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John James Audubon Quotes

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John James Audubon QuotesToday we celebrate 226 years since the birth of John James Audubon. Let me share with you some great John James Audubon Quotes.

One day I caught four Dolphins, how much I have gazed at these beautiful creatures… as they changed their hue in twenty varieties of richest arrangement of tints. – John James Audubon

On the 17th of May, the Delos put out to sea. I was immediately affected with sea-sickness, which, however, lasted but a short time. I remained on deck constantly, forcing myself to exercise.- John James Audubon

The worse my drawings were, the more beautiful did the originals appear. – John James Audubon

The mercantile business did not suit me.- John James Audubon

To have been torn from the study would have been as death; my time was entirely occupied with art.- John James Audubon

To be a good draftsman was to me a blessing.- John James Audubon

A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.- John James Audubon

Would it be possible that I should not in any degree succeed? I can scarcely think so. Ah delusive hope, how much further wilt thou lead me?- John James Audubon

Almost every day, instead of going to school, I made for the fields, where I spent my day.- John James Audubon

After all, I long to be in America again, nay, if I can go home to return no more to Europe, it seems to me that I shall ever enjoy more peace of mind, and even Physical comfort than I can meet with in any portion of the world beside.- John James Audubon

Because my father was often absent on naval duty, my mother suffered me to do much as I pleased.- John James Audubon

As I grew up I was fervently desirous of becoming acquainted with Nature.- John James Audubon

Duruing all these years there existed within me a tendency to follow Nature in her walks.- John James Audubon

But hopes are Shy Birds flying at a great distance seldom reached by the best of Guns.- John James Audubon

Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them.- John James Audubon

How could I make a little book, when I have seen enough to make a dozen large books?- John James Audubon

I cannot help but think a curious event is this life of mine.- John James Audubon

I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime I am aware that no man living knows better than I do the habits of our birds.- John James Audubon

I never for a day gave up listening to the songs of our birds, or watching their peculiar habits, or delineating them in the best way I could.- John James Audubon

I feel fully decided that we should all go to Europe together and to work as if an established Partnership for Life consisting of Husband Wife and Children.- John James Audubon

I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens.- John James Audubon

I waged war against my feelings.- John James Audubon

In my deepest troubles, I frequently would wrench myself from the persons around me and retire to some secluded part of our noble forests.- John James Audubon

If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for my family, although I must abandon my life to its success, and undergo many sad perplexities and perhaps never see again my own beloved America.- John James Audubon

My drawings at first were made altogether in watercolors, but they wanted softness and a great deal of finish.- John James Audubon

Mathematics was hard, dull work. Geography pleased me more. For dancing I was quite enthusiastic.- John James Audubon

On landing at New York I caught the yellow fever. The kind man who commanded the ship that brought me from France took charge of me and placed me under the care of two Quaker ladies. To their skillful and untiring care I may safely say I owe my life.- John James Audubon

Inspirational Quotes

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This above all, to thine own self be true. – William Shakespeare

Happiness depends upon ourselves. – Aristotle

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. – Confucius

Life is a choice. – Anonymous

Attitude is everything. – Charles Swindoll

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations. – George Bernard Shaw

The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek. – Joseph Campbell

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less. – Marie Curie

The truly rich are those who enjoy what they have. – Yiddish Proverb

Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love.
The real miracle is the love that inspires them.
In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle. – A Course in Miracles

Funny Baseball Quotes

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Baseball is a skilled game. It’s America’s game – it, and high taxes. ~Will Rogers (American Humorist)

Hating the New York Yankees is as American as apple pie, unwed mothers and cheating on your income tax. ~Mike Royko (Newspaper Columnist, Chicago)

If God wanted football played in the spring, he would not have invented baseball. ~Sam Rutigliano (Former National Football League Head Coach)

A baseball park is the one place where a man’s wife doesn’t mind his getting excited over somebody else’s curves. ~Brendan Francis

It’s no coincidence that female interest in the sport of baseball has increased greatly since the ballplayers swapped those wonderful old-time baggy flannel uniforms for leotards. ~Mike Royko

