Quotes About Mary Anning

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

Bill Bryson

#2. 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

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

Stephen Jay Gould

#4. Most men and women, by birth or nature, lack the means to advance in wealth or power, but all have the ability to advance in knowledge.

Pythagoras

#5. Gore's problem is that the issues are all on his side.

Susan Estrich

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

Mary Anning

#7. Let's realize that the person we are going to correct and condemn will probably justify himself or herself, and condemn us in return; or, like the gentle Taft, will say: I don't see how I could have done any differently from what I have.

Dale Carnegie

#8. There is nothing more sickening than talking about poverty over a fancy dinner.

Shane Claiborne

#9. Fortunately, I've never had to be too critical of my own work, because the world is critical enough.

Adrian Tomine

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

Charles Dickens

#11. A great man knows the value of greatness; he dares not hazard it, he will not squander it.

Walter Savage Landor

#12. I met Picasso when I was a kid. I turned one of his drawings down which would be worth £37 million now. My dad wouldn't talk to me for a fortnight.

Brian Blessed

#13. God was a poet the day he made Jude.

Juliette Cross

#14. 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

#15. You believe in God, then you don't believe anymore and when you have a big problem, you pray anyway.

Alain Delon

#16. 'Ides of March' I did for scale - scale as a director, scale as an actor, scale as a writer.

George Clooney

#17. Good parenting give headaches but bad parenting gives heartaches.

Shiv Khera

#18. We've found when soldiers help other soldiers, or military members of any service, it helps them, too.

Valerie Ormond

#19. Just as welfare was said to "cause poverty," the experts may soon announce that Medicare causes baldness and that Social Security is a risk factor for osteoporosis: the correlations are undeniable.

Barbara Ehrenreich