X

Sort by

Quote length

Sentiment

Change font

Change background

Ornithologist Inspirational Quotes (796)

Page 18 of 34
Filter & Style
Image
Thank God it has rained all day. I say thank God, though rain is no rarity, because it is the duty of every man to be thankful for whatever happens by the will of the Omnipotent Creator yet it was not so agreeable to any of my party as a fine day would have been.
John James Audubon
Image
Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.
Theodore Roosevelt
Image
Poor France, thy fine climate, rich vineyards, and the wishes of the learned avail nothing thou art a destitute beggar, and not the powerful friend thou wert represented to me.
John James Audubon
Image
He that cannot abide a bad market, deserves not a good one
John Ray
Image
To live by medicine is to live horribly.
Carl Linnaeus
Image
Every Man owes some of his time to the upbuilding of the profession to which he belongs.
Theodore Roosevelt
Image
When ... we realize the possibilities of deep sea life still unknown to us, every haul of the dredge should be welcomed by an expectant enthusiasm equaled in other fields only by the possible hope of communication with our sister planets.
William Beebe
Image
Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life.
Theodore Roosevelt
Image
It is a great mistake to think that the extremist is a better man than the moderate. Usually the difference is not that he is morally stronger, but that he is intellectually weaker. He is not more virtuous. He is simply more foolish.
Theodore Roosevelt
Image
My personal credo as a libertarian conservative: I think all attempts to reform your fellow-citizens or tell them how to live their lives are arrogant and tyrannical. THAT'S why I oppose Leftism. I want people to be free to manage their own lives. Reform is just authoritarianism. People are not playthings for anybody's theories or obsessions.
John Ray
Image
Every person who invests in well-selected real estate in a growing section of a prosperous community adopts the surest and safest method of becoming independent, for real estate is the basis of wealth.
Theodore Roosevelt
Image
The difference between a terrorist and a freedom fighter is a matter of perspective: it all depends on the observer and the verdict of history.
Pentti Linkola
Image
A grove of giant redwood or sequoias should be kept just as we keep a great and beautiful cathedral.
Theodore Roosevelt
Image
Life is simply the reification of the process of living.
Ernst Mayr
Image
Why were there far more species of domesticated animals in Eurasia than in the Americas? The Americas harbor over a thousand native wild mammal species, so you might initially suppose that the Americas offered plenty of starting material for domestication.
Jared Diamond
Image
There is no doubt that the course and character of the feared 'European war'... will become the first world war in the full sense of the word.
Ernst Haeckel
Image
I personally am not conscious of my accent.
Jared Diamond
Image
They went to sea in a sieve, they did In a sieve they went to sea In spite of all their friends could say.
Edward Lear
Image
The United States does not have a choice as to whether or not is will or will not play a great part in the world. Fate has made that choice for us. The only question is whether we will play the part well or badly.
Theodore Roosevelt
Image
No triumph of peace is quite so great as the supreme triumphs of war.
Theodore Roosevelt
Image
As for the differences of opinion upon speculative questions, if we wait till they are reconciled, the action of human affairs must be suspended forever. But neither are we to look for perfection in any one man, nor for agreement among many.
Junius
Image
The attention of a traveller, should be particularly turned, in the first place, to the various works of Nature, to mark the distinctions of the climates he may explore, and to offer such useful observations on the different productions as may occur.
William Bartram
Image
The biggest corporation, like the humblest private citizen, must be held to strict compliance with the will of the people as expressed in the fundamental law.
Theodore Roosevelt
Image
I believe in corporations. They are indispensable instruments of our modern civilization. But I believe they should be so regulated that they shall act for the interests of the community as a whole.
Theodore Roosevelt
Previous
Next