Linnean Quotes

#1. In those early years in New York when I was a stranger in a big city, it was the companionship and later friendship which I was offered in the Linnean Society that was the most important thing in my life.

Ernst Mayr

#2. I moved to Holland because I wanted to see American art.

Marlene Dumas

#3. Let those who live never forget those who died!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#4. I kept my culture. I kept the music of my roots. Through my music I became this voice and image of Africa and the people without even realising,

Miriam Makeba

#5. I grew up in Brownsville; most of the kids I grew up with went to jail, not Yale. If they had heard of Yale, they thought it was a lock to pick.

Mitch Leigh

#6. I find, by close observation, that the mothers are the levers which move in education. The men talk about it ... but the women work most for it.

Frances Harper

#7. Be strict with yourself but least reproachful of others and complaint is kept afar.

Confucius

#8. Opportunity always looks bigger going than coming.

Orison Swett Marden

#9. Rape culture is a funny thing. People gloss over some pretty shitty, creepy, wrong behavior, little brother, when they know the person in question. But you raise the reality of what they're doing, and it's a whole lot harder to shrug it off.

Wildbow

#10. We listen for guidance everywhere except from within.

Parker J. Palmer

#11. Were they, for some purpose almost too cunning for belief, only disguised as themselves?

T.H. White

#12. Now gently settles like dust in a shaft - for one moment there is no one else - only the wind like the hiss of an ice skate ...

John Geddes