John Burroughs Quotes

The phoebe-bird is a wise architect and perhaps enjoys as great an immunity from danger, both in its person and its nest, as any other bird. Its modest ashen-gray suit is the color of the rocks where it builds, and the moss of which it makes such free use gives to its nest the look of a natural growth or accretion.

John Burroughs

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 3, 1837 - March 29, 1921

Topics

GrowthGreatBirdWiseFreeColor

The tragedy for comedians is there's nothing more they want than to be liked. We desperately seek approval. It's almost like a personality disorder you can do as a job.

Jimmy Carr

PersonalityJobYouTragedyWant

Take a look at the books other people have in their homes.

Jerzy Kosinski

PeopleLookTakeBooksOtherHomes

I used to have six left feet. Now I only have one and a half left feet.

Jesse McCartney

FeetNowHalfLeftUsedOnly

In my own constituency, the benefit cap has had the effect of social cleansing: of people receiving benefit, but the benefit is capped; therefore, they can't meet the rent levels charged and are forced to move. It's devastating for children, devastating for the family and very bad for the community as a whole.

Jeremy Corbyn

FamilyCommunityChildrenPeopleBad

Every director knows it is his job to be manipulative. When you make an edit, you are trying to manipulate.

John Lee Hancock

JobTryingYouDirectorKnowsEdit

The sacred books of all the world are worthless dross and common stones compared with Shakespeare's glittering gold and gleaming gems.

Robert Green Ingersoll

GoldWorldGemsWorthlessSacred

I don't really hear much music these days that grabs me. I think there are a lot of reasons for this but the overriding one is that there aren't as many opportunities for a band to get good or experiment or start the next wave of something.

Ronnie James Dio

GoodMusicMeStartOpportunities

It's become a cliche to say that a piece of drama is about 'the nature of truth.' But 'Rectify' so openly plays with the slippery nature of memory that the label directly applies.

Michelle Dean

NatureTruthMemoryDramaBecome

I was a real East Village girl.

Drea De Matteo

GirlVillageRealEastEast Village

Mandatory minimums have been shown to be discriminatory and waste the taxpayers' money.

Bobby Scott

MoneyWasteBeenMandatoryTaxpayers

I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.

Winston Churchill

GreatLandInspirationContactOut

I'd rather rule the world now than be prime minister.

Poppy Delevingne

WorldNowPrimeRuleRatherThan

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