Gaylord Quotes

#1. Gaylord Perry and Willie McCovey should know each other like a book. They've been ex-teammates for years now.

Jerry Coleman

#2. I guess the only thing to do now is meet his parents. I'm sure they're decent people. I mean they gotta be if they named their son Gaylord Focker.

Robert De Niro

#3. T]he state Republican chairman, Gaylord Parkinson, postulated what he called the Eleventh Commandment: Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican.

Ronald Reagan

#4. I am confident that partnering my Dollywood Company with a great company like Gaylord will create something truly special.

Dolly Parton

#5. He pulled his nose out of her cleavage and turned to me. "Gaylord Brown," he said. "It's the perfect name because I'm gay and I'm brown.

Janet Evanovich

#6. There'll be a man on the moon before Gaylord Perry hits a home run.

Alvin Dark

#7. He (Gaylord Perry) should be in the Hall of Fame with a tube of KY jelly attached to his plaque.

Gene Mauch

#8. Gaylord (Perry) is a very honorable man. He only calls for the spitter when he needs it.

Gabe Paul

#9. The opposition to teaching evolution is, of course, almost always given a religious reason. That may usually be its real basis, but I think it is often a mask, perhaps unconscious, for underlying anti-intellectualism or antiscientism.

George Gaylord Simpson

#10. Loads of chemicals and hazardous wastes have been introduced into the atmosphere that didn't even exist in 1948. The environmental condition of the planet is far worse than it was 42 years ago.

Gaylord Nelson

#11. Dr. S. Dillon Ripley, secretary of the Smithsonian Institute, believes that in 25 years, somewhere between 75 and 80 percent of all the species of living animals will be extinct.

Gaylord Nelson

#12. The science of systematics has long been affected by profound philosophical preconceptions, which have been all the more influential for being usually covert, even subconscious.

George Gaylord Simpson

#13. You try and learn from some people's mistakes. But you have to really trust the people who are working for you because they make a lot of decisions that could either do well for you or really screw up your image.

Mitch Gaylord

#14. Sometimes we are mysteries to ourselves.

Joshua Gaylord

#15. They could hurt you," I insisted.
"Not on purpose. They're just teenagers. We'll be like that too one day.

Joshua Gaylord

#16. Franklin Roosevelt was very concerned about environmental issues.

Gaylord Nelson

#17. Splitting and gradual divergence of genera is exemplified very well and in a large variety of organisms.

George Gaylord Simpson

#18. Trails are relatively inexpensive. A splendid national network of all kinds of trails can be established at less cost than a few hundred miles of super highway.

Gaylord Nelson

#19. Now we do have many examples of transitional sequences.

George Gaylord Simpson

#20. There is no domestic issue more important to America in the long run than the conservation and proper use of our natural resources, including fresh water, clean air, tillable soil, forests, wilderness, habitat for wildlife, minerals and recreational assets.

Gaylord Nelson

#21. Reaching a general understanding that sustainability is the ultimate issue will finally bring us face-to-face with the political challenge of forging a sustainable society during the next few decades. It is a challenge we can meet if we have the leadership and the political will to do so.

Gaylord Nelson

#22. I don't know where to put whales. I'm sticking them here, but I don't have any reason for it.

George Gaylord Simpson

#23. As a competitor, you have to learn pretty quickly how to deal with pressure.

Mitch Gaylord

#24. I have to feel good about what I'm endorsing because I have to live with it.

Mitch Gaylord

#25. Discipline is the quality that carries over from gymnastics to acting.

Mitch Gaylord

#26. The search for historical laws is, I maintain, mistaken in principle.

George Gaylord Simpson

#27. A team championship doesn't happen because three people score 10s, it happens because all the guys score well. In my opinion, everyone deserved 10s, we're all 10s on this team.

Mitch Gaylord

#28. We live our lives by measures of weeks, months, years, but the creatures we truly are, those are exposed in fractions of moments.

Joshua Gaylord

#29. I don't think that evolution is supremely important because it is my specialty; it is my specialty because I think it is supremely important. [In: Edward J. Larson (2004) Evolution, Modern Library. p. 250]

George Gaylord Simpson

#30. I thought it must be difficult for him, for boys. They get temperamental when they can't shape the world into what they want it to be. It's easier for girls. Girls are raised knowing that the world is unshapable. So they know better than to fuss.

Joshua Gaylord

#31. There is a great need for the introduction of new values in our society, where bigger is not necessarily better, where slower can be faster, and where less can be more.

