Appellation Quotes
18 quotes by 13 authors
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Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence of performance. . . . There will always…
— James Bryant Conant
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Most of us who become experimental physicists do so for two reasons; we love the tools of physics because to us they have intrinsic beauty,…
— Luis Walter Alvarez
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This place is the Devil, or at least his principal residence, they call it the University, but any other appellation would have suited it much…
— Lord Byron
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Nigeria is not a nation. It is a mere geographical expression. There are no 'Nigerians' in the same sense as there are 'English,' 'Welsh,' or…
— Obafemi Awolowo
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Amongst other strange things said of me, I hear it is said by the deists that I am one of the number; and indeed, that…
— Patrick Henry
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Gardening as far as Gardening is Art, or entitled to that appellation, is a deviation from nature; for if the true taste consists, as many…
— Joshua Reynolds
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If no other knowledge deserves to be called useful but that which helps to enlarge our possessions or to raise our station in society, then…
— Thomas Bulfinch
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The government of the United States has been emphatically termed a government of laws, and not of men. It will certainly cease to deserve this…
— John Marshall
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Cuvier had even in his address & manner the character of a superior Man, much general power & eloquence in conversation & great variety of…
— Humphry Davy
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True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.
— George Washington
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Citizens by birth or choice of a common country, that country has a right to concentrate your affections. The name of American, which belongs to…
— George Washington
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The continent is too large to describe. It is a veritable ocean, a separate planet, a varied, immensely rich cosmos. Only with the greatest simplification,…
— Ryszard Kapuscinski
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No touching Baby Jesus.†“But we’re his parents!†proclaimed Mary Beth, who was being generous to include poor Joseph under this appellation. “Mary Beth,†Barb…
— John Irving
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Although the French appellation system has its roots in the 1923 system created in Chateauneuf-du-Pape by Baron Le Roy, proprietor of the renowned Chateau Fortia,…
— Robert M. Parker, Jr.
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Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
— George Washington
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Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a…
— George Washington
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Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a…
— George Washington
Who Wrote These Appellation Quotes
13 authors contributed a total of 18 Appellation Quotes as follows: