Catherine Helen Spence Quotes

Probably my mother's life was prolonged beyond that of a long-lived family by her coming to Australia in middle life; and if I ever had any tendency to consumption, the climate must have helped me.

Catherine Helen Spence

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: australian
  • Birth: October 31, 1825 - April 3, 1910

Topics

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I came from a town of maybe 30,000 people.

Jim Caviezel

PeopleTownI CameMaybeCame

Dr. Rice went well beyond offering a helping hand - she went so far as to shed tears and share hugs with those who, in a matter of just a few hours, had lost everything to the rising floodwaters.

Jo Bonner

TearsLostHandBeyondMatterShe

I think Johnny Depp could play just about any role - I'd love to see what he would do with the Red Queen!

Jennifer Todd

LoveQueenRedThinkPlaySee

A society - any society - is defined as a set of mutual benefits and duties embodied most visibly in public institutions: public schools, public libraries, public transportation, public hospitals, public parks, public museums, public recreation, public universities, and so on.

Robert Reich

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The first time I heard 'Sharknado,' I thought it was a late-night infomercial for a new vacuum cleaner. Could have swore I ordered one once. Then I found out what it was and remembered that I grew up reading the 'Sharknado' novels.

Ann Coulter

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A company like Adobe, there are dozens of different teams that are using Slack. Each of those elected to use Slack independently.

Stewart Butterfield

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Stalin had 15 scenic seaside villas, some of them czarist palaces, on the Black Sea coast of Abkhazia. In 2002, I visited and photographed these extraordinarily well-preserved Stalinist time capsules.

Simon Sebag Montefiore

SeaTimeBlackCoastSomePalaces

Podcast listening carries with it a faint aura of cultural snobbery, a notion that to cue up an episode is to do something highbrow and personally enriching, whether it's a history lecture broadcast from a university or an amateur talk show recorded in someone's garage.

Michelle Dean

HistoryListeningSomeoneTalkUp

Maybe this is a made-up belief to preserve myself, but I do believe that everyone has a purpose, and my purpose is to put out music that means something.

Mitski

MusicMyselfPurposeBelieveBelief

It's important for founders to think about how they would build their company from scratch - again.

Julia Hartz

ThinkImportantBuildCompanyAgain

Infringe upon the rights of no one. Borrow no tool but what you will return according to promise. Take no wood, nor anything else but what belongs to you - and if you find anything that is not your own, do not hide it away, but report it, that the owner may be found.

Brigham Young

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If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.

William Lyon Phelps

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