Quotes of: Jane-austen Keyword

Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an impossible situation.

Margaret Mead

If you want to become a fossil, you need to die somewhere where your bones will be rapidly buried. You then hope that the Earth moves in such a way as to bring the bones back up to the surface.

Louise Leakey

The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community.

Ruth Benedict

The laws of nature are structured so that we grow and change, and get to experience the full spectrum of biological existence.

Robert Lanza

I was born and brought up in Liverpool with my clever little sister Jemma, who is 14 and wants to be a vet. My mum Jane is an administrator and my dad Peter is a taxi driver.

Jennifer Ellison

Not all is doom and gloom. We are beginning to understand the natural world and are gaining a reverence for life - all life.

Roger Tory Peterson

In Kenya women are the first victims of environmental degradation, because they are the ones who walk for hours looking for water, who fetch firewood, who provide food for their families.

Wangari Maathai

Demands for equality for women are threats to men's self-esteem and sense of sexual turf.

Alice S. Rossi

Being second generation in Hollywood is complicated: Success is expected, and yet the track record of the second generation is not great. Only a small group of us, like Jane Fonda, have succeeded.

Kirk Douglas

You can be interested in a Jane Smiley novel whether or not anyone says a word. She enters into her characters' thoughts with great understanding and depth.

Richard Russo

As bad as it might be to destroy a creature made in God's image, it might be very much worse to be creating them after images of one's own.

Leon Kass

In centenarians and supercentenarians - people over 110 - you see a higher level of fecundity much later in life.

S. Jay Olshansky

We do not yet have the solutions to these questions, but the awareness that we live in an endangered world is present in more and more life situations.

Ulrich Beck

Evolution on the large scale unfolds, like much of human history, as a succession of dynasties.

Edmund Beecher Wilson

For my own personal growth I had to set out on my own.

Frank Press

I don't write drafts. I write from the beginning to the end, and when it's finished, it's done.

Clifford Geertz

I think of myself as a writer who happens to be doing his writing as an anthropologist.

Clifford Geertz

I think what's known about neurology is still scattered and uncertain.

Clifford Geertz

In every island of the Aegean Sea are found abundant traces of a vast prehistoric empire.

James Theodore Bent

It's very difficult to get your ideas to Hollywood if you're the average Joe or Jane. An agent wouldn't bother with you.

Bruce Nash

Regardless of what we look like on the outside, genetically, on the inside, everyone is an African.

Donald Johanson