#rose

Life began three and a half billion years ago, necessarily about as simple as it could be, because life arose spontaneously from the organic compounds in the primeval oceans. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#ago #arose #because #began #billion

I'm honestly perplexed about the distinction represented by the cervical wall. On one side, people should be prosecuted if they do anything to harm the fetus, but once on the outside, sorry kid, whatever happens happens. You're on your own. ↗

— Jennifer Granholm

#anything #distinction #fetus #happens #harm

Defendants are being evaluated based on numerical grid without any aggravating circumstances being considered. The effect has been to transfer the disparity from the judge to the prosecutor allowing for a great deal of leeway on indictments. ↗

— Harold H. Greene

#allowing #any #based #been #being

Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

#leave #love #rose #stem #thou

I think today that it is essential that the Rwandan tribunal continues to prosecute efficiently. And if the U.N. fails to do that, it is sending entirely the wrong message to people who are in the position to complete these atrocities again. ↗

— Tony Greig

#atrocities #complete #continues #efficiently #entirely

I'm not always in that good with middle-aged heterosexual men. ↗

— Kathy Griffin

#good #heterosexual #i #men #middle-aged

Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process. ↗

— Franz Grillparzer

#art #differ #excursion #goal #journey

I earned my first steady paycheck watering rose bushes at a nursery for a dollar an hour. ↗

— John Grisham

#dollar #earned #first #hour #i

I think most men, heterosexual and homosexual, enjoy being considered sexual objects. ↗

— Thom Gunn

#considered #enjoy #heterosexual #homosexual #i

There are brilliant out lesbians and gay men and bisexuals and transgendered people and heterosexuals keeping the fire of change alive. Not a day goes by when I don't feel grateful to them for their work. ↗

— Jasmine Guy

#brilliant #change #day #feel #fire