Placental Mammals Quotes & Sayings

Gregori's arm moved from around her waist to circle her neck, a male gesture of ownership. Savannah laughed to herself. Carpathian men were not far from the cave.
I caught that, mon amour. Gregori's soft voice brushed at her mind, a low caress that curled warmth in her stomach. He sounded close to teasing, but she noticed he didn't drop his arm from around her neck. — Christine Feehan

Alec?" Magnus was staring at him. He had dispatched the remaining Iblis demons, and the square was empty but for the two of them. "Did you just- did you just save my life?"
Alec knew he ought to say something like, Of course, because I'm a Shadowhunter and that's what we do, or That's my job. Jace would have said something like that. Jace always knew the right thing to say. But the words that actually came out of Alec's mouth where quite different- and sounded petulant, even to his own ears. "You never called me back," he said. "I called you so many times and you never called me back."
Magnus looked at Alec as if he'd lost his mind. "Your city is under attack," he said. "The wards have broken, and the streets are full of demons. And you want to know why I haven't called you? — Cassandra Clare

On seeing the marsupials in Australia for the first time and comparing them to placental mammals: "An unbeliever ... might exclaim 'Surely two distinct Creators must have been at work'" — Charles Darwin

[I was] feeling like I'd done something horrible, "I'm a despicable person and I'm perverse," and all these things, to a sense of the power and the necessity, in a sense, of horror films and dealing with dark material. — Wes Craven

I can click my heels together all I want, but there's just no place to go. — Lara Zielin

Scientists have detected about 100 imprinted genes in mice, and about half this number in humans. It's not clear if there are genuinely fewer imprinted genes in humans than in mice, or if it's just more difficult to detect them experimentally. Imprinting evolved about 150 million years ago7, and it really only occurs to a great extent in placental mammals. It isn't found in those classes that can reproduce parthenogenetically. — Nessa Carey

Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it in summer school — Josh Stern

And I'd say to myself as I looked so lazily down at the sea:
There's nobody else in the world, and the world was made for me. — A.A. Milne

On the whole, I'd rather be in Philidelphia. — W.C. Fields

For we know that our patchwork heritage is a strength, not a weakness. — Barack Obama

Doctrine severed from practice is dead; practice severed from doctrine is just another form of self-salvation and self-improvement. A disciple of Christ is a student of theology. — Michael S. Horton

The hack songwriter will write the absolute truth every single word, whether it makes a great song or not. — Paul Westerberg

Poetry is fired by love ... — Erica Jong

Perhaps no order of mammals presents us with so extraordinary a series of gradations as this [step by step, from humans to apes to monkeys to lemurs] - leading us insensibly from the crown and summit of the animal creation down to creatures, from which there is but a step, as it seems, to the lowest, smallest, and least intelligent of the placental Mammalia. It is as if nature herself had forseen the arrogance of man, and with Roman severity had provided that his intellect, by its very triumphs, should call into prominence the slaves, admonishing the conqueror that he is but dust. — Thomas Huxley

To make Christianity a private affair while banishing all privacy is to relegate it to the rainbow's end or the Greek Calends. — C.S. Lewis

For every different role you play it's nice to have different challenges for each one. — Freddie Highmore

I will always dance in the street. — Martha Reeves

Guilt always makes the other feelings worse. — Eileen Wilks