Schmetterling Quotes & Sayings

Man is the only creature disposed to kill huge numbers of members of his own species, and his instrument is usually the state. — Joseph Sobran

Once bitten, you seldom lose the political bug. — Edward Brooke

The Awa are a distinctive-looking, diminutive forest people, smaller than any of the dozen other Amazon tribespeople I have met. Reduced size is adaptive in a rain forest. You can move around more easily and unobtrusively. Not only humans but other species are smaller in rain forests. — Alex Shoumatoff

As I view it, in every family a record should be kept ... that record should be the first stone, if you choose, in the family altar. It should be a book known and used in the family circle; and when the child reaches maturity and goes out to make another household, one of the first things that the young couple should take along should be the records of their families, to be extended by them as life goes on ... each one of us carries, individually, the responsibility of record keeping, and we should assume it. — John Andreas Widtsoe

True ministry isn't just 'cut and paste,' it has to be birthed from the inside out. — Steven Furtick

I wasn't human enough to die easily. — J.C. Daniels

We should not be too quick to dismiss our own [ocular] arrangement. As so often in biology, the situation is more complex ... we have the advantage that our own light-sensitive cells are embedded directly in their support cells (the retinal pigment epithelium) with an excellent blood supply immediately underneath. Such an arrangement supports the continuous turnover of photosensitive pigments. The human retina consumes even more oxygen than the brain, per gram, making it the most energetic organ in the body. — Nick Lane

For the first time in a long while, I cared about something. I wanted to make you smile. — Teresa Mummert