John Muir Quotes

Sit down in climbing, and hear the pines sing.

John Muir

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• From the day of its birth, the anomaly of slavery plagued a nation which asserted the equality of all men, and sought to derive powers of government from the consent of the governed. Within sound of the voices of those who said this lived more than half a million black slaves, forming nearly one-fifth of the population of a new nation.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Men
  • Black
  • Day

• I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afraid.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • Up
  • Childhood
  • Afraid

• I have one. I may get another during the off-season, I might get my son's name but I'm not sure yet. The one I have is my Hebrew name, which I share with my grandfather, and it's not the best tattoo.

  

  Adam Pally
  • May
  • Best
  • Son

• Don't see the point in reading ghost-written autobiographies, even though some of these published lives may fascinate me. The 'ghost' is always present, manipulating an interview into first-person singular text, and it feels like I'm reading a lie.

  

  Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet
  • Person
  • Point
  • Lie

• We're not that much smarter than we used to be, even though we have much more information - and that means the real skill now is learning how to pick out the useful information from all this noise.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Real
  • Learning
  • Information

• I had lost faith in biography.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Faith
  • Lost
  • Biography

• When I started modeling, they tried to pay black models less than they paid Caucasian models. I turned down those jobs because I knew what I was worth.

  

  Iman
  • Black
  • Down
  • Modeling

• I use the 'Too Faced Chocolate Bar Eye Shadow' Palette every day. I've tried a bunch of stuff, but this is my favorite. For eyebrows, I use the 'Anastasia Beverly Hills Dipbrow' Pomade in Dark Brown, and for mascara, I don't use anything else but 'Urban Decay Perversion' Mascara.

  

  Yuna
  • Day
  • Dark
  • Eye

• I am a news presenter, a news broadcaster, an anchorman, a managing editor - not a commentator or analyst.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • News
  • Editor
  • Broadcaster

• I was terrified of getting the chemo. It's not pleasant. And the radiation is not pleasant.

  

  Farrah Fawcett
  • Getting
  • Pleasant
  • Radiation

• For me, there are always things to learn. It's like the next movie is going to be the good one, you know.

  

  Maiwenn
  • Good
  • Movie
  • Know

• I like pop music, and I like really weird, strange stuff. It just didn't feel like there was anyone doing both.

  

  Flume
  • Music
  • Weird
  • Doing

• Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.

  

  Karl A. Menninger
  • Friends
  • Listening
  • Creative

• I was very, very thrown by the fact that I had to make some big changes in my life in order to be myself, but under this kind of movie-star banner.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Life
  • Movie
  • Myself

• I think that it's going to be interesting to see where Beyonce's career goes.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Think
  • Career
  • Interesting

• I just feel so lucky that I'm able to do things that are enriching for me.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Things
  • Feel
  • Lucky

• Now, I think that I should have known that he was magic all along. I did know it - but I should have guessed that it would be too much to ask to grow old with and see our children grow up together. So now, he is a legend when he would have preferred to be a man.

  

  Jackie Kennedy
  • Up
  • Children
  • Together

• Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Mind
  • Fear
  • Exist

• We aren't trying to make poetry or anything beautiful. It's just a rock show. We just want to enjoy playing loud. That's just about it.

  

  David Pajo
  • Trying
  • Beautiful
  • Playing

• When I looked at people like Goya and Pina Bausch, the message I got was just do what you're passionate about. Don't think about what other people are going to say or how they're going to receive your work. Just be your work.

  

  Elif Safak
  • People
  • Work

• Of Pearse and Connolly I admire the latter the most. Connolly was a realist, Pearse the direct opposite. I would have followed Connolly to hell had such action been necessary. But I honestly doubt I would have followed Pearse…

  

  Michael Collins
  • Follow
  • Admire
  • Realist

• Sit down in climbing, and hear the pines sing.

  

  John Muir