“We leave traces of ourselves wherever we go, on whatever we touch”
Lewis Thomas
“An arrow may fly through the air and leave no trace; but an ill thought leaves a trail like a serpent.”
Charles Mackay
“When you do something, you should burn yourself up completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself”
Shunryu Suzuki
“Sweet babe, in thy face Soft desires I can trace, Secret joys and secret smiles, Little pretty infant wiles”
William Blake
“All the ills from which America suffers can be traced to the teaching of evolution”
William Jennings Bryan
“GENEALOGY, n. An account of one's descent from an ancestor who did not particularly care to trace his own.”
Ambrose Bierce
“If I could trace my origins to Judas Maccabaeus or King David, that would not add one inch to my stature. It may well be that many East European Jews are descended from Khazars, I may be one of them. Who knows? And who cares?”
Isaac Asimov