Recapitulates Phylogeny Quotes & Sayings

We put stereotypes on ourselves. Everybody does that. But I think it's just a little harder for black kids to just be who they are. — Donald Glover

So if you were ranked first in your initiate class," I say, "what was Eric's rank?" -"Second."
"So he was their second choice for leadership." I nod slowly. "And you were their first." -"What makes you say that?"
"The way Eric was acting at dinner the first night. Jealous, even though he has what he wants. — Veronica Roth

Only a coward will use a gun to protect and get respect for themselves. — Emmanuel Jal

She has a scent that is familiar and comforting, like all the things you wish you could take with you on your travels to make you feel less alone. — Libba Bray

The company of women of fashion will improve your manners, though not your understanding; and that complaisance and politeness, which are so useful in men's company, can only be acquired in women's. — Lord Chesterfield

If ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny, then children are somewhat closer to our roots as primates in the arboreal forest. Humans appear to be the only primates that I know of that are afraid of heights. All other primates, when they're scared, they run up a tree, where they feel safe. — Richard Preston

We are a one party country. Half of them call themselves Democrats and the other half call themselves Republicans. All the good ideas come from the Libertarians. — Hugh Downs

Only those who would be called upon to risk their lives for their country should have the privilege of voting to determine whether the nation should go to war. — Smedley Butler

At Newsweek only girls with college degrees
and we were called "girls" then
were hired to sort and deliver the mail, humbly pushing our carts from door to door in our ladylike frocks and proper high-heeled shoes. If we could manage that, we graduated to "clippers," another female ghetto. Dressed in drab khaki smocks so that ink wouldn't smudge our clothes, we sat at the clip desk, marked up newspapers, tore out releveant articles with razor-edged "rip sticks," and routed the clips to the appropriate departments. "Being a clipper was a horrible job," said writer and director Nora Ephron, who got a job at Newsweek after she graduated from Wellesley in 1962, "and to make matters worse, I was good at it. — Lynn Povich

Archie's marriage felt like buying a pair of shoes, taking them home, and finding they don't fit. — Zadie Smith

No religion but blasphemes a little. — Victor Hugo

People who really want to be in a relationship are IN one. — Shakti Gawain

Man must shape his tools lest they shape him. — Arthur Miller

She could feel the sweat forming between her palm and the envelope she was carrying and worried that by the time she reached home, the letter would need to be rung out before she could show her father. — Jill Maguire

The Tao is like a well; used but never used up. — Laozi

If husbands could realize what large returns of profit may be gotten out of a wife by a small word of praise paid over the counter when the market is just right, they would bring matters around the way they wish them much oftener than they usually do. Arguments are unsafe with wives, because they examine them; but they do not examine compliments. One can pass upon a wife a compliment that is three-fourths base — Mark Twain