Recapitulates Quotes

#1. Adolescence as the time when an individual 'recapitulates' the savage stage of the race's past.

G. Stanley Hall

#2. 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

#3. Every loss recapitulates earlier losses, but every affirmation of identity echoes earlier moments of clarity.

Mary Catherine Bateson

#4. Just as the embryo recapitulates in brief the evolution of the species, so did Suzanne recapitulate all the styles of her lovers.

W. Somerset Maugham

#5. Jack Abramoff is the world's best lobbyist - for the Federal Penitentiary System.

P. J. O'Rourke

#6. 1. Feed off you.
2. Replenish you.
3. Repeat.

Darnell Lamont Walker

#7. It was then that Doc devised a method for getting revenge on a bank if anyone should ever want to. 'Rent a safety deposit box,' he said, 'then deposit in it one whole fresh salmon and go away for six months.

John Steinbeck

#8. Do something nice for somebody. Do something nice for God. Do something nice for the earth - and don't expect anything in return or you will suffer.

Frederick Lenz

#9. Perhaps over time we can adjust our default setting to one of greater mindfulness rather than of mindlessness and being lost in thought. As

Jon Kabat-Zinn