Quotes about limestone (16 Quotes)

We played very lazy at the very start of the game. We let (Limestone) do some things that they do well. They're a good team if you let them be.

DepthX will get its first test in 2007 at the source of its inspiration, Sistema Zacatn, which happens to be a neat analog for Europa. Clearly, the flooded limestone sinkhole isn't as cold as Europa's ocean, but it can be incredibly toxic, extends to unknown depths, and has proven impervious to humans. (The world's premier cave diver, Sheck Exley - who happened to be a friend of Stone's - died in Zacatn in 1994.) We know that life is there within the top 40 meters or so, ... Below that, no one knows what's there.

It was no more than a black slash in the ground, a poignant contrast to the lofty white marble and limestone of this monumental city. It was cut into a gently rising slope of grass An al fresco mortuary.

Canon Farrar accepts the traditional belief that the shelter within which Jesus was born was that of one of the numerous limestone caves which abound in the region, and which are still used by travelers as resting places. He says 'In Palestine it not inf.

Since all limestone mines are captive mines of cement plants and mining regulations are poor, cement industry is not investing in mine management.

When I try to imagine a faultless love; Or the life to come, what I hear is the murmur; Of underground streams, what I see is a limestone landscape.

My idea of an amusement park story is getting adventurers to go tour environmental disaster areas. After all, if the entire Great Barrier Reef gets killed, which seems like an extremely lively possibility, what are you going to do with all that rotting limestone?

For a long time, the entire nation depended on coal, limestone, iron ore and steel from Pennsylvania. It helped win the Revolutionary War, it built railroads that opened the West and rebuilt Europe after two world wars. Our take on this is that this is not Pennsylvania's abandoned mine problem, it's America's problem.

Limestone is porous, it transmits moisture. When you create an artificial bed like I'm describing, you sort of duplicate that kind of environment.

A retired teacher, and the daughter of a teacher who spent her career in the one- and two-room schools of a racially segregated Limestone County, Maggie attributes her ability to get along with people of all types, in part, to a lesson taught by the Rev. Judson King, her principal at Trinity High School. Rev. King was reared on a sharecropper's place - in Georgia, I think, ... He used to tell us how when his daddy died, the owner put his family off the place the same day his daddy was buried. The person who saw them going along the road with all their belongings and took them in was white. Rev. King said, 'Always remember, not all white people are bad not all black people are good.'

With muscle, determination, marble, cement and Indiana limestone, you did more than repair our windows and walls, you repaired our souls,

We had a point to prove tonight and it wasn't just to Limestone, it was to the conference and the country. That's what we wanted to do get on them early.

German is of stone, limestone, pudding stone, marble, granite even, and so to a considerable degree is English, whereas French is bronze and gives out a metallic resonance with tones that neither German nor English tolerate.

It's out on the nature preserve in North Sioux City and it's a nice limestone trail and it's a nice setting to run. The guys' course was a little bit long. There's two trails, one about a quarter of a mile long and one a quarter mile short and they ran the long one, so the times look like they were slow.

I just felt like we didn't play as a team. It was a very disappointing loss. I don't want to take anything away from Limestone because they're a team that can beat anybody in our league on any given night. But certainly it's discouraging to me because we'd hoped we'd go down there and get a victory for Barton College.

On limestone quarried near the spot By his command these words are cut Cast a cold eye On life, on death. Horseman, pass by.