Fridge Magnets Inspirational Quotes & Sayings

The Americas were a great laboratory of evolutionary experimentation, a place where animals and plants unknown in Africa and Asia had evolved and thrived. But no longer. Within 2,000 years of the Sapiens' arrival, most of these unique species were gone. According to current estimates, within that short interval, North America lost thirty-four out of its forty-seven genera of large mammals. South America lost fifty out of sixty. The sabre-tooth cats, after flourishing for more than 30 million years, disappeared, and so did the giant ground sloths, the oversized lions, native American horses, native American camels, the giant rodents and the mammoths. Thousands of species of smaller mammals, reptiles, birds and even insects and parasites also became extinct (when the mammoths died out, all species of mammoth ticks followed them to oblivion). — Yuval Noah Harari

The toughest role is real life. — Connie Brockway

First and best victory is to conquer self. To be conquered By self is, of all things. the most shameful and objectionable. — Plato

Nobody's birthday. — Jodi Picoult

A dining room table with children's eager hungry faces around it, ceases to be a mere dining room table, and becomes an altar. — Simeon Strunsky

Universe is not a calm lake and therefore when you watch a calm lake you get a deceptive idea about the universe and you get a wrong perception of future! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

No one can stop a home run. No one can understand what it really is, unless you have felt it in your own hands and body. As the ball makes its high, long arc beyond the playing field, the diamond and the stands suddenly belong to one man. In that brief, brief time, you are free of all demands and complications. — Sadaharu Oh

You don't need a record company to turn you into anything. — Prince

Egyptians used carved sky boats as symbols of the Moon and the Babylonians called the Moon the Boat of Light. — Rachel Patterson

The Web is a vast collection of completely uncontrolled heterogeneous documents. — Larry Page

Learn to labour and to wait. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The earlier truths are not expelled but absorbed, not contradicted but extended; and the history of each science, which may thus appear like a succession of revolutions, is, in reality, a series of developements. — William Whewell

Dancing is moving to the music without stepping on anyone's toes, pretty much the same as life. — Robert Breault