Guilmette Family Child Quotes & Sayings

New customs, Though they be never so ridiculous (Nay, let em be unmanly), yet are followed. — William Shakespeare

The American Type Culture Collection - a nonprofit whose funds go mainly toward maintaining and providing pure cultures for science - has been selling HeLa since the sixties. When this book went to press, their price per vial was $256. The ATCC won't reveal how much money it brings in from HeLa sales each year, but since HeLa is one of the most popular cell lines in the world, that number is surely significant. — Rebecca Skloot

We're living through the twilight of American economic dominance. — Shia Labeouf

If Parts Unknown and its many imitators have taught us anything, it's that we're living in the Golden Age of Gastrotourism. The same people who once traveled to Rome to stare at statues now go to twirl bucatini on their forks and filter balls of burrata onto their Instagram accounts. — Matt Goulding

I could depend a lot on my shaking, though I never shimmied vulgarly and only to express myself. — Ethel Waters

The truth is not what we received today. Once again, we are being used as props in a Pentagon public relations exercise. — Pat Tillman

Prayer is not about changing God, but being willing to let God change us. — Richard Rohr

No amount of belief makes something a fact. — James Randi

Yet, should thy darkest fears be true, If Heaven be so severe, That such a soul as thine is lost, Oh! how shall I appear? — Anne Bronte

In 1969, nationwide, female professors who had never been married and never published earned 145% of their counterpart male colleagues. — Warren Farrell

A basketball diameter is 10 inches and a rim is 18 inches so I made a 14-inch rim I put in to practice on. Few people could do that because it was so frustrating that it drove everyone but me nuts. That led to me shooting very high, which basic physics tells you is the best angle - the hole is bigger from above than from the side. — Dolph Schayes

I am consumed, or I have been consumed, with these issues of motherhood and the way we act out societal expectations and roles. So both my nonfiction and my fiction have been pretty much exclusively about that. — Ayelet Waldman