Where God clings to our culture, to our routines of discourse, He is a phantom of grammar, a fossil embedded in the childhood of rational speech. So Nietzsche. George Steiner
I lean to you, numb as a fossil. Tell me I'm here. Sylvia Plath
A fossil is so powerful. It's moving. This is my ancestor. The naturalist is moved by the fossil... not the cross. Greg Graffin
Every single record I have is a fossil. Henry Rollins
[about how the Earth was created] And then there are fossils. Whenever anybody tries to tell me that they believe it took place in seven days, I reach for a fossil and go "Fossil!" And if they keep talking, I throw it just over their head. Lewis Black
Certainly the first true humans were unique by virtue of their large brains. It was because the human brain is so large when compared with that of a chimpanzee that paleontologists for years hunted for a half-ape, half-human skeleton that would provide a fossil link between the human and the ape. Jane Goodall