Mary Shelley Quotes

Nothing I'm doing is without its predecessors.

For one change always leaves a dovetail into which another will fit.

How far, in any case, must one go back to find the beginning?

The first word gives origin to the second, the first and second to the third, and the third to the fourth, and so on. You cannot begin with the second word.

I'm just another link in the chain.

The fans in Canada have been there since day one. They're the originals. When people say that's your roots, that's literally my roots. I've just cut this tree off and replanted it somewhere else and it started growing. But the roots are there.

The future has a lot to do with the past.

I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.

What happened yesterday affects today; what happens today will affect tomorrow/

One stroke of lightning does not have to lead anywhere, but to the next stroke of lightning.

Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.

It's all a big old chain. There isn't one unconnected link.

No stream rises higher than its source

Will we ever learn that certain things can be understood only if we take the trouble to trace them to their origins.

Food is the place where you begin.

It's the place to begin, always -- to return to home, literally.

I believe the evidence strongly supports common descent. But the root question remains unanswered: What has caused complex systems to form?

Yesterday influences today, thus creates tomorrow.

There is no beginning that is a blank page.

The past is what makes now like now makes tomorrow.

Each move is dictated by the previous one--that is the meaning of order

There is no future without a past, because what is to be cannot be imagined except as a form of repetition.

Norman, Okla. That's where my folks live, so it's home to me.

Thought precedes action as lighting does thunder.

You can't hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree.