Baucham Cemetery Quotes & Sayings

Without death there is little innovation. Extinction - death of a species - is part and parcel of evolutionary change. In the absence of this kind of extinction new developments would not prosper. In our own history, periods when ideas have been perpetuated by dogma, preventing the replacement of old by new ideas, have also been times of stultifying stagnation. The Dark Ages in western society were the most static, least innovative of times. So the fact that trilobites were replaced by batches of successive species through their long history was a testimony to their evolutionary vigour. — Richard Fortey

Tobacco is a culture productive of infinite wretchedness. — Thomas Jefferson

We've all had that experience where we hear a song that we've liked for many years, and we finally hear what the writer tells us what it's about, and you're often disappointed. — Jakob Dylan

I don't mind talking about my family and how to balance it all. But, in today's world, we should probably be asking both women and men about work and family and how to balance the two. — Kelli O'Hara

I love and reverence the Word, the bearer of the spirit, the tool and gleaming ploughshare of progress. — Thomas Mann

The reserve currency role seems to add prestige to an area and some people in Europe have talked about the desirability of the euro becoming an international reserve currency. — Robert C. Solomon

I went to church and couldn't swallow it. The music was nice but I don't belong there. — Alain De Botton