#here

This might be the first generation where kids are dying at a younger age than their parents and it's related primarily to the obesity problem. ↗

— Judy Davis

#be the first #dying #first #generation #kids

I would not send a first story anywhere. I would give myself time to write a number of stories. ↗

— Jhumpa Lahiri

#first #give #i #myself #number

Where I come from, a lot of people didn't have money, but they didn't have gangs or drugs either. ↗

— Kristin Davis

#either #gangs #i #lot #money

I met the Colonel when Elvis was recording some song I'd written for one of his movies. Elvis was just having fun with the gang and all the Memphis boys and Colonel Parker was sitting over here in like a theater seat. ↗

— Mac Davis

#elvis #fun #gang #having #having fun

I come now to tell you for what I am brought here to die, and to give you an account of my faith, which I shall do as in the sight of the living God before whom I am shortly to stand. ↗

— Donald Cargill

#am #before #brought #come #die

We are here because over billions of years, countless variables fell into place, any of which could have taken another path. We are essentially a beautiful fluke, as are the millions of other species with which we share this planet. Our cells are composed of atoms and dust particles from distant galaxies, and from the billions of living organisms that inhabited this planet before us. ↗

— Wendy Mass

#meaning-of-life #science #why-we-are-here #beauty

I think it would be interesting if old people got anti-Alzheimer's disease where they slowly began to recover other people's lost memories. ↗

— George Carlin

#disease #got #i #i think #interesting

Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of the two everlasting empires, necessity and free will. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#between #confines #darkness #empires #everlasting

If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#being #deep #enough #everywhere #heart

Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#axis #brushed #clings #entirely #ever