Henry Morton Stanley Quotes

But my estimates, for instance, based upon book information, were simply ridiculous, fanciful images of African attractions were soon dissipated, anticipated pleasures vanished, and all crude ideas began to resolve themselves into shape.

Henry Morton Stanley

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: explorer
  • Nationality: welsh
  • Birth: January 28, 1841 - May 10, 1904

Topics

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Society historically has a difficult time with the concept of something new and foreign that shakes up our comfortable views, especially if it involves the very volatile question of sexual identity.

Mercedes Ruehl

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You haven't been on tape, nobody sees what you can do, nobody sees how you play, so they don't have anything to watch.

Stefon Diggs

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NFL Films has had one continuous, creative vision for 47 years. These are timeless things; timeless stories that we capture just like people go back and read Greek mythology.

Steve Sabol

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Mothers, unless they were very poor, didn't work. Both of my parents had to leave education. My mother had to work in a cotton mill until 18 or 19, when she took some training in domestic science.

Roger Bannister

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Still, I tune out the visual input when it is too distracting, mainly in conversations.

Mike May

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Music does not carry you along. You have to carry it along strictly by your ability to really just focus on that little small kernel of emotion or story.

Debbie Harry

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I'm not a particularly cerebral writer. I unabashedly go for the belly.

Christopher Buckley

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School desegregation is associated with higher graduation rates, greater employability, higher earnings, and decreased rates of incarceration.

Clint Smith

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Alas, I emerge from one disaster to fall into a worse.

Pierre Corneille

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Most fiction comes from your experience.

Susan Minot

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I don't think I gave 'Wings' its due. I was young. I wanted to light the world on fire.

Tim Daly

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It was the fans sharing my music around that started it all for me.

Kygo

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