America Quote by Ellsworth Huntington Download Open image “America forms the longest and straightest bone in the earth's skeleton.” — Ellsworth Huntington ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare America Bones Earth Form Geology Nature Skeletons
America is rising with a giant's strength. Its bones are yet but cartilages. — Fisher Ames Copy Share Image
Talleyrand once said to the first Napoleon that the United States is a giant without bones. Since that time our gristle has been rapidly… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
It is well known, that on the Ohio, and in many parts of America further north, tusks, grinders, and skeletons of unparalleled magnitude are found in great numbers, some lying on the surface of the earth, and some a little below it ... But to whatever animal we ascribe these remains, it is certain that such a one has existed… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share
It isn't easy to become a fossil. ... Only about one bone in a billion, it is thought, becomes fossilized. If that is so, it means that the complete fossil legacy of all the Americans alive today - that's 270 million people with 206 bones each - will only be about 50 bones, one-quarter of a complete skeleton. That's not… — Bill Bryson Copy Share
“Americans consume more cow’s milk and its products per person than most populations in the world. So Americans should have wonderfully strong bones, right? Unfortunately not. A recent study showed that American women aged fifty and older have one of the highest rates of hip fractures in the world. 1 The only countries with higher rates are in Europe and… — T. Colin Campbell Copy Share
The Indians said the bones were those of a race of people ... three times the size of a man. — Buffalo Bill Copy Share Image
Bone is one of the hardest structures of the animal body; it possesses also a certain degree of toughness and elasticity. — Henry Gray Copy Share Image
Have you noticed that bones are always modeled and not carved, that you always have the impression they come from a mold, that they… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
“The bone was sent to Dr. Caspar Wistar, the nation’s leading anatomist, who described it at a meeting of the American Philosophical Society in… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
The evidence points to central Asia as man's original home, for the general movement of human migrations has been outward from that region and… — Ellsworth Huntington Copy Share Image
After washing there was no place to pour the water except out of the window onto the heads of the people in the streets,… — Ellsworth Huntington Copy Share Image
Although farming of any sort was almost as impossible in the plains as in the dry regions of winter rains farther west, the abundance… — Ellsworth Huntington Copy Share Image
It seems strange that almost no other traces of the strong vikings are found in America. — Ellsworth Huntington Copy Share Image
Again and again, to be sure, on the way to America, and under many other circumstances, man has passed through the most adverse climates… — Ellsworth Huntington Copy Share Image
Year by year we are learning that in this restless, strenuous American life of ours vacations are essential. — Ellsworth Huntington Copy Share Image
Except on their southern borders the great northern forests are not good as a permanent home for man. — Ellsworth Huntington Copy Share Image
From first to last the civilization of America has been bound up with its physical environment. — Ellsworth Huntington Copy Share Image
It will be a vast boon to mankind when we learn to prophesy the precise dates when cycles of various kinds will reach definite… — Ellsworth Huntington Copy Share Image
Fertile soil, level plains, easy passage across the mountains, coal, iron, and other metals imbedded in the rocks, and a stimulating climate, all shower… — Ellsworth Huntington Copy Share Image
History in its broadest aspect is a record of man's migrations from one environment to another. — Ellsworth Huntington Copy Share Image
We are learning, too, that the love of beauty is one of Nature's greatest healers. — Ellsworth Huntington Copy Share Image
The costs of the Bush-Obama wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are now estimated to run as high as $4.4 trillion - a major victory… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
Well, The Day the Earth Caught Fire was a story... I don't if anybody knows what it is but it was about... in the… — Val Guest Copy Share Image
So here's what I want you to know, and here's what I want all our men and women in uniform to know: Because of… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Today, the world looks to America for leadership. And America looks to its Corps of Marines. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The image of blacks usually is one of people who are suffering from hunger, unemployment, and poverty. The idea of them as agents and… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
I'll smoke, I'll cough, I'll get the tumors, I'll die, deal? Thank you America. [salutes] — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
America is a democracy and has no Hitler, but I am afraid for her future; there are hard times ahead for the American people,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century some parts of the world were unexplored, but there was almost no restriction on travel.:; Up to 1914 you did… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
We need a system that serves our needs, not the needs of others. Remember, under a Trump administration it's called America first. Remember that. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
America, you're sending girls a mixed message. On one hand, you're saying to have positive body image and love who we are; on the… — Adora Svitak Copy Share Image
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