Bill Bryson Quotes

I grew up in Des Moines. My dad had a house full of books, things like P.G. Wodehouse books and 'Wuthering Heights' by Emily Bronte.

Bill Bryson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 8, 1951

Topics

HouseHeightsUpThingsBooksLike

He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.

Johann Gottlieb Fichte

WorldWillFirmWhoHeHimself

There are lots of jobs in search of talent. And there's lots of talent in search of meaningful work.

Maynard Webb

WorkTalentSearchMeaningfulLots

I am on the board of corporations who contribute both to environmental problems and their solutions. And I am on the NGO side: the Earth Council and other organizations.

Maurice Strong

I AmEnvironmentalProblemsEarth

The abduction of a child is a tragedy. No one can fully understand or appreciate what a parent goes through at such a time, unless they have faced a similar tragedy. Every parent responds differently. Each parent copes with this nightmare in the best way he or she knows how.

John Walsh

TimeBestChildAppreciateParent

I never help my kids and I never encourage them and I never give them any advice.

Stellan Skarsgard

AdviceHelpNeverGiveKidsThem

I absolutely love Canada, and I wouldn't live anywhere else. It's half American and half European, and I really enjoy that. And the people are just fantastic - nicer than any people in the world.

Sondra Radvanovsky

LoveLivePeopleWorldAmerican

What pushes me forward is everything I have learned: political, social, cultural. I put all that into the clothes.

Sonia Rykiel

MeForwardPoliticalClothesSocial

Nothing is eternally stable, and even Kansas isn't really in Kansas anymore. The earth is in a constant state of flux.

Simon Winchester

EarthNothingKansasEvenState

With over 1 billion users and counting worldwide, the Internet has quickly become a critical place for individuals, business communities and governments to share and distribute information.

Robin Hayes

BusinessInternetInformationPlace

I always had a lot of confidence in my ability to gauge a situation and people and try to understand them and what they were saying and what their context was.

Lloyd Blankfein

ConfidencePeopleSayingSituation

No one could seriously dispute that almost all of sub-Saharan Africa, all of North Africa except Morocco, all of the Middle East except Israel and Jordan and most of the oil-rich states, and the entire former British Indian Empire were better governed by Europeans.

Conrad Black

BetterSeriouslyAfricaMiddle

There's so much of it you can't control. There is no handbook for how to conduct yourself in the public world.

Sheryl Crow

YourselfControlWorldYouMuchHow

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