#ran

We should not have a government program that determines if you're going to pull the plug on grandma. ↗

— Chuck Grassley

#going #government #government program #grandma #plug

I accept extinction as best explaining disjoined species. I see that the same cause must have reduced many species of great range to small, and that it may have reduced large genera to so small, and of families. ↗

— Asa Gray

#best #cause #explaining #extinction #families

I take it for granted that you do not wish to hear an echo from the pulpit nor from the theological class-room. ↗

— Asa Gray

#granted #hear #i #nor #pulpit

Where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise. ↗

— Thomas Gray

#folly #ignorance #ignorance is bliss #tis #where

As a child I had dealt with a lot of loss and grief. I was constantly losing my parents, losing my home, constantly moving around, living with this stranger, that stepfather, or whatever. ↗

— Erin Gray

#child #constantly #dealt #grief #had

I get strangely obsessed about the cleanliness of my house. ↗

— Utada Hikaru

#cleanliness #get #house #i #obsessed

France generates a significant part of its energy requirements from fission reactors and these have achieved a perfect safety record. We build ours all differently. ↗

— Wilson Greatbatch

#build #differently #energy #fission #france

A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges. ↗

— Benny Green

#instead #jazz #jazz musician #juggler #musician

I think it's crazy, crazy that book tours lose so much money. They shouldn't. Book tours should be part of what keeps independent bookstores vibrant and profitable. ↗

— John Green

#bookstores #crazy #i #i think #independent

I'm a big believer in pairing classics with contemporary literature, so students have the opportunity to see that literature is not a cold, dead thing that happened once but instead a vibrant mode of storytelling that's been with us a long time - and will be with us, I hope, for a long time to come. ↗

— John Green

#believer #big #big believer #classics #cold