Top 31 Genus Species Quotes
#1. A lot of jazz artists think people should like what they're doing just because it's jazz. I don't buy that.
Pat Metheny
#2. Our probable ancestors, Homo erectus and Homo habilis -now extinct- are classified as of the same genus (Homo) but of different species, although no one (at least lately) has attempted the appropriate experiments to see if crosses of them with us would produce fertile offspring.
Carl Sagan
#3. Her unusual upbringing had made her worldly enough to understand that every female, no matter her genus and species, had the ability to physically coerce a male into full cooperation.
And yes, she knew just the male to coerce.
Delilah Marvelle
#4. Christians who like to write might do as a description of the genus. But the actual species shared more precise characteristics, including intellectual vivacity, love of death, conservative politics, memories of war, and a passion for beef, beer, and verbal battle.
Philip Zaleski
#6. A joy without object or reason rose within him, but like all such joys ebbed into frustration almost immediately because he did not know how to express it.
John Clellon Holmes
#7. If the feeling is there, you might as
well admit it. Saying the words, or not saying
them, doesn't change a damn thing
Lisa Kleypas
#8. When people ask me what 'American Pie' means, I tell them it means I don't ever have to work again if I don't want to.
Don McLean
#9. Producer's Surplus is a convenient name for the genus of which the rent of land is the leading species.
Alfred Marshall
#10. If you have a clear idea of a soul, you will have a clear idea of a form; for it is of the same genus, though a different species.
Gottfried Leibniz
#11. The species and the genus are always the work of nature [i.e. specially created]; the variety mostly that of circumstance; the class and the order are the work of nature and art.
Carl Linnaeus
#12. We belong to a short-lived genus of species. All of our cousins are already extinct. What's more, we do damage. The brutal climate and environmental changes that we have triggered are unlikely to spare us. For
Carlo Rovelli
#13. What does 'stuck' mean?" "It means I should make some big decision, I should do some enormous thing. And I can't do anything. I can't stand my life, and I can't change it." "Maybe it's not an enormous thing," he says. "Maybe you have to do one small thing and then another small thing.
A.M. Homes
#14. Who talks much, must talk in vain.
John Gay
#15. The term 'Being' does not define that realm of entities which is uppermost when these are articulated conceptually according to genus and species: the 'universality' of Being 'transcends' any universality of genus.
Martin Heidegger
#16. I felt as if the world I lived in was only a facade - that beneath its skin, a darker world raged and rampaged. I'd glimpsed that world before, but I'd never known how vast and malignant it might be.
Susan Hubbard
#17. Our willingness to embrace the realities of our neighbor's difficulty is what empowers our witness and makes our testimony of Christ effective and hearable.
Christopher W. Brooks
#19. That was Genus Homo, species Whowantstofuckus, subspecies Headup Hisassia. Let us move on to the cages with the interesting animals.
Jacob to Ben describing JT
Z.A. Maxfield
#20. Adele was struck by how often women undervalued their own efforts while being endlessly impressed by those of their peers.
Lisa Jewell
#21. And then God, in his benevolence, tasked Adam with the nasty business of nomenclature, calling beasts of land and water and air for what he saw fit, giving them names, calling them names, pegging down their potentials to classifications, to genus, to species.
Carlos Malvar
#22. I had found again and again that the most aberrant population of a species - often having reached species rank, and occasionally classified even as a separate genus - occurred at a peripheral location, indeed usually at the most isolated peripheral location.
Ernst Mayr
#23. He who abstains from anything animate ... will be much more careful not to injure those of his own species. For he who loves the genus will not hate any species of animals.
Porphyry
#24. As the species of the same genus usually have, though by no means invariably, much similarity in habits and constitution, and always in structure, the struggle will generally be more severe between them, if they come into competition with each other, than between the species of distinct genera.
Charles Darwin
#25. That?" I glanced back to the door where JT had disappeared. "That was Genus Homo, species Whowantstofuckus, subspecies Closeted Headup Hisassia. Let us move on to the cages with the interesting animals."
Jacob "Yasha" Livingston
Z.A. Maxfield
#26. Ignorance produced genera, and science produced, and will continue to produce, proper names; nor of these shall we be afraid to increase the number, whenever we shall have occasion to denote different species.
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte De Buffon
#27. I worked through memories like weeping wounds. I wrote tedious accounts of petty conflicts and read them aloud to people. I removed layer after layer of rot.
Merri Lisa Johnson
#30. Taxonomically, my family is Freethinker (including atheists, skeptics, agnostics); my genus is Humanist (including the religion-based), and my species is Secular.
John Rafferty
#31. We do not have a plan. They do. History shows that those that plan, anticipate and have a coherent strategy usually win. We are not winning.
Fjordman
