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George Washington Carver Quotes

I wanted to know the name of every stone and flower and insect and bird and beast. I wanted to know where it got its color, where it got its life - but there was no one to tell me.

George Washington Carver

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: american
Birth: January 10, 1864 - January 5, 1943

Topics

Life Flower Bird Me Color Name

The people who are buying stocks because they're going up and they don't know what they do deserve to lose money.

Jim Cramer

Money People Lose Know Deserve Up

You can't even imagine how it felt to have a cassette that you could take with you with a microphone so you could put down an idea and not have to hum it a million times to remember what it was.

Robert Plant

Remember You Down Imagine Take Idea

I was told that there's near on a million to one chance that I would be able to have children.

Tony McCoy

Children Chance Would Able Million

For many, 'desire' is a bad word, something we're supposed to 'give up for God.' That kind of thinking can be really destructive because it teaches people to deny their hearts, their true selves.

Rob Bell

God People Thinking Bad Desire True

On some level, some of the challenges end up being similar, which is when you have a very emotional scene to shoot. As an actor, you have to prepare a certain way, but you also have to prepare a certain way when you're a director because you have to be sure you're telling the whole story.

Miriam Shor

Challenges Story End You Actor Way

Everybody out here has to get better and has to rep and has to learn and has to make mistakes, make plays, do good things, do bad things and learn from them.

Josh McDaniels

Good Mistakes Good Things Better Bad

Producing a series is like being Lewis and Clark: You know where you're going, you just don't know how you're going to get there. When people say, 'You should create a bible for your show,' I say, 'You don't want a bible. It'll prevent you from making discoveries along the way.' And that's what happened on 'The X-Files.'

Chris Carter

People Bible You Create Know Want

Part of the popularity with Louis Farrakhan has less to do with the content of his message and more to do with the form that he portrays himself - as being a free black person who speaks what is on his mind with boldness and fearlessness. Who is willing to pay the consequences.

Cornel West

Mind Free Black Consequences Person

Overnight, I became a public figure.

Pilou Asbaek

Overnight Figure Public Public Figure

Plato found fault that the poets of his time filled the world with wrong opinions of the gods, making light tales of that unspotted essence, and therefore would not have the youth depraved with such opinions.

Philip Sidney

Time Light Youth World Opinions

I was an avid reader as a child. I am losing that habit now, as my brain congeals into cabbage from wearing too many heels and too much foundation.

Swara Bhaskar

Habit I Am Losing Child Brain Now

Are two eyes, four appendages and an upright posture really essential for any creature that can ace the galactic SAT's? Maybe not. In fact, I'd venture that any aliens we ever detect or (less likely) encounter will look quite different than this self-referential stereotype.

Seth Shostak

Eyes Look Will Two Ace Different