Baseball is reassuring. It makes me feel as if the world is not going to blow up. ~Sharon Olds (American Poet)

Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published every day, like those of a baseball player. ~Author Unknown

Strikeouts are boring – besides that, they’re fascist. Throw some ground balls. More democratic. ~Bull Durham, Movie

Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all holes, or games, are created equal. ~George F. Will (American Newspaper Columnist, Writer, and Journalist)

Ninety feet between home plate and first base may be the closest man has ever come to perfection. ~Red Smith (American Sportswriter)

Nothing flatters me more than to have it assumed that I could write prose-unless it be to have it assumed that I once pitched a baseball with distinction. ~Robert Frost (Poet)

Top 20 Mark Twain Quotes

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Top 20 Mark Twain QuotesMark Twain is one of my favorites writers. In my point of view, he was a genius, like many others on this site. Let me share with you some great Mark Twain Quotes.

“It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.” – Mark Twain

“It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.” – Mark Twain

“All generalizations are false, including this one.” – Mark Twain

“A man’s character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation” – Mark Twain

“It is easier to stay out than get out.” – Mark Twain

“The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become” – Mark Twain

“Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living; the world owes you nothing; it was here first” – Mark Twain

“The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.” – Mark Twain

“Buy land, they’re not making it anymore” – Mark Twain

“The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.” – Mark Twain

“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear” – Mark Twain

“The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter.” – Mark Twain

“Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.” – Mark Twain

“Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.” – Mark Twain

“A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time.” – Mark Twain

“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.” – Mark Twain

“If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything.” – Mark Twain

I never let schooling interfere with my education. – Mark Twain

“It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.” – Mark Twain

“Whatever you say, say it with conviction” – Mark Twain

To Couples

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To Couples Quote“To couples: You’re not gonna promise to each other that you will not disappoint one another, because at some point you will. What is important is you don’t go away, you don’t escape, you don’t leave one another just because you were disappointed.

 

That’s the meaning of fidelity.” – Unknown

Earth Day Quotes

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Earth Day QuotesToday we celebrate Earth Day. Let’s do it in our own way, sharing Earth Day Quotes.

Every day is Earth Day. ~Author Unknown

I conceive that the land belongs to a vast family of which many are dead, few are living, and countless numbers are still unborn. ~A Chieftan from Nigeria

We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children. ~Native American Proverb

There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew. ~Marshall McLuhan, 1964

Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth. ~Henry David Thoreau

There’s so much pollution in the air now that if it weren’t for our lungs there’d be no place to put it all. ~Robert Orben

I’m not an environmentalist. I’m an Earth warrior. ~Darryl Cherney, quoted in Smithsonian, April 1990

Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them. ~Bill Vaughn, quoted in Jon Winokur, The Portable Curmudgeon, 1987

For 200 years we’ve been conquering Nature. Now we’re beating it to death. ~Tom McMillan, quoted in Francesca Lyman, The Greenhouse Trap, 1990

I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in. ~John Muir, 1913, in L.M. Wolfe, ed., John Muir, John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir, 1938

I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority. ~Elwyn Brooks White, Essays of E.B. White, 1977

A living planet is a much more complex metaphor for deity than just a bigger father with a bigger fist. If an omniscient, all-powerful Dad ignores your prayers, it’s taken personally. Hear only silence long enough, and you start wondering about his power. His fairness. His very existence. But if a world mother doesn’t reply, Her excuse is simple. She never claimed conceited omnipotence. She has countless others clinging to her apron strings, including myriad species unable to speak for themselves. To Her elder offspring She says – go raid the fridge. Go play outside. Go get a job. Or, better yet, lend me a hand. I have no time for idle whining. ~David Brin

Till now man has been up against Nature; from now on he will be up against his own nature. ~Dennis Gabor, Inventing the Future, 1963

Take nothing but pictures.
Leave nothing but footprints.
Kill nothing but time. ~Motto of the Baltimore Grotto, a caving society

Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect. ~Chief Seattle, 1855

Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values…. God made life simple. It is man who complicates it. ~Charles A. Lindbergh, Reader’s Digest, July 1972

