John Burroughs Quotes

If America wishes to preserve her native birds, we must help supply what civilization has taken from them. The building of cities and towns, the cutting down of forests, and the draining of pools and swamps have deprived American birds of their original homes and food supply.

John Burroughs

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Most men act so tough and strong on the outside because on the inside, we are scared, weak, and fragile. Men, not women, are the weaker sex.

Jerry Rubin

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I got good notice from that show, and on the last day of filming Townies, Twentieth Century Fox called wanting to meet with me about a development deal.

Jenna Elfman

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The heartthrob thing came in the late 1960s, and to be honest, it was fun! But I was very aware that well-known actors are two people - who you are and who other people think you are. Life only gets tricky if you confuse the two.

Robert Powell

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But no one can praise Roosevelt for doing this and then insist that he restored our traditional political and economic systems to their former vitality.

John T. Flynn

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Seriously, you know - I love to write. I enjoy the process; I enjoy the different processes, because writing for film and television and graphic novels is all very different. So I've never had the feeling of, 'Oh, you have to do this one thing.'

John Ridley

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'The Waking Dark' is about what happens when something awakens a town's darkest impulses and unleashes them on the world.

Robin Wasserman

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I understand that fans think short-term, and there's nothing wrong with that. You live or you die in the short term. But I believe in our system, and when you do that, you don't make knee-jerk decisions.

Rocky Wirtz

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The word democracy comes from the Greek and means, literally, government by the people.

Robert W. Welch, Jr.

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Anyone who tries to diss me in comparison to Queen, it just renders all their criticisms completely futile. That's quite pleasurable.

Mika

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People see me as someone who doesn't take any crap from anyone - which I don't - but it's my shtick, and I obviously don't act like that all the time.

Miranda Lambert

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I love to do glamorous things, like wear Valentino.

Debra Messing

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My goal is always to improve what has been done the previous season and also collectively seek to do better than the year past.

Antoine Griezmann

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