Quotes About Henry Hudson

#1. If you have any questions, your PDA can port into the Henry Hudson information system and use the AI interface to assist you; just use your stylus to write the question or speak it into your PDA's microphone.

John Scalzi

#2. This report inflamed my mind to such a degree that I could not rest by night or day for dreaming golden dreams, and considering how to get to that rich district, unknown to civilized men.

William Henry Hudson

#3. I think any hardship is better than pretending to do what one is paid for, and never really doing it.

George Eliot

#4. I used all diligence to arrive at London and therefore I now gave my crew a certificate under my hand, of my free and willing return, without persuasion or force by any one or more of them.

Henry Hudson

#5. nothing was ever accomplished by someone who sits in their apartment alone waiting for life to begin.

Jessica Pan

#6. The actual and physical conduct of an experiment must govern the statistical procedure of its interpretation.

Ronald Fisher

#7. Reviewing music or reviewing anything is a writing job. It's nice if you are experienced in the field you are writing about, but writing is what you are doing.

Virgil Thomson

#8. Shakespeare is one of the best means of culture the world possesses. Whoever is at home in his pages is at home everywhere.

Henry Norman Hudson

#9. There are many fine things we cannot say if we have to shout.

Henry David Thoreau

#10. New York has her wilderness within her own borders; and though the sailors of Europe are familiar with the soundings of her Hudson, and Fulton long since invented the steamboat on its waters, an Indian is still necessary to guide her scientific men to its headwaters in the Adirondack country.

Henry David Thoreau

#11. A lifelong intimacy with animals has got me out of the common notion that they are automata with a slight infusion of intelligence in their composition. The mind in beast and bird, as in man, is the main thing.

William Henry Hudson

#12. We know that our senses are subject to decay, that from our middle years they are decaying all the time; but happily it is as if we didn't know and didn't believe.

William Henry Hudson

#13. Flowers knew how to preach divinity before men knew how to dissect and botanize them.

Henry Norman Hudson

#14. Have you ever observed a humming-bird moving about in an aerial dance among the flowers
a living prismatic gem that changes its colour with every change of position.

William Henry Hudson

#15. ...Dads are supposed to be the strong ones. That's probably why Red has so many lines on his forehead. All the hurt goes up there to hide.

Sarah Ockler

#16. He'd had to fold his long legs into his desk. His boots had seen better days, and his jeans unraveled in a curiously irresistible way at the bottom. He didn't look like anyone I'd ever seen before. He reminded me of an actor in an old Western - Rock Hudson in Giant - all dark intensity.

Laura Anderson Kurk

#17. There are few places in England where you can get so much wildness and desolation of sea and sandhills, wood, green marsh and grey saltings as at Wells in Norfolk.

William Henry Hudson

#18. Be focused on what God has called you to do

Sunday Adelaja

#19. Beauty is not in the moon, but it is in your mind and in the reflection of your heart.

Debasish Mridha

#20. Imagination is the organ through which the soul within us recognizes a soul without us; the spiritual eye by which the mind perceives and converses with the spiritualities of nature under her material forms; which tends to exalt even the senses into soul by discerning a soul in the objects of sense.

Henry Norman Hudson

#21. For here the religion that languishes in crowded cities or steals shame-faced to hide itself in dim churches, flourishes greatly, filling the soul with a solemn joy. Face to face with Nature on the vast hills at eventide, who does not feel himself near to the Unseen?

William Henry Hudson

#22. You keep the title of 'president' even if you served only one term. The same goes for rapists.

Christy Leigh Stewart

#23. If there was ever an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptouwn on the Hudson called New York

O. Henry

#24. Leaning to the side but you can't speed through;
2 miles an hour so everybody sees you.

DJ Jazzy Jeff

#25. You cannot fly like an eagle with the wings of a wren.

William Henry Hudson

#26. Now that we are cool, he said, and regret that we hurt each other, I am not sorry that it happened.

William Henry Hudson

#27. The smiles of infants are said to be the first fruits of human reason.

Henry Norman Hudson

#28. The puma is, with the exception of some monkeys, the most playful animal in existence.

William Henry Hudson

#29. I am not a lover of lawns. Rather would I see daisies in their thousands, ground ivy, hawkweed, and even the hated plantain with tall stems, and dandelions with splendid flowers and fairy down, than the too - well-tended lawn.

William Henry Hudson

#30. Animals of all classes, old and young, shrink with instinctive fear from any strange object approaching them.

William Henry Hudson

#31. A sea setting us upon the ice has brought us close to danger.

Henry Hudson

#32. Faith does not need to push the river because faith is able to trust that there is a river. The river is flowing. We are in it.

Richard Rohr

#33. In the evening of that day, after completing my preparations, I supped on the remaining portions of the sloth, not suitable for preservation, roasting bits of fat on the coals and boiling the head and bones into a broth; and after swallowing the liquid I crunched the bones and sucked the marrow ...

William Henry Hudson

#34. This land may be profitable to those that will adventure it.

Henry Hudson

#35. There is no honor in dying of

John Green

#36. We are born to trouble; and we may depend upon it, whilst we live in this world, we shall have it, though with intermissions.

Laurence Sterne

#37. There are many Green Dragons in this world of wayside inns, even as there are many White Harts, Red Lions, Silent Women and other incredible things ...

William Henry Hudson

#38. These natives are a very good people; for when they saw that I would not remain, they supposed that I was afraid of their bows; and, taking their arrows, the broke them in pieces and threw them into the fire.

Henry Hudson