Gilbert White Quotes

We have had a very severe frost and deep snow this month. My thermometer was one day fourteen degrees and a half below the freezing point, within doors.

Gilbert White

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: scientist
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: July 18, 1720 - June 26, 1793

Topics

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When I remember my family, I always remember their backs. They were always indignantly leaving places.

John Cheever

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We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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We knew sports was important to us and our family, but there are priorities in life.Obviously, faith is foremost; how we did in school is important. If we didn't handle that business then there were no privileges.

Stephen Curry

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If you don't love the Dodgers, there's a good chance you may not get into Heaven.

Tommy Lasorda

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Communism didn't work because people weren't ready for it, it was corrupt, and because it squelched individualism.

Tom Shadyac

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I've written lots of songs on the piano. My mother had a piano and it was the first instrument I played.

Mick Taylor

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I'm just very fortunate that I'm alive. I look every day and see my hand and say, 'Thank you, Lord.'

Jason Pierre-Paul

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There's this thing in Hollywood about the sympathetic character and likability. I've never understood that because the people I love most in my life are not likable all the time. My wife is not always likable. I'm certainly not always likable. My dad is not always likable. We're human beings.

Derek Cianfrance

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I've looked at pictures that my mom has of me, from when I was four years old at the turntable. I'm there, reaching up to play the records. I feel like I was bred to do what I do. I've been into music, and listening to music and critiquing it, my whole life.

Dr. Dre

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Why go through life if you're not going to challenge yourself?

Conor McGregor

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Veteran causes are an extremely important issue, especially the transition from military to civilian life.

Brandon Webb

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Sometimes music should just be about you sitting on your bedroom floor, or in the back of the car, singing along stupidly. Evan Dando's music was all about that for me.

Sharon Van Etten

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