David Attenborough Quotes

If my grandchildren were to look at me and say, 'You were aware species were disappearing and you did nothing, you said nothing', that I think is culpable. I don't know how much more they expect me to be doing, I'd better ask them.

David Attenborough

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MeThinkBetterDoingYouLook

Our nation suffers when Congress fails to pay America's bills on time.

Jim Cooper

TimeAmericaCongressNationPay

I certainly don't walk around my home or being with my family and just using profane language all the time, but on stage, it's a constant.

Andrew Dice Clay

FamilyHomeTimeWalkLanguageJust

Most actions derive not from your own initiative but from your family circumstances, your education, your calling, and so on. You must therefore give up a little time to performing actions which derive from yourself alone. They need not be important; quite insignificant actions fulfill the same purpose.

Rudolf Steiner

FamilyEducationAloneTimeYourself

I've got four kids, so I plan ahead. I have to book flights far in advance, look at accommodation, where it is, what you can and can't do. Same in running.

Mo Farah

BookPlanYouLookAheadSame

Thoughtful people of different political philosophies can disagree, but in a very agreeable manner.

Bob Ehrlich

PeoplePoliticalThoughtfulDisagree

Contacts would bother me. I'm just not that used to them. I think glasses are a great accessory.

Brittany Howard

GreatMeGlassesThinkUsedJust

When you deal with something like compassion for physical pain, which we know is very, very old in evolution - we can find evidence for it in nonhuman species - the brain processes it at a faster speed. Compassion for mental pain took many seconds longer.

Antonio Damasio

CompassionPainBrainSpeedYouOld

Everybody needs one essential friend.

William Glasser

FriendEverybodyNeedsEssential

I think the preponderant opinion clearly was that St. Louis could be a great football city if it had a team of its own that they could really root for.

Paul Tagliabue

GreatFootballCityTeamOpinion

You know, I'm trying to sometimes sit down and write some stories about my childhood and maybe one when I'm an old lady put them out like a book.

Shelby Lynne

ChildhoodBookLadyTryingYouDown

Question every assumption and go towards the problem, like the way they flew to the moon. We should have more moon shots and flights to the moon in areas of societal importance.

Sebastian Thrun

MoonProblemGoWayMoreQuestion

The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.

Thomas Carlyle

GreatReligionGunThreePrinting

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