Alexander Graham Bell Quotes

Grand telegraphic discovery today … Transmitted vocal sounds for the first time ... With some further modification I hope we may be enabled to distinguish … the “timbre” of the sound. Should this be so, conversation viva voce by telegraph will be a fait accompli.

Alexander Graham Bell

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• I don't know any Londoners 'cos I'm from Manchester.

  

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• I like to read, even though it was really tough, because I could go anywhere in the world in a book, and I could have so many adventures in a book.

  

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• The strength of America is not in Washington.

  

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• The nation will be shaped for decades by decisions that are made by President Bush and the Senate about the future of the Supreme Court.

  

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• Everyone goes through adversity in life, but what matters is how you learn from it.

  

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• I then walk off into the swamp along the path of logs and tree-trunks, picking my way cautiously, now glancing right and left on the foliage, and then surveying carefully the surface of the smooth round log I am walking on.

  

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• Never put off until tomorrow what you can put off forever.

  

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• To make filmmaking interesting to me, I want to keep learning things.

  

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• To be born again means that we must be changed from a negative to a positive self-image - from inferiority to self-esteem, from fear to love, from doubt to trust.

  

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• Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.

  

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• Free speech is a bourgeois prejudice.

  

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• It cannot be denied that outward accidents conduce much to fortune, favor, opportunity, death of others, occasion fitting virtue; but chiefly, the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands.

  

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• It took a lot of people to keep it rolling for 40 years, and I'm just glad it's still here to go. I hope it goes for another 40 years.

  

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• My daughter is, of course, perfect. Everyone's child is, but mine really is perfect. But I could not have raised her without my parents. From the time she was seven months until now, I have been a single parent.

  

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• Grand telegraphic discovery today … Transmitted vocal sounds for the first time ... With some further modification I hope we may be enabled to distinguish … the “timbre” of the sound. Should this be so, conversation viva voce by telegraph will be a fait accompli.

  

  Alexander Graham Bell
  • Discovery
  • I Hope
  • Telegraph