Bartram Quotes

#1. My progress was rendered delightful by the sylvan elegance of the groves, chearful meadows, and high distant forests, which in grand order presented themselves to view.

William Bartram

#2. On the recollection of so many and great favours and blessings, I now, with a high sense of gratitude, presume to offer up my sincere thanks to the Almighty, the Creator and Preserver.

William Bartram

#3. All the Jane Austen in the library cannot wash the Queens from this little hand.

Mary Gordon

#4. It's always been impressive to me when someone can really do what they want onstage. The audience has confidence in the performer and the performer has confidence in the crowd.

Henry Rollins

#5. Turkeys, quails, and small birds, are here to be seen; but birds are not numerous in desart forests; they draw near to the habitations of men, as I have constantly observed in all my travels.

William Bartram

#6. All nature awakes to life and activity.

William Bartram

#7. First I shall name the eagle, of which there are three species: the great grey eagle is the largest, of great strength and high flight; he chiefly preys on fawns and other young quadrupeds.

William Bartram

#8. The parental, and filial affections seem to be as ardent, their sensibility and attachment, as active and faithful, as those observed to be in human nature.

William Bartram

#9. It may be proper to observe, that I had now passed the utmost frontier of the white settlements on that border.

William Bartram

#10. Having contemplated this admirable grove, I proceeded towards the shrubberies on the banks of the river, and though it was now late in December, the aromatic groves appeared in full bloom.

William Bartram

#11. All you do is learn how to fight a war," Nyx said. "Nobody ever teaches you how to stop.

Kameron Hurley

#12. You can go to heaven if you want. I'd rather stay in Bermuda.

Mark Twain

#13. How many processes are going on, to keep that teacup level in your grasp? There must be a hundred of them.

Marvin Minsky

#14. I'd rather live like a beggar in my own country, than like a king in a foreign land.

R.L. Bartram

#15. Writing is a tough business, but never forget the reason why you write. It's for the love of story telling. Fame and fortune may elude you, but that's no reason to give up. Remember, there's always someone ready to listen to a good story.

Robert Bartram

#16. Animal substance seems to be the first food of all birds, even the granivorous tribes.

William Bartram

#17. Some tribes of birds will relieve and rear up the young and helpless, of their own and other tribes, when abandoned.

William Bartram

#18. Dormitories are even cooler than I thought they would be," Eva said. "They're like a prison, but the sex is worse," Braque said.

J. Ryan Stradal

#19. They opened the bilge, slopping out all the plane's sewage in a midnight

Adam Johnson

#20. 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

#21. If we bestow but a very little attention to the economy of the animal creation, we shall find manifest examples of premeditation, perseverance, resolution, and consumate artifice, in order to effect their purpose.

William Bartram

#22. When you can have a character that the audience likes from the beginning, but then you put them in a situation where they grow - I think that gives it a lot of heart.

John Lasseter

#23. All earthly desires are but streams, but God is the ocean.

Jonathan Edwards