Born Quote by Simon Newcomb Download Open image “Though born in Nova Scotia, I am of almost pure New England descent.” — Simon Newcomb ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Born Descent England New england Nova scotia Pure
I was born in England, but then I lived in Calgary, Saudi Arabia, Cyprus, India, Vancouver, London, Toronto, and now L.A. — Hannah Simone Copy Share Image
I was born in Cambridge but brought up in and around Winchester, in Hampshire. I've also lived in Hong Kong and America. — Chris Geere Copy Share Image
Well, I moved around quite a lot so I was born in Yorkshire and then I moved to Blackpool, which is like North England. — Olly Alexander Copy Share Image
If my impressions are correct, our educational planing mill cuts down all the knots of genius, and reduces the best of the men who… — Simon Newcomb Copy Share Image
Aerial flight is one of that class of problems with which men will never have to cope. — Simon Newcomb Copy Share Image
One hardly knows where, in the history of science, to look for an important movement that had its effective start in so pure and… — Simon Newcomb Copy Share Image
Until I was four years old I lived in the house of my paternal grandfather, about two miles from the pretty little village of… — Simon Newcomb Copy Share Image
One of the most beautiful hypotheses ever propounded in physics is ... the Dynamical Theory of Gases — Simon Newcomb Copy Share Image
Construction of an aerial vehicle which can carry even a single man . . . requires the discovery of some new metal or force.… — Simon Newcomb Copy Share Image
James Edward Oliver might have been one of the great mathematicians of his time had he not been absolutely wanting in the power of… — Simon Newcomb Copy Share Image
A suggestion had been made to me looking toward a professorship in some Western college, but after due consideration, I declined to consider the… — Simon Newcomb Copy Share Image
My father followed, during most of his life, the precarious occupation of a country school teacher. — Simon Newcomb Copy Share Image
In 1858 I received the degree of D. S. from the Lawrence Scientific School, and thereafter remained on the rolls of the university as… — Simon Newcomb Copy Share Image
The result was that, if it happened to clear off after a cloudy evening, I frequently arose from my bed at any hour of… — Simon Newcomb Copy Share Image
My mother says I didn't open my eyes for eight days after I was born, but when I did, the first thing I saw… — Elizabeth Taylor Copy Share Image
I always thought if I was born 2000 years earlier, I would be a monk, probably carving a monastery or some giant pantheon buildings. — Jenova Chen Copy Share Image
The real world out there isn't nearly as nice as some people prefer it to be, so don't swallow everything your high-born teachers tell… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Anybody looking for a quiet life has picked the wrong century to born in. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was born and raised in Orlando, where the economy and culture has been powerfully shaped by tourism, and so I've long been interested… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
I know that in the rap game you've got a lot of people, that come from poverty, was born in poverty and if it… — Jon Connor Copy Share Image
Nothing old is ever reborn but neither does it totally disappear. And that which has once been born, will always reappear in a new… — Alvar Aalto Copy Share Image
I have lifted my plane . . . for perhaps a thousand flights and I have never felt her wheels glide from the Earth… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Must I go bound while you go free Must I love a manwho doesn't love me Must I be born with so little art… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I'm not against gay people. I have a relative who is also gay. We can't help it if they were born that way. — Manny Pacquiao Copy Share Image
