Recapitulates Phylogeny 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. That's the conundrum of cartoon stripping, as opposed to political cartoons. When your anger is the driving force of your drawing hand, failure follows. The anger is OK, but it has to serve the interests of the heart, frankly.

Berkeley Breathed

#3. You cannot ... transmute some incoherent mixture of words into sense merely by introducing the three-letter word "God" to be its grammatical subject.

Antony Flew

#4. I am old, yet I look at wise men and see that I am very young. I look over those stars yonder, and into the myriads of the aspirant and ordered souls, and see I am a stranger and a youth and have yet my spurs to win. Too ridiculous are these airs of age.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#5. We have ripped the humanity out of our companies. It's threatening the very underpinnings of our society.

Paul Tudor Jones

#6. People are always going to go shopping. A lot of our effort is just: 'How do we make the retail experience a great one?'

Philip Green

#7. Some fools in the desert with nothing to do ... invented me, and they invented you. And other fools keep it all going and growing. Everybody, we're a figment of their imagination ...

Randy Newman

#8. Human relationships are about communicating. Business jargon should be banished in favor of simple English. Simplicity is a sign of truth and a criterion of beauty. Complexity can be a way of hiding the truth.

Helena Rubinstein

#9. We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all.

Jean De La Bruyere

#10. I think we all see ourselves as the heroes in our own lives.

Tom Hiddleston

#11. You're not ... her." His voice, distant. A mere echo. "You could never be her.

James Dashner

#12. We all came to Seattle in hopes of building better lives. No one said we wouldn't have to struggle first.

Regina Scott

#13. The Golden Eagle, which has universally been considered as a bird of most extraordinary powers of flight, is in my estimation little more than a sluggard, though its wings are long and ample.

John James Audubon

#14. It was Lord of the Flies without table manners.

Denise Mina

#15. The people I worked with were bigger than life. Once you put them on the screen, they were huge.

Bruce Dern

#16. Be involved; be informed. Try to be understanding and tolerant and to appreciate diversity.

M. Russell Ballard