"Every creature alive on the earth today represents an unbroken line of life that stretches back to the first primitive organism to appear on this planet; and that is about three billion years."

“I’m just enjoying just having a little me time, you know? But it’s not that I’m not taking applications.”

“You can only be free if I am free.”

“If the right job came along, absolutely with bells on I would work in Sweden.”

“The eye speaks with an eloquence and truthfulness surpassing speech. It is the window out of which the winged thoughts often fly unwittingly. It is the tiny magic mirror on whose crystal surface the moods of feeling fitfully play, like the sunlight and shadow on a still stream.”

Source : Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1850). “The optimist”, p.164

“I always knew, even as a kid, that my mom had a really rough life, and I always wanted to make her feel happy and to make her feel good.”

“Lehman uses many conveyances—including the prose poem, the sestina, and curt rhymes—to travel across the writing life of a poet whose instinctive romanticism is always bracing and tough-minded, brimming with a rare generosity.”

“[T]he hour is fast approaching, on which the Honor and Success of this army, and the safety of our bleeding Country depend. Remember officers and Soldiers, that you are Freemen, fighting for the blessings of Liberty - that slavery will be your portion, and that of your posterity, if you do not acquit yourselves like men.”

“My Lord, it is a very hard sentence. For my part, I am the innocentest person of them all, only I have been sworn against by perjured persons.”

Source : Carrie (Jenkins) [Harris ("Mrs. C. W. Harris"]), Charles Edward Lloyd, Mary (Queen of Scots), Francis Hargrave, William Kidd (1899). “State Trials of Mary, Queen of Scots, Sir Walter Raleigh, and Captain William Kidd”