Great Chain Of Being Quotes

#1. Despite the Great Chain of Being's traditional ranking of humans between animals and angels, there is no evolutionary justification for the common assumption that evolution is somehow 'aimed' at humans, or that humans are 'evolution's last word'.

Richard Dawkins

#2. If you go far enough back, your genome connects you with bacteria, butterflies, and barracuda - the great chain of being linked together through DNA.

Spencer Wells

#3. Next to the word 'Nature,' 'the Great Chain of Being' was the sacred phrase of the eighteenth century, playing a part somewhat analogous to that of the blessed word 'evolution' in the late nineteenth.

Arthur Oncken Lovejoy

#4. Biology will relate every human gene to the genes of other animals and bacteria, to this great chain of being.

Walter Gilbert

#5. He turned to look at her, and she was smiling at him. It was Noys as she had been, and his own heart beating as it had used to.

Anonymous

#6. Our modern society - especially in the West, and especially now - reveres youth.

Clint Eastwood

#7. Meekness is the mask of malice.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#8. I can cook, I can breathe, I can live!

Sophia Loren

#9. I convened the first-ever national training conference for prosecutors on how to promote and deal with hate crime issues in terms of prosecutions and also protocol for defeating the gay panic defense.

Kamala Harris

#10. Usually, as designers, you try to create meaning.

Jake Barton

#11. Some people think they are holier than others
Some religions think they are the only true ones
Some gods think they are the most divine
Some races think they are a superior breed
The war goes on to the grave and beyond

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#12. A lot of journalists like to suck up to celebrities, and then as soon as they're a safe distance away at their computers, they take shots. But that's the way society has become, especially in pop culture.

Scott Weiland

#13. Learning to listen to ourselves is a way of learning to love ourselves.

Joan Z. Borysenko

#14. You see, Vorarbeiter, in the game of life, it is always preferable to be a man of the shadows, and even the darkness, if necessary. In this way, you run things, but you are never, ever seen.

Mark T. Sullivan

#15. Good nutrition has given you some length of bone, but you're not more than one generation out of the mines Officer Starling.

Thomas Harris

#16. Maybe because he's already been in my dreams for so long, it feels to me as though we've always been together.

Anne Eliot

#17. Drinking alcohol is like eating donuts. Having one or two occasionally is not going to hurt you, but having several a day will eventually lead to serious consequences.

Cyndi Turner

#18. A Searcher, a Wolf Son and a Warrior," she announced. I suppressed a laugh. I almost expected her to say "walked into a bar.

H.D. Gordon

#19. Radical Muslims fly planes into buildings. Radical Christians kill abortion doctors. Radical Atheists write books.

Hemant Mehta