Isabella Bird Quotes

I suppose that few people ever forget the first sight of a palm-tree of any species. I vividly remember seeing one for the first time at Malaga, but the coco-palm groves of the Pacific have a strangeness and witchery of their own.

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'm an acoustic guitar owner - in the sense that I own them, and they sit at my house, and I never play them.

Joe Bonamassa

GuitarHousePlayNeverOwnSit

Joel McHale is so money, he should be printed on money.

Joel McHale

MoneyHeShouldPrinted

I thank all of those who weren't born in this country for coming here and making a contribution to Australia. We are the least discriminatory country in the world, in my view.

John Howard

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Life is such a precious gift. Whatever life throws at us, if we could just learn to get through that day and hang on to the next, you never know what may come. It may get worse, but you never know.

Stephen Baldwin

LifeDayGiftLearnYouKnow

We don't ever want IT to be the thing that holds GM back.

Tony Scott

BackWantEverThingGMHolds

Kids today don't watch a black and white movie.

Robert Englund

TodayBlack And WhiteBlackWhite

I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.

Robert Burns

StruggleMindReadyExistenceStore

Wherever you are on Earth, there is more life present than in the rest of the known universe.

Robin Ince

LifeRestPresentUniverseYouMore

Anyone who has ever been an ugly adolescent - and we are legion - knows that the feeling of being unlovely and unlovable never goes away; it is always there, lurking just beneath the surface.

Ruth Reichl

UglyFeelingNeverAlwaysSurface

When I talk about God, I'm not necessarily talking about religion. To me, God is the energy and light that each of us carries.

Juanes

GodLightReligionMeEnergyTalk

One day in God's grace is equivalent to a thousand days of striving by your own efforts.

Joseph Prince

GodDayGraceStrivingOne DayOwn

We know television should educate and inform, and I believe it should entertain.

Dennis Farina

BelieveTelevisionKnowI Believe

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