Fulmars Bird Quotes & Sayings

My childhood had gone by without my knowing, and it seemed as if my heart had frozen. — Ishmael Beah

It's an interesting thing in this country. I haven't won a gold medal, yet Australians still take me into their houses and hearts, they know my name and they care. I think Aussies like the little Aussie battler and the person who will stand up for their rights and I've never been short of a word, especially with officialdom. — Raelene Boyle

Yesterday people were going past my window in t shirts and dresses. But that's the men at the BBC for you. — Eddie Mair

guess I just wish that I'd lived more in the present, with the person who loved me and was there, instead of living in the past with the ghost of someone I once loved but could never have. — Karpov Kinrade

I've always been raised to love everyone, to accept everyone for their differences, and to just be open. But at a young, a very young age, I realized what racism was all about. — Nia Long

The key to genius is knowing how to make connections. — Nor Sanavongsay

I have a vernacular house on the seaside in Northumberland and an Edwardian semi in south Manchester. They're both exactly as big as they need to be. I can't be doing with an ostentatious, big house - you can only be in one room at a time. — Val McDermid

Destiny is that which we are drawn towards and Fate is that which we run into. — Wyatt Earp

Religion is the great balm of existence because it takes us outside ourselves, connects us to something larger — Robert Greene

Be suspicious of any work that is not building product or getting customers. — Sam Altman

Birds arrived. Gulls landed within weeks of the island's emergence, depositing the guano that built a richer soil. Fulmars and guillemots were the first to nest. Snow buntings and graylag geese came, almost ninety bird species in all, and twenty-one species of butterfly and moth. The first bush - a willow - came fifteen years after creation, and five years after the willows, seals were breeding on the young island. The descriptions make Surtsey sound like an orchestra, one instrument after another joining until there was the symphony that is an ecosystem. — Rebecca Solnit

Take my condition. The things I am supposed to be embarrassed about now - not being able to walk, not being able to wipe my ass, waking up some mornings wanting to cry - there is nothing innately embarrassing or shaming about them. It's the same for women not being thin enough, or men not being rich enough. It's just what our culture would have you believe. Don't believe it. — Mitch Albom

He used to wonder how such a frail little body could house so much joy, so much goodness. It couldn't. It spilled out of her, came pouring out her eyes. — Khaled Hosseini

My parents used to say to me to save. Always save. They also told me to invest in properties and to never go over your monthly allowance. — Amy Childs