Mary Anning's Quotes

#1. Great things sometimes have small beginnings.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#2. That's how you know you're doing the right thing - it's so hard you want to give up.

Emily McKay

#3. You'll find out that nothing that comes easy is worth a dime. As a matter of fact, I never saw a football player make a tackle with a smile on his face. Never.

Woody Hayes

#4. The greatest answer to prayer is that I am brought into a perfect understanding with God, and that alters my view of actual things.

Oswald Chambers

#5. 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

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

Stephen Jay Gould

#7. I'd seen the older children in class look into books for invisible traces, as if they were driven by the same force and, sinking deeper into silence, they were able to draw from the dead paper something that seemed alive.

Muriel Barbery

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

Charles Dickens

#9. The truth is I never think of any subject as taboo.

Amy Bloom

#10. Charged with the mission of operating beyond the boundaries of civilization with minimal support and no communication from higher authority, they lived and often died by the motto, 'Order first, then law will follow.

Thomas W. Knowles

#11. We get along like a house on fire these days.

Rebecca McNutt

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

Bill Bryson

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

Mary Anning

#14. look at the world with quiet eyes.

Sharon Salzberg

#15. For me that's one of the great indulgences in life - a hand-tailored suit, and a great pair of handmade shoes.

Hugh Jackman

#16. My music is about my life. If it's something that I've lived, then it's something that I've written about.

Big Smo

#17. We need to ask ourselves what are we here for and what have we worked so hard to be here for.

Jonny Wilkinson

#18. I became a better pitcher when I found a delivery in my flaw.

Dan Quisenberry

#19. 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

#20. What misery to be afraid of death.
What wretchedness, to believe only in what can be proven.

Mary Oliver

#21. Destruction is also creation.

Marcel Duchamp