John James Audubon quote: "I have now 42 Dollars, health, and as much anxiety to pursue My Plans of Accomplishing My collection as Ever I had and Hope God Will Grant Me the same Powers to proceed."

I feel I am strange to all but the birds of America.
JOHN JAMES AUDUBON

All trembling, I reached the Falls of Niagara, and oh, what a scene! My blood shudders still, althou...
JOHN JAMES AUDUBON

Surrounded by all the members of my dear family, enjoying the affection of numerous friends, who hav...
JOHN JAMES AUDUBON

The Golden Eagle, which has universally been considered as a bird of most extraordinary powers of fl...
JOHN JAMES AUDUBON

As I grew up I was fervently desirous of becoming acquainted with Nature.
JOHN JAMES AUDUBON

The gay bunting erects his white crest, and gives utterance to the joy he feels in the presence of h...
JOHN JAMES AUDUBON

I never for a day gave up listening to the songs of our birds, or watching their peculiar habits, or...
JOHN JAMES AUDUBON

A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed f...
JOHN JAMES AUDUBON

Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught ab...
JOHN JAMES AUDUBON

From the top of a high rock, I obtained a good few of the most extensive and dreary wilderness I eve...
JOHN JAMES AUDUBON

Poor France, thy fine climate, rich vineyards, and the wishes of the learned avail nothing; thou art...
JOHN JAMES AUDUBON

Great men show politeness in a particular way; a smile suffices to assure you that you are welcome, ...
JOHN JAMES AUDUBON

I ate no butcher's meat, lived chiefly on fruits, vegetables, and fish, and never drank a glass ...
JOHN JAMES AUDUBON

One day I caught four Dolphins, how much I have gazed at these beautiful creatures... as they change...
JOHN JAMES AUDUBON

I discover that my friends think only of my apparel, and those upon whom I have conferred acts of ki...
JOHN JAMES AUDUBON

After all, I long to be in America again, nay, if I can go home to return no more to Europe, it seem...
JOHN JAMES AUDUBON

July 2. A beautiful day for Labrador. Went ashore and killed nothing, but was pleased with what I sa...
JOHN JAMES AUDUBON

There is the morass, wherein you plunge up to your knees, or the walking over the stubborn, dwarfish...
JOHN JAMES AUDUBON

The worse my drawings were, the more beautiful did the originals appear.
JOHN JAMES AUDUBON

On landing at New York I caught the yellow fever. The kind man who commanded the ship that brought m...
JOHN JAMES AUDUBON

Reader, persons who have never witnessed a hurricane, such as not unfrequently desolates the sultry ...
JOHN JAMES AUDUBON

The varying modes of flight exhibited by our diurnal birds of prey have always been to me a subject ...
JOHN JAMES AUDUBON

The Fur Company may be called the exterminating medium of these wild and almost uninhabitable region...
JOHN JAMES AUDUBON

If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cann...
JOHN JAMES AUDUBON

During all these years there existed within me a tendency to follow Nature in her walks.
JOHN JAMES AUDUBON

I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but me...
JOHN JAMES AUDUBON

The best recommendation I can have is my own talents, and the fruits of my own labors, and what othe...
JOHN JAMES AUDUBON

The mercantile business did not suit me.
JOHN JAMES AUDUBON

The fact is I am growing old too fast, alas! I feel it, and yet work I will, and may God grant me li...
JOHN JAMES AUDUBON

In my deepest troubles, I frequently would wrench myself from the persons around me and retire to so...
JOHN JAMES AUDUBON

I must put myself in a train of doing... and thereby keep the machine in motion.
JOHN JAMES AUDUBON

Finally I paid every bill. My plantation in Pennsylvania had been sold and nothing was left to me bu...
JOHN JAMES AUDUBON

Would it be possible that I should not in any degree succeed? I can scarcely think so. Ah delusive h...
JOHN JAMES AUDUBON

