Isabella Bird Quotes

The cocoa-nut palm grows best near salt water, no matter how loose and sandy the soil is, and in these congenial circumstances needs neither manure nor care of any kind. It bends lovingly toward the sea and drops its ripe fruit into it.

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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My mother worked for a white family that lived in one of the mansions on the beach. The husband in the family was a lawyer; he worked for a firm in New Orleans.

Jesmyn Ward

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I was the class clown, but I was also student body president in high school.

John Ritter

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Am I a rock star? Yeah, I guess.

Stephan Jenkins

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As I see it, most major philanthropists have been bullied into giving. They feel social pressure to give. It has become a cost of doing business.

Steven Levitt

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The ad business has some of the great artists, but because there are so many, its hard to determine the true gems.

Steve Stoute

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Restless, and in desperate need of adventure, I quit my job at an insurance company to travel west with a couple of guys I smoked pot with, scandalizing my family.

Mink Stole

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My version of a good role model is everything that I have strived to become over the years, as I have a deep desire to live an honest life and give relentlessly and openly to people who look up to me.

Dove Cameron

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I like either skinny jeans or the ripped, casual, super-sloppy boyfriend jeans. A lot of ripped jeans. They are so early 2000, but they are so cute, I love them. I love surfer jeans, too!

Ariana Grande

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In 1950, when the Giants signed me, they gave me $15,000. I bought a 1950 Mercury. I couldn't drive, but I had it in the parking lot there, and everybody that could drive would drive the car. So it was like a community thing.

Willie Mays

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I just keep working.

Peter Falk

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The Constitution provided no protection against corporations; the Constitution has a blind spot for them.

Sheldon Whitehouse

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I've been through every surgery that any athlete has ever been through, and I've prevailed through it.

Tito Ortiz

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