Quotes About The Scopes Monkey Trial

#1. I furnished the body that was needed to sit in the defendant's chair.
[Explaining his role in the Scopes Monkey Trial.]

John T. Scopes

#2. How can I take away somebody who means the world to someone else? Even if she is my enemy.

Sarah J. Maas

#3. Not stones, nor wood, nor the art of artisans make a state; but where men are who know how to take care of themselves, these are cities and walls.

John Quincy Adams

#4. You must have complete determination. The worst opponent you can come across is one whose aim has become an obsession.

Bruce Lee

#5. A century ago, people laughed at the notion that we were descended from monkeys. Today, the individuals most offended by that claim are the monkeys.

Jacob M. Appel

#6. Bloody, broken bits of flesh make up what I think is a face, but it's hard to tell. It looks like someone carved it up with a cleaver.

Apryl Baker

#7. If you ask the question of Americans, should we pay our bills? One hundred percent would say yes. There's a significant misunderstanding on the debt ceiling. People think it's authorizing new spending. The debt ceiling doesn't authorize new spending; it allows us to pay obligations already incurred.

Peter Welch

#8. You can create whatever you want. You just have to know what you want and take the opportunities as they come your way. We are who we choose to be.

Will Smith

#9. God created you for the first and greatest commandment, to be a lover of God.

Sam Storms

#10. We have to endure the discordance between imagination and fact. It is better to say, "I am suffering," than to say, "This landscape is ugly.

Simone Weil

#11. That's immortality my darlings

Sara Shepard

#12. Day after day she asked Papa with quivering lip: "Mayn't I get up and go down stairs this morning?" And

Susan Coolidge

#13. You can only be liberated in your mind.
Master your mind with positive thoughts.
Change your mind, change your actions.

Lailah Gifty Akita