Common Ancestry Quotes

#1. And, you know, the fact is, if you believe in evolution, we all have a common ancestor, and we all have a common ancestry with the plant in the lobby. This is what evolution tells us. And, it's true. It's kind of unbelievable.

Jeff Hawkins

#2. All scientists agree that evolution has occurred - that all life comes from a common ancestry, that there has been extinction, and that new taxa, new biological groups, have arisen. The question is, is natural selection enough to explain evolution? Is it the driver of evolution?

Lynn Margulis

#3. A Nation ... is a group of persons united by a common error about their ancestry, and a common dislike of their neighbors

Karl Deutsch

#4. I hold to no God," Roland said. "I hold to the Tower, and won't pray to that.

Stephen King

#5. In our national mythology, we seem to include only one-way migrations to the great capitol cities. The journey from the small Wisconsin town or Minnesota city to Chicago or New York or Los Angeles. Certainly for some people, that journey is a round trip.

Mona Simpson

#6. Amy: Up.
Rory: What good's up?
Amy: Better than down.
-Doctor Who

Steven Moffat

#7. I sort of kept my hand in writing and went to work for the Sierra Club in '52, walked the plank there in '69, founded Friends of the Earth and the League of Conservation Voters after that.

David R. Brower

#8. When you're a conservative Republican, you never think people are making money by ripping other people off," he said. His mind was now fully open to the possibility. "I now realized there was an entire industry, called consumer finance, that basically existed to rip people off.

Michael Lewis

#9. A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and a common hatred of its neighbors.

William Ralph Inge

#10. It is a comfort to the miserable to have comrades in misfortune, but it is a poor comfort after all.

Christopher Marlowe

#11. What's the difference between dragging a black man behind a truck in Jasper, Texas, and beating a white boy to death in Wyoming because he's gay?

Nikki Giovanni

#12. But I want to give in to it sometimes

Melina Marchetta

#13. Human beings have a physical need to tell themselves when at work: "Let's have done with it now," and it's having constantly to go on thinking in the face of this need when philosophizing that makes this work so strenuous.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#14. If we remind ourselves of the fact that every fifth American today rightly points and perhaps also with a certain degree of pride to his German ancestry or her German ancestry, we can safely say that we, indeed, share common roots.

Angela Merkel