#scent

Civilization, we shall find, like Universalism and Christianity, is anti evolutionary in its effects; it works against the laws and conditions which regulated the earlier stages of man's ascent. ↗

— Arthur Keith

#anti #ascent #christianity #civilization #conditions

I would say to you that Americans of Hispanic descent want desperately to give their children the chances they never had. ↗

— Marco Rubio

#children #descent #desperately #give #had

God gave me some weird, beautiful scent that makes men and women go crazy. People compare it to Carvel. It is a whale of a smell. ↗

— Adam Sandler

#compare #crazy #gave #go #god

In interviews I gave early on in my career, I was quoted as saying it was possible to have it all: a dynamic job, marriage, and children. In some respects, I was a social adolescent. ↗

— Jessica Savitch

#career #children #dynamic #early #gave

Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it. ↗

— Olive Schreiner

#always #color #flower #god #love

Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#brag #descent #others #owe #their

The child now shewed her a narrow and rugged descent, made by cutting the red clay and stones, of which the cliffs are here composed, into a sort of rude steps. ↗

— Charlotte Smith

#clay #cliffs #composed #cutting #descent

I was - I've always been a bit of perpetual adolescent. ↗

— Rick Springfield

#always #been #bit #i #perpetual

Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#century #destroy #dream #every #family

My door will always be open to those who genuinely renounce violence and seek peaceful accommodation into our nascent democracy. ↗

— Jalal Talabani

#always #democracy #door #genuinely #into