Quotes About Evolution

What is behind you is gone, what is in front of you awaits.

All the same, some things stay with you forever. You are a different person now. You know it and I know it. You're not the same. You're a survivor. Congratulations.

Stop acting like you know me," Isabel said. "Well, you for sure do not know me. I'm not the person I used to be," Johnny said. "We're always the people we used to be," Isabel said.

itself, had emerged from that shadow.

Her husband closed the door on her, gently, with both hands, as if he were covering her with a blanket. He crossed in front of the car, his hair on end and the pale scalp at the back of his head exposed. He now looked every bit his age, she thought. As he grew older, it seemed to her that she was not losing sight of his younger self but coming to recognize instead another man altogether, one she was just beginning to find familiar. He

Every year, when you're a child, you become a different person.

Do you ever think that there used to be more sensible explanations about things than there are now?

Sometimes I get the start of a story from a memory, an anecdote, but that gets lost and is usually unrecognizable in the final story. [ A Conversation with Alice Munro , BookBrowse, 1998]

But when she was finished running away, when she just went on, what would she put in his place?

Every year, when you're a child, you become a different person.

There is a change coming I think in the lives of girls and women. Yes, but it is up to us to make it come.

It would be better to think that time had soured and thinned and made commonplace a brew that used to sparkle, that difficulties had altered us both, and not for the better.

What is the purpose of memory? Is it a trick to make sure we don't forget who we are by reminding us of who we were?

The world is changing. It is no longer a world just for boys and men

We all have to start somewhere if us want to do better, an d out of self is what us have to hand

Well, I say, we all have to start somewhere if us want to do better, and our own self is what us have to hand.

The world is changing, I said. It is no longer a world just for boys and men.

Our mothers taught us that in the old, old days, when they were their grandmothers and their grandmothers were old—for we are our grandmothers, you understand, only with lots of new and different things added

When we have changed everything we will eat congratulations with our tea.

We have had many lifetimes as human beings to learn of the many, many ways we do not wish to be.' 'But we're human,' she said 'and therefore we already are every way there is.' 'That's true,' he said 'but there is still a bit of room for choice, which is why it is worthwhile to remain in contact with your ancestors.

Bueno, llega un momento en que todos hemos de empezar a cambiar si queremos mejorar. Y nuestra propia persona es lo que tenemos más a mano.

there's no beginning or end to teaching and learning and working — it all runs together.

Some people don't understand that it is the nature of the eye to have seen forever, and the nature of the mind to recall anything that was ever known. Or that was the nature, I should say, until man started to put things on paper.

We all have to start somewhere if us want to do better, and our own self is what us have to hand.