Quotes about Adaptation
From an evolutionary point of view, man has stopped moving, if he ever did move.
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Every man is a new method.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The improvements of ages have had but little influence on the essential laws of man's existence: as our skeletons, probably, are not to be distinguished from those of our ancestors.
- Henry David Thoreau
The frontiers are not east or west, north or south, but wherever a man fronts a fact.
- Henry David Thoreau
I was lucky to get one good adaptation. Field of Dreams the Musical is lurking in the wings. Hope it will provide my daughters with a ton of money someday.
- WP Kinsella
The morning glories and the sunflowers turn naturally toward the light, but we have to be taught, it seems.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
No contact with savage Indian tribes has ever daunted me more than the morning I spent with an old lady swathed in woolies who compared herself to a rotten herring encased in a block of ice.
- Claude Levi-Strauss
Whatever doesn't kill you, makes you watch a lot of Cartoon Network and drink mid-price Chardonnay at 11 in the morning.
- Conan O'Brien
Basic Instincts It's the way mother birds build nests, and build them high enough to elude
- Bishop TD Jakes
I never lose. Either I win or learn.
- Nelson Mandela
We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.
- CS Lewis
We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.
- Dolly Parton