Anning Quotes

#1. Mary Anning [is] probably the most important unsung (or inadequately sung) collecting force in the history of paleontology.

Stephen Jay Gould

#2. Anning would spend the next thirty-five years gathering fossils, which she sold to visitors. (She is commonly held to be the source for the famous tongue twister "She sells seashells on the seashore.")

Bill Bryson

#3. Anning anything leads to organized crime. People will always find a way to get what they want, and there will always be criminals willing to provide it.

Gabrielle Zevin

#4. It would be hard to think of a more overlooked person in the history of palaeontology than Mary Anning,

Bill Bryson

#5. I have always admired most those who lead with their eyes, like Mary Anning, for they seem more aware of the world and its workings.

Tracy Chevalier

#6. While Molly and Joseph Anning suffered materially that winter, with many days of weak soup and weaker fires, Mary barely noticed how little she was eating or the chilblains on her hands and feet. She was suffering inside.

Tracy Chevalier

#7. he was too proud a man to be a vain one.

Walter Scott

#8. The world has used me so unkindly, I fear it has made me suspicious of everyone.

Mary Anning

#9. Each of us as poets, as decent suffering human beings, has to find a way to run our lives that is compassionate toward one another and toward our environment.

Sam Hamill

#10. The carpenter's daughter has won a name for herself, and deserved to win it

Charles Dickens

#11. If anybody had that cure out there like so many people swear to me they do, you'd be two things: you'd be very rich, and you'd be very famous. Otherwise, shut up.

Patrick Swayze

#12. I owed the greater apology, but at the same time I knew that was done was done, that no matter what I said now I would never be able to make it right.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#13. Remember that what pulls the strings is the force hidden within; there lies the power to persuade, there the life - there, if one must speak out, the real man.

Marcus Aurelius

#14. When I write an email where I outlined a whole scene, it just came out of my unconscious, it comes from a deeper place. The same thing happens when the actors go, take after take, and just get lost in it. When you're in a house, you don't think about being in the house; you're just there.

David O. Russell

#15. Most important to me is to play well and to win. That is what the fans want to see.

Trina Gulliver

#16. An artist's work never leads anywhere except to the unknown.

Marty Rubin

#17. Love overcomes hate. Love has no color. Love has no orientation. All is love.

Adam Lambert

#18. You can't promise love, Ladle. Love just happens,

Cameron Jace

#19. A real woman is someone who knows what she wants. If you want to stay home, that's fine, but you have to be clear-eyed.

Ruth Reichl

#20. It is of course, entirely possible that men (or anyone who is relatively privileged) are most defensive, most obstinate and unseeing when they are worried about losing privileges ... In the reactions of husbands, I detect a haunting worry about what they will lose when true gender equality arrives.

Faye J Crosby

#21. You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.

Oswald Chambers

#22. ... what kind of life do we live if we let fear break us down? The truth is there will be tough times, we've certainly been through them before; but good things happen everyday. Great things. We just have to open our eyes and see them.

Christene Houston