Quotes About Adaptation

I'm glad I don't live in yesterday... that tomorrow is still a friend.

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The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.

My mother had to leave many traditions behind and the more time passed, the more they mattered to her.

All immigrants walk around with a scar left behind by their crossing into a new country, an invisible mark of the exile that became their condition when they were uprooted.

Four months later, their mother was living with Buddhist nuns and Dagou had bulked up by thirty pounds.

You don't look strong enough to trouble nobody around here.... We grow our own troubles--it would be a novelty to have some we ain't already used to.

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Life makes everybody strange, if you keep living long enough

Why hell yes, Joe Bob! A cripple can always get himself a wooden leg, or a glass eye, or a metal hook for a hand, or any of that mess -- but there ain't no known substitute for a big dick. I guess you is out of luck!

Jake, you're a dern grasshopper," Augustus said. "You ride in yesterday talking Montana, and today you're talking California.

It was wearying, trying to adjust to all the paces life required.

My main skills are talking and cooking biscuits," Augustus said. "And getting drunk on the porch. I've probably slipped a little on the biscuits in the last few days, and I've lost the porch, but I can still talk with the best of them.

he had learned in his years of tracking Indians that things which seemed impossible often weren't.

If he didn't like the way she did things, he was free to do them different—but he never did them different. He just fussed at her.

Seems like every time I make a plan something happens to change it. Well, life's a twisting stream, Augustus said.

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I haven't planned, very much," July said honestly. "Seems like every time I make a plan something happens to change it.

Men have gotten by without legs. Lots of 'em lost legs in the war. You don't like to do nothing but sit on the porch and drink whiskey anyway. It don't take legs to do that.

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The truth was, most plans did fail, to one degree or another, for one reason or another. He had survived as a Ranger because he was quick to respond to what he had actually found, not because his planning was infallible. In

We play your part in order to understand you, but you each seem to play a thousand parts. It makes things difficult for an honest, hard-working bug-eyed monster.

Species evolve to meet the environment. An intelligent species changes the environment to suit itself. As soon as a species becomes intelligent, it should stop evolving.

Species evolve to meet the environment. An intelligent species changes the environment to suit itself. As soon as a species becomes intelligent, it should stop evolving. A