I rise long before day and work till nightfall, when I take a walk and go to bed.
JOHN JAMES AUDUBON

I do anything for money now a days.
JOHN JAMES AUDUBON

I purchased excellent and beautiful horses, visited all such neighbors as I found in congenial spiri...
JOHN JAMES AUDUBON

How could I make a little book, when I have seen enough to make a dozen large books?
JOHN JAMES AUDUBON

I waged war against my feelings.
JOHN JAMES AUDUBON

The Purchasing of Too Many goods sold on credit of course Lost, reduced us-Divided us.
JOHN JAMES AUDUBON

What! Have I come here to mimic nature in her grandest enterprise - to add my caricature of one of t...
JOHN JAMES AUDUBON

Well, I heard he liked to eat old wives' eggs.
JOHN JAMES AUDUBON

Who is the stranger... that can form an adequate conception of the extent of its primeval woods-of t...
JOHN JAMES AUDUBON

My drawings at first were made altogether in watercolors, but they wanted softness and a great deal ...
JOHN JAMES AUDUBON

Hundreds of anecdotes I could relate. It may happen that the pages I am now scribbling over, may her...
JOHN JAMES AUDUBON

Because my father was often absent on naval duty, my mother suffered me to do much as I pleased.
JOHN JAMES AUDUBON

My father... sailed as a sea captain to the West Indies, where in 1785 I found light and life in the...
JOHN JAMES AUDUBON

But the moment a bird was dead, no matter how beautiful it had been in life, the pleasure of possess...
JOHN JAMES AUDUBON

On the 17th of May, the Delos put out to sea. I was immediately affected with sea-sickness, which, h...
JOHN JAMES AUDUBON

I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens.
JOHN JAMES AUDUBON

I feel fully decided that we should all go to Europe together and to work as if an established Partn...
JOHN JAMES AUDUBON

To have been torn from the study would have been as death; my time was entirely occupied with art.
JOHN JAMES AUDUBON

The eggers destroy all the eggs that are sat upon, to force the birds to lay fresh eggs, and by robb...
JOHN JAMES AUDUBON

To repay evils with kindness is the religion I was taught to practise, and this will forever be my r...
JOHN JAMES AUDUBON

My mother had several beautiful parrots and some monkeys; one of the latter was a full-grown male of...
JOHN JAMES AUDUBON

Ah! How often when I have been abroad on the mountains has my heart risen in grateful praise to God ...
JOHN JAMES AUDUBON

My wife determined that my genius should prevail, and that my final success as an ornithologist shou...
JOHN JAMES AUDUBON

Go where you will, if a shilling can there be procured, you may expect to meet with individuals in s...
JOHN JAMES AUDUBON

This Place saw My best days, My Happiest, My Wife having blessed me with Your Brother Woodhouse... I...
JOHN AUDUBON

Would it be possible that I should not in any degree succeed? I can scarcely think so. Ah delusive h...
JOHN AUDUBON

In my deepest troubles, I frequently would wrench myself from the persons around me and retire to so...
JOHN AUDUBON

I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but me...
JOHN AUDUBON

I feel fully decided that we should all go to Europe together and to work as if an established Partn...
JOHN AUDUBON

If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cann...
JOHN AUDUBON

Finally I paid every bill. My plantation in Pennsylvania had been sold and nothing was left to me bu...
JOHN AUDUBON

I rise long before day and work till nightfall, when I take a walk and go to bed.
JOHN AUDUBON

I must put myself in a train of doing... and thereby keep the machine in motion.
JOHN AUDUBON

Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught ab...
JOHN AUDUBON

I think other bowls relying on volunteers and all that, if you have to train a new volunteer every y...
JOHN JAMES

In summary, I do think that the Northwest Corridor is still going to be a vibrant marketplace, but i...
JOHN JAMES

He had the sandwich, he drank some cider and he appeared to enjoy it very much indeed.
JOHN JAMES

