Bones Quote by Charles Lyell

The appearance of the bones of quadrupeds, especially those of complete bodies in the strata, tells us either that the layer itself which carries…

— Georges Cuvier

We live between two worlds; we soar in the atmosphere; we creep upon the soil; we have the aspirations of creators and the propensities…

— Anonymous

Secondly, the nature of the revolutions which have altered the surface of the earth must have had a more decisive effect on the terrestrial…

— Georges Cuvier

Climate affects bipeds in the same way it does quadrupeds.

— Jose Rizal

On the plains of hesitation bleach the bones of countless millions who, at the dawn of decision, sat down to wait, and waiting died.

— Sam Ewing

Centuries-old habitats such as coral gardens are destroyed in an instant by bottom trawls, pulverized by weighted nets into barren plains. And global carbon…

— Ted Danson

My own great-grandfather suffered so much from asthma that he had to walk a mile or two behind the covered wagons crossing the plains…

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

The government sends low-flying helicopters to chase the horses into corrals and then takes them from the plains of the American West to federal…

— Jane Velez-Mitchell

What, ultimately, is Greece if it is not the people who live in this country? It's not the mountains and the plains.

— Alexis Tsipras

A Pike, in the California dialect, is a native of Missouri, Arkansas, Northern Texas, or Southern Illinois. The first emigrants that came over the…

— Bayard Taylor

You can find dozens of books about people taking the Trans-Siberian Railroad. I knew I had to do something different to cross Siberia. To…

— Ian Frazier

“These men flocked to the plains, and were rather stimulated than retarded by the danger of an Indian war. This was another potent agency…

— William T. Sherman