John Burroughs Quotes

Women are about the best lovers of nature, after all; at least of nature in her milder and more familiar forms. The feminine character, the feminine perceptions, intuitions, delicacy, sympathy, quickness, are more responsive to natural forms and influences than is the masculine mind.

John Burroughs

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

NatureWomenCharacterBestMind

My personal story has always been about perseverance and always getting up when I fall. Maybe I'm not Olympic champion, but I can teach the world about that.

Jeremy Abbott

PerseveranceWorldChampionStoryUp

Maybe it will be difficult, but I want to finish school. My parents want me to finish school, and I am pretty sure I will. I will not go to university; I will turn professional when I finish school.

Matteo Manassero

SchoolI AmParentsMeProfessional

I wear short shorts. After 10 years of strenuous ballet, it's the least my legs can do for me.

Solange Knowles

MeShortLegsYearsWearShorts

Many of the old forms of discrimination that we supposedly left behind during the Jim Crow era are suddenly legal again, once you've been branded a felon.

Michelle Alexander

LegalDiscriminationYouOldLeft

My head looks like an uncooked ham with glasses.

Chris Ware

GlassesLooksHeadLikeHam

A lot of people cry and complain and put their hand out and beg. It never goes well.

Conor McGregor

PeopleCryHandNeverComplainOut

There can be only one Captain to a ship.

Thomas John Barnardo

ShipCaptainOnly

Although I think of myself as the greatest heavyweight, I do respect the legends of the past for what they did. But they are not my heroes.

Tyson Fury

RespectMyselfPastThinkLegends

When you look at C-3PO and Darth Vader and then look at the actors behind them, you can't really make the connection. It kills the magic.

Thomas Bangalter

MagicYouConnectionLookBehind

I really love cursing a lot. But as I get older, I realize it's a little unseemly for women of a certain age.

Tina Fey

LoveWomenAgeRealizeLittleGet

My view on working with any government in the world is that there are things that you will agree upon and things that you will not. And you don't want to let the things you don't mean that you don't have any interface.

Tim Cook

GovernmentWorldViewYouWantMean

Do people really think that about my nose? I spent my whole life hating it, so it's amusing that people like it!

Richard C. Armitage

LifePeopleThinkHatingNoseWhole

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