Top 23 Mary Kingsley Quotes

#1. [Responding to repeated questions about traveling in Africa without a husband:] I am looking for him.

Mary Kingsley

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#2. So God, how come it is that you love us all so much but you'd send us to the eternal fires if we don't act right? If I had children, I don't think I could ever watch them burn no matter how bad they were and I'm not even God.

Mary E. Kingsley

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#3. O Mary, go and call the cattle home, And call the cattle home, And call the cattle home, Across the sands o' Dee!

Charles Kingsley

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#4. In the Einstein way, I can't believe in a universe that doesn't have some sort of prime mover, identical with all of created nature. I have a whole lot of a harder time with supposing the fine print of the Torah was a direct revelation.

Simon Schama

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#5. Don't program yourself to break down as you age with thoughts that decline is inevitable. Time may be passing for our bodies, but because they house our ageless souls, we never need to see ourselves as old and infirm.

Wayne Dyer

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#6. Yet annual pay for entry-level elementary school teachers, 97 percent of whom were women, had been frozen for twenty years at $500 (about $13,300 in today's dollars).

Dana Goldstein

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#7. Great drama is all about conflict, and what's a better conflict than Republican-Democrat?

Allison Janney

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#8. I often ask students: 'Is this what you would show Tom Ford?' and they say: 'No, we'd have done more work' or 'We'd have dressed better.' So I say: 'Why don't you do that here?'

Louise Wilson

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#9. It is my melancholy fate to like so many people I profoundly disagree with and often heartily dislike people who agree with me.

Mary Kingsley

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#10. She takes a deep breathe, "Honey, you will hear this many times, but this will be the hardest heartbreak, your first love always is.

Heather Allen

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#11. Your balls + my gun, you rat bastard.

Dianne Sylvan

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#12. Nirvana is next level. The songs are really cool to connect with on a more mature level, and I don't think I really understood that when I was 15.

Ashton Irwin

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#13. I have never wanted to check out the family folklore that we could be traced back to a dominie at the hamlet of Balquhidder in the Scottish highlands.

James Black

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#14. I remember one of my tutors saying, 'Always when on a long march assume the attitude you feel most inclined to, as it is less tiring.

Mary Henrietta Kingsley

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#15. It is a generally received opinion that there are too many books in the world already. I cannot, however, subscribe to any Institution that proposes to alter this state of affairs, because I find no consensus of opinion as to which are the superfluous books ...

Mary Kingsley

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#16. One of the few luxuries left is travel. And the aspect of travel that is luxurious is not the movement, but the being there.

Andre Balazs

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#17. A dream is the most powerful device, a God given gift.

Euginia Herlihy

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#18. Philosophy and Art both render the invisible visible by imagination.

George Henry Lewes

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#19. The grim, grand African forests are like a great library, in which, so far, I can do little more than look at the pictures, although I am now busily learning the alphabet of their language, so that I may some day read what these pictures mean.

Mary Kingsley

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#20. Charley is a mind-reading dog. There have been many trips in his lifetime, and often he has to be left at home. He knows we are going long before the suitcase has come out, and he paces and worries and whines and goes into a state of mild hysteria.

John Steinbeck

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#21. West Africa today is just a quarry of paving stones for Hell, and those stones were cemented in place with

Mary Kingsley

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#22. Moon dipped low over the dark outlines of the mountains, and the sable sky blazed with stars. There

Elizabeth Peters

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#23. I most carefully confined myself to facts and arranged those facts on as thin a line of connecting opinion as possible.

Mary Kingsley

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