Hope Jahren Quotes

Plants are not like us, and the more you study plants, the more different and deep ways you see that they are not like us.

Hope Jahren

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PlantsDeepYouMoreStudySee

I think failing the qualifying or the 11-plus actually hurt me more than I realised. After I'd become a professor of physics at the Open University, I suddenly thought, 'This is a bit silly.' So I suddenly became much more open about it. But I think probably I was hurt by the failure and didn't want to talk about it.

Jocelyn Bell Burnell

FailureMeThinkHurtThoughtSilly

Ninety per cent of being a parent is just being present and available.

John Cho

PresentParentBeingAvailableJust

In personal life, the warm glow of nostalgia amplifies good memories and minimizes bad ones about experiences and relationships, encouraging us to revisit and renew our ties with friends and family. It always involves a little harmless self-deception, like forgetting the pain of childbirth.

Stephanie Coontz

LifeFamilyGoodMemoriesPainWarm

But the battles against loneliness that I fought when I was 16 are very different from those I fought when I was 27, and those are very different from the ones I fight at 44.

Tom Hanks

LonelinessFightBattlesAgainst

When I left Stockton and went to Stanford, I felt I hit the lotto. I did not think I was coming back.

Michael Tubbs

ThinkBackComingLeftStanfordDid

I was a really involved dad - not because I'm such a wonderful person. I like being a dad.

Michael Keaton

PersonWonderfulInvolvedBeingLike

On tour, I don't drink, because I don't think in any other job you are supposed to get to work and drink whisky.

Mitski

WorkJobThinkYouDrinkGet

I think Lil Uzi is dope. Future is dope. I love Young Thug. I'm a huge Young Thug fan.

Joyner Lucas

LoveFutureThinkYoungThugDope

You're not going to be great at everything. Surround yourself with people that can compliment you so you can work together and then everybody can be successful.

Jonathan Tisch

WorkGreatTogetherYourselfPeople

'Never give in' was my mindset.

Arlen Specter

MindsetNeverGive

A good Catholic meddles in politics, offering the best of himself, so that those who govern can govern. But what is the best that we can offer to those who govern? Prayer!

Pope Francis

GoodBestPrayerPoliticsOffering

It is hard to begin to move when you don't know where you are moving, how to move, or if you are going to get there.

Peter Nivio Zarlenga

MovingYouKnowHardBeginGoing

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