"Mr. Darwin refers to the multitude of the individual of every species, which, from one cause or another, perish either before, or soon after attaining maturity."

-- Richard Owen

#Maturity Quotes #Causes Quotes #Individual Quotes

“My father and mother in 1817 were forty-nine days on the road with their emigrant wagons [from Vermont] to Ohio. More than two days for each hour that I spent in the same journey.”
“Life reflects your own thoughts back to you.”
“It can't be dead. It was alive just a minute ago.”
“I think I love and reverence all arts equally, only putting my own just above the others; because in it I recognize the union and culmination of my own. To me it seems as if when God conceived the world, that was Poetry; He formed it, and that was Sculpture; He colored it, and that was Painting; He peopled it with living beings, and that was the grand, divine, eternal Drama.”

Source : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". Book by J.K. Hoyt & K.L. Roberts, p. 4-6, 1922.
“â€Ž'The demon cried, waving its furry arms above his head like a demented orangutan.”
“Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?”

Source : Punch 23 May 1917 "Fairies"
“Cause there was a time when all I did was wish You'd tell me this was love. It's not the way I hoped Or how I planned But somehow it's enough.”

Source : Song: Save the Best for Last, Album: The Comfort Zone
“The greatest answer to prayer is that I am brought into a perfect understanding with God, and that alters my view of actual things.”

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