Carl Sagan Quotes

We are the representatives of the cosmos; we are an example of what hydrogen atoms can do, given 15 billion years of cosmic evolution.

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• I worked at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, lived there for three years, and lived in Baltimore for 12 years.

  

  Wendell Pierce
  • American
  • Years
  • Three

• When I was 12 years old, I got interested in learning English.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Learning
  • English
  • Years

• 'I can't get no satisfaction,' in political terms, has haunted Hungarian politics for 20 years.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Political
  • Years
  • Politics

• My inspiration is endless; I can't define it. It is a constant flow and evolution. In general, I'm taking it from everywhere. People get nervous when they walk with me, as I'll see something and suddenly have to text it to myself.

  

  Raf Simons
  • Inspiration
  • Evolution
  • Flow

• Shoaib Akhtar has been playing for 5, 6 years and is an experienced bowler.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Years
  • Playing
  • Bowler

• What I'm most pleased about is that there's no particular decline. The songs I wrote 40 years ago are no worse and no better - there's a consistency.

  

  Randy Newman
  • Years
  • Better
  • Consistency

• It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.

  

  Eddie Cantor
  • Success
  • Years
  • Overnight

• When I was younger, I was fascinated by David Bowie, for example. he had created an entire myth around himself. It was as important as his music.

  

  Lars von Trier
  • Music
  • Important
  • Example

• I'm a much healthier eater and I've lost quite a bit of weight over the years.

  

  Randy Jackson Breakfast Club
  • Lost
  • Years
  • Over

• Lebanese mezze, Cantonese dim sum and Basque pinchos have all evolved over years and are designed to make sense together.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Together
  • Years
  • Sum

• My mom started working at the California Shakespeare Theater in Oakland when I was two years old, so I've always grown up around theater.

  

  Zendaya
  • Up
  • Mom
  • Years

• After 20 years, a million written words, and nine rejected novels, I finally landed a book contract.

  

  J. A. Konrath
  • Book
  • Words
  • Years

• Shockingly, the Bidens donated under $1,000 to all charities combined every year for the ten years prior to 2008.

  

  Larry J. Sabato
  • Years
  • Year
  • Donated

• But 18 years after the passage of the Civil Liberties Act, there still remains unfinished work to completely rectify and close this regrettable chapter in our Nation's history.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Work
  • History
  • Years

• Whereas HIV only in recent decades became infectious for humans, high risk papillomavirus types have in all likelihood been with us for millions of years, accompanying the human race since the early days of our evolution.

  

  Harald zur Hausen
  • High
  • Risk
  • Race

• In all my years of baseball, I have always expected to be traded. I never liked the idea.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Years
  • Baseball
  • Idea

• We are so indebted to our ancestors, musically speaking, that they have left us 400 years of music.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Music
  • Years
  • Ancestors

• Are you a Democrat because you're a union member? Then why, after eight years of Bill Clinton, does some Chinese guy in Guangdong province have your job?

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Why
  • Job
  • Guy

• So in my freshman year at the University of Alabama, learning the literature on evolution, what was known about it biologically, just gradually transformed me by taking me out of literalism and increasingly into a more secular, scientific view of the world.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • World
  • Learning
  • Literature

• Any man who, having a child or children he can't support, proceeds to have another should be sterilized at once.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Men
  • Children
  • Support

• The world knows of Rosa Parks because of a single, simple act of dignity and courage that struck a lethal blow to the foundations of legal bigotry.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • World
  • Foundations
  • Bigotry

• My mom just understands about stuff. We have a really good trust, and she knows I can take care of myself.

  

  Balthazar Getty
  • Mom
  • Trust
  • Care

• I knew that I was a gay boy fairly early; what was interesting to me was that my mother didn't know. She made me play baseball - I had no desire to do that. I said, 'Mom, I don't like direct sunlight, I don't like bugs, I don't like grass, and I'd rather be in the house playing with your fabric samples.'

  

  Nate Berkus
  • She
  • Mother
  • House

• We are the representatives of the cosmos; we are an example of what hydrogen atoms can do, given 15 billion years of cosmic evolution.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Years
  • Evolution
  • Example