Charles Lyell Quotes

It has long been a fact familiar to geologists, that, both on the east and west coasts of the central part of Scotland, there are lines of raised beaches, containing marine shells of the same species as those now inhabiting the neighbouring sea.

Charles Lyell

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: lawyer
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: November 14, 1797 - February 22, 1875

Topics

SeaLongNowShellsSameWest

When I started out, it was considered very wrong to change an image. There were scandals if someone inserted a sky into a war picture or something. Now it's all about that.

Mary Ellen Mark

ChangeSkyWarPictureSomeoneNow

Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.

Jawaharlal Nehru

GoodDemocracySayBecauseWorse

My mother made a choice. And when I was younger, I judged her for making that choice. Then I got older and got to be an adult, and I realized that was the ultimate sacrifice that any parent and any mother could possibly make.

Jose Antonio Vargas

MotherSacrificeParentChoiceHer

I liked being home playing in front of my people, but I just did not like the situation because I was playing shooting guard, and that is not my position. I would play it if someone like Rip got hurt, but to do it for an entire season, that is not my position. I got it done when I was asked to do. But inside, I know that is not me.

Chauncey Billups

HomePeopleMeHurtSomeonePlay

The first sort of big present I remember getting from Santa Claus was quite a small telescope that I remember going into our backyard with my parents and figuring out how to assemble, and staring at the night sky, just for hours, with both of my parents.

Chelsea Clinton

SkyParentsNightSmallPresentOut

We're so surrounded by so much of this marketing and just being told on a regular basis that you have to like this, you will go here, you want this. I found that to me that fit perfectly into what a theme park of dinosaur would be about.

Colin Trevorrow

MeYouMarketingGoWantDinosaur

Mark Winchester has left the band. He's decided that he's tired of the road and just wants to concentrate on his career in Nashville. I don't blame him at all. He'll certainly be missed.

Brian Setzer

TiredBlameRoadCareerMissedBand

No one owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death.

William S. Burroughs

LifeDeathUpWhoPickAnyone

One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can.

William Wordsworth

GoodManEvilYouMoralWood

One of the things I keep coming back to in my writing is that society doesn't work on this mirror principle, you don't have an exact replica on the left of what you have on the right. It just doesn't work that way.

Thomas Frank

WorkMirrorWritingSocietyYouWay

They say, 'TV is not a captive audience,' but it definitely is. You can easily switch off the bloody television.

Ridley Scott

YouTelevisionSayThey SayAudience

If we take the route of the permanent handout, the American character will itself be impoverished.

Richard M. Nixon

CharacterAmericanWillPermanent

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