Isabella Bird quotes

“Everybody seized upon a bit of the beast. The Sultan claimed the liver, which, when dried and powdered, is worth twice its weight in gold as medicine.”
-- Isabella Bird

Source : Isabella Bird (2010). “The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither”, p.228, Cambridge University Press

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“I have just dropped into the very place I have been seeking, but in everything it exceeds all my dreams.”
-- Isabella Bird

Source : Isabella L. Bird (2012). “A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains”, p.53, Courier Corporation

#Dream Quotes

“Japan offers as much novelty perhaps as an excursion to another planet.”
-- Isabella Bird

Source : Isabella Lucy Bird (2010). “Unbeaten Tracks in Japan: Volume 1: An Account of Travels in the Interior, Including Visits to the Aborigines of Yezo and the Shrines of Nikkô and Isé”, p.45, Cambridge University Press

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“Surely one advantage of traveling is that, while it removes much prejudice against foreigners and their customs, it intensifies tenfold one's appreciation of the good at home.”
-- Isabella Bird

Source : Isabella L. Bird (2012). “A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains”, p.159, Courier Corporation

#Appreciation Quotes #Travel Quotes #Home Quotes

“I have found a dream of beauty at which one might look all one's life and sigh.”
-- Isabella Bird

Source : Isabella L. Bird (2012). “A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains”, p.7, Courier Corporation

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“Americans specially love superlatives. The phrases 'biggest in the world,' 'finest in the world,' are on all lips.”
-- Isabella Bird

Source : Isabella L. Bird (2012). “A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains”, p.128, Courier Corporation

#United States Quotes #Phrases Quotes #World Quotes

“The 'almighty dollar' is the true divinity, and its worship is universal.”
-- Isabella Bird

Source : Isabella L. Bird (2012). “A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains”, p.127, Courier Corporation

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“[On Malaysia:] Mr. Darwin says so truly that a visit to the tropics (and such tropics) is like a visit to a new planet. This new wonder-world, so enchanting, tantalising, intoxicating, makes me despair, for I cannot make you see what I am seeing!”
-- Isabella Bird

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“I think we learn from medicine everywhere that it is, at its heart, a human endeavor, requiring good science but also a limitless curiosity and interest in your fellow human being, and that the physician-patient relationship is key; all else follows from it.”

Source : Interview with John McMurtrie, www.sfgate.com. March 14, 2010.

“She felt the familiar calmness of an emergency, but she understood the falseness of that feeling, now that it was her life at stake.”

“The longer I practise medicine, the more convinced I am there are only two types of cases: those that involve taking the trousers off and those that don't.”

Source : 1973 Habeas Corpus.

“Future medicine will be the medicine of frequencies.”

“Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.”

Source : "Boundaries and Crossing". Interview with Vered Shemtov, shma.com. March 4, 2004.

“Gold is not necessary. I have no interest in gold. We'll build a solid state, without an ounce of gold behind it. Anyone who sells above the set prices, let him be marched off to a concentration. That's the bastion of money.”

“It was like losing an important weight-bearing bone, and I knew I would spend the rest of my life trying to figure out how to walk the streets without it.”

Source : Adam Rapp (2006). “The Year of Endless Sorrows: A Novel”, p.390, Macmillan

“I hear you're losing weight again, Mary Jane. Do you ever wonder who you're losing it for?”

“Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.”

“The heart bowed down by weight of woe To weakest hope will cling.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.