John Speke Quotes

#1. The rest of my work, besides sketching and keeping a diary, which was the most troublesome of all, consisted in making geological and zoological collections.

John Hanning Speke

#2. Each tribe has its characteristics, it is true.

John Hanning Speke

#3. I'm a big stupid history nerd.

Emilie Autumn

#4. I might have practiced stick-handling with my head up a bit more.

Eric Lindros

#5. Read every line item until you get it.

Michael Burry

#6. So is the savage buffalo, especially delighting in dark places, where he can wallow in the mud and slake his thirst without much trouble; and here also we find the wild pig.

John Hanning Speke

#7. How could she do it? How could she do this to me?

Julie Ann Walker

#8. I was afterwards sorry for this, though, if I ever travel again, I shall trust to none but natives, as the climate of Africa is too trying to foreigners.

John Hanning Speke

#9. My first occupation was to map the country.

John Hanning Speke

#10. Twins are usually hailed with delight, because they swell the power of the family, though in some instances they are put to death.

John Hanning Speke

#11. Superabundant piety/righteousness (and its practices) is that form of life that enhances the individual and the community simultaneously.

Michael Joseph Brown

#12. When I think of the wisest people I know, they share one defining trait: curiosity. They turn away from the minutiae of their lives-and focus on the world around them. They are motivated by the desire to explore the unfamiliar. They are drawn toward what they don't understand.

Dani Shapiro

#13. Cows, after leaving the low lands near the coast, are found to be plentiful everywhere, and to produce milk in small quantities, from which butter is made.

John Hanning Speke

#14. In the following pages I have endeavoured to describe all that appeared to me most important and interesting among the events and the scenes that came under my notice during my sojourn in the interior of Africa.

John Hanning Speke

#15. It's the greatest achievement I've ever witnessed in all my years of being a coach and a television personality. I really, absolutely have been blown away.

Dick Vitale

#16. I don't know too many kids who ask to weed the garden.

Tom Douglas

#17. I don't think we can separate art from overall human dignity and hope

Adrienne Rich

#18. The lion is, however, rarely heard - much more seldom seen.

John Hanning Speke

#19. The expedition had now performed its functions. I saw that old father Nile without any doubt rises in the Victoria Nyanza, and as I had foretold, that lake is the great source of the holy river which cradled the first expounder of our religious belief.

John Hanning Speke

#20. I profess accurately to describe native Africa - Africa in those places where it has not received the slightest impulse, whether for good or evil, from European civilisation.

John Hanning Speke

#21. Dependence is a perpetual call upon humanity, and a greater incitement to tenderness and pity than any other motive whatever.

Joseph Addison

#22. The craft, the writing of a song, is about creating a story, a life story, a world within three minutes, but that's the frame, if you like, the picture frame. That fascinates me.

PJ Harvey

#23. The equatorial line is, in fact, the centre of atmospheric motion.

John Hanning Speke

#24. I promise," she said softly, biting her lip. "I will never shoot you by accident." I considered her response. "That's less comforting than you'd think.

Joanna Wylde

#25. I don't believe in diets, as I always put whatever I lost right back on again. I think we should all just eat healthily and get as much exercise as we can.

Jasmine Guinness