Able Quote by Alexander Graham Bell

First words on the first telephone - "Mr. Watson - come here - I want to see you."

— Alexander Graham Bell

“Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The Sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus”

— Alexander Graham Bell

We are all too much inclined, I think, to walk through life with our eyes shut. There are things all round us and right…

— Alexander Graham Bell

“Mr. Watson — Come here — I want to see you. [ First intelligible words spoken over the telephone ]”

— Alexander Graham Bell

I have heard articulate speech produced by sunlight I have heard a ray of the sun laugh and cough and sing! … I have…

— Alexander Graham Bell

“Concentrate all your thoughts on the task at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.”

— Alexander Graham Bell

Such a chimerical idea as telegraphing vocal sounds would indeed, to most minds, seem scarcely feasible enough to spend time in working over. I…

— Alexander Graham Bell

Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.

— Alexander Graham Bell

One day every major city in America will have a telephone.

— Alexander Graham Bell

I do not recognize the right of the public to break in the front door of a man's private life in order to satisfy…

— Alexander Graham Bell

Dumbness comes from the fact that a child is born deaf and that it consequently never learns how to articulate, for it is by…

— Alexander Graham Bell

When one door closes, another one opens.

— Alexander Graham Bell