Bombyx Quotes

#1. The most widely raised type of silkworm, the larva of the 'Bombyx mori', no longer exists anywhere in a natural state. As my encyclopedia poignantly puts it: 'The legs of the larvae have degenerated, and the adults no longer fly'.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#2. The Bombyx mori caterpillar," her brother supplied, thinking of snack time at the Shaolin Temple. "It tastes like chicken.

Gordon Korman

#3. Desultory readers are seldom remarkable for the exactness of their learning.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#4. Human beings are not condemned, because of their biological constitution, to annihilate each other or to be at the mercy of a cruel, self-inflicted fate.

Albert Einstein

#5. If you can't say anything nice about anyone else, come sit next to me.

Gertrude Stein

#6. Since bad men find the rule of kings no less burdensome than that of tyrants, the recognition of the right of private citizens to kill tyrants involves rather more chance of losing a king than of being relieved of a tyrant.

William Archibald Dunning

#7. But I have faith, as I've always had, that if I work hard enough, care enough, and love enough in all areas of my life, I can create and enjoy a full life.

Lynsey Addario

#8. No wonder my family left me. They were right. Look at me. I truly am a monster.

Pepper Winters

#9. There's always a way out. You just have to pay the price, whether it's money, status, the emotional hit, or all of that and more. Cheating's cheap and it's lazy.

J.D. Robb

#10. Fear in her eyes that were a damp blurred blue Patrick would afterward recall,

Joyce Carol Oates

#11. A fully functional multiracial society cannot be achieved without a sense of history and open, honest dialogue.

Cornel West

#12. I do like to turn a phrase, but it's all about how you turn it.

Gabriel Mann

#13. Because in the end, what does all the power in all the worlds matter if your closest friends can betray you?

Pierce Brown

#14. All the great religions have a place for awe, for ecstatic transport at the wonder and beauty of creation.

Richard Dawkins

#15. Whatever is goode in its kinde ought to be preserv'd in respect for antiquity, as well as our present advantage, for destruction can be profitable to none but such as live by it.

Nicholas Hawksmoor