Ledyard Quotes

#1. Ledyard, the great New England traveller, and Mungo Park, the

Herman Melville

#2. After a greater or lesser number of generations the mutants are eliminated.

G. Ledyard Stebbins

#3. There were two choices in life. Survive or succumb. And most people weren't even conscious of the path they chose. Because they chose for all the wrong reasons. Love, principles, dreams, desire. The world hadn't changed. It had always been survival of the fittest.

Claire Merle

#4. Usually when I'm trying to establish character, I try and find out where they live.

Denise Mina

#5. If you are going to live in a house made of candy, don't move next door to a couple of obese kids. A lot of these fairy-tale characters are missing common sense.

Chris Colfer

#6. So yeah. Jesse Walker was giving me the silent treatment. I was probably the only person who could claim that honor.

Nicole Williams

#7. Nations are not truly great solely because the individuals composing them are numerous, free, and active; but they are great when these numbers, this freedom, and this activity are employed in the service of an ideal higher than that of an ordinary man taken by himself.

Matthew Arnold

#8. Scaling needs to be a core part of your foundation. Competition is much more intense and competitive advantages don't last long, so you have to have a "grow big fast" strategy.

Eric Schmidt

#9. Sprawled, bloody, holding the pistol, he looked like a police photograph of a suicide. Dart went back to his chair and picked up the Smith and Wesson. Five minutes passed like a year.

Mal Peet

#10. No biologist has actually seen the origin by evolution of a major group of organisms.

G. Ledyard Stebbins

#11. During the Second World War, evacuated to non-Jewish households, I encountered Christianity at home and in school.

Lionel Blue

#12. As we go through life we gradually discover who we are, but the more we discover, the more we lose ourselves.

Haruki Murakami

#13. Working with Yahoo! allows us to give our fans a chance to listen to our songs, check out the video, purchase our new album, win tickets to our show, and chat with us all in one place.

Isaac Hanson

#14. I don't go there much. You're thrilled that people would recognize what you're doing in such a grand kind of way. But, just like you don't know if anybody's really going to like what you're doing when you put a record out or if anybody's going to pay attention to it, you can't really go there.

Alison Krauss