Daniel Boone Quotes

During our travels, the Indians entertained me well; and their affection for me was so great, that they utterly refused to leave me there with the others, although the Governor offered them one hundred pounds sterling for me, on purpose to give me a parole to go home.

Daniel Boone

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: explorer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 2, 1734 - September 26, 1820

Topics

HomeGreatPurposeMeGoAffection

Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

ArtPersonalityPoetryEverything

I've always liked the fact that anyone with a great idea, access to the Internet, and an unrelenting will can spark a world-beating company simply by standing up code on the Internet and/or leveraging the information and relationship network that is the web. That's how Facebook started, after all.

John Battelle

RelationshipGreatInternetSparkUp

The proof of evolution lies in those adaptations that arise from improbable foundations.

Stephen Jay Gould

EvolutionProofLiesFoundations

Men work on their bodies. They want to be looked at.

Steven Klein

WorkMenWantLookedBodies

I went to live on a kibbutz, and I'd idealized the world of collective, agrarian work, where everyone was equal, everyone contributed, that all this awful European intellectual stuff just fell away.

Tony Judt

WorkLiveWorldIntellectualEqual

My fiction is almost always inspired by a character's need or desire to rise above him- or herself. No one is perfect and some of us have much adversity in our lives; it is those people who struggle to rise above their nature or background that I find the most interesting and heroic.

Robert Crais

NatureAdversityCharacterStruggle

If people want to compare me to Danny DeVito, that's the biggest gift there is. I think Danny DeVito is fantastic.

Robin Lord Taylor

PeopleMeGiftThinkWantFantastic

I love Andrew Weatherall; he's so real and uncompromising and a sweetheart.

Roisin Murphy

LoveRealSweetheartHeI Love

The right to private property meant at the same time the right and duty to be personally concerned about your own well-being, to be personally concerned about your family's income, to be personally concerned about your future. This is hard work.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky

WorkFamilyHard WorkFutureTime

I went to the store and bought lady fingers, when I got home I noticed one of the fingers was missing so I went back to the store and the manager was nice enough to give me the finger.

Jay London

HomeMeEnoughLadyBackNice

Sometimes I find some movies patronizing, which I feel is the ultimate crime.

Dito Montiel

FeelFindSometimesMoviesCrime

The financial doctrines so zealously followed by American companies might help optimize capital when it is scarce. But capital is abundant. If we are to see our economy really grow, we need to encourage migratory capital to become productive capital - capital invested for the long-term in empowering innovations.

Clayton M. Christensen

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