Ernsberger Family Reunion Quotes & Sayings

We accept that people are irrational for good Darwinian reasons. But I don't think we should be so pessimistic as to think that therefore we're forever condemned to be irrational. — Richard Dawkins

It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. — Bertrand Russell

She felt as if the grave stones were whispering those names to her as she walked past ... Those stones that bore no names seemed like closed mouths, sad mouths that forgotten how to speak. But perhaps the dead didn't mind what their names had once been? — Cornelia Funke

Even the roughest character, underneath all that hurt, is someone who wants to love and be loved. — Jan Karon

If the only new thing we have to offer is an improved version of the past, then today can only be inferior to yesterday. Hypnotized by images of the past, we risk losing all capacity for creative change. — Robert Hewison

The variety of polyprenol phosphate sugars may turn out to be as large as that of sugar nucleotides. — Luis Federico Leloir

I see women who have this struggle between what they know is right, what they know is necessary, what they know is healthy, what they know is good for them, what they know is good for the work that they need to do, what they know is good for their bodies, what they know is good for their families - all too often ending that statement with the upturned question mark: "If it's okay with everyone?" Still asking, still requesting, still filing petitions for somebody to say that it's all right. — Elizabeth Gilbert