Milkweed Important Quotes & Sayings

Our country was thereby saved from the consequences of its distracting individualistic conception of democracy, and its merely legal conception of nationality. It was because the followers of Jackson and Douglas did fight for it, that the Union was preserved. — Herbert Croly

If it's making a galloping noise, it's probably a horse, not a zebra. — Kelly Williams Brown

I wouldn't wear turtlenecks. That I'm not envious of. But who knows? I might sneak out a few things and hope and pray that no one says, 'Hey, didn't you wear that when you were playing an enormous geek on TV?' — Simon Helberg

When I'm anchoring, I miss chasing stories in the field. — Lisa Guerrero

The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion, all in one. — John Ruskin

Taste is a matter of ignorance. If you know what you are tasting, you don't have to taste. — Frank Lloyd Wright

But however fast the world was spinning, time was standing still for Celine and Oliver, held in a magic moment they would never forget. — Betty Neels

All evening long, real snow would fall from the ceiling to glitter on the lashes of dancing girls and ardent boys, but Neve and the Dreamer didn't linger.
They had other things to do: *all* of them. All the things, dreamed and undreamed, in the depth and breadth of the whole spinning world. — Laini Taylor

You will wake up at forty with no husband, no children, and no career if you don't learn to engage with the world. — Lauren Kate

In short, evolution is as close to being a scientific fact as is possible for any theory, given that science is open - ended and no one can predict with certainty what may change in the future. The prospect that evolution by natural selection, at least as a broad mechanism, will be overthrown in the future is about as likely as the prospect of finding out some day that the Earth is really flat. Unfortunately, those who regard these scientific facts as a threat to faith have chosen to distort and misrepresent them to the public. — Victor J. Stenger