Sabine Baring-Gould Quotes

Brittany can hardly claim the attention of the tourist as a superlatively beautiful country. The way in which trees are clipped and tortured out of shape disfigures the sylvan landscape; and of mountain scenery, there is none.

Sabine Baring-Gould

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: clergyman
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: January 28, 1834 - January 2, 1924

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The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.

John Berry

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I have always been very obsessed with time. Time's passage makes us all very vulnerable and because we all experience it in our own way, it can make us feel very alone.

John Barton

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The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law.

Jeremy Bentham

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Rouje is my ideal closet, as I want to be able to wear every piece and appreciate them.

Jeanne Damas

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I never direct myself, because I don't like working with me. I would punch me in the mouth if I had to take my direction.

Ron Perlman

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I lack trust in others.

Mika

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No one is more important to the future of our state than our teachers.

Mike Huckabee

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Every scientific truth goes through three states: first, people say it conflicts with the Bible; next, they say it has been discovered before; lastly, they say they always believed it.

Louis Agassiz

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It's become fashionable these days to say that the writer writes because he is not whole, he has a wound, he writes to heal it, but who cares if the writer is not whole; of course the writer is not whole, or even particularly well.

Joy Williams

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Before Charlottesville, it might have been easy to dismiss the plot of 'Mudbound' as no longer relevant. Now, I feel like audiences will be more receptive to the material - and to interrogating their personal histories after watching it.

Dee Rees

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I felt Clinton represented the worst of the 1960s.

Christopher Hitchens

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I just did something on a show on UPN called 'Girlfriends' that will be on television in February. I am actually a much better actor today than I was in 1996, believe it or not.

Christopher Darden

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