Quotes of Barbara McClintock

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I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.

- Barbara McClintock

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“ If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started with a dream and a mouse. ”

- Walt Disney

“ I pray you, do not fall in love with me, for I am falser than vows made in wine. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ How can I put the Auras back in the chest?” I asked, terror boiling inside my stomach. “You can’t. Not if those that were or will be struck by them won’t be eager to express their feelings and let you help them. You do not change people, dearie. It’s the people that change themselves. You’re the Guardian, but they’re the bearers,” the Oracle whispered. “I’m no Guardian. I’m doomed!” I said and I knew that this was true. ”

- Victoria Moschou

“ The purpose of life is not to be happy—but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you lived at all. ”

- Leo Rosten

“ Ethical veganism results in a profound revolution within the individual; a complete rejection of the paradigm of oppression and violence that she has been taught from childhood to accept as the natural order. It changes her life and the lives of those with whom she shares this vision of nonviolence. Ethical veganism is anything but passive; on the contrary, it is the active refusal to cooperate with injustice ”

- GaryLFrancione

“ The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplaceable being. ”

- Tom Robbins

“ If you sow kindness, you will reap love. ”

- Matshona Dhliwayo

“ If music be the food of love, play on. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall. ”

- Confucius

“ We cannot have a world where everyone is a victim. "I'm this way because my father made me this way. I'm this way because my husband made me this way." Yes, we are indeed formed by traumas that happen to us. But then you must take charge, you must take over, you are responsible. ”

- Camille Paglia

“ If I envision a just, fair future, I must behave justly and fairly today. ”

- Elena Aguilar

“ How do I say “I miss you” in a way that will make your heart ache as mine does? ”

- Unknown

“ Life is a game and true love is a trophy. ”

- Rufus Wainwright

“ Be brave. Don't just live in your cave till your grave. ”

- RVM

“ Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ When I was a little girl I used to read fairy tales. In fairy tales you meet Prince Charming and he's everything you ever wanted. In fairy tales the bad guy is very easy to spot. The bad guy is always wearing a black cape so you always know who he is. Then you grow up and you realize that Prince Charming is not as easy to find as you thought. You realize the bad guy is not wearing a black cape and he's not easy to spot; he's really funny, and he makes you laugh, and he has perfect hair. ”

- Taylor Swift

“ How would your life be different if…You stopped allowing other people to dilute or poison your day with their words or opinions? Let today be the day…You stand strong in the truth of your beauty and journey through your day without attachment to the validation of others ”

- Steve Maraboli

“ Visionary decisionmaking happens at the intersection of intuition and logic. ”

- Gandhi

“ I do love nothing in the world so well as you is not that strange? ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Getting an idea should be like sitting down on a pin. It should make you jump up and do something. ”

- E. L. Simpson

“ There are four basic human needs; food, sleep, sex and revenge. ”

- Banksy

“ Armed with positive thoughts, it becomes easier to focus on your goals, while the opposite also holds true. ”

- Stephen Richards

“ If you are too busy to pray, you are busier than God wants you to be. ”

- Wanda E. Brunstetter

“ There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor. ”

- H. L. Mencken

“ You can never plan the future by the past. ”

- Edmund Burke