"My wife determined that my genius should prevail,……" — John James Audubon
"My wife determined that my genius should prevail, and that my final success as an ornithologist should be triumphant."
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John James Audubon
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61 Quotes by John James Audubon
John James Audubon has 61 quotes on this site.
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A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from…
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Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them.
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During all these years there existed within me a tendency to follow Nature in her walks.
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Almost every day, instead of going to school, I made for the fields, where I spent my day.
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In my deepest troubles, I frequently would wrench myself from the persons around me and retire to some secluded part…
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I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens.
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Mathematics was hard, dull work. Geography pleased me more. For dancing I was quite enthusiastic.
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My drawings at first were made altogether in watercolors, but they wanted softness and a great deal of finish.
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The worse my drawings were, the more beautiful did the originals appear.
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To have been torn from the study would have been as death; my time was entirely occupied with art.
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I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime…
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If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do…
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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our…
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Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason…
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If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will…
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Filibusters have proliferated because under current rules just one or two determined senators can stop the Senate from functioning. Today,…
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America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence…
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What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when…
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The proud depend upon the world to tell them whether they have value or not. Their self-esteem is determined by…
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Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations.
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He seems determined to make a trumpet sound like a tin whistle.
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I am determined to give the Yiddish language a fighting chance to survive.
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My first plan of escape having failed, I now determined upon another.
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Our lives are not determined by what happens to us but how we react to what happens, not by what…
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