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If you were to ask me to define a photograph in a few words, I would say it is a fossil of light and time.
— Daido Moriyama
A childhood is what anyone wants to remember of it. It leaves behind no fossils, except perhaps in fiction.
— Carol Shields
It's as though the words are trapped, buried under past fears, past lives, like fossils compressed under layers of dirt.
— Lauren Oliver
We have fossils ... We win!
— Lewis Black
Fossils are of four kinds, viz. saline, earthy, inflammable and metallic; hence arise four classes.
— Torbern Bergman
No matter what else happens, this is the century in which we must learn to live without fossil fuel.
— David Goodstein
Anyone who would tackle our current addiction to fossil fuels is going to have to maneuver around denial.
— William H. Calvin
Football is my life. There is no question about that.
— Chad Ochocinco
Truly to appreciate what fossils are requires a leap of imagination he was not capable of making.
— Tracy Chevalier
We need to profoundly revise all of our taxes and charges. The aim is to tax pollution - notably fossil fuels - more, and tax work less
— Nicolas Sarkozy
Oaths are the fossils of piety.
— George Santayana
Whence we see spiders, flies, or ants entombed and preserved forever in amber, a more than royal tomb.
— Francis Bacon
We can either save the planet from catastrophic warming, or protect fossil fuel CEOs. Not both. Do the math(s)
— Bill McKibben
Charles Darwin viewed the fossil record more as an embarrassment than as an aid to his theory ...
— Stephen Jay Gould
Through the study of fossils I had already been initiated into the mysteries of prehistoric creations.
— Pierre Loti
Just 8% of the $409bn spent on fossil-fuel subsidies in 2010 went to the poorest 20% of the population.
— Fatih Birol
If we were fossils of two snails caught in a rock for millions of years.
Would we know we were together? — Natasha Tsakos
I can't think of any other region in the world which is such a vast source of fossils.
— Richard Leakey
The sand stones had fragments of charcoal on some surfaces but found no recognisable fossils.
— George Mercer Dawson
I will give up my belief in evolution if someone finds a fossil rabbit in the Precambrian.
— John B. S. Haldane
Spent much of my life in Lyme with my eyes fixed to the ground in search of fossils. Such hunting can limit a person's perspective.
— Tracy Chevalier
Dreams are hopeful because they exist as pure possibility. Unlike memories, which are fossils, long dead and buried deep.
— Shaun David Hutchinson
Burning fossil fuels is like breaking up the furniture to feed the fireplace because it's easier than going out to the woodpile.
— Theodore Roosevelt
What we can be scientifically certain of is that our continued use of fossil fuels is pushing us to a point of no return
— Barack Obama
Stories are found things, like fossils in the ground ... Stories are relics, part of an undiscovered, pre-existing world.
— Stephen King
Ironically, we have even fewer examples of evolutionary transitions than we had in Darwin's time.
— David M. Raup
Transitional forms are generally lacking at the species level, but they are abundant between larger groups.
— Stephen Jay Gould
It must be significant that nearly all the evolutionary stories I learned as a student ... have now been debunked.
— D. V. Ager
All the fossils that we have ever found have always been found in the appropriate place in the time sequence. There are no fossils in the wrong place.
— Richard Dawkins
There are fossils of seashells high in the Himalayas; what was and what is are different things.
— Rebecca Solnit
After 3.8 billion years of research and development, failures are fossils, and what surrounds us is the secret to our survival.
— Janine M. Benyus
Buttons are the fossils of the sartorial world, enduring long past the garments they were designed to hold together.
— Martha Stewart
Government has been a fossil: it should be a plant.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fossils have richer stories to tell - about the lub-dub of dinosaur life - than we have been willing to listen to.
— Robert T. Bakker
I confess that the idea of taking off one's boots in a howling squall to safeguard fossils that had survived since the Precambrian had its funny side.
— Richard Fortey
A pasty costly-made, Where quail and pigeon, lark and leveret lay, Like fossils of the rock, with golden yolks Imbedded and injellied.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
Lexington, met the man who would inspire four long years of unrequited love on her part, she was thinking about fossils. She didn't have any
— Sherry Thomas
Trusting your energy policy to the fossil fuel lobby is like trusting your health care system to the tobacco lobby.
— William H. Calvin
Some secrets are like fossils and the stone has become too heavy to turn over.
— Delphine De Vigan
To investigate the history of man's development, the most important finds are, of course, hominid fossils.
— Richard Leakey
Now, evolution is the substance of fossils hoped for, the evidence of links not seen.
— Duane T. Gish
When I was a kid the highlight of my week would be doing a fossil hunt at the local quarry ... that kind of thing.
— Alice Lowe
There are enough fossils showing distinctive features to rule out the possibility these are unusual or aberrant modern humans
— Chris Stringer
The science of fossil shells is the first step towards the study of the earth.
— Giovanni Battista Brocchi
The 20th century was the time when the world turned to use of fossil fuels and the 21st century will be the century of the renewables.
— Lester R. Brown
Not one change of species into another is on record ... we cannot prove that a single species has been changed.
— Charles Darwin
Any friend of fossil is a friend of mine. We've got to do everything we can to get people out of their automobiles and into mass transit.
— Michael Bloomberg
He's just rather more lively than most fossils.
— Tamora Pierce
He wrote that if great sex were necessary to make babies, humans would be fossils by now.
— Randi Hutter Epstein
Our dependence on fossil fuels amounts to global pyromania, and the only fire extinguisher we have at our disposal is renewable energy.
— Hermann Scheer
Alone among businesses, the fossil-fuel industry is allowed to dump its main waste, carbon dioxide, for free
— Bill McKibben
We are fossils in the making.
— Wallace Stegner
Language does not leave fossils, at least not until it has become written.
— Richard Brautigan
Dinosaur fossils were placed in rocks by prankster God just to make human beings think the world is older than it is.
— Bill Hicks
I went with Beach Fossils and we played 40 shows because we wanted people to see us.
— Zachary Cole Smith
The fossil record contains no trace of these preliminary stages in the development of many-celled organisms.
— Robert Jastrow