After a visit to the beach, it’s hard to believe that we live in a material world. ~Pam Shaw

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves. ~John Muir

Oh Beautiful for smoggy skies, insecticided grain,
For strip-mined mountain’s majesty above the asphalt plain.
America, America, man sheds his waste on thee,
And hides the pines with billboard signs, from sea to oily sea. ~George Carlin

Environmentalists have long been fond of saying that the sun is the only safe nuclear reactor, situated as it is some ninety-three million miles away. ~Stephanie Mills, ed., In Praise of Nature, 1990

Humanity is on the march, earth itself is left behind. ~David Ehrenfeld, The Arrogance of Humanism, 1978

It is the safest of times, it is the riskiest of times…. What the Dickens is going on here? ~Denton Morrison, on chemicals, technology, and risk, quoted in National Academy of Sciences, Improving Risk Communication, 1989

Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another. ~Juvenal, Satires

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, but Nature more. ~George Gordon, Lord Byron, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage

There is hope if people will begin to awaken that spiritual part of themselves, that heartfelt knowledge that we are caretakers of this planet. ~Brooke Medicine Eagle

You can’t be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet. ~Hal Borland, Sundial of the Seasons, 1964

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything. ~William Shakespeare

Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat money. ~Cree Indian Proverb

Merry Christmas Quotes

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– “Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.” – Norman Vincent Peale

– “Christmas is a time when you get homesick – even when you’re home.” – Carol Nelson

– “He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.” – Roy L. Smith

– “Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind.” – Mary Ellen Chase

– “I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round, as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys.” – Charles Dickens

– “Christmas is the gentlest, loveliest festival of the revolving year – and yet, for all that, when it speaks, its voice has strong authority.” – W.J. Cameron

– “The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.” – Burton Hillis

– “Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childish days; that can recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth; that can transport the sailor and the traveller, thousands of miles away, back to his own fire-side and his quiet home!” – Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers, 1836

– “There has been only one Christmas – the rest are anniversaries.” – W.J. Cameron

– “A Christmas gambol oft could cheer
The poor man’s heart through half the year.” – Walter Scott

– “Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas-time.” – Laura Ingalls Wilder

– “May Peace be your gift at Christmas and your blessing all year through!” – Unknown

– “I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.” – Charles Dickens

– “Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall.” – Larry Wilde, The Merry Book of Christmas

– “Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.” – Washington Irving

– “Isn’t it funny that at Christmas something in you gets so lonely for – I don’t know what exactly, but it’s something that you don’t mind so much not having at other times.” – Kate L. Bosher

– “Instead of being a time of unusual behavior, Christmas is perhaps the only time in the year when people can obey their natural impulses and express their true sentiments without feeling self-conscious and, perhaps, foolish. Christmas, in short, is about the only chance a man has to be himself.” – Francis C. Farley

– “It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air.” – W.T. Ellis

– “For centuries men have kept an appointment with Christmas. Christmas means fellowship, feasting, giving and receiving, a time of good cheer, home.” – W.J. Ronald Tucker

– “Even as an adult I find it difficult to sleep on Christmas Eve. Yuletide excitement is a potent caffeine, no matter your age.” – Carrie Latet

– “Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want and their kids pay for it.” – Richard Lamm

– “Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love!” – Hamilton Wright Mabie

– “Love is what’s in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening presents and listen.” – Unknown

– “Christmas is forever, not for just one day,
for loving, sharing, giving, are not to put away
like bells and lights and tinsel, in some box upon a shelf.
The good you do for others is good you do yourself…” – Norman Wesley Brooks, “Let Every Day Be Christmas,” 1976

– “From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it.” – Katharine Whitehorn

– “In the old days, it was not called the Holiday Season; the Christians called it ‘Christmas’ and went to church; the Jews called it ‘Hanukkah’ and went to synagogue; the atheists went to parties and drank. People passing each other on the street would say ‘Merry Christmas!’ or ‘Happy Hanukkah!’ or (to the atheists) ‘Look out for the wall!'” – Dave Barry, “Christmas Shopping: A Survivor’s Guide”