Darcie, this is when you sing, 'Off we go into the wild blue yonder, climbing high into the sun...'
JOHN JAMES

You can't get off the script, or it's going to throw the kickoff time. That's the main thing, to kee...
JOHN JAMES

We were kind of blown away.
JOHN JAMES

What great sportsmanship, ... I think we can cope with victory now. We've outperformed the Aussies a...
JOHN JAMES

We want 200,000 of our friends and neighbors in Maine to have an exciting and fun weekend. We're hap...
JOHN JAMES

He'd go back to school and brag to the other guys.
JOHN JAMES

They hit a couple big shots at the end, especially the big three at the end. That was a big differen...
JOHN JAMES

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
JOHN JAMES INGALLS

Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.
JOHN JAMES INGALLS

I knock unbidden once at every gate-- If sleeping, wake--if feasting, rise before I turn away-...
JOHN JAMES INGALLS

In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerog...
JOHN JAMES INGALLS

Let [the wife] guard, as much as possible, against a gloomy and moody disposition, which causes her ...
JOHN ANGELL JAMES

There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave.
JOHN JAMES INGALLS

Richie Rich, Keoki, Amanda LaPore are really successful. They've joined the culture at large.
JAMES ST. JAMES

I came to NYU to study experimental theater. Shortly thereafter, I was featured in a 'Newsweek&#...
JAMES ST. JAMES

The true nature of evil is that it is so very casual.
JAMES ST. JAMES

Why, oh why, must we always go through pigs to get our truffles?
JAMES ST. JAMES

I would go to the all-night grocery store and pretend that I was at Studio 54 because it was the onl...
JAMES ST. JAMES

We danced on the lip of the volcano, so to speak. We were young, too. And New York was still a big, ...
JAMES ST. JAMES

I'll always be a party monster. I'll always love getting dressed up.
JAMES ST. JAMES

As for my identity within the context of New York nightlife? I left in the '90s, so I'm not ...
JAMES ST. JAMES

I was definitely the oddball freak show in school.
JAMES ST. JAMES

When my trust fund ran out, I panicked. I have a lot of admiration for the kids who come to the big ...
JAMES ST. JAMES

I think that when you are a teenager, it's the smartest you will ever be in your life. Teenagers...
JAMES ST. JAMES

Watch out for the average--they're usually hiding something big.
JAMES ST. JAMES

There are people who have too much space between their ears, and given the time, do nothing but free...
JAMES ST. JAMES

War is devastating, and it leaves its scars for generations.
JAMES BLUNT

National honor is the national property of the highest value.
JAMES MONROE

Every person is created in the image of God and has value. Every person. Every person is to be treat...
JAMES LANKFORD

People don't realize you're blowing over changes, time changes, harmony, different keys. I m...
JAMES MCBRIDE

From there, I tried out for a community theatre play, joined an improv group... it all started openi...
KEVIN JAMES

My favorite movie of all time is 'Rocky.'
KEVIN JAMES

Every time I do a movie where it gets physical, I say never again.
KEVIN JAMES

I really wasn't a class clown.
KEVIN JAMES

I've always had something in my heart where I root for guys who struggle with women.
KEVIN JAMES

Back in '93 I saw my first UFC fight and just became enamored by it then.
KEVIN JAMES

Once a year my back will go out and it'll be... it's like a sciatic thing and it's the s...
KEVIN JAMES

I try to connect with the everyday, every guy.
KEVIN JAMES

You think school ends when it ends, but it doesn't.
KEVIN JAMES

It's always cool to meet people who can do things that you have no capacity to do.
KEVIN JAMES

I want to do movies that I'm proud of where my kids, at some point, can see and I can feel comfo...
KEVIN JAMES

I don't want to be known as this goody-two-shoes who can only do comedies where puppies are lick...
KEVIN JAMES

