John Burroughs Quotes

Nearly every season, I make the acquaintance of one or more new flowers. It takes years to exhaust the botanical treasures of any one considerable neighborhood, unless one makes a dead set at it, like an herbalist.

John Burroughs

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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FlowersNewDeadMoreYearsSeason

You do nonfiction, you get to meet people you would not normally meet.

John Gregory Dunne

PeopleYouMeetNonfictionGet

I didn't start playing drums until I was 12, for school band; they didn't have any saxophones left. My step-pops had a kit at the house, and I had never done anything that I understood so quick. It was so natural. It was the most fun and consistent thing in my life.

Anderson Paak

LifeSchoolFunStartMy LifeHouse

Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.

John Kenneth Galbraith

WorkEconomicsEconomistsEmployment

I watch the weirdest things. I watch old episodes of 'Golden Girls' because my mom watches it, so I grew up watching that. Sometimes I watch reruns of 'Futurama,' which is a cartoon and not based in the real world at all.

Matthew Moy

MomWorldWatchesSometimesGolden

I believe that whenever an overall view or theme is applied to an entire industry, bad decisions will be made.

John Zimmer

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Lorne finally said, Do the Blues Brothers thing. The response was amazing. People went nuts.

Steve Cropper

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I know this is kind of corny, but we thought about renewing our vows again because I think my mom would really love it if we did that in Arkansas, where I came from.

Mary Steenburgen

LoveMomThinkThoughtKnowKind

My own mother, my sister and nearly all the women in my family had full-time jobs as mothers. They were wonderful at it. They drove their children back and forth to soccer, skating lessons, piano lessons, private schools, but I sensed, even in my own mother, a kind of distant dissatisfaction.

Janine di Giovanni

FamilyMotherWomenChildrenSister

I was a mother's boy.

Don Rickles

MotherBoy

Metallica - they're so demonic, they're crazy, I don't know how they do it.

Dee Dee Ramone

CrazyKnowHowMetallicaDemonic

If you don't go to other men's funerals, they won't go to yours.

Clarence Day

MenYouGoYoursOtherFunerals

After every storm the sun will smile; for every problem there is a solution, and the soul's indefeasible duty is to be of good cheer.

William R. Alger

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