Quotes & Sayings About Deceased Grandfathers

No religious doctrine shall be established by law. — Elbridge Gerry

Expecting gratitude for a gift is... unseemly. — Jack Caldwell

The things that bring you the greatest joy are in alignment with your purpose. — Jack Canfield

My love is to tell a story but I like stories that evolve from character, from the nature of the individuals involved. — David McCullough

You ask any person in the U.S. and they know who Mary Lou Retton is. — Nastia Liukin

Being terrorized by living people seemed to have diminished his fear of the dead — Katherine Boo

Because the light of evolution is not instantaneous or blinding, it is difficult to visualize the immensely slow and gradual change that is brought about by mutation and natural selection. When you consider a protozoan cell or an amphibian, on the one hand, and dolphins or, say, commuters, on the other, there is no intuitive way to make sense of the line that runs from one form of life to the next.

The popular cartoon of evolution, where the ape slowly unbends, straightens up, starts walking, and mutates into some form of modern-day human, is probably the easiest way to think about it. But [...] this caricature is misleading. Evolution does not follow the course of a single line. The tree of life bristles with stems, boughs, and branches. Most lines from one form to another are densely surrounded by branches leading to different species or dead ends. — Christine Kenneally

We live well in the houses, well enough, but we are ruled utterly by fear. There was a time we sailed in ships between the stars. Now, we dare not go 100 miles from home. We keep a little knowledge and do nothing with it, but once we used that knowledge to weave the pattern of life like a tapestry across night and chaos. We enlarged the chances of life. — Ursula K. Le Guin