Alice Morse Earle Quotes

When the first settlers landed on American shores, the difficulties in finding or making shelter must have seemed ironical as well as almost unbearable.

Alice Morse Earle

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: historian
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 27, 1851 - February 16, 1911

Topics

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The coniferous forests of the Yosemite Park, and of the Sierra in general, surpass all others of their kind in America, or indeed the world, not only in the size and beauty of the trees, but in the number of species assembled together, and the grandeur of the mountains they are growing on.

John Muir

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The true currency of life is time, not money, and we've all got a limited stock of that.

Robert Harris

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The time you do get edgy and the time you do want to slack off is the time, boom, there goes your opportunity. So you don't want to have that.

Stefon Diggs

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Selling $500 shoes when you make $12 an hour is just an awkward economic juxtaposition.

Sophia Amoruso

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I wish I'd done a tenth year of the 'Roseanne' show.

Roseanne Barr

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Messrs. Washington and Lincoln would be appalled and saddened by what their successor, President Obama, and the modern Democratic Party are doing to the nation they dedicated their lives to keep alive.

Monica Crowley

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As the insurgency in Iraq started to grow, we realized this is a connected network of individual actors that can move at light speed.

Chris Fussell

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I don't mind getting older; I just don't want to be in pain.

Cornelia Parker

Getting OlderPainMindWantJust

Exploring the unknown requires tolerating uncertainty.

Brian Greene

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Major labels blow all their money massively and blame it on the band.

Bruce Dickinson

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I like to give and get basically anything (I love to read) but especially fiction and poetry.

Suzan-Lori Parks

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For a while we lived in a tent we'd pitched inside his parents' house and we slept on pillows.

Shelley Duvall

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