#land

With a firm and steadfast mind one should hold under all conditions, that everywhere the earth is below and the sky above, and to the energetic man, every region is his fatherland. ↗

— Tycho Brahe

#below #conditions #earth #energetic #every

I was a young kid from Long Island who wanted to do something large with her life, so I can relate to that. ↗

— Edie Falco

#i #i can #island #kid #large

There was still food rationing in England and life was difficult all through my 2 year stay in Oxford. ↗

— Sydney Brenner

#england #food #life #oxford #rationing

I. cannot stoop to reply to the folly and the slander of every poor Tory partisan who assails me, and I should not have noticed you but for the fact that you are a member of the House of Commons. ↗

— John Bright

#commons #every #fact #folly #house

At the age of nineteen and a half, I went to the Land of Israel to till its soil and live by the labour of my hands. As I did not find work, I sought my livelihood elsewhere. ↗

— Shmuel Y. Agnon

#did #elsewhere #find #half #hands

In the Netherlands I read the first chapter of Exquisite Corpse to an audience that laughed in all the places I thought were funny - an experience I've never had in America! ↗

— Poppy Z. Brite

#audience #chapter #corpse #experience #exquisite

I was born in Boston, but then I went down to Virginia. We spent a little time in Maryland, and then were in Virginia by the time I was seven. What struck me the most was that my mother thought that she had gone to the middle of nowhere, and we would still drive four hours for her to get her hair cut in Washington, D.C. ↗

— Connie Britton

#boston #by the time #cut #down #drive

When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reason get you back up. ↗

— Les Brown

#back up #because #down #get #knocks

So I quit my job and went to the New England Culinary Institute for the full two years and worked in the restaurant industry after that until finally I thought I had a grasp on what I needed to do what I do. ↗

— Alton Brown

#culinary #england #finally #full #grasp

I came from Long Island, so I had a lot of experience at the stick. I played in junior high school, then I played in high school. The technical aspect of the game was my forte. I had all that experience, then I had strength and I was in good condition. ↗

— Jim Brown

#came #condition #experience #forte #game