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Herman Melville Quotes

Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land.

Herman Melville

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: August 1, 1819 - September 28, 1891

Topics

Children Best Excellence America She

I'm not interested in owning a bunch of driveways.

Not Interested Owning Interested

I write in the mornings. I get up every morning at about six in the morning and write until nine, hop in the shower and go to work. Nighttime I usually reserve for re-reading what I've done that morning. I would be lying if I said I stuck to that schedule every single day.

Work Morning Day Go Said Done

I was always determined to make it as a footballer, but if things hadn't worked out, I'd have maybe followed my dad into the building industry.

Building Always Out Determined Make

We feel the value is in the land, not the improvements.

Value Feel Land

Agriculture changes the landscape more than anything else we do. It alters the composition of species. We don't realize it when we sit down to eat, but that is our most profound engagement with the rest of nature.

Nature Rest Landscape Agriculture

Can the knowledge deriving from reason even begin to compare with knowledge perceptible by sense?

Knowledge Reason Begin Sense Even

You wanna work with people who you have a rapport with. You finish each other's sentences a bit creatively when you've worked together for a while.

Work Together People You Finish Who

A lot happened in Vancouver. It was my first Western experience. I learned English, which is my second language. I became very acquainted with Western culture. I had my first sewing machine when I was 9. I trained in fashion illustration when I was in school.

Culture Experience School Fashion

There is an overabundance of rational reasons to say no to factory-farmed meat: It is the No. 1 cause of global warming, it systematically forces tens of billions of animals to suffer in ways that would be illegal if they were dogs, it is a decisive factor in the development of swine and avian flus, and so on.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Animals Say Development Dogs Meat

In my mind, I imagined L.A. to be skyscrapers on the beach. Of course, that's not what it actually looks like. And growing up watching 'Beverly Hills 90210' and 'Melrose Place,' I always had an obsession with L.A. and California in general.

Beach Mind Growing Up Place Looks

In all of my looking at happiness, one thing I noticed right away is that the opposite of happiness isn't unhappiness or even depression, it's anxiety. It is something that can constantly block our happiness, or our chance to reach that sort of meditative state in our work or our home lives.

Work Home Happiness Depression Reach

It's a privilege and an honor to play for the national team, but I think that the training that I was in at Frankfurt was the highest level right underneath.

Training Team Think Honor Play

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