Francis Parkman Quotes

Four men are missing; R., Sorel and two emigrants. They set out this morning after buffalo, and have not yet made their appearance; whether killed or lost, we cannot tell.

Francis Parkman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: historian
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 16, 1823 - November 8, 1893

Topics

MorningMenAppearanceLostBuffalo

Making great strides without a well-defined purpose will not bring positive results.

John Rampton

PositiveGreatPurposeResultsWill

When I got into Stanford in high school, I had some friends from school who told me that I just got in because I was black and whatnot.

Sterling K. Brown

SchoolMeHigh SchoolBlackFriends

I'm not sure about public apologies on behalf of other people as far as the motivation for them.

Sonny Perdue

PeopleMotivationSureFarPublic

I tend to personally judge issue by issue rather than sort of endorsing this football-team mentality that we fall into in this country, where it's all about the team.

Steven Van Zandt

TeamJudgeFallCountryMentality

I grew up right in the heart of Treme, so it was a real music neighborhood, and there was a bunch of bands like the Dirty Dozen Brass Band around.

Trombone Shorty

MusicHeartDirtyBandRightReal

I think if you're going to be committed to doing anything, you really have to care about it, and I suppose that is a romantic idea.

Tony Benn

RomanticThinkCareDoingYouGoing

It's hard to make a joke out of someone that's a joke.

Michelle Wolf

SomeoneHardJokeOutMake

Are we still a country that takes risks, that innovates, that believes anything is possible? Or are we a country that is resigned to whatever liberty the government decides to dish out?

Mitch McConnell

GovernmentRisksLibertyPossible

I really, truly appreciate Conor McGregor's style - his fighting style and the way he talks. The reason why is because he reminds me of a young Mike Tyson, a young Muhammad Ali, the way he talks.

Demetrious Johnson

StyleMeAppreciateFightingYoung

I always see myself as a character actor, but Remington Steele was me. I gave up on trying to be any character. I just put myself as me in this world of Remington Steele and the grand pretender.

Pierce Brosnan

CharacterMyselfMeWorldTryingUp

If you're a young woman in Hollywood, then they want you to look a certain way and paint you in this and that.

Sherilyn Fenn

WomanYouLookYoungWantHollywood

So usually even if you like a sentence or a story or something, it won't come out that way - it'll come out years later, and in a different way, and you don't really control that.

Keren Ann

ControlStoryYouWayYearsOut

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