Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tim White

They ... represent the probable immediate ancestors of anatomically modern humans. Their anatomy and antiquity constitute strong evidence of modern-human emergence in Africa,

Louis Leakey

I put a bullet into the back of the crocodile's neck just behind the head, thus killing it. If a crocodile is hit in any other part of its anatomy it disappears into the water and is irrecoverable.

Walter Reed

specimens of morbid anatomy ... together with projectiles and foreign bodies removed.

David Small

Things like anatomy and drawing and design and color had pretty much been drop-kicked out of the curriculum in the '70s, when I was studying art, in favor of abstraction and minimalism.

Oleg Cassini

My philosophy is this: Do not tamper with the anatomy of a woman's body; do not camouflage it.

Brian Nairn

Elsevier is proud of this recognition of a truly remarkable work, which is the result of the effort and dedication of dozens of individuals. We felt from the beginning - eight years ago - that this was a worthy and worthwhile project and one that will make a real difference in the study of anatomy for medical students all over the world.

Bee Wilson

What strikes me, the more I cook, is that the best recipes are ones where the basic anatomy is so sound it will survive multiple adjustments. When a recipe has good bones, you can change the seasoning, double the garlic, swap lime for lemon, and it still turns out delicious.

Joe Shuster

Those early sketches looked too cartoony; I really wanted to do detailed drawings - I was taking anatomy classes - but unfortunately I wasn't able to do it because of the time element.

Michael Shermer

We know evolution happened not because of transitional fossils such as A. natans but because of the convergence of evidence from such diverse fields as geology, paleontology, biogeography, comparative anatomy and physiology, molecular biology, genetics, and many more.

Ron Banks

I realize many of my ancestors fought so I could have the opportunities I have today, and I appreciate them for the sacrifices they made for us.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

I'm the descendant of enslaved black people in this country. You could've been born in 1820 if you were black and looked back to your ancestors and saw nothing but slaves all the way back to 1619. Look forward another 50 or 60 years and saw nothing but slaves.

Michael Specter

If people want to believe that our ancestors were riding around on dinosaurs or that the protracted, increasing, and devastating warming of the Earth is just nature doing its thing - I guess I feel I have more useful battles to fight.

Carl Zimmer

I'm really interested in the history of life in general. How life began to how birds evolved to what our ancestors looked like.

David Brin

Is this a horrible future? Or actually a return to what we've always had in the past? Think of old villages. Everybody knew everything about everybody else. Strangers were intimidating and worrisome. This will be like the village our ancestors grew up in, only with 7 billion people.

Danish Proverb

They brag most of their ancestors who are unworthy of them

It's interesting to think that my ancestors used to live in the trees, like apes, until finally they got the nerve to head out onto the plains, where some were probably hit by cars

Kim Edwards

I find my husband's family history fascinating, as they can trace the family lineage back to ancestors who fought, and died, in the first battle of the Revolution, as well as to many other interesting people.

Wilbur Wright

The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who...looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space...on the infinite highway of the air.

Jeff Green

There's something inherently fishy about that that needs to be investigated.

E. O. Wilson

There's something fishy about this gentleman, and we need to find out what that is.

Noel Coward

There's always something fishy about the French.

Pamela Stephenson

There seems to be this impression that if I really am a psychotherapist, I can't be serious about it. They think there must be something fishy going on.