Ann Bancroft Explorer Quotes & Sayings

The earth, like the sun, like the air, belongs to everyone and to no one. — Edward Abbey

You see, my buddies had a freedom I no longer had. All I wanted was to do something normal and skateboard with the guys, but i knew that if I went downstairs to join them it would create total chaos. — Justin Bieber

The book of nature is like the Bible: Everyone reads into it what they want, from tolerance to intolerance, and from altruism to greed. It's good to realize, though, that if biologists never stop talking of competition, this doesn't mean they advocate it, and if they call genes selfish, this doesn't mean that genes actually are. Genes can't be any more "selfish" than a river can be "angry," or sun rays "loving." Genes are little chunks of DNA. At most, they are "self-promoting," because successful genes help their carriers spread more copies of themselves. — Frans De Waal

The Dunns must of felt this when Tracy vanished. Crazy as they are, crazy as she was, they must — Octavia E. Butler

I loved Adam Sandler's early stuff. I thought it was so cool how irreverent and weird he would get. — Adam DeVine

But love isn't just about feeling good. It's about doing what you don't want to do, over and over again, if it needs to be done, for the sake of someone else. Love is really about self-sacrifice. — Meg Meeker

The guy at the cash register is a redhead in his thirties with freckles and a two-inch-diameter birthmark, as pink as uncooked salmon, on his pale forehead. The mark is uncannily like the image of a fetus curled in a womb, as if a gestating twin had died early in the mother's pregnancy and left its fossilized image on the surviving brother's brow. — Dean Koontz

In my works, the geography map-wise is accurate - roads are where I say they are, and go from this town to the next as I say they do, and yes, it would take a curricle that long to travel that distance. — Stephanie Laurens

The warnings are a shout in the wind, swallowed up in the atmosphere. He's compelling and chivalrous, gorgeous and generous, and I'm intoxicated and in desperate need of something ... something that he stirs up, something strong, and primal. He awakens the animal inside of me. — J.M. Darhower

The chamber where the good man meets his fate Is privileg'd beyond the common walk Of virtuous life, quite in the verge of heaven. — Edward Young

Men are not dogs. We merely think we are and, on occasion, act as if we are. But, by believing in our nobler nature, women have the amazing power to inspire us to live up to it. — Neil Strauss

Reading can be just feeding, but smart reading takes us further. The classroom is one way to go deeper, but we can't stay in school forever. — Bobbie Ann Mason

Flowers are almost perfect; their only flaw is that they are weak; they can't protect themselves against the evil! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

In a Photoshopped world, only the skeptical eye prevails. — Jamais Cascio

I've never been a social person. — Annie Lennox