Isabella Bird Quotes

Yokohama does not improve on further acquaintance. It has a dead-alive look. It has irregularity without picturesqueness, and the grey sky, grey sea, grey houses, and grey roofs, look harmoniously dull.

Isabella Bird

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: explorer
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: October 15, 1831 - October 7, 1904

Topics

SeaSkyLookGreyWithoutImprove

It is true that the king has made a truce with the duke of Burgundy for fifteen days and that the duke is to turn over the city of Paris at the end of fifteen days. Yet you should not marvel if I do not enter that city so quickly.

Joan of Arc

KingCityEndYouParisTrue

I'd like to give people the hope and help I didn't have and that I had to learn by myself.

Jessica White

HopeMyselfPeopleLearnHelpGive

My parents were really, really cool about supporting what I wanted to do at a really young age. I think I was about 10 when I caught the bug. They would drive me down to New York if there were auditions. When I was 12, I did this show on Broadway called 'High Society,' so we moved to New York for the run of that.

Anna Kendrick

AgeNew YorkParentsMeCoolDrive

Beekeeping is farming for intellectuals.

Sue Hubbell

FarmingIntellectuals

Originally I was not writing songs for myself.

Smokey Robinson

MyselfWritingSongsOriginally

I maintain that nothing useful and lasting can emerge from violence.

Shirin Ebadi

ViolenceNothingUsefulMaintain

Very bad things follow when we kid ourselves that we're naturally rational, rather than the more humbling truth: naturally emotional.

Robert Webb

TruthBadMoreFollowKidEmotional

He must be lightning slow.

Ron Atkinson

SlowLightningMustHe

I love you is the inscription on Pandora's box.

Mason Cooley

LoveI Love YouYouBoxInscription

There's 4,000-plus stocks out there, and sometimes it gets a little confusing. And we like them to start with the portfolio grader, but if they'd like to see how I use the system and pick stocks - we offer that as well.

Louis Navellier

StartSometimesSeeOutSystemWell

Big ideas developed in a vacuum are doomed from the start. Feedback is the essential tool for building and growing a successful company.

Jay Samit

IdeasBuildingStartFeedbackBig

My marriages have been one of the greatest voids in my life.

Debbie Reynolds

LifeMy LifeGreatestBeenMarriages

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