Jean Craighead George Quotes

I first became aware of the delights of the natural world when my father, an entomologist, presented me with what looked like a twig. When it got up and walked, my delight was such that I wrote a poem, 'To a Walking Stick.'

Jean Craighead George

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 2, 1919 - May 15, 2012

Topics

FatherMeWorldWalkingFirstUp

For Stripe, being inventive is just about applying the right solutions from other areas.

John Collison

RightSolutionsBeingJustAbout

You always know. You have basic needs, and when they aren't met, your body sends signals. Hunger, loneliness, exhaustion, thirst, and fear are all signals that something is missing, and you need to act on it now.

Mel Robbins

FearLonelinessYouBodyKnowNow

Radio, newspapers, they were normal parts of my life. In those days, you had to go somewhere to watch television and leave something to see it.

Robert Redford

LifeMy LifeYouTelevisionGoSee

I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful dark.

Mary Stewart

TogetherPainSleepMeThoughtDark

Like the herd animals we are, we sniff warily at the strange one among us.

Loren Eiseley

AnimalsStrangeUsHerdLikeSniff

Writers are completely out of touch with reality. Writers are a crazy person. We create conflict - for a living. We do this all the time, sometimes on a weekly basis; we create horrible, incredible circumstances and then figure a way out of them. That's what we do.

Joss Whedon

TimeCrazyConflictRealityCreate

I think it's unreasonable to expect kids at 17 to know what they want to do with the rest of their lives. And actually, I guess I had a desire to be an artist, and I did enroll in art school out of high school.

Jonathan LaPaglia

ArtSchoolRestHigh SchoolThink

I love the Queen. I've had a crush on her since I was eight.

Jools Holland

LoveQueenCrushHerEightSince

I can't see myself leaving the club I grew up supporting... it's one of those things, the money's great but I still get paid reasonably well from the Lions and at the end of the day I think job satisfaction is the No.1 priority and I just love it up here.

Jonathan Brown

LoveGreatMyselfMoneyDayJob

The UFC has been very good to me, man.

Donald Cerrone

GoodManMeBeenUFCVery

My fans do deserve to see me back out on the road.

Christina Aguilera

MeRoadBackDeserveSeeOut

I never looked at hockey as work. Now that I'd finished playing, I had to go to work.

Bobby Orr

WorkHockeyGoNowNeverPlaying

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