John Burroughs Quotes

The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds - how many human aspirations are realized in their free, holiday-lives, and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song!

John Burroughs

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

BeautifulGraceSongFreeFlight

Do not buy the hype from Wall St. and the press that stocks always go up. There are long periods when stocks do nothing and other investments are better.

Jim Rogers

BetterLongWallGoNothingAlways

I returned to Jerusalem, and it is by virtue of Jerusalem that I have written all that God has put into my heart and into my pen.

Shmuel Yosef Agnon

GodHeartPenVirtueJerusalemPut

There's a hierarchy in prison, and I was right at the top.

Tommy Chong

PrisonTopRightHierarchy

Sarah Palin lacked the preparation or temperament to be one heartbeat away from the presidency, but what she possessed in abundance was the ability to inflame political passions and energize the John McCain campaign with star quality.

Roger Ebert

QualityPreparationPoliticalShe

We used to look at each other and say, 'We play the same game with the same rules, the same bat, the same ball, the same field. What the hell does color have to do with it? You don't play with color. You play with talent.'

Monte Irvin

TalentGameColorHellYouLook

I just want to whup the man in front of me, play after play.

Jason Pierre-Paul

ManMePlayWantJustFront

You appreciate things after you lose them.

Jaromir Jagr

AppreciateYouLoseThingsAfter

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.

Joseph Addison

ImaginationSoulCuriositySurprise

You know what I did? I turned down an offer to do 'Enemy of the People' with Steve McQueen. It doesn't matter that the film was never really released. A movie like that, successful or not, adds to your credits. It leads to other roles.

Diane Ladd

PeopleYouDownEnemyKnowMatter

I'm not in the loop; I don't know any actors, really, just the ones I work with.

Denzel Washington

WorkKnowJustLoopAnyReally

Hear me, my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever.

Chief Joseph

HeartSadFightI AmTiredSun

As we look around, it's very clear that in this world people do outrageous things to one another all of the time. It's not that these qualities or actions make us bad people, but they bring tremendous suffering if we don't know how to work with them.

Sharon Salzberg

WorkTimePeopleSufferingWorld

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