Extirpated Quotes

#1. In my life, I had heard hundreds of coyotes and even more dogs, but never anything like this except in television shows. Wolves had been extirpated from the Northeast more than a century ago. Never in my life had I expected to hear them howling in the wild mountains of New England. ((c) 2016, p 239)

Paul Doiron

#2. No deeply rooted tendency was ever extirpated by adverse judgment. Not having originally been founded on argument, it cannot be destroyed by logic

George Henry Lewes

#3. A world from which solitude is extirpated, is a very poor ideal.

John Stuart Mill

#4. Original sin is in us like our beard. We are shaved today and look clean; tomorrow our beard has grown again, nor does it cease growing while we remain on earth. In like manner original sin cannot be extirpated from us; it springs up in us as long as we live.

Martin Luther

#5. Quoting Kipling, I never got over the wonder of a people who, having extirpated the aboriginals of their continent more completely than any modern race had ever done, honestly believed they were a godly little New England community, setting examples to mankind.

Sarah Vowell

#6. My idea of society is that while we are born equal, meaning that we have a right to equal opportunity, all have not the same capacity.

Mahatma Gandhi

#7. The pounding of the cylinders increased: ta-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa.

James Thurber

#8. If I desired to kill the senator why did I not do it? You all admit that I had him in my power.

Preston Brooks

#9. Somebody has to pay our editors, writers, journalists, designers, developers, and all the other specialists whose passion and tears go into every chunk of worthwhile web content.

Jeffrey Zeldman

#10. For this beauty,
beauty without strength,
chokes out life.

Hilda Doolittle