Urbanis Quotes

#1. In the two million years during which we climbed from stone-tool-wielding Homo erectus with sloping brows to high-foreheaded Homo urbanis - man, the inventor of the city - we underwent 60 glaciations, 60 ice ages.

Howard Bloom

#2. If you act like you can do something, then it will work.

Walter Isaacson

#3. If you know anyone struggling with his or her sexuality, the best thing you can do is be there for them, respect the process and treat them the same as you always would. It helps so much to know you're not alone.

Connor Franta

#4. Some folks pay a compliment like they went down in their pocket for it.

Kin Hubbard

#5. Ten minutes praying is better than a year's murmuring.

Charles Spurgeon

#6. Can't we be friends?' I hate your guts, Frankovitch' Can't our guts be friends?

Barbara Park

#7. There was a saying in our family that no one ever died; people just dried up, were hung on a hook, and conducted their affairs from there.

Mildred Armstrong Kalish

#8. Harvard has been almost as important to the American Jewish community as the pork-sausage industry.

P. J. O'Rourke

#9. Sometimes you had to be who you were and endure what happened to you, and to you alone, before you could understand the first thing about it.

Kathleen Winter

#10. I think you can really gauge my state of mind by listening to my albums.

Christina Aguilera

#11. The real excitement is collaborating with computer scientists and neuroscientists and starting to understand in detail how children learn so much so quickly.

Alison Gopnik

#12. Pity goes hand in hand with contempt. Don't ever forget that, Liberty. You can't take handouts or help from anyone, because that gives people the right to look down on you.

Lisa Kleypas

#13. George W. Bush gave a commencement speech at Southern Methodist University this weekend. It was pretty inspirational. He said, 'As I like to tell the 'C' students, you too can be president.' Even George W. Bush has George W. Bush comedy material in his act.

Jimmy Fallon

#14. The key thing in management is goal setting. In medicine, goal-based approach is particularly important. Management should be aimed at minimizing health damage and, with a high degree of correlation, at reducing mortality

Abel Aganbegyan

#15. A piercing screech from above caught my attention. However, it was the arm landing beside me with teeth marks that let me know what was going on.
"Can you be a little more careful where you let body parts fall?"
- Faith, Witch Devotions

Elizabeth J. Kolodziej

#16. I would say my sense of adventure outweighs my grace.

Kathy Ireland