My father was a soil scientist with the Geological Survey.
Jim Fowler
FatherSoilSurveyScientist
I've done an informal, anecdotal survey about marriage, and I've found no evidence that it brings happiness.
Mary McCormack
MarriageHappinessDoneSurveyFound
The fact disclosed by a survey of the past that majorities have been wrong must not blind us to the complementary fact that majorities have usually not been entirely wrong.
Herbert Spencer
PastBlindWrongSurveyUsBeen
When William the Conqueror commissioned a great survey of his English realm at Gloucester in 1085, the result was a work so thorough, fair, dispassionate, and wide-ranging that it seemed to the succeeding generations to have come from another world.
James Buchan
WorkGreatWorldResultFairSurvey
You stand beneath the arthritic boughs of any English oak, and you survey a thousand tales.
Jim Crace
StandYouOakSurveyEnglishTales
As I occasionally survey the pack of sycophantic shih tzus in the Washington press corps, wriggling on their bellies to kiss the feet of those in power, I feel plumb discouraged about the future of journalism.
Molly Ivins
FuturePowerKissFeetFeelSurvey
A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
George Santayana
EyesManWorldFeetCountrySurvey
When Gordon the Brown, in London in 1997, commissioned a great inquisition or survey of his new realm, the result was the so-called national asset register, which was immediately dubbed by the boomers of the UK Treasury 'the modern Domesday Book.'
GreatBookResultNewLondonSurvey
Everyone takes surveys. Whoever makes a statement about human behavior has engaged in a survey of some sort.
Andrew Greeley
BehaviorHuman BehaviorHumanSurvey
I used to work on a survey crew, because my dad was an engineer, but he was also a surveyor.
Michael Keaton
WorkSurveyUsedEngineerCrewHe
USA Today has come out with a new survey - apparently, three out of every four people make up 75% of the population.
David Letterman
TodayPeopleNewThreeSurveyOut
Give these Indians little farms, survey them, let them put fences around them, let them have their own horses, cows, sheep, things that they can call their own, and it will do away with tribal Indians.
George Crook
SheepWillSurveyLittleOwnThings
The public conviction that a railroad linking the West and the East was an absolute necessity became so pronounced after the gold discoveries of '49 that Congress passed an act in 1853 providing for a survey of several lines from the Mississippi to the Pacific.
John Moody
GoldCongressRailroadSurveyAct
At Olduvai, for 20 years, Mary and I had investigated and made a general survey of the overall geology.
Louis Leakey
YearsSurveyGeologyMadeGeneral
In 'The High Low', in some respects an audio version of 'Grazia,' Pandora Sykes and Dolly Alderton wonder whether they missed something in their survey of the Harvey Weinstein story. Maybe they did, they decide.
David Hepworth
StoryWonderMissedSurveyHighLow
It takes no compromising to give people their rights. It takes no money to respect the individual. It takes no survey to remove repressions.
Harvey Milk
RespectMoneyPeopleSurveyRights
A technical survey that systematize, digest, and appraise the mid century state of psychology.
Stanley Smith Stevens
SurveyPsychologyTechnicalCentury
You may have read that I went to M.I.T. In 1982 I filled out a Who's Who survey with joking responses, and they never bothered to check the facts.
Chevy Chase
FactsYouNeverSurveyOutCheck
In my judgment, based on the work that has been done to this point of the Iraq Survey Group, and in fact, that I reported to you in October, Iraq was in clear violation of the terms of U.N.Resolution 1441.
David Kay
WorkYouDoneGroupJudgmentSurvey
A 2014 survey found that 74% of law-enforcement agencies reported antigovernment extremism as one of the top terrorist threats. Just 3% of those agencies viewed the threat from Muslim extremists as severe.
Ibrahim Hooper
TopSurveyJustThreatsMuslim
I'm pretty sure that every player who's ever played for me doesn't hate me. Now, we'd have to do a survey, but I've coached a lot of guys, and I'm pretty sure there's one or two that don't hate me. I don't know that any liked me. But I'm pretty sure there's one or two who don't hate me.
Stan Van Gundy
HateMeKnowNowTwoSurvey
According to a new survey, 40 percent of adults in Mexico say they would move to the United States if they got a chance. The number would have been higher, but the other 60 percent already live here.
Conan O'Brien
LiveChanceNewSaySurveyMexico
Graham Greene's work must be included in any survey of top-rank spy novels, and 'Our Man in Havana' may be his best.
Alan Furst
WorkBestManSurveyHavanaMay
Philosophy, most broadly viewed, is the critical survey of existence from the standpoint of value.
Sidney Hook
ValuePhilosophySurveyExistence
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