Henry David Thoreau Quotes

We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New, but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough.

Henry David Thoreau

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 12, 1817 - May 6, 1862

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There's one more thing I want to say. It's a touchy subject. Black beauty. Black sensuality. We live in a culture where the beauty of black people isn't always as celebrated as other types. I'd like to help change that if I can!

Jody Watley

ChangeBeautyLiveCulturePeople

Technique is the basis of every pursuit. If you're a sportsman or you're a singer or a swimmer, well that comes under sport but you have to develop a basic technique to know what you're doing at any given time.

Joan Sutherland

TimeDoingYouKnowSingerWell

Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.

Robert Smithson

ArtArtistsThemselvesOutput

You wouldn't tolerate an underperforming surgeon in an operating theatre, or a underperforming midwife at your child's birth. Why is it that we tolerate underperforming teachers in the classroom?

Michael Gove

ChildTheatreYouWhyTeachersYour

If you went to your closet today, would you pull out the same outfit you wore 10 or 15 years ago? You wear feelings and faith differently as well.

Amy Grant

FaithTodayYouOutfitFeelingsOut

In third grade, I had to an oral report on the state of Oregon. I brought up Big Foot sightings, and I remember there was an argument about whether or not Big Foot was valid history. Ever since then I've been thinking about how subjective history is.

Sufjan Stevens

HistoryThinkingRememberArgument

When it comes to the liberal agenda, it's more important to pigeonhole people than it is to speak the truth.

Steven Crowder

TruthPeopleSpeakImportantMore

There are terrible, terrible memories of September 11th, things that I saw, people that I lost, the devastation, the identification of bodies. I mean, all these memories come back to you at different times. And then the other side of it this tremendous response with the firefighters and the police officers saving people, the rescue workers.

Rudy Giuliani

MemoriesPolicePeopleYouBack

Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.

Moliere

ControlKingsGrammarEvenKnows

You will always need more capital than you think, because it will always take you longer to reach profitability than you can imagine.

Jay Samit

ThinkReachYouWillMoreNeed

Although we can talk about an Indonesian democracy, or we can talk about democratic elections and democratic rituals - the trappings of democracy - we can't genuinely talk about democracy in Indonesia because there is not rule of law, and democracy without rule of law is a nonsense.

Joshua Oppenheimer

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That's one of my jobs, just trying to do what I can to help this team out as much as possible.

Cobi Jones

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