Teachers have a chance to mold someone, inspire them. I hope all teachers realize that.
KEVIN JAMES

I've always been the guy who doesn't necessarily get it with women. A woman would have to sa...
KEVIN JAMES

Now I'm starting to jog. But every time I do jog I have 9-1 pressed into my phone, with the next...
KEVIN JAMES

I took a public speaking class in college and managed to make the class laugh a little bit.
KEVIN JAMES

I never played a musical instrument growing up but I knew kids who did and took it very seriously.
KEVIN JAMES

A song can take you to a special time in your life.
KEVIN JAMES

If I do a movie where I have to have a son and it's a chubby kid, my mother is always like, '...
KEVIN JAMES

I could never be James Bond.
KEVIN JAMES

I just want to put some positive stuff out there. If it works, great. If it doesn't, no problem.
KEVIN JAMES

You'll work hard to create characters that are compelling and unforgettable. But in the end, it&...
JAMES DASHNER

It's pretty scary to know how quickly time flies.
JAMES WAN

Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common ha...
WILLIAM JAMES

Rule, Britannia, rule the waves; Britons never will be slaves.
JAMES THOMSON

'Tis easier for the generous to forgive, than for offence to ask it.
JAMES THOMSON

For life is but a dream whose shapes return, some frequently, some seldom, some by night and some by...
JAMES THOMSON

The world rolls round forever like a mill; it grinds out death and life and good and ill; it has no ...
JAMES THOMSON

More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.
JAMES THOMSON

But who can paint like Nature? Can imagination boast, amid its gay creation, hues like hers?
JAMES THOMSON

Statues and pictures and verse may be grand, But they are not the Life for which they stand.
JAMES THOMSON

When I sing for myself, I probably sing for anyone who has any kind of hurt, any kind of bad feeling...
ETTA JAMES

Profit is not the legitimate purpose of business. The legitimate purpose of business is to provide a...
JAMES ROUSE

Never just run through a study because you happen to be familiar with it, but use it to see what you...
JAMES GALWAY

A lie can be halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on.
JAMES CALLAGHAN

A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.
JAMES KELLER

I sometimes have an over-confidence that can be viewed as arrogance.
JAMES CORDEN

You know, my family and friends have never been yes-men: 'Yes, you're doing the right thing,...
LEBRON JAMES

In regards to your love life, you're just entering into a whole of pain if you talk about it. If...
LILY JAMES

If you look in real life, it is very hard to describe people as good people, bad people, heroes or v...
LENNIE JAMES

My expectations of other people, I double them on myself.
JAMES BROWN

The invention of basketball was not an accident. It was developed to meet a need. Those boys simply ...
JAMES NAISMITH

But ever since I was a kid, I was always the winner.
LEBRON JAMES

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
WILLIAM JAMES

See, the thing that bothers me with young actors, young actors of color specifically, is that they s...
JAMES AVERY

I believe musicians have a duty, a responsibility to reach out, to share your love or pain with othe...
JAMES TAYLOR

I don't need a vacation in the traditional sense, like I would if I had a job I hated.
JAMES FRANCO

I see happiness as a by-product. I don't think you can pursue happiness. I think that phrase is ...
JAMES HILLMAN

The culture is going into a psychological depression. We are concerned about our place in the world,...
JAMES HILLMAN

Life is a mountain of solvable problems, and I enjoy that.
JAMES DYSON

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
WILLIAM JAMES

To avoid entangling alliances has been a maxim of our policy ever since the days of Washington, and ...
JAMES BUCHANAN

A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, ...
JAMES ALLEN

The days when the words 'Hollywood actor' framed Ronald Reagan like bunny fingers as an ID t...
JAMES WOLCOTT

It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that t...
JAMES MONROE

We're in a world where masculinity, especially with these big spectacle movies, is often pushed ...
THEO JAMES

In the old days, you would have one lawyer to handle everything: speeding tickets, buying a house, c...
JAMES BELUSHI

