(80 quotes found)
“All the ills from which America suffers can be traced to the teaching of evolution”
William Jennings Bryan
“When you do something, you should burn yourself up completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself”
Shunryu Suzuki
“GENEALOGY, n. An account of one's descent from an ancestor who did not particularly care to trace his own.”
Ambrose Bierce
“Sweet babe, in thy face Soft desires I can trace, Secret joys and secret smiles, Little pretty infant wiles”
William Blake
“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
“The President can exercise no power which cannot be fairly and reasonably traced to some specific grant of power . . . in the Federal Constitution or in an act of Congress passed in pursuance thereof. There is no undefined residuum of power which he can exercise because it seems to him to be in the public interest.”
William Howard Taft
“Hence I pronounce this, that as old experience doth attain to something like prophetic strain, so all comely facility traces back to long pondering; intuitions are the reward of ancient gropings”
Stephen MacKenna
“We leave traces of ourselves wherever we go, on whatever we touch”
Lewis Thomas
“I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule. Consequently, my family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.”
William S. Gilbert
“Beauty is momentary in the mind / The fitful tracing of a portal; / But in the flesh it is immortal. / The body dies; the body's beauty lives.”
Wallace Stevens