– “Remember
This December,
That love weighs more than gold!” – Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon

– “I sometimes think we expect too much of Christmas Day. We try to crowd into it the long arrears of kindliness and humanity of the whole year. As for me, I like to take my Christmas a little at a time, all through the year. And thus I drift along into the holidays – let them overtake me unexpectedly – waking up some find morning and suddenly saying to myself: «Why, this is Christmas Day!» ” – David Grayson

– “A Christmas candle is a lovely thing;
It makes no noise at all,
But softly gives itself away.” – Eva Logue

Easter Quotes

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Let me share with you some wonderful Easter Quotes, because we are almost there :)

The resurrection gives my life meaning and direction and the opportunity to start over no matter what my circumstances. ~Robert Flatt

Easter says you can put truth in a grave, but it won’t stay there. ~Clarence W. Hall

It is the hour to rend thy chains,
The blossom time of souls. ~Katherine Lee Bates

The joyful news that He is risen does not change the contemporary world. Still before us lie work, discipline, sacrifice. But the fact of Easter gives us the spiritual power to do the work, accept the discipline, and make the sacrifice. ~Henry Knox Sherrill

Could life so end, half told; its school so fail?
Soul, soul, there is a sequel to thy tale! ~Robert Mowry Bell

Easter is the demonstration of God that life is essentially spiritual and timeless. ~Charles M. Crowe

Tomb, thou shalt not hold Him longer;
Death is strong, but Life is stronger;
Stronger than the dark, the light;
Stronger than the wrong, the right… ~Phillips Brooks, “An Easter Carol”

Let every man and woman count himself immortal. Let him catch the revelation of Jesus in his resurrection. Let him say not merely, “Christ is risen,” but “I shall rise.” ~Phillips Brooks

On Easter Day the veil between time and eternity thins to gossamer. ~Douglas Horton

Easter spells out beauty, the rare beauty of new life. ~S.D. Gordon

Celestial spirit that doth roll
The heart’s sepulchral stone away,
Be this our resurrection day,
The singing Easter of the soul –
O gentle Master of the Wise,
Teach us to say: “I will arise.” ~Richard Le Gallienne

Inspirational Quotes

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“Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose.” – Tom Krause

“If you only do what you know you can do- you never do very much.” – Tom Krause

“Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity.” – Bo Bennett

“Music is what feelings sound like.” – Mary Anne Radmacher

“You are the embodiment of the information you choose to accept and act upon. To change your circumstances you need to change your thinking and subsequent actions.” – Adlin Sinclair

“There are no failures – just experiences and your reactions to them.” – Tom Krause

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.” – Steve Jobs

“Anyone can give up, it’s the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that’s true strength.” – Lao Tzu

“Try and fail, but don’t fail to try.” – Stephen Kaggwa

“A true friend sees the good in everything, and brings out the best in the worst of things.” – Sasha Azevedo

Famous People Quotes #3

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“Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” – Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895)

“Dancing is silent poetry.” – Simonides (556-468bc)

“The only difference between me and a madman is that I’m not mad.” – Salvador Dali (1904-1989)

“If you can’t get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you’d best teach it to dance.” – George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

“But at my back I always hear Time’s winged chariot hurrying near.”
– Andrew Marvell (1621-1678)

“Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.” – Plato (427-347 B.C.)

“The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don’t have it.” – George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

“Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called ‘Ego’.” – Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

“Everybody pities the weak; jealousy you have to earn.” – Arnold Schwarzenegger (1947-)

“Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain.” – Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805)

“We have art to save ourselves from the truth.” – Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.” – Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)

“I think ‘Hail to the Chief’ has a nice ring to it.” – John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) when asked what is his favorite song

“I have nothing to declare except my genius.” – Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) upon arriving at U.S. customs 1882

“Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.” – H. G. Wells (1866-1946)

“Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.” – Edward George Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873)

“The difference between ‘involvement’ and ‘commitment’ is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was ‘involved’ – the pig was ‘committed’.” – Unknown

“Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake a whole relationship.” – Sharon Stone
“If you are going through hell, keep going.” – Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)