Family Progenitors Quotes & Sayings

Men ... look back on the children who were once themselves, and attempt to reconstruct them. But they can no longer think like the child ... — Mary Roberts Rinehart

Beyond the natural numbers, addition, multiplication, and mathematical induction are intuitively clear. — L. E. J. Brouwer

From now on all of my guitar solos will be in morse code. — Jason Hicks

Even after the observation of the frequent conjunction of objects, we have no reason to draw any inference concerning any object beyond those of which we have had experience. — David Hume

I've appeared in those kind of films and have great fun doing it, and I'm always up for a challenge. I think with things like Mission: Impossible and Star Trek, those things are such an ensemble, it's not like I'm Ethan Hunt. I'm Benji. I'm the guy that does the computer business. I know my place. — Simon Pegg

I don't date women my age. There aren't any. — Milton Berle

I'm a four star general in this thing, and you don't rise to the ranks of a four star general by hanging about the house being the perfect dad. — Sam Elliott

One of the things the 'Tao of Travel' shows is how unforthcoming most travel writers are, how most travelers are. They don't tell you who they were traveling with, and they're not very reliable about things that happened to them. — Paul Theroux

I was a gang leader. Although, it was a gang for defensive purposes. It was not a gang to sell drugs. — Jack Bowman

Everything is nothing by itself. — Chuck Palahniuk

If you have the capacity to love, you have the capacity to love anyone. — Paula Patton

No man has the right to rule over another man, otherwise such a right necessarily, and immediately becomes the right of the strongest. As the tiger in the jungle rules over the defenceless antelope, so on the banks of the Nile a Pharaoh ruled over the progenitors of the fellaheen of Egypt. Nor can a group of men, by contract, from their own right, compel you to obey a fellow-man. What binding force is there for me in the allegation that ages ago one of my progenitors made a 'Contrat Social,' with other men of that time? As man I stand free and bold, over against the most powerful of my fellow-men. I do not speak of the family, for here organic, natural ties rule; but in the sphere of the State I do not yield or bow down to anyone, who is man, as I am. — Abraham Kuyper

We ain't in California no more," Pilate said. "Every fuckin' body up here's got a gun. Even that old lady in the hamburger shop, shot Michelle. — John Sandford

In the beginning, before the arrival of the white men, I had considered myself neutral. I had wanted neither side to win, neither the army nor the rebels. As it turned out, both sides lost. — V.S. Naipaul

If the Lord be with us, we have no cause of fear. His eye is upon us, His arm over us, His ear open to our prayer - His grace sufficient, His promise unchangeable. — John Newton