#dr

By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#brains #drop #means #open-minded #our

I do disapprove very strongly of labelling children, especially young children, as something like 'Catholic children' or 'Protestant children' or 'Islamic children.' ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#children #disapprove #especially #i #i do

I think the Canadian sense of humor is dryer than America's and juicier than Britain's. I think it's a cross between the two of them, really. ↗

— Scott Thompson

#between #britain #canadian #cross #dryer

My decision to be a scientist was a bit of a drift really, more or less by default. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#decision #default #drift #less #more

No doubt Western civilization has in the past been full of wars and revolutions, and the national elements in our culture, even when they were ignored, always provided an unconscious driving force of passion and aggressive self-assertion. ↗

— Christopher Dawson

#always #been #civilization #culture #doubt

And I asked my mother about it; I said, 'Is there something wrong?' She said, 'God... God makes people. You understand that, don't you?' And I said, 'Yeah!' She said, 'Who makes a rainbow?" I said, 'God.' She said, 'I never presumed to tell anyone who could make a rainbow what color to make children.' ↗

— Richard Dawson

#anyone #asked #children #color #could

If your parents didn't have any children, there's a good chance that you won't have any. ↗

— Clarence Day

#chance #children #good #good chance #parents

Wrinkles are hereditary. Parents get them from their children. ↗

— Doris Day

#get #hereditary #parents #their #them

Men are beginning to realize that they are not individuals but persons in society, that man alone is weak and adrift, that he must seek strength in common action. ↗

— Dorothy Day

#adrift #alone #beginning #common #individuals

I wish the government and the Minister of Justice would address these legal and constitutional arguments, but they refuse to. They want Canadians to go blindly into their brave new world, but it is not wise for a society to move blindly in any direction. ↗

— Stockwell Day

#any #blindly #brave #brave new world #canadians