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Before Quotes by Bill Bryson
- England was full of words I'd never heard before - streaky bacon, short back and sides, Belisha beacon, serviettes, high tea, ice-cream cornet.
- We forget just how painfully dim the world was before electricity. A candle, a good candle, provides barely a hundredth of the illumination of a…
- I hadn't realized quite how extraordinary Charles Lindbergh's achievement was in flying the Atlantic alone. He had never flown over open water before, but he…
- It is always quietly thrilling to find yourself looking at a world you know well but have never seen from such an angle before.
- Before, prior to. There is no difference between these two except length and a certain affectedness on the part of 'prior to.' To paraphrase Bernstein,…
- But I got a great deal else from the experience. I learned to pitch a tent and sleep beneath the stars. For a brief, proud…
- And before long there will be no more milk in bottles delivered to the doorstep or sleepy rural pubs, and the countryside will be mostly…
- Human beings would split the atom and invent television, nylon, and instant coffee before they could figure out the age of their own planet.
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- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Years ago someone wrote [about me]: 'She characterizes Molly Weasley as a mother who is only at home looking after the children.'… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
- Don't be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is… — Richard Bach
- If you meditate, sooner or later you will come upon love. If you meditate deeply, sooner or later you will start feeling… — Rajneesh
- Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in… — Aristophanes
- I firmly believe that when you die you will enter immediately into another life. They who have gone before us are alive… — Norman Vincent Peale
- Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that… — Karen Armstrong
- I began wearing hats as a young lawyer because it helped me to establish my professional identity. Before that, whenever I was… — Bella Abzug