Jussieu Library Quotes & Sayings

I observed on most collected stones the imprints of innumerable plant fragments which were so different from those which are growing in the Lyonnais, in the nearby provinces, and even in the rest of France, that I felt like collecting plants in a new world ... The number of these leaves, the way they separated easily, and the great variety of plants whose imprints I saw, appeared to me just as many volumes of botany representing in the same quarry the oldest library of the world. — Antoine De Jussieu

Sometimes, you have to go through a phase whether you like it or not. — Tina Weymouth

this was passed to
writing and the content of a writing burned can no longer be
handed back to memory, for writing abolishes memory and as what
was written can no longer be passed down, it has no Author in the old
sense: no ability to act as proxy to, to verify on behalf of. — Erin Moure

Many of the things which can never be, often are. — Norton Juster

This is the charged, the dangerous moment, when everything must be re-examined, must be made new, when nothing at all can be taken for granted. — James Baldwin

Someone stole my bicycle and I said I was going to learn to fight so that I could catch him and beat him up. But I never did catch him. But I ended up the champ of the whole world. — Muhammad Ali

Cheerfulness is a sign of a generous and mortified person who forgetting all things, even herself, tries to please her God in all she does for souls. Cheerfulness is often a cloak which hides a life of sacrifice and a continual union with God. — Mother Teresa

Today riches and honours have been lavished on me, but one gift has been lacking, the most important one of all, the only one that matters, the gift of youth. — Knut Hamsun

Continuity of purpose is one of the most essential ingredients of happiness in the long run, and for most men that comes chiefly through their work. — Bertrand Russell

Session work makes you more strict. You can't hit notes all over the place. You've got to make each one really count. — Ritchie Blackmore

People think me a sort of Florence Nightingale, but I have no heroic qualities. I simply don't feel very much. — Franny Billingsley

You must take your chance. — William Shakespeare

Life is a beautiful struggle.. — Talib Kweli

Whatever the political affiliation of our next President, whatever his views may be on all the issues and problems that rush in upon us, he must above all be the chief executive in every sense of the word. — John F. Kennedy

The whole concept of rewarding customers is a big trend. — Sam Altman

I want to preach till the last breath in my lungs runs out. — Charles R. Swindoll