Nemesio Garcia Quotes & Sayings

An evolutionary perspective of our place in the history of the earth reminds us that Homo sapiens sapiens has occupied the planet for the tiniest fraction of that planet's four and a half thousand million years of existence. In many ways we are a biological accident, the product of countless propitious circumstances. As we peer back through the fossil record, through layer upon layer of long-extinct species, many of which thrived far longer than the human species is ever likely to do, we are reminded of our mortality as a species. There is no law that declares the human animal to be different, as seen in this broad biological perspective, from any other animal. There is no law that declares the human species to be immortal. — Richard E. Leakey

Hug is a seed of hope. — Lailah Gifty Akita

A town that does not keep its dead out of sight, that leaves people where they died, on highways and byways, in parks and parking lots, is not a town but a hell. The fact that this hell reflects our life experience in a more realistic and essentially truer way is of no consequence. — Karl Ove Knausgard

Love lost, is still love ... You can't see their smile or bring them food or tousle their hair or move them around a dance floor. But when those senses weaken, another heightens. Memory. — Mitch Albom

He hands you a nickel, he hands you a dime. He asks you with a grin, if you're having a good time. — Bob Dylan

To learn to draw is to draw and draw and draw. — Andrew Loomis

Women who are beautiful or who achieve beauty according to the imposed standards are rewarded; those who cannot or choose not to be beautiful are punished, economically and socially. — Naomi Wolf

Better to be tormented with memories of Ashley than Charleston accents. — Margaret Mitchell

...forgiving is not the same as forgetting. — Cecily Von Ziegesar

The doors between the old man today and the child are still open, wide open. I can stroll through my grandmother's house and know exactly where the pictures are, the furniture was, how it looked, the voice, the smells. I can move from my bed at night today to my childhood in less than a second. — Ingmar Bergman

Without the flesh. Suddenly life wasn't worth living. — Terry Pratchett

Success has many fathers. — John F. Kennedy

Friendship is the greatest gift one can give to another. — Brian Jacques

The nymphs are departed. — T. S. Eliot