#trace

If the means were available, we could trace our ancestry - yours and mine - back to the first blob of life-like material that came into being on the planet. ↗

— Clifford D. Simak

#available #back #being #came #could

In the latter case life rests upon a thousand presuppositions which the individual can never trace back to their origins, and verify; but which he must accept upon faith and belief. ↗

— Georg Simmel

#back #belief #case #faith #individual

For most women, including women who want to have children, contraception is not an option; it is a basic health care necessity. ↗

— Louise Slaughter

#care #children #contraception #health #health care

Many poor and low-income women cannot afford to purchase contraceptive services and supplies on their own. ↗

— Louise Slaughter

#cannot #contraceptive #low-income #many #own

I don't keep a diary and I throw away nearly all the paper I might have kept. I don't keep an archive. There's something worrying about my make-up that I try to leave no trace of myself apart from my plays. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#apart #away #diary #i #keep

We leave traces of ourselves wherever we go, on whatever we touch. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#leave #ourselves #touch #traces #whatever

But the advice was not taken - Johnstone did emigrate to Canada, and did mortgage his pension; and I fear - though I failed to trace his after history - that he suffered in consequence. ↗

— Hugh Miller

#after #canada #consequence #did #emigrate

...Use your finger to trace the scar upon my chest- I lied - it wasn't a knife wound, but a scrape from a nail sliding under a fence to see you... ↗

— John Geddes

#scar #trace #love

You trust him, Trace, and you know it." "With my back," Trace snapped. "Not with my sister. ↗

— Lori Foster

#trace #men

Happy is he who can trace effects to their causes. ↗

— Virgil

#effects #happy #their #trace #who