Charles Lyell Quotes

When on my return to England I showed the cast of the cranium to Professor Huxley, he remarked at once that it was the most ape-like skull he had ever beheld.

Charles Lyell

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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I probably got more out of sports in high school than I did out of classes.

Jeremiah P. Ostriker

SportsSchoolHigh SchoolMoreHigh

I had a happy marriage and a nice wife. I accomplished everything you can. What more can you want?

Max Schmeling

MarriageWifeHappyYouNiceWant

One of the crucial things to the story of 'Harry Potter's' success is just how well everyone got on. There were never any problems with anybody.

Matthew Lewis

SuccessStoryProblemsNeverThings

No matter how much money you have, you can lose it.

Michael J. Fox

MoneyYouLoseMatterMuchHow

'Commonwealth' is not a word I ever used growing up in Colombo. There, in the late 1950s, it would have meant little more than New Zealand lamb and Anchor butter at the cold stores.

Romesh Gunesekera

Growing UpColdLateNewGrowingUp

I knew President Yeltsin well. He would never have tolerated government officials demonstratively showing off the millions they acquired through corruption, the way it's done today.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky

TodayGovernmentCorruptionDoneWay

In the state legislature, I supported Second Amendment rights.

Jason Kander

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Many thousands of youth have been deprived of the benefit of education thereby, their morals ruined, and talents irretrievably lost to society, for want of cultivation: while two parties have been idly contending who should bestow it.

Joseph Lancaster

EducationYouthSocietyMoralsLost

For me, summer hasn't really started until tomatoes reappear in local farmers' markets.

Jose Andres

MeSummerFarmersStartedMarkets

I think international business experience is an asset in a congressional candidate, particularly in a district with so much international commerce.

Jon Ossoff

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Bars can't be everything to everyone. They must be everything to someone.

Jon Taffer

SomeoneEveryoneEverythingMust

Nature is one great big wood-chipper. Sooner or later, everything shoots out the other end in a spray of blood, bones and hair.

Douglas Coupland

NatureGreatHairEndBloodOut

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