Quotes About Adaptation

Fella can get so he misses the noise of a saw mill

Now the tents of the late-comers filled the little flat, and those who had the boxcars were old-timers, and in a way aristocrats.

A man who loses his arms in an accident has a great struggle to adjust himself to the lack, but one born without arms sutlers only from people who find him strange. Having never had arms, he cannot miss them.

Seems like our life's over and done. No, it ain't, Ma smiled. It ain't, Pa. An' that's one more thing a woman knows. I noticed that. Man, he lives in jerks -- baby born an' a man dies, an' that's a jerk -- gets a farm an' loses a farm, an' that's a jerk. Woman, it's all one flow, like a stream, like eddies, little waterfalls, but the river, it goes right on. Woman looks at it like that. We ain't gonna die out. People is goin' on -- changin' a little, maybe, but goin' right on.

But Kino had lost his old world and he must clamber on to a new one. For his dream of the future was real and never to be destroyed, and he said I will go, and that made a real thing too.

Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the universe loves nothing so much as to change things which are and to make new things like them. For everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.

As an opal changes its colors and its fire to match the nature of a day, so do I.

It's not so bad when you get used to it," said Doc. "I've been drinking it for seventeen years.

Can you imagine? said Adam. 'He'll know so many new things. I wonder if he'll talk different. You know, Lee, in the East a boy takes on the speech of his school. You can tell a Harvard man from a Princeton man. At least that's what they say.' 'I'll listen,' said Lee. 'I wonder what dialect they speak at Stanford.

Then, with time, the squatters were no longer squatters, but owners;

Tell 'em ya dong's growed sence you los' your eye.

A day, a livelong day, is not one thing but many. It changes not only in growing light toward zenith and decline again, but in texture and mood, in tone and meaning, warped by a thousand factors of season, of heat or cold, of still or multi winds, torqued by odors, tastes, and the fabrics of ice or grass, of bud or leaf or black-drawn naked limbs. As a day changes so do its subjects, bugs and birds, cats, dogs, butterflies and people.

You cannot cut the ground from under a man and expect him to act normally.

But cities aren't like people; they live on and on, even though their reason for being where they are has gone downriver and out to sea.

We shed skins in life, to keep living.

Wir wissen eben nicht, was einer tun sollte, wir haben nicht mehr wir früher Antworten parat; wir wursteln uns bloß weiter durch und versuchen, nicht nachzudenken.

To say a tiger is an outside animal is an understatement that is best appreciated when a tiger is inside.

Grief is the conflicting feelings caused by the end of or change in a familiar pattern of behavior.

La vida es aquello que te ocurre mientras tú te empeñas en hacer otros planes.

Before I got married I had six theories about raising children; now, I have six children and no theories.

There is no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothing.

Although there is no progress without change, not all change is progress.

Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

Failure is not Fatal, but Failure to CHANGE can be.