Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Hughes

Perhaps the rhinos and she-crocodiles whose gyrations between Mortimer's and East Hampton gives us our vision of social eminence today are content to entrust their faces to Andy Warhol's mingily cosmetic Polaroidising, but one would bet they would rather go to Sargent.

Yaya Toure

The illegal wildlife trade threatens not only the survival of entire species, such as elephants and rhinos, but also the livelihoods and, often, the very lives of millions of people across Africa who depend on tourism for a living.

Paul Theroux

You can't save the rhinos and you can't preserve a culture. I'm very pessimistic. Once it's gone, it's over.

Paul Theroux

Tibet has a very proud people but it's culturally gone and overrun ever since the Chinese took over. It's like saving the rhino. When a species is endangered, it's gone.

John Irving

I have a friend who says that reviewers are the tickbirds of the literary rhinoceros-but he is being kind. Tickbirds perform a valuable service to the rhino and the rhino hardly notices the birds.

Steven Morrissey

The rhino is now more or less extinct, and it's not because of global warming or shrinking habitats. It's because of Beyonce's handbags.

Mark Carwardine

The scary thing is that in my lifetime, 95 per cent of the world's rhinos have been killed.

Samuel Jutzi

Knowing the flyways and the bird species that use them, there is a high likelihood that the virus will continue to spread as it has so far,

Dave Mitchell

I would think the pheasant season will be half as good as it was last year, because there are going to be half as many birds out there. You're not just going to be able to walk out on the Game Lands and expect to shoot a bird.

Albert Osterhaus

I think it is a worrisome situation, especially because we think that swans could be an indicator species, meaning that swans are relatively susceptible and so it could well be that other aquatic birds could be infected. Now we have seen it in Greece and Italy and now Germany. It is spreading all over Europe.

Fred Funk

It came down to 18 and I didn't think with the wind and those conditions that I could get home, but I hit a really good drive and a really good three-wood to get it up there. I didn't think birdie would win it, but you just never know in the Skins Game.

Susan Whitson

He wanted to make sure the birds would still be there when he got back.

Mary Kindred

There are so many people that go through their entire lives trying to experience happiness. And we have gotten true joy out of being able to do something so simple as to keep a little bird warm to get it to a bird rehabilitator.

Stephen Ames

Having the opportunity to birdie the last three holes like I did today was good. And maybe a couple of fortunate times, like 18, a little scare on the 3-wood (drive), it ended up being way up the fairway and only a 6-iron in. It was fortunate and the nature of the game.

Chris DiMarco

He said, 'How are you doing?' I said, 'I'm good, I'm having so much fun. He said, 'Good. Because we really need your point.' I got up-and-down for birdie and on the next hole, the 17th, I'm tied with Stuart Appleby. Mr. Nicklaus is on the tee helping me out with what club to hit. To me, that was the coolest thing.

Langston Hughes

Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.

William Zinsser

Don't be kind of bold. Be bold.

Wayne Dyer

It is better to be kind than right.

William Arthur Ward

Do more than be fair: be kind.

Zig Ziglar

Take time to be kind and to say 'thank you'.

Morarji Desai

One can't be kind to one person and cruel to another.

Alan Cohen

Be kind to everyone, and don't leave yourself out of the equation.

Cassandra Clare

Sometimes one must choose whether to be kind or honorable," he said. "Sometimes one cannot be both.

Naomi Judd

Slow down, simplify and be kind.

Margaret Atwood

The best way of being kind to bears is not to be very close to them.