Teeth Quotes - Page 37

• Normally, we are happy to find a fragment of jaw, a few isolated teeth, a bit of an arm, a bit of a skull. But to find associated body parts is extremely rare.

  Donald Johanson

  Hands, Skulls, Body

  "The Quest for Human Origins". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. January 25, 1991.

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• A trite popular saying, or proverb. (Figurative and colloquial.) So called because it makes its way into a wooden head. Following are examples of old saws fitted with new teeth.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Example, Way, Saws

  Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Devil's Dictionary”, p.114, Courier Corporation

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• Like going to the dentist, where you write: "Dental appointment today. All of the dentists in Boulder are 'holistic.' They can't fill a cavity but they're good for your soul. Your teeth rot, but apparently your spirit prospers."

  Ken Wilber

  Writing, Soul, Boulders

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• I'm no shrinking violet. I played hockey until half my teeth were knocked down my throat. And I'm extremely competitive on a tennis court. . . But that experience at the slaughterhouse overwhelmed me. When I walked out of there, I knew I would never again harm an animal! I knew all the physiological, economic, and ecological arguments supporting vegetarianism, but it was firsthand experience of man's cruelty to animals that laid the real groundwork for my commitment to vegetarianism.

  Peter Burwash

  Real, Commitment, Hockey

  Peter Burwash, John Tullius (1983). “Peter Burwash's Vegetarian Primer”, Atheneum Books

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• She was white, perhaps too white. Her eyes, which were almost always cast down, when she raised them testified to the purest of souls, and when she smiled, revealing her small, white teeth, one might be tempted to say that a rose is merely a plant, and ivory just an elephant's tusk.

  Jose Rizal

  Eye, Elephants, Ivory

  Jose Rizal (2006). “Noli Me Tangere (Touch Me Not)”, p.49, Penguin

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• ...he had a fascinating technique of gnawing his cigar from one corner of his mouth to the other, as if his teeth were equipped with trolley tracks, and suddenly grabbing it out and gesticulating wit it before he jammed it back.

  Leslie Ford

  Track, Technique, Mouths

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• In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune's habit of behaving just as she pleases.

  Seneca the Younger

  Adversity, Giving, Nails

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• The last thing my kids ever did to earn money was lose their baby teeth.

  Phyllis Diller

  Inspirational, Baby, Kids

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• Why does a person even get up in the morning? You have breakfast, you floss your teeth so you'll have healthy gums in your old age, and then you get in your car and drive down I-10 and die. Life is so stupid I can't stand it.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Morning, Stupid, Car

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• As a Member of the CBC, I will fight tooth and nail to increase funding for programs, such as Ryan White, that were flat funded in the President's budget.

  Corrine Brown

  Fighting, Cbc, White

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• I'll let you in on something big: I'm not a white-teeth teen.

  Lorde

  White, Bigs, White Teeth

  Song: White Teeth Teens, Album: Pure Heroine, 2013

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• If we cry more tears we will ruin the land with salt; instead let's praise that which would distract us with despair. Make a song for death, a song for yellow teeth and bad breath

  Joy Harjo

  Song, Land, Yellow

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• I feel like looking in the mirror when you brush your teeth, yes, I see lines, and then I smile and I see things here and there. But that's just, you know, you - that's your journey, you know?

  Heidi Klum

  Journey, Mirrors, Here And There

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• Economists have allowed themselves to walk into a trap where we say we can forecast, but no serious economist thinks we can. You don't expect dentists to be able to forecast how many teeth you'll have when you're 80. You expect them to give good advice and fix problems.

  Tim Harford

  Thinking, Giving, Advice

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• May God keep you away from the venom of the cobra, the teeth of the tiger, and the revenge of the Afghans.

  Alexander the Great

  Revenge, Cobras, May

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• What does the perfect elevator look like, the one that will deliver us from the cities we suffer now, these stunted shacks? We don't know because we can't see inside it, it's something we cannot imagine, like the shape of angels' teeth. It's a black box.

  Colson Whitehead

  Angel, Cities, Perfect

  Colson Whitehead (2012). “The Intuitionist: A Novel”, p.61, Anchor

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• If the Holy Communion touched my teeth, I thought that was a mortal sin

  Edna O'Brien

  Sin, Holy, Communion

  Edna O'Brien (2011). “Saints and Sinners”, p.9, Faber & Faber

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• With great difficulty advancing by millimeters each year, I carve a road out of the rock. For millenniums my teeth have wasted and my nails broken to get there, to the other side, to the light and the open air. And now that my hands bleed and my teeth tremble, unsure in a cavity cracked by thirst and dust, I pause and contemplate my work. I have spent the second part of my life breaking the stones, drilling the walls, smashing the doors, removing the obstacles I placed between the light and myself in the first part of my life.

  Octavio Paz

  Wall, Rocks, Air

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• In California virtually everyone has had their teeth whitened. If they all smiled at once, they would give us a headache.

  Garrison Keillor

  Inspirational, California, Giving

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• I divested myself of despair and fear when I came here. Now there is no more catching one's own eye in the mirror, there are no bad books, no plastic, no insurance premiums, and of cours eno illness. Contrition does not exist, nor gnashing of teeth. No one howls as the first clod of earth hits the casket. The poor we no longer have with us. Our calm hearts strike only the hour, and God, as promised, proves to be mercy clothed in light.

  Jane Kenyon

  Book, Heart, Eye

  Jane Kenyon, “Notes From The Other Side”

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• The skin of the coward changes color all the time, he can't get a grip on himself, he can't sit still, he squats and rocks, shifting his weight from foot to foot, his heart racing, pounding inside the fellow's ribs, his teeth chattering. He dreads some grisly death. But the skin of a brave soldier never blanches. He's all control. Tense but no great fear.

  Homer

  Fear, Heart, Rocks

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• My mouth is a womb. My teeth are my children. My tongue is their babysitter.

  Enya

  Children, Mouths, Tongue

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• In outstanding classrooms, teachers do more listening than talking, and students do more talking than listening.  Terrific teachers often have teeth marks on their tongues.

  Alfie Kohn

  Teacher, Talking, Listening

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• In my hand luggage I always have my camera, iPod, make-up bag, tooth brush, cleansing products, clean underwear, socks and a change of clothes in case anything goes missing at the other end - and of course my passport.

  Lisa Snowdon

  Clean Underwear, Hands, Ipods

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• What good is a smooth tongue without sharp teeth?

  Jocelyn Murray

  Tongue, Smooth

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