Quotes About Evolution

I am compelled to speak of metamorphoses

My mind leads me to speak now of forms changed into new bodies: O gods above, inspire this undertaking (which you've changed as well) and guide my poem in its epic sweep from the world's beginning to the present day. The

An animal more like the gods than these, more intellectually capable and able to control the other beasts, had not as yet appeared: now man was born, either

I intend to speak of metamorphoses.

Everything changes Everything flows. What we were or are Tomorrow we will not be.

All things do change; but nothing sure doth perish.

Now I am ready to tell how bodies are changed Into different bodies.

Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.

Thus earth of late so rude, So shapeless, man, till now unknown, became.

There is nothing constant in the universe. All ebb and flow, and every shape that's born, bears in its womb the seeds of change.

Tempora mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis.

I grew up having to piss in a bucket 'cos there was no indoor shitter, and now I have these computerised Japanese super-loo things that have heated seats and wash and blow-dry your arse at the touch of a button. Give it a couple of years and I'll have a bog with a robot arm that pulls out my turds, so I don't have to strain.

You've got to try and take things to the next level, or you'll just get stuck in a rut.

Nothing is more foreign than the world of one's childhood when one has truly left it.

the march of civilisation has given the modern girl a vocabulary and an ability to use it which her grandmother never had

Within chaos lies opportunity.

Change can be weird or even queer. But change has to happen for things to grow--for us to grow. And change isn't so bad when you're not in it alone.

He leaned back a little, not taking his arm from around me, but looking into my eyes. "You're changing, Zoey. And I'm not sure what you're changing into.

Plus, according to my mother, memories change like people do, especially if there's enough alcohol involved-Aphrodite

Arrayed in a new body another mother may someday give birth so that with stronger limbs and brighter mind the old soul shall take the road to earth again.

I'm turning into a Ho

as if Nature had intended to make a gorilla, and had changed its mind at the last moment

It was as if Nature had intended to make a gorilla, and had changed its mind at the last moment.

I did not rush in with the vim I would have displayed a year or so earlier, before Life had made me the grim, suspicious man I am to-day: