"The first day or so we all pointed to our country. The third or fourth day we were pointing to our continent. By the fifth day, we were aware of only one Earth."

-- Sultan bin Salman Al Saud

#Country Quotes #Earth Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“I wanted to show the history and strength of all kinds of black women. Working women, country women, urban women, great women in the history of the United States,”
“The asymmetry of time, the arrow that points from past to future, plays an unmistakable role in our everyday lives: it accounts for why we cannot turn an omelet into an egg, why ice cubes never spontaneously unmelt in a glass of water, and why we remember the past but not the future. And the origin of the asymmetry we experience can be traced all the way back to the orderliness of the universe near the big bang. Every time you break an egg, you are doing observational cosmology.”
“Evolution has no long-term goal. There is no long-distance target, no final perfection to serve as a criterion for selection, although human vanity cherishes the absurd notion that our species is the final goal of evolution.”
“An ellipsis is a giant ocean of possibilities.”
“It's hard to not make a mistake at Darlington.”
“In these troubled times we live in, we should remain vigilant and see through populist arguments.”

Source : "Belgium King Albert II Christmas Speech Sparks Controversy". www.bbc.com. December 27, 2012.
“Usually I'm on top to keep the guy from escaping.”
“The worst day is just that I did not enter the culinary world sooner. And the best day was seeing the reaction of my one year old daughter when she tasted her first crisp apple!”

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