Anning Quotes & Sayings

Spiritual wisdom manifests regardless of the level of education — Sunday Adelaja

I think I finally chose the graduate degree in engineering primarily because it only took one year and law school took three years, and I felt the pressure of being a little behind - although I was just 22. — Daniel J. Evans

I felt strong for once. I felt like I could do anything. Be anything. — Laura-Louise Slattery

It's not finding what's lost, it's understanding what you've found. — Alice Hoffman

Very early in my life I took the question of the relation of art to truth seriously: even now I stand in holy dread in the face of this discordance. My first book was devoted to it. The Birth of Tragedy believes in art on the background of another belief — Friedrich Nietzsche

Mary Anning [is] probably the most important unsung (or inadequately sung) collecting force in the history of paleontology. — Stephen Jay Gould

I'm also a fan of ridiculously coloured and patterned socks. — Daniel Radcliffe

Anning would spend the next thirty-five years gathering fossils, which she sold to visitors. (She is commonly held to be the source for the famous tongue twister "She sells seashells on the seashore.") — Bill Bryson

Money shouldn't be worshiped and it shouldn't be ignored. — Alexa Von Tobel

It would be hard to think of a more overlooked person in the history of palaeontology than Mary Anning, — Bill Bryson

The world has used me so unkindly, I fear it has made me suspicious of everyone. — Mary Anning

I have always admired most those who lead with their eyes, like Mary Anning, for they seem more aware of the world and its workings. — Tracy Chevalier

How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes! — Maya Angelou

The secret to not being afraid is to understand what scares you — Deborah Wiles

Twenty-first-century attitudes towards time and our expectations of story are very different from the shape of Mary Anning's life. She spent day after day, year after year, doing the same thing on the beach. I have taken the events of her life and condensed them to fit into a narrative that is not stretched beyond the reader's patience. Hence events, while in order, do not always coincide exactly with actual dates and time spans. Plus, of course, I made up plenty. For instance, while there was gossip about Mary and Buckland and Mary and Birch, there was no proof. That is where only a novelist can step in. — Tracy Chevalier

I'm inspired by playwrights, novelists, poets: The value of language has been a lifelong passion of mine. I enjoy it. I'm good at it. — Mos Def

The carpenter's daughter has won a name for herself, and deserved to win it — Charles Dickens

He danced with a young woman with no hair, but who wore a wig of shining beetles that swarmed and seethed on her head. His third partner complained bitterly whenever Stephen's hand happened to brush her gown; she said it put her gown of its singing; and, when Stephen looked down, he saw that her gown was indeed covered with tiny mouths which opened and sang a little tune in a series of high, errie notes. — Susanna Clarke

While Molly and Joseph Anning suffered materially that winter, with many days of weak soup and weaker fires, Mary barely noticed how little she was eating or the chilblains on her hands and feet. She was suffering inside. — Tracy Chevalier

Anning anything leads to organized crime. People will always find a way to get what they want, and there will always be criminals willing to provide it. — Gabrielle Zevin

Not to have a correct political point of view is like having no soul ... — Mao Zedong