An actor should be judged by his performance only.
JAMES DEAN

I think the one thing this picture shows that's new is the psychological disproportion of the ki...
JAMES DEAN

When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn't acting. It's followi...
JAMES DEAN

To me, acting is the most logical way for people's neuroses to manifest themselves, in this grea...
JAMES DEAN

To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty; to interpret it his problem; and to ...
JAMES DEAN

Trust and belief are two prime considerations. You must not allow yourself to be opinionated.
JAMES DEAN

The only greatness for man is immortality.
JAMES DEAN

An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so must be willing to accept all the experiences li...
JAMES DEAN

I used to fly around quite a bit, you know? I took a lot of unnecessary chances on the highways. And...
JAMES DEAN

I want to be a Texan 24 hours a day.
JAMES DEAN

Studying cows, pigs and chickens can help an actor develop his character. There are a lot of things ...
JAMES DEAN

I don't want anything seventy-thirty. Fifty-fifty's always good enough for me. I don't w...
JAMES DEAN

I also became close to nature, and am now able to appreciate the beauty with which this world is end...
JAMES DEAN

The only way to make a scene realistic is to do it the way you know it would really happen.
JAMES DEAN

Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and im...
JAMES DEAN

There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are all impaled on the crook of conditioning.
JAMES DEAN

The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results.
JAMES DEAN

You try to be yourself, do only what you've always done and like to do, and right away, you'...
JAMES DEAN

Racing is the only time I feel whole.
JAMES DEAN

Death can't be considered because, if you're afraid to die, there's no room in your life...
JAMES DEAN

I'm a serious-minded and intense little devil, terribly gauche and so tense I don't see how ...
JAMES DEAN

Thanksgiving, man. Not a good day to be my pants.
KEVIN JAMES

The silent killer of all great men and women of achievement - particularly men, I don't know why...
JAMES WOODS

I've done a lot of work in the gym preparing myself for what is certain to be pretty strenuous p...
JAMES HIBBERD

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic current...
WILLIAM JAMES

Words played an important part in my growing up. Not only the written word... but words that flew th...
JAMES HOWE

The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perce...
WILLIAM JAMES

Our nation stands at the crossroads of liberty. Crushing national debt, rampant illegal immigration,...
JAMES LANKFORD

I'm a big cardigan sweater guy.
JAMES FRANCO

No one forgets their first love. You're experiencing all those endorphins and all that dopamine ...
JAMES MARSDEN

I loved all the princess films, and I grew up with them, and I think it's really cool how they&#...
LILY JAMES

You can't fuel real economic growth with indiscriminate credit. You can only fuel it with well-a...
JAMES SUROWIECKI

Early investment in the lives of disadvantaged children will help reduce inequality, in both the sho...
JAMES HECKMAN

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
WILLIAM JAMES

No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that is his heart which is capable of respondin...
JAMES ALLEN

A man is literally what he thinks.
JAMES ALLEN

The man who sows wrong thoughts and deeds and prays that God will bless him is in the position of a ...
JAMES ALLEN

The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and y...
JAMES ALLEN

I am just happy to be part of the Nike family.
LEBRON JAMES

There is a lot of pressure put on me, but I don't put a lot of pressure on myself. I feel if I p...
LEBRON JAMES

I'm confident with my ability.
LEBRON JAMES

Where I grew up - I grew up on the north side of Akron, lived in the projects. So those scared and l...
LEBRON JAMES

But now, being a parent, I go home and see my son and I forget about any mistake I ever made or the ...
LEBRON JAMES

I have now 42 Dollars, health, and as much anxiety to pursue My Plans of Accomplishing My collection as Ever I had and Hope God Will Grant Me the same Powers to proceed.

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I have now 42 Dollars, health, and as much anxiety to pursue My Plans of Accomplishing My collection as Ever I had and Hope God Will Grant Me the same Powers to proceed.

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