartbeat flutters, knife flashes, horse stumbles, cancer grows, more subtle foes invade

The situation was much as if some profit-making organizations had grafted themselves upon the public-school system.