Gravemind Quotes

#1. UR-DIDACT: This being was not the Primordial I encountered on Charum Hakkor, but something else entirely - though it retained the Primordial's motives and thoughts and memories. It was a Gravemind - the Gravemind, more accurately. It was the Primordial's final act of revenge.

Greg Bear

#2. Having undergone that disintegration and dying of past individuals and rebirth into something vastly more powerful, all these creatures had joined millions of years before into its own early Gravemind, far more than the sum of its parts.

Greg Bear

#3. When people come to play music as they do to play bridge, civilization will have taken the longest stride forward since the beginning of time.

Jascha Heifetz

#4. To the bottle! In infancy, the milk bottle; in our prime, the wine bottle; in our dotage, the pill bottle.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

#5. My mother taught me that family comes first. It is engraved on my heart.

Cung Le

#6. I learned to cross the threshold of my studio with reverence, as though I were entering a shrine set apart for me to become co-creator with the Universal Thinker of all things.

Walter Russell

#7. A liar deceives himself more than anyone, for he believes he can remain a person of good character when he cannot.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#8. Criminalistics doesn't exist in a vacuum. The more you know about your environment, the better you can apply- (This quote was never completed in the book because Rhyme stopped abruptly at the end of it. I really wish he had finished his thought.)

Jeffery Deaver

#9. Mankind: A quality of life upgrade is available to each and every one of you. It should give you a quality of life upgrade, which means no drugs, no alcohol, no fast food - unless, of course, it's a mallard.

Ted Nugent

#10. Oh! grief is fantastic; it weaves a web on which to trace the history of its woe from every form and change around; it incorporates itself with all living nature; it finds sustenance in every object; as light, it fills all things, and, like light, it gives its own colors to all.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

#11. You're impossible," she told him.
"Of course I am," he answered. "It's part of my charm.

David Eddings

#12. The idea of political content is irrelevant. Content is irrelevant. I always tell my students, "Never forget you're writing words! You know, word one, word two, word three, word four. The words have to be organized. Nothing else does."

Dave Hickey

#13. You knew I would find you and you knew what I'd do when I did." -Cort (The Carver's Problem)

B.L. Brooklyn

#14. The essence of obscenity is the turning of the inner mystery into a jest.

Fulton J. Sheen

#15. My dad was very intelligent, had a very strong personality. I was amazed with my father.

Dolores Huerta

#16. I'm not staring. I'm observing ... And what do you observe? ... A brave young woman who has always fought for what was right, even when it was unpopular.

Michelle Moran

#17. Every day you meet a delegation going to some convention to try and change the way of somebody else's life.

Will Rogers