Traced Quotes

"When a picture is screened it is largely a reflection of the mind that directed it. If it is a failure the cause of that failure can often be traced directly to the man with the megaphone. I will also state that many screen successes are almost entirely due to directorial ability." -- March 1925 issue of `The Motion Picture Director`

There has always been violence on the screen, and certain groups claim that some antisocial behavior can be traced to these violent films. I believe that`s hogwash. The violence on television news programs is much more harmful because it`s real. We all have the potential to be violent, but we must learn to control these impulses.

My family`s been in show business since the 1700s. I traced them. I`m bred to this. Like a racehorse. A thoroughbred. Look at my parents, my God. But it was my curiosity that made me do this. Because you could also say, "Look at Frank Sinatra Jr.." It`s not like a natural thing that happens. You gotta work.

Practically every environmental problem we have can be traced to our addiction to fossil fuels, primarily oil.

(Much of that imported oil leaves the country soon after it arrives.) The economy is growing at just over 5%, and yet oil consumption -- at a time when prices were rising -- rose 9% over the past year, ... My guess is that almost all the increase in consumption can be traced back to growth in smuggling.

All personal, psychological, social, and institutionalized domination on this earth can be traced back to its source: the phallic identities of men.

Could we have entered into the mind of Sir Isaac Newton, and have traced all the steps by which he produced his great works, we might see nothing very extraordinary in the process.

This was a dairy cow, and dairy cows have IDs on them. The ID was traced back to the farm in Washington. It`s a dairy farm. And that farm now has been quarantined, and the owners have been very cooperative in doing that.

Every branch of human knowledge, if traced up to its source and final principles, vanishes into mystery.

I was glad to hear of that determination as I detest the practice of cousins marrying or any marriage between persons in which there can be traced the most distant relationship. I go for the improvement instead of the deterioration of our race.

For all the social changes in China can be traced to their early beginnings in the days when the new tools or vehicles of commerce and locomotion first brought the Chinese people into unavoidable contact with the strange ways and novel goods of the Western peoples.

The correlation between poverty and obesity can be traced to agricultural policies and subsidies.

The real cradle that holds the baby is the emotional climate between new parents. Many significant social problems (like violence) in our society can be traced back to this negative emotional climate in families.

Some things are very dear to me --/ Such things as flowers bathed by rain/ Or patterns traced upon the sea/ .../ But dearer far than all surmise/ Are sudden tear-drops in your eyes.