John James Audubon Quotes

Ah! How often when I have been abroad on the mountains has my heart risen in grateful praise to God that it was not my destiny to waste and pine among those noisome congregations of the city.

John James Audubon

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: scientist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 26, 1785 - January 27, 1851

Topics

GodHeartGratefulMountainsCity

One of the rules about being an actor or an actress is that you never diss other actors or actresses, particularly when you don't know them.

Joan Collins

YouRulesKnowActorNeverBeing

I was always very, very insecure about my height. Even as a 15-year-old I was a foot and a half taller than everyone.

Joan Smalls

HeightAlwaysEveryoneHalfFoot

My greatest fear is speaking in public. You meet, like, um, people who just concentrate on me. I'd rather not have everyone focus on me.

Jennifer Love Hewitt

FearFocusPeopleMeYouMeet

Confidence isn't optimism or pessimism, and it's not a character attribute. It's the expectation of a positive outcome.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

PositiveConfidenceCharacterOutcome

I had my own Land of Lost Sidekicks, where I pretended I lived in Paris with my best friend, a little cowboy based on a Marky Maypo doll.

Roger Ross Williams

FriendBestBest FriendParisLost

I wanted to say things that were natural coming from me.

Rita Rudner

MeSayComingThingsNaturalWanted

We've had a steady diet of that PG-13 entertainment. It's the best vanilla you can buy. It's delicious, but it's getting kind of samey.

Rob Liefeld

BestDietYouKindEntertainment

I've had support from all sides, from people who call themselves Irish, from Northern Irish, to the whole of the UK, to people in America, and it would be terrible for me to segregate myself from one of those groups that support me so much.

Rory McIlroy

MyselfSupportPeopleMeAmerica

I think of myself as naturally idle. The trouble is, the 'nothing' that I do every day is not really nothing. I potter. I muck about with emails, I make coffee, I fiddle with my computer to make sure that the book I haven't started writing is perfectly synced across all platforms and devices.

Robert Webb

MyselfCoffeeDayWritingBookIdle

Chicago is a lot of my background as a chef.

Jose Garces

ChefChicagoBackgroundLot

There were times when I'd bench players for their lack of effort. We worked very hard on fundamentals, which was the Dodger way. We needed to be more aggressive.

Dick Williams

EffortFundamentalsWayMoreHard

I have a lot of friends who say that one of the freedoms of being older is you don't care what other people think, which I don't think is right. You care what other people think, but if you're comfortable in your own skin, that doesn't bother you.

Dick Van Dyke

PeopleThinkCareFriendsYouSkin

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