Mitochondrial Quotes

#1. My disease is a very rare form of muscular dystrophy, called disautonomic mitochondrial myopathy.

Mattie Stepanek

#2. Mitochondrial DNA is in higher concentration, lasts longer, and can be extracted from bones.

Craig Venter

#3. Ancestor. In fact, this clock tells us that all seven billion people alive today can trace their maternal lineage to one woman who lived in Africa 170,000 years ago, dubbed Mitochondrial Eve.

Sam Kean

#4. Storing genes, vulnerable informational systems, in the immediate vicinity of the mitochondrial respiratory chains, which leak destructive free radicals, is equivalent to storing a valuable library in the wooden shack of a registered pyromaniac.

Nick Lane

#5. Mitochondrial genes act like a female surname, which enables us to trace our ancestry down the female line in the way some families try to trace their descent down the male line from William the Conqueror, or Noah, or Mohammed.

Nick Lane

#6. Mitochondrial DNA, which is a sort of abridged version of DNA, is passed directly from mother to child, so it's something that can be looked at to trace matrilineal descent.

Elizabeth Kolbert

#7. Mitochondria, as we have seen, are only passed on in the egg, so all 13 mitochondrial genes come from our mothers. If these genes really do influence lifespan, and we can only inherit them from our mothers, then our own lifespan should reflect that of our mothers but not our fathers.

Nick Lane

#8. I was bullied at school, so I didn't much like it.

Luke Evans

#9. The trouble with this business is the dearth of bad pictures.

Samuel Goldwyn

#10. I hate holidays because it's the quietest; it's the most deafening sound in my apartment.

Questlove

#11. He would flay the fox, say the ape's paternoster, return to his sheep, and turn the hogs to the hay. He would beat the dogs before the lion, put the plough before the oxen, and claw where it did not itch.

Francois Rabelais

#12. It would seem you are in need of assistance, sidhe-seer." A musical baritone drifted through the window, otherworldly, sensuous, and punctuated by a forbidding growl of thunder.

Karen Marie Moning

#13. A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

Albert Camus

#14. That's the water calling. It's a long time since anyone was drowned.

Georg Buchner

#15. I'd taken a big fat crisis off my shoulders and loaded it all on Jesus, which seemed unfair in a way, but was exactly what the Bible recommended.

David James Duncan