Ontogeny Recapitulates Quotes

#1. If ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny, then children are somewhat closer to our roots as primates in the arboreal forest. Humans appear to be the only primates that I know of that are afraid of heights. All other primates, when they're scared, they run up a tree, where they feel safe.

Richard Preston

#2. I used to split my time between writing, music and painting. I would work on a book and then abandon it, start a band, do an album, quit music, then do a gallery show. Eventually I decided to give writing a serious shot.

Isaac Marion

#3. The darkness diminishes by dawn of light.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#4. I think the people who experienced the Apollo missions came away from that experience wondering to themselves, 'When can we get a chance to experience spaceflight?' I've heard that many, many times: that people got into a new career field hoping that they would be able to experience spaceflight.

Buzz Aldrin

#5. I don't like listening to music that isn't real.

Joss Stone

#6. I wouldn't give my troubles to a monkey on a rock.

David Letterman

#7. Charlie can't keep you from visiting your mother. She still has primary custody.'
'Nobody has custody of me. I'm an adult.'
He flashed a brilliant smile. ' Exactly.

Stephenie Meyer

#8. No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.

Zora Neale Hurston

#9. I am glad I was up so late, for that's the reason I was up so early.

William Shakespeare

#10. There's almost a fear that if you understood too deeply the way you arrived at choices, you could become self-conscious. In any case, many ideas which are full of personal meaning seem rather banal when you put words to them.

Peter Weir

#11. A Bereavement? Franzen's posthumous novel?

Edan Lepucki

#12. There are companies which are prepared to change the way they work. They realize that nothing can be based on what used to be, that there is a better way. But, 99 percent of companies are not ready, [they are] caught in an industrial Jurassic Park.

Ricardo Semler

#13. Prayer still works, you need not be so quick to judge another person. You never know what they are going through. Instead, pray for them. Send encouragement their way.

Amaka Imani Nkosazana

#14. I'm generally interested in what people believe and what works for them, what gives them hope, what inspires them, no matter what it is.

Kali Hawk