Humans As Primates Quotes

#1. Well then, I guess I'm man enough to admit that I'm trying to get in touch with my inner bitch.

Elle Lothlorien

#2. Non-human primates spend hours a day grooming each other. And with humans, touching is also important. It's a way to form bonds and connect in modern society. But you can also speed up the use of conscious purposes once you're aware of that, and it can be manipulated.

Leonard Mlodinow

#3. Man, y'know, I'm a music guy. I like a lot of different things. It depends on the time of the day and the situation.

LaMarr Woodley

#4. The chimpanzee study was - well, it's still going on, and I think it's taught us perhaps more than anything else to be a little humble; that we are, indeed, unique primates, we humans, but we're simply not as different from the rest of the animal kingdom as we used to think.

Jane Goodall

#5. Most animals, including most domesticated primates (humans) show truly staggering ability to 'ignore' certain kinds of information - that which does not 'fit' their imprinted/ conditioned reality-tunnel

Robert Anton Wilson

#6. Hope means you keep holding on to things that won't ever be so again.

Seanan McGuire

#7. Look here: "Mo' money, mo' problems," my ass.
You's a naive cat if you still believe that.

Ol' Dirty Bastard

#8. Humans socialize in the largest groups of all primates because we are the only animals with brains large enough to handle the complexities of that social arrangement.

Malcolm Gladwell

#9. Two of the behaviors that set early humans apart were the systematic sharing of food and altruistic group defense. Other primates did very little of either but, increasingly, hominids did, and those behaviors helped set them on an evolutionary path that produced the modern world.

Sebastian Junger

#10. I think we were colonized by aliens 250,000 years ago, and they genetically altered our DNA to be primates into homo erectus and humans. I'm very interested in how we evolved so suddenly, which obviously ties in with the alien thing.

Al Jourgensen

#11. With relationships, I've been through a lot of different situations with different people, and I write about it.

Kat Dahlia

#12. No existing form of anthropoid ape is even remotely related to the stock which has given rise to man.

Henry Fairfield Osborn

#13. Checking his schedule, Brandon remembered he had planning period during his next block, before the last class ...
He glanced up to see Drake and Aaron flinging frog guts at each other and sighed. Some days he could just feel his brain dribbling out of his ears.

Abigail Roux

#14. If ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny, then children are somewhat closer to our roots as primates in the arboreal forest. Humans appear to be the only primates that I know of that are afraid of heights. All other primates, when they're scared, they run up a tree, where they feel safe.

Richard Preston

#15. I am really, I think, truly an easygoing, positive, fun person.

Lisa Scottoline

#16. At the time, science had declared humans unique, since we were so much better at identifying faces than any other primate. No one seemed bothered by the fact that other primates had been tested mostly on human faces rather than those of their own kind.

Frans De Waal

#17. Comfort zones are overrated. They make you lazy.

Melina Marchetta

#18. I can die a happy man never having been president of the United States of America. But it doesn't mean I won't run.

Joe Biden

#19. I am more important than my problems.

Jose Ferrer

#20. I got it all, I got the money, I got the looks, I got the brainpower

Shane McMahon

#21. In humans, the family prevents infanticide. Next to language, the core family, consisting of a mother, a father and children, is the greatest difference between us and other primates.

Frans De Waal

#22. The drummer is stereotypically the dumb guy. Maybe that's why I always respect drummers who do more than drum.

Taylor Hawkins

#23. GOP represents people, but Dems communicate better.

Newt Gingrich

#24. Your strengths are the raw materials that God needs to make your dreams happen.

Bidemi Mark-Mordi

#25. Every day, I come home with a spring in my step. We've got to work together to stop the Obama agenda and take this country back.

Ted Cruz

#26. In the same way that humans have a "handy" intelligence, which we share with other primates, elephants may have a "trunky" one. There

Frans De Waal

#27. In addition to Ameslan, chimpanzees and other nonhuman primates are being taught a variety of other gestural languages. And it is just this transition from tongue to hand that has permitted humans to regain the ability-lost, according to Josephus, since Eden-to communicate with the animals.

Carl Sagan