Interesting Quotes By Notable Idahoans

"A monument's dimensions should be determined 

by the importance to civilization of the events 

commemorated. Let us place there, carved high, as 

close to heaven as we can, the words of our leaders, their 

faces, to show posterity what manner of men they were. 

Then breathe a prayer that these records will endure until 

the wind and the rain alone shall wear them away."  

~  Gutzon Borglum, sculptor of Mount Rushmore

"The most truly generous persons are those who

give silently without hope of praise or reward."  

~  Carol Ryrie Brink, novelist

 "No fiction is worth reading except for entertainment. 

If it entertains and is clean, it is good literature, 

or its kind. If it forms the habit of reading in people 

who might not read otherwise, it is the best literature."  

~  Edgar Rice Burroughs, novelist

"The truth doesn't need to be 

known, or believed, to be true."  

~  Chris Crutcher, novelist

"There is nothing to writing. All you do 

is sit down at a typewriter and bleed." 

  ~  Ernest Hemingway, novelist

"It does not require many 

words to speak the truth."  

~  Chief Joseph, Native American leader

"Life is precious and time is a key element. 

Let's make every moment count and help those 

who have a greater need than our own."  

~  Harmon Killebrew, baseball player

"If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, 

either his opinions are no good, or he's no good."  

~  Ezra Pound, poet

"There's uncertainty in our lives. At night, you just 

have to go to sleep and have faith in the fairly large 

certainty that you'll wake up in the morning. 

Fear only has as much power as we give it space." 

~  Josh Ritter, writer

"Which side of the blade is sharper? 

The lie or the truth? It all seems irrelevant 

when your jugular is sliced open and you're 

lying in a pool of blood for the whole world to see."  

~  Nikki Sixx, musician

"The thing about happiness is that it doesn't 

help you to grow; only unhappiness does that. 

So I'm grateful that my bed of roses was 

made up equally of blossoms and thorns."  

~  Lana Turner, actress

"Flying is hours and hours of boredom 

sprinkled with a few seconds of sheer terror."  

~  Pappy Boyington, fighter ace