Mr Beebe Quotes

#1. Then she lay on her back and gazed at the cloudless sky. Mr. Beebe, whose opinion of her rose daily, whispered to his niece that that was the proper way to behave if any little thing went wrong.

E. M. Forster

#2. tourists. "She oughtn't really to go at all," said Mr. Beebe, as they watched her from the window, "and she knows it. I put it down to too much Beethoven.

Various

#3. As soon as you take out a pencil and paper with the Indians, you're one thing to them - an anthropologist - and what they tell to anthropologists is always distorted.

Ruth Beebe Hill

#4. I own my life. And only mine. And so I shall appreciate my person. And so I shall make proper use of myself.

Ruth Beebe Hill

#5. Several countries have also legally reserved seats in parliament specifically for women to ensure that they are represented.

Stephen Orvis

#6. I had now swallowed my tea. I was mightily refreshed by the beverage; as much so as a giant with wine: it gave new tone to my unstrung nerves, and enabled me to address this penetrating young judge steadily.

Charlotte Bronte

#7. You want to provide as many opportunities and help rural schools as much as you can. But you can't do it at the risk of affecting any of the quality standards and educational opportunities for any child, regardless of where they live and regardless of what the size of their school is.

Mike Beebe

#8. I can only think of one experience which might exceed in interest a few hours spent under water, and that would be a journey to Mars.

William Beebe

#9. High blood pressure, cheeriness at breakfast, a mellowing political philosophy, and an inability to drink more than half a bottle of proof spirits at cocktail time without falling over the fire irons all suggest dark wings hovering overhead and the impending midnight croak of the raven.

Lucius Beebe

#10. A gourmet can tell from the flavor whether a woodcock's leg is the one on which the bird is accustomed to roost.

Lucius Beebe

#11. Earth has few secrets from the birds.

William Beebe

#12. Fair enough." I managed a nod. "Still, you shouldn't be up here." "It's a free country." "It's a capitalist country and this is private property.

Andrea Cremer

#13. George Jessel's newest pick-me-up which is receiving attention from the town's paragraphers is called a Bloody Mary: half tomato juice, half vodka.

Lucius Beebe

#14. ... ... but work in the field has nothing to do with dignity or with anything except patience, concentration, and eternal vigilance

C. William Beebe

#15. To be a naturalist is better than to be a king.

William Beebe

#16. Butterflies doing strange things in very beautiful ways were in my mind when I sat down, but by the time my pen was uncapped my thoughts had shifted to rocks.

William Beebe

#17. I am no spy." "Then start being your own. If Tokyo's the frying pan, you may just have landed in the fire.

William Gibson

#18. When ... we realize the possibilities of deep sea life still unknown to us, every haul of the dredge should be welcomed by an expectant enthusiasm equaled in other fields only by the possible hope of communication with our sister planets.

William Beebe

#19. The isness of things is well worth studying; but it is their whyness that makes life worth living.

William Beebe

#20. Utility representatives will not show up at your door unannounced and will not ask for banking information in unsolicited phone calls. If you get a request for personal information that leaves you skeptical, contact my office and we can help determine if the call was legitimate.

Mike Beebe

#21. It was a strange four-sided triangle, with Charlotte (in some sense) the 'other woman' in two different relationships with the same man.

Howard D. Beebe

#22. Let none presume To wear an undeserved dignity. O that estates, degrees, and offices Were not derived corruptly, and that clear honour Were purchased by the merit of the wearer!

William Shakespeare

#23. The longer we were in it, the smaller it seemed to get.

William Beebe

#24. New York ... Babylon-on-the-Hudson, sinful, extravagant, full of the nervous hilarity of the doomed.

Lucius Beebe

#25. What is subversive today, will almost certainly be patriotic tomorrow.

Lucius Beebe

#26. Peace means loyalty to self ... And loyalty to one's self means never a gap between thought, speech, act.

Ruth Beebe Hill

#27. Before we have the complete solution of the whys and wherefores of herding and flocking and schooling, there must be a great deal of uncomfortable climbing and diving, hiding in unpleasant places, getting wet and hot and cramped and weary.

William Beebe

#28. Given that we glimpse what distinguishes man from the beast, is there anything that distinguishes woman from man?

W. L. George

#29. No one has, because even in this middle age, he's sensitive, and if you say the wrong thing, he'll show the world just how sensitive he is by crying at your funeral.

Paul Beatty

#30. Have you ever been to Chicago? he asked

Danielle Steel

#31. A first walk in any new country is one of the things which makes life on this planet worth being grateful for.

William Beebe

#32. The marsh, to him who enters it in a receptive mood, holds, besides mosquitoes and stagnation, melody, the mystery of unknown waters, and the sweetness of Nature undisturbed by man.

William Beebe