Gaylord Nelson

#32. They'll put a man on the moon before I hit a home run.

Gaylord Perry

#33. Every person has the inalienable right to a decent environment.

Gaylord Nelson

#34. He is a state of matter, a form of life, a sort of animal, and a species of the Order Primates, akin nearly or remotely to all of life and indeed to all that is material.

George Gaylord Simpson

#35. Teddy Roosevelt of course was a great outdoorsman all his life.

Gaylord Nelson

#36. We're going to have to do a whole lot more, and give nature at least a chance to repair some of the damage we've done.

Gaylord Nelson

#37. Of course the orders all converge backward in time, to different degrees.

George Gaylord Simpson

#38. Rather than simply being subject to them, I had wanted to know what it felt like to be one of the forces in this world.

Joshua Gaylord

#39. I don't want to be considered a gymnast anymore.

Mitch Gaylord

#40. Who's out there?" I say.
"Just teenagers," my father says.
"Why are they like that?"
"That's just the way they are."
"Will I be like that when I grow up?"
"You? Perish the thought.

Joshua Gaylord

#41. I'd always have grease in at least two places, in case the umpires would ask me to wipe one off. I never wanted to be caught out there with anything though, it wouldn't be professional.

Gaylord Perry

#42. It is inherent in any definition of science that statements that cannot be checked by observation are not really saying anything or at least they are not science.

George Gaylord Simpson

#43. Primarily, every rule change over the past ten years has been against the pitchers - lowering the mound and the designated hitter.

Gaylord Perry

#44. Greaseball, greaseball, greaseball, that's all I throw him (Rod Carew), and he still hits them. He's the only player in baseball who consistently hits my grease. He sees the ball so well, I guess he can pick out the dry side.

Gaylord Perry

#45. I have a debt, a loyalty to the museum; the best place for me to do what I wanted to do.

George Gaylord Simpson

#46. We are always told that honesty and truth are the shining ideals. But sometimes the truth could be used as a punishment.

Joshua Gaylord

#47. The fact - not theory - that evolution has occurred and the Darwinian theory as to how it occurred have become so confused in popular opinion that the distinction must be stressed.

George Gaylord Simpson

#48. The fate of the living planet is the most important issue facing mankind.

Gaylord Nelson

#49. Do for yourself or do without.

Gaylord Perry

#50. The issues are by some geometric number - 100 or 200 or 500 - times more complicated today than we appreciated them to be when Franklin Roosevelt was around.

Gaylord Nelson

#51. The greatest memory for me of the 1984 Olympics was not the individual honors, but standing on the podium with my teammates to receive our team gold medal.

Mitch Gaylord

#52. Celebrity was fun, and I had a good time.

Mitch Gaylord

#53. In the voice of mirth there may be excitement, but in the tones of mourning there is consolation.

Willis Gaylord Clark

#54. Almost all paleontologists recognize that the discovery of a complete transition is in any case unlikely.

George Gaylord Simpson

#55. We must recognize that we're all part of a web of life around the world. Anytime you extinguish a species, the consequences are serious.

Gaylord Nelson

#56. Everyone has emotions; you just learn to use then and be comfortable with them.

Mitch Gaylord

#57. Recognition of this kinship with the rest of the universe is necessary for understanding him, but his essential nature is defined by qualities found nowhere else, not by those he has in common with apes, fishes, trees, fire, or anything other than himself.

George Gaylord Simpson

#58. Our goal is not just an environment of clean air and water and scenic beauty. The objective is an environment of decency, quality and mutual respect for all other human beings and all other living creatures.

Gaylord Nelson

#59. If we continue to address the issue of the environment where we live as though we're the only species that lives here, we'll create a disaster for ourselves.

Gaylord Nelson

#60. I've turned down soap and deodorant commercials - it wasn't my route.

Mitch Gaylord

#61. The most important environmental issue is one that is rarely mentioned, and that is the lack of a conservation ethic in our culture.

Gaylord Nelson

#62. The greatest impact of the Darwinian revolution...was that it completed the liberation from superstition and fear that began in the physical sciences a few centuries before. Man, too, is a natural phenomenon. [in "The evolutionary concept of man", 1972, p. 35.]

George Gaylord Simpson

#63. I confess I could never see any good reason why dirt should always be a necessary concomitant of poverty.

