Karkinos Quotes

#1. It felt - nearly twenty-five hundred years after Hippocrates had naively coined the overarching term karkinos - that modern oncology was hardly any more sophisticated in its taxonomy of cancer.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

#2. Words travel, because the word arctic comes from arktos, Greek for bear. Cancer comes from the Greek word for crab, karkinos. Memory, or one of its locations in the brain, the hippocampus, means seahorse. A bestiary is buried in our language.

Rebecca Solnit

#3. A free and truly independent press - fiercely independent when necessary - is the red beating heart of freedom and democracy.

Dan Rather

#4. Martin and Katharina had six children during the first eight years of their marriage. The

Charles River Editors

#5. I swore I wouldn't check my phone, and now that I've broken that vow it's like the other ones are null and void. Like any addict, I've built my floodgates out of tissue paper.

David Levithan

#6. The acceptance to Harvard was more of trophy than a real possibility to me. I would have been miserable.

Reggie Lee

#7. Because good and evil weren't inborn traits. They were choices we made.

Laura Thalassa