Henry David Thoreau Quotes

Man flows at once to God when the channel of purity is open.

Henry David Thoreau

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• I found my first dinosaur bone when I was 6, growing up in Montana. Ever since then I've been interested in dinosaurs.

  

  Jack Horner
  • Up
  • Growing
  • First

• Spare no expense to save money on this one.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Money
  • Save
  • Expense

• Most Americans have no clue that before there were highways, there were only waterways to get through the wilderness. If you weren't on a lake or a river, you were in a jungle.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • River
  • Lake
  • Wilderness

• I enjoy privacy. I think it's nice to have a little mystery. I think because of technology a lot of the mystery is gone in life, and I'd like to preserve some of that.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Life
  • Nice
  • Technology

• I love watching action. I remember watching Angelina Jolie in 'Tomb Raider,' and I was like 'Wow, it's so cool when a girl can go around and kick butt.'

  

  Olga Fonda
  • Remember
  • Girl
  • Action

• The only positive finding which could be drawn from the first series, was the conclusion that the relationships obviously had a more complicated lay-out than had been thought, for the effects were so varied that no obedience to any law could be discovered.

  

  Walter Rudolf Hess
  • Law
  • Positive
  • Thought

• Period drama is such a huge umbrella term: it seems to cover everything from Claudius to something from the 1920s.

  

  Natasha Little
  • Drama
  • Period
  • Everything

• The truth is, when I got started in this business, it wasn't because I had a full understanding of the importance of the business, but because I thought it was fun. I found it exciting. It fulfilled me, whatever it was that I was looking for.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • Business
  • Truth
  • Fun

• My father also encouraged my love of nature. He urged me to become a Cub Scout, and later a Boy Scout, and I found I really liked being outdoors.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
  • Nature
  • Father
  • Being

• With relationships, I've been through a lot of different situations with different people, and I write about it.

  

  Kat Dahlia
  • People
  • Different
  • Relationships

• Some writers are so enthralled by ideas (one thinks of Doris Lessing) that their characters become debaters, and their fables approach allegory.

  

  Edmund White
  • Ideas
  • Become
  • Approach

• Women view men like houses. They look for fixer-uppers.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Men
  • Women
  • View

• This is Earth. Isn't it hot?

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Earth
  • Hot

• When I'm singing, I connect the dots with notes.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Singing
  • Notes
  • Dots

• I've found that people feel very free to say insulting things, not about me personally, but about the things I believe. It's sad, because I really could care less where people are coming from, politically, religiously.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • People
  • Believe
  • Free

• I developed in my head that I'm never any better than my last concert or the last time I played, so it's like an audition each time. You get nervous just before going onstage. I still have that, but I think it's more like concern. You're concerned about the people - like meeting your in-laws for the first time.

  

  B. B. King
  • People
  • Time
  • Better

• Religious faith, like political belief, should be based on reasoning, on the development of thought and feelings. The two things are inseparable.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Political
  • Faith
  • Religious

• Our worst comes out when we behave like robots or professionals.

  

  Fernando Flores
  • Like
  • Worst
  • Robots

• When you become a parent, you really care that you get that right, and you care about nothing else.

  

  Laura Dern
  • You
  • Care
  • Parent

• Sex energy is the creative energy of all creative geniuses.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Energy
  • Sex
  • Geniuses

• People always ask is it hard being an entrepreneur and a mum, and the answer is 'yes.'

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • People
  • Always
  • Entrepreneur

• Shane looked faintly injured. “I make it my business to know everything about silver. And I saw your notes. I study up on everything when it comes to your boss, anyway.” There was a flicker of jealousy about that, but she didn’t have time, or energy, to consider it very much. Not even whether or not she liked it.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Time
  • Business
  • Energy

• I was recording my audiobook, and it's so weird. You write things, but then to have to say them out loud in front of people feels so different. So when I was recording my audiobook, I was telling an embarrassing story in front of, like, a room full of audio-tech people that I don't know, and I was like 'Oh my God, this is so cringe.'

  

  Tyler Oakley
  • People
  • God
  • Different

• Man flows at once to God when the channel of purity is open.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • God