I first began to dry specimens for preservation carelessly perhaps at first, but before the season was over, I had collected between one and two hundred species. George Bentham Read Quote
When you come out of your teens, you think you’re sussed. But you don’t know who you are at 22. You’re constantly trying to fit in. You get a little lost. Julia Sawalha Read Quote
I think when you’re a tall girl, you feel a little bit like an outcast. You have to go to the back of the photo. You’re taller than all the boys. I know I felt more like an outsider. And then as I got older, I just got used to it. I got like, ‘I don’t date under 6 feet.’ That’s my policy. Jessica Williams Read Quote
I must explore desert ground and see what can grow. But there are limits. I know in my heart what I would never do. Charlotte Rampling Read Quote
When I was really little I would sit in the back of my dad’s car when he’d be playing old-school music. He’d turn down the music and turn around and I’d be singing and know all of the words but I didn’t even know how to talk. From then on I’ve always wanted to be a singer. Leona Lewis Read Quote
In a country that provides no subsidized child care and no mandatory family leave, no assurance of flexibility in the workplace for parents, no universal preschool and minimal safety nets for vulnerable families, making it a crime to offer children independence in effect makes it a crime to be poor. Kim Brooks Read Quote