Willis Gaylord Clark

#64. Every paleontologist knows that most new species, genera, and families, and that nearly all categories above the level of family appear in the record suddenly and are not led up to by known, gradual, completely continuous transitional sequences.

George Gaylord Simpson

#65. There is a difference between jaywalking and grand larceny.

Gaylord Perry

#66. I'm going to be an actor.

Mitch Gaylord

#67. Certainly paleontologists have found samples of an extremely small fraction, only, of the earth's extinct species, and even for groups that are most readily preserved and found as fossils they can never expect to find more than a fraction.

George Gaylord Simpson

#68. In the state of Wisconsin it's mandated that teachers in the social sciences and hard sciences have to start giving environmental education by the first grade, through high school.

Gaylord Nelson

#69. Species evolve exactly as if they were adapting as best they could to a changing world, and not at all as if they were moving toward a set goal.

George Gaylord Simpson

#70. I am empty space, and I am the light that illuminates that space.

Joshua Gaylord

#71. Sometimes you hide away a memory because it is so precious that you don't want to dilute it with the attempt to recount it.

Joshua Gaylord

#72. It was truly an astonishing grassroots explosion, ... The objective was to get a nationwide demonstration of concern for the environment so large that it would shake the political establishment out of its lethargy.

Gaylord Nelson

#73. If a sect does officially insist that its structure of belief demands that evolution be false, then no compromise is possible. An honest and competent biology teacher can only conclude that the sect's beliefs are wrong and that its religion is a false one.

George Gaylord Simpson

#74. The camera doesn't intimidate me.

Mitch Gaylord

#75. It is now firmly established that ontogeny does not repeat phylogeny

George Gaylord Simpson

#76. The ultimate test of man's conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something today for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard.

Gaylord Nelson

#77. I think the internal combustion engine will disappear from the streets of our cities in the next thirty years because transportation will be mass transportation, or probably electrical power.

Gaylord Nelson

#78. Wait until Tommy Lasorda meets the Lord and finds out He's wearing pinstripes

Gaylord Perry

#79. Darwin recognized the fact that paleontology then seemed to provide evidence against rather for evolution in general or the gradual origin of taxonomic categories in particular.

George Gaylord Simpson

#80. Going back down to the minors is the toughest thing to handle in baseball.

Gaylord Perry

#81. I reckon I tried everything on the old apple, but salt and pepper and chocolate sauce topping.

Gaylord Perry

#82. The trouble with baseball is that it is not played the year round.

Gaylord Perry

#83. If you do a scene the right way, you can go home at the end of the day and really feel like you accomplished something.

Mitch Gaylord

#84. From horses we may learn not only about the horse itself but also about animals in general, indeed about ourselves and about life as a whole.

George Gaylord Simpson

#85. Man is the result of a purposeless and materialistic process that did not have him in mind. He was not planned.

George Gaylord Simpson

#86. Human judgment is notoriously fallible and perhaps seldom more so than in facile decisions that a character has no adaptive significance because we do not know the use of it.

George Gaylord Simpson

#87. Promises are easy to make. [...] They speak of a defined future to which you are required to adhere. They commit you beyond the length of your experience.

What they do is take away possibility.

Promises are the opposite of hope.

Joshua Gaylord

#88. When I was young, all I wanted to do was to compete, have fun and travel.

Mitch Gaylord

#89. He wakes into music the green forest-bowers.

Willis Gaylord Clark

#90. I don't like condo life.

Mitch Gaylord

#91. It's funny how many ways there are to hurt people. As many ways to hurt as there are species of flower. Whole bouquets of hurt.

Joshua Gaylord

#92. To put it crudely but graphically, the monkey who did not have a realistic perception of the tree branch he jumped for was soon a dead monkey-and therefore did not become one of our ancestors.

George Gaylord Simpson

#93. The argument from absence of transitional types boils down to the striking fact that such types are always lacking unless they have been found.

George Gaylord Simpson

#94. Most of the dogmatic religions have exhibited a perverse talent for taking the wrong side on the most important concepts in the material universe, from the structure of the solar system to the origin of man.

George Gaylord Simpson

#95. Adrenaline is an amazing thing.

Mitch Gaylord

#96. Our air, water, soil, forests, oceans, rivers, lakes, scenic beauty, wildlife habitat, minerals, that is the wealth of the country.

Gaylord Nelson

#97. A rill in a barnyard and the Grand Canyon represent, in the main, stages of valley erosion that began some millions of years apart.

George Gaylord Simpson