Don Marquis Quotes

Some people collect butterflies - I love beetles.

There's something about dinosaurs that should be very humbling to human beings.

When I was a young boy, I used to gaze through the microscope of my father at the insects in amber that he kept in the house. And they were remarkably well preserved, morphologically just phenomenal.

I'm proud to be a Lohan, and I will always will be.

One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period.

I spent my childhood in northern New York State, and like many kids, bugs and other critters fascinated me.

Every creature that lives climbs up its own genealogical tree before it reaches its mature condition. All animals living, or that ever have lived, are united together by blood relationship of varying nearness or remoteness, and every animal now in existence has a pedigree stretching back, not merely for ten or a hundred generations, but through all geologic time since life first commenced on the earth.

History is the zoology of the human race.

Moths are okay. Actually, moths don't bother me near as much as, say, spiders do.

I have more in common with a three-toed sloth or a one-eyed pterodactyl or a Kalamata olive than I have with Winston Churchill.

Wind back the tape of life to the early days of the Burgess Shale; let it play again from an identical starting point, and the chance becomes vanishingly small that anything like human intelligence would grace the replay.

We are inescapably the result of a long heritage of learning, adaptation, mutation and evolution, the product of a history which predates our birth as a biological species and stretches back over many thousand millennia... Going further back, we share a common ancestry with our fellow primates; and going still further back, we share a common ancestry with all other living creatures and plants down to the simplest microbe. The further back we go, the greater the difference from external appearances and behavior patterns which we observe today.

The whole story is about change. We are very lucky that the earth's history is recorded in fossilized remains. And we can see the changes. Unfortunately, there will always be gaps in our knowledge, but there is no doubt that we and everything living today has evolved.

To the proud the slightest repulse or disappointment is the last indignity.

Were we not proud ourselves, we should not complain of the pride of others.

I'm very proud of what I do, and I want as many people to be aware of it as possible. I'm very proud of what I believe. I'm very proud of my country. I want everybody to be. I really do. It may sound like pie-in-the-sky, but I want everybody to love America as I do.

We now know that the structure of the DNA in humans and chimpanzees differs by only just over one percent. You could even have a blood transfusion from a chimp, provided you have the same blood group.

Armor is heavy, yet it is a proud burden, and a man standeth straight in it.

If lucky be not proud; if unlucky, do not despond.

Today we know not only that there is a terrible amount of disorder in the heavens - great catastrophes or conflagrations occur frequently - but evolution gives us a perfectly natural explanation of such order as there is. No distinguished astronomer now traces "the finger of God" in the heavens; and astronomers ought to know best.

I'm still proud of a lot of my jokes when I started.

I was always proud about being from Texas and, you know, maybe that was part of fearlessness. I love the fact that Texas is so big, but you don't feel small because of that.

Everyone wanted his relatives to be proud of him, didn't he?

Nature made us - nature did it all - not the gods of the religions.

I'm very proud of my children. And they've done a wonderful job, and they've been wonderful, wonderful kids.