Landmarks Quotes

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Although life is a continuous process, fertilization is a critical landmark because, under ordinary circumstances, a new, genetically distinct human organism is thereby formed.... The… — Ronan O'Rahilly
For the speedy reader paragraphs become a country the eye flies over looking for landmarks, reference points, airports, restrooms, passages of sex. — William H. Gass
At the last dim horizon, we search among ghostly errors of observations for landmarks that are scarcely more substantial. The search will continue. The urge… — Edwin Powell Hubble
There we measure shadows, and we search among ghostly errors of measurement for landmarks that are scarcely more substantial. — Edwin Powell Hubble
In a very basic way, a prominent landmark such as Mt. Holyoke tells you where you are. They let you know that you're not the… — Tracy Kidder
Though the word beautification makes the concept sound merely cosmetic, it involves much more: clean water, clean air, clean roadsides, safe waste disposal and preservation… — Lady Bird Johnson
Art, and, above all, music, has a fundamental function, which is to catalyze the sublimation that it can bring about through all means of expression.… — Iannis Xenakis
With James Reeseâ€™s vivid and chilling novel, readers will gain a whole new appreciation of two gothic landmarks, Dracula and Jack the Ripper. Not only… — Matthew Pearl
All cities are geological; you cannot take three steps without encountering ghosts bearing all the prestige of their legends. We move within a closed landscape… — Ivan Chtcheglov
One day the stars will be as familiar to each man as the landmarks, the curves, and the hills on the road that leads to… — Beryl Markham
Considered in its entirety, psychoanalysis won't do. It is an end product, moreover, like a dinosaur or a zeppelin; no better theory can ever be… — Peter Medawar
Until the first blow fell, no one was convinced that Penn Station really would be demolished, or that New York would permit this monumental act… — Ada Louise Huxtable
All of journalism is a shrinking art. So much of it is hype. The O.J. Simpson story is a landmark in the decline of journalism. — Dick Schaap
John Clare, in his poem To a Fallen Elm, makes the tree a selfmark as well as a landmark. — Tim Fulford
The remarkable thing is that it is the crowded life that is most easily remembered. A life full of turns, achievements, disappointments, surprises, and crises… — Eric Hoffer
Knowing how to wield psychic power leads to real solutions. Your feminine nature is strong, not weak. Your psychic gifts are your tools and landmarks… — Laurie Cabot
Landscapes can be deceptive. Sometimes a landscape seems to be less a setting for the life of its inhabitants than a curtain behind which their… — John Berger
Without spiritual landmarks, mankind wanders . . . Without the word of God, we walk in circles. — Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Britain is obviously one of the world powers and they bombed the World Trade Centre, which is a landmark in itself, and over in Britain… — Robbie Kearns
Cultural transformation announces itself in sputtering fits and starts, sparked here and there by minor incidents, warmed by new ideas that may smolder for decades.… — Marilyn Ferguson

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