Thomas Bulfinch Quotes

It has, therefore, been a favorite boast of the people of Wales and Cornwall, that the original British stock flourishes in its unmixed purity only among them.

Thomas Bulfinch

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 15, 1796 - May 27, 1867

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You can't make a manager have a coach he doesn't want. I can't make the head of the accounting department work with someone he doesn't want.

Jerry Reinsdorf

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You know, I've got wrinkles on my forehead and smile lines, but what's wrong with that? I love to smile.

Jennifer Aniston

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Anyone who seeks power wants absolute power.

Robert Shea

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The first principle of success is desire - knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed.

Robert Collier

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I think Andy Kaufman is to comedy what the Velvet Underground was to music - it's like, 80 thousand records sold, but everybody who bought one started a band.

Courtney Love

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Ric Flair, as great was and a hard worker as he was, he just tends to get lost in the ring.

Bret Hart

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If you have a Falcon Heavy, and you have a Dragon, and you have a Bigelow module, then all of a sudden, life gets interesting.

Bruce Pittman

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For example, a breakthrough in better batteries could supplant hydrogen. Better solar cells could replace or win out in this race to the fuel of the future. Those, I see, as the three big competitors: hydrogen, solar cells and then better batteries.

Bob Inglis

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My mother has stories of leaving me in the bath as small kid, like a 3-year-old, and there being mirrors on the side, and her going to get a towel and coming back in, and me making faces at myself, like, 'Now I'm happy. Now I'm sad.'

Allison Tolman

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My dad was a photographer, so we had all these studio portraits of us.

Timothy Simons

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When as smart as you think you are is as wrong as you turn out to be, your life can fall out from under you.

Mark Goulston

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I didn't start making music in order to be famous.

Mark Ronson

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