Ecological Systems Theory Quotes & Sayings

For the modern world will accept no dogmas upon any authority; but it will accept any dogmas on no authority. Say that a thing is so, according to the Pope or the Bible, and it will be dismissed as a superstition without examination. But preface your remark merely with "they say" or "don't you know that?" or try (and fail) to rememver the name of some professor mentioned in some newspaper; and the keen rationalism of the modern mind will accept every word you say. — G.K. Chesterton

The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders are no more. I Am Not A Virginian, But An American! — Patrick Henry

Just think of all those women on the Titanic who said, 'No thank you' to desert that night. And for what?! — Erma Bombeck

Hold on to me: Someday I may be quite valuable. — Ashleigh Brilliant

Only because of ignorance could he shape the world so fearlessly — Orson Scott Card

I guess that all figures into my approach because once I start hearing the imagination land stuff (that's my new phrase now I guess) I tend to tune out or start laughing at it like, "Haha, you guys really believe there is a heaven." — Brad Warner

Somehow it just don't seem fitting for a man to spend his wedding night in a tree. — Jane Powell

My sister and I, you will recollect, were twins, and you know how subtle are the links which bind two souls which are so closely allied. — Arthur Conan Doyle

All that happens in the world of Nature or Man, - every war; every peace; every hour of prosperity; every hour of adversity; every election; every death ; every life; every success and every failure, - all change, - all permanence, - the perished leaf; the unutterable glory of stars, - all things speak truth to the thoughtful spirit. — Rufus Choate