Isabella Bird Quotes

The Sandwich Islands are not the same as Otaheite nor as the Fijis, from which they are distant about 4,000 miles, nor are their people of the same race. The natives are not cannibals, and it is doubtful if they ever were so. Their idols only exist in missionary museums.

Isabella Bird

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I feel I'm entitled to my opinion, right or wrong.

Jimmie Johnson

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There are kids who get on a BMX bike when they're eight years old and they go, 'Whoa, this is incredible,' and grow up to do extreme sports. It's the same for me with acting.

Joaquin Phoenix

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London is the English-speaking theatre capital.

John Cameron Mitchell

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Sun Cellular is the biggest investment in my business career.

John Gokongwei

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'Bambi' is an amazing film, and when you watch it today, it's just as beautiful. It's timeless. It's just as beautiful today as it was back then.

John Lasseter

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We're just one rock surrounded by this immense universe.

Matthew Stewart

UniverseRockSurroundedJust One

I'm sorry, it's true. Having children really changes your view on these things. We're born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It's been happening for a long time. Technology is not changing it much - if at all.

Steve Jobs

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When you read and understand a poem, comprehending its rich and formal meanings, then you master chaos a little.

Stephen Spender

ChaosRichYouUnderstandMaster

By the time Florence Nightingale got her neurotic hands on Cleopatra, she had been mangled beyond recognition by both history and literature.

Stacy Schiff

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Color is so intuitive.

Milton Glaser

ColorIntuitive

I always went for the girls that liked the bad guys.

Jay IDK

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I thought, 'I loved Batman, I loved Spider-Man, I love all these characters, but Catwoman is really different from any other one.'

Denise Di Novi

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