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Quotes About Evolution

We can change by changing our attitudes and patterns of behavior. In so doing, we change our destiny.
~ Unknown
There are people who never experience that, who remain closed until death, from fear of change.
~ Isabelle Adjani
The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character.
~ Isabelle Eberhardt
Neo-Hoodoo is the 8 basic dances of 19th century New Orleans' Place Congo- the Calinda the Bamboula the Chacta the Babouille the Conjaille the Juba the Congo and the VooDoo- modernized into the Philly Dog, the Hully Gully, the Funky Chicken, the Popcorn, the Boogaloo and the dance of great American choreographer Buddy Bradley.
~ Ishmael Reed
Yes. You see, it's not 1 of those germs that break bleed suck gnaw or devour. It's nothing we can bring into focus or categorize; once we call it 1 thing it forms into something else.
~ Ishmael Reed
And everything would be different, different.
~ Ismail Kadare
If an animal has to be sacrificed when a new bridge is built, what will it take to build a whole new world?
~ Ismail Kadare
I used to hate boys... I grew up... Things changed. Now I hate men.
~ Israel Horovitz
Rice is born in water and must die in wine.
~ Italian proverb
Memory really matters...only if it enables us to become without ceasing to be, and to be without ceasing to become.
~ Italo Calvino
These cities grew in approximately the same places as our cities do now, however different the shape of the continents was. There was even a New York that in some way resembled the New York familiar to all of you, but was much newer, or, rather, more awash with new products, new toothbrushes, a New York with its own Manhattan that stretched out dense with skyscrapers gleaming like the nylon bristles of a brand-new toothbrush.
~ Italo Calvino
The sea where living creatures were at one time immersed is now enclosed within their bodies.
~ Italo Calvino
before, we swam, and now we are swum.
~ Italo Calvino
the world was trying to change its old face and show its underbelly of earth and roots.
~ Italo Calvino
onsuz yapamayaca??n bir ?eyi kenara b?rakmay? bir kez ba?ard???nda, bir ba?ka ?ey olmadan da yapabildi?ini, sonra bir ba?ka ?eyden de s?yr?labildi?ini göreceksin.
~ Italo Calvino
The espresso machines in station cafés boast their kinship with the locomotives, the espresso machines of yesterday and today with the locomotives and steam engines of today and yesterday.
~ Italo Calvino
Each new Clarice, compact as a living body with its smells and its breath, shows off, like a gem, what remains of the ancient Clarices, fragmentary and dead.
~ Italo Calvino
Crecer en círculos concéntricos, como los troncos de los árboles que cada año aumentan una vuelta.
~ Italo Calvino
The process going on today is the triumph of discontinuity, divisibility, and combination over all that is flux, or a series of minute nuances following one upon the other.
~ Italo Calvino
I knew that signs also allow others to judge the one who makes them, and that in the course of a galactic year tastes and ideas have time to change, and the way of regarding the earlier ones depends on what comes afterwards; in short, I was afraid a sign that now might seem perfect to me, in two hundred or six hundred million years would make me look absurd.
~ Italo Calvino
Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continent.
~ Italo Calvino
It is pointless to ask whether the new ones are better or worse than the old, since there is no connection between them, just as the old post cards do not depict Maurilia as it was, but a different city which, by chance, was called Maurilia, like this one.
~ Italo Calvino
Traveler's past changes according to the route he has followed
~ Italo Calvino
Who ever said this author had an unmistakable tone? On the contrary, he is known as an author who changes greatly from one book to the next. And in these very changes you recognize him as himself.
~ Italo Calvino