Isabella Bird Quotes

The breadfruit is a superb tree, about 60 feet high, with deep green, shining leaves, a foot broad, sharply and symmetrically cut, worthy, from their exceeding beauty of form, to take the place of the acanthus in architectural ornament, and throwing their pale green fruit into delicate contrast.

Isabella Bird

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

BeautyTreeGreenFruitFeetDeep

I've achieved 'the American dream.' I feel it's my duty to help others achieve their vision, too - especially the youth.

Joe Frazier

VisionAmerican DreamHelp Others

I don't know what it means to be a sex symbol. When I look myself on a magazine cover I don't see it as me, but as someone painted, fluffed, puffed and done up.

Jennifer Aniston

MyselfMeSomeoneLookSexKnow

In truth, there is no rational argument for guns in this society. This is no longer a frontier nation in which people hunt their own food. It is a crowded, overwhelmingly urban country in which letting people have access to guns is a continuing disaster.

Molly Ivins

TruthFoodPeopleSocietyCountry

I think the person creates the artist. And I think when you get lost within your person, your artistry get lost, too. It's like in 'Birdman.' Because the artist inside you is attached to your soul. And when you're not attached to yourself anymore, the soul goes away. You can't let that happen.

Monica Bellucci

SoulYourselfThinkYouArtistLost

The decision to use the atom bomb on Japanese cities, and the consequent buildup of enormous nuclear arsenals, was made by governments, on the basis of political and military perceptions.

Joseph Rotblat

DecisionPoliticalMilitaryAtomUse

Digital technology is both arousing and distancing. We don't look at the users on the other side as people. They aren't - they're just usernames, Facebook photos and Twitter handles.

Douglas Rushkoff

TechnologyPeopleLookDigitalSide

Sometimes I, as a public official, turn to Scripture or hymns - especially hymns, because sometimes we Catholics don't have the Scriptures memorized like we should - to help me explain a public policy position or an idea or to be able to articulate it better when you're talking about justice or mercy or compassion.

Bob Casey, Jr.

JusticeCompassionMeBetterHelp

The better the actor I am acting with, the better my performance gets.

Ali Fazal

I AmPerformanceBetterActingActor

I prefer to think of the audience as a single living organism with which I am sharing a singular, never-to-be-repeated experience.

Martha Plimpton

ExperienceI AmThinkSharingLiving

Everything seems to have been turned upside-down, but in a good way.

Mark Roberts

GoodWayEverythingSeemsBeen

People are less grateful than they used to be.

Letitia Baldrige

GratefulPeopleUsedThanLess

It's very hard to shame people in Hollywood into anything because they don't often feel that kind of shame.

Lexi Alexander

PeopleFeelKindHollywoodShame

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