Mammal Quotes

#1. I believe the time has come to acknowledge that the practice of routine circumcision rests on the absurd premise that the only mammal in creation born in the condition that requires immediate surgical correction is the human male.

Thomas Szasz

#2. If your unicorn shifts disconcertingly between a goat, a horse, a rhinoceros, a marine mammal from the North Atlantic, assorted Tibetan ungulates and a six-eyed ass whose ears will terrify, the work of this book is almost done.

Chris Lavers

#3. Hairy Mammal whaddya want

Allen Ginsberg

#4. Our brains have been designed to blur the line between self and other. It is an ancient neural circuitry that marks every mammal, from mouse to elephant.

Frans De Waal

#5. Isimangaliso must be the only place on the globe where the oldest land mammal (rhinoceros) and the world biggest terrestrial mammal (elephant) share an ecosystem with the world's oldest fish (coelacanth) and the world's biggest marine mammal (whale)

Nelson Mandela

#6. a woman with young children is not a woman but a mammal, salve, croon, water carrier

Rachel Zucker

#7. I feel like having an actual taxidermy-ed mammal would get gross, like its hair would get dirty and stuff.

Nick Antosca

#8. When an eighty-five pound mammal licks your tears away, then tries to sit on your lap, it's hard to feel sad.

Kristan Higgins

#9. Why were there far more species of domesticated animals in Eurasia than in the Americas? The Americas harbor over a thousand native wild mammal species, so you might initially suppose that the Americas offered plenty of starting material for domestication.

Jared Diamond

#10. When you're single again, at the beginning you're very optimistic and you say, 'I want to meet someone who's really smart, really sweet, really sensitive.' And six months later you're like, 'Lord, any mammal with a day job.

Carol Leifer

#11. Elephants have the largest brains of any mammal on the face of the Earth. They are creative, altruistic and kind.

Ingrid Newkirk

#12. I'm a mammal at the end. I breathe out and breathe in and eat. At the end, when we go to sleep, nobody lives this political definition. It's something we connect by and we try to understand each other by, but at the end, we know that this is not who we are.

Ashraf Barhom

#13. Concocting a statement that you have trouble believing in the first place (such as "A herring is a mammal"), and then negating it, requires two bouts of cognitive heavy lifting rather than one.

Steven Pinker

#14. There's nothing wrong with being a large mammal.

Jim Morrison

#15. Patience was part of his nature, and he accepted his lot as a short-lived mammal, scurrying in and out amid the roots of the giants.

Ruth Ozeki

#16. Man is a sad mammal that combs its hair.

Cees Nooteboom

#17. The human will be the only mammal in history to fully understand that its own self inflicted extinction is well underway.

Steven Magee

#18. Over millions of years the viruses in our genome mutate more and more so the look less and less and less recognizable as viruses and so if there was a virus that infected our pre mammal ancestors like 250 million years ago, which it probably did, we can't see it because it just looks totally random.

Carl Zimmer

#19. How slow can a mammal be and still have respiratory functions?

Neal Stephenson

#20. We are the only species of mammal that doubts our ability to give birth. It's profitable to scare women about birth. But let's stop it. I tell women: Your body is not a lemon.

Ina May Gaskin

#21. Fish, amphibian, and reptile, warm-blooded bird and mammal-each of us carries in our veins a salty stream in which the elements sodium, potassium, and calcium are combined in almost the same proportions as in sea water.

Rachel Carson

#22. I can't blame you for trying to categorize me. It's a human instinct. It's why scientists are, to this day, completely flabbergasted by the duck-billed platypus: it's furry like a mammal, but lays eggs like a bird. It defies conventional classification.
I AM THE PLATYPUS (Coo coo ka-choo)

Jeff Garvin

#23. Eighty-two percent of Australia's bird species and two thirds of Australia's mammal species can be found on our (Australian Wildlife Conservancy) reserves. We put teams of people on the frontline in the battle against feral animals, wildfires and noxious weeds. Science underpins everything we do.

Kristy Hinze

#24. Or he'd watch the news: more plagues, more famines, more floods, more insect or microbe or small-mammal outbreaks, more droughts, more chickenshit boy-soldier wars in distant countries. Why was everything so much like itself?

Margaret Atwood

#25. Plus as she put it, Prince Eric was far too hairy and peach colored for her taste. I always thought he was pretty hott, but then again, I am a mammal.

Kiersten White

#26. We haven't been able yet to determine in terms of genes what makes a human being a human and not another mammal.

Walter Gilbert

#27. I'm a hybrid, from a cultural perspective, but I don't think in these terms. I'm more simple than that. I'm a mammal who will live 70 years, more or less, who believes in God and likes his life.

Ashraf Barhom

#28. Being a caregiver for your child is part of the job description of being a mammal.

Mayim Bialik

#29. Man can be defined, if one wishes, as a languag-ized mammal.

Charlton Laird

#30. As a comedian, as a person, as a citizen, as a mammal - in all of those areas, I am looking forward to the end of the Bush administration with every fiber of my being.

Jon Stewart

#31. After a pause, Andrew says that these buildings will always be here, that they will outlive us all. And I believe him. "But just imagine," my mammal brain says, "if you took this one we're standing in down in such a way that it toppled into that guy.

Hugh Howey

#32. I like to think
(it has to be!)
of a cybernetic ecology
where we are free of our labors
and joined back to nature,
returned to our mammal
brothers and sisters,
and all watched over
by machines of loving grace.

Richard Brautigan

#33. The world loses one of its six thousand languages every two weeks, and children have stopped learning half of the languages currently spoken in the world. It's been argued that languages are under greater threat than any endangered bird or mammal.

Christine Kenneally

#34. Even the humblest mammal's strong sexual, parental, and social instincts give rise to 'do unto others as yourself' and 'love thy neighbor as thyself'.

Charles Darwin

#35. If you don't think you have enough problems, you should acquire a mammal in Sweden just hours before you're about to fly home to the other side of the world, and then insist that the animal must come along in your luggage.

Jonas Jonasson

#36. Never 'it,' never 'it,' " Marya chided. "None of God's creatures is an 'it,' even if they're not a boy or a girl or a mammal or a pretty bird. Call them 'he' or she' and be a little wrong, but never take away their individuality like that.

Mira Grant

#37. What's not to like about you? Sure, you have more sarcasm per square inch than any other mammal.

Piper Lawson

#38. The only clear thing is that we humans are the only species with the power to destroy the earth as we know it. The birds have no such power, nor do the insects, nor does any mammal. Yet if we have the capacity to destroy the earth, so, too, do we have the capacity to protect it.

Dalai Lama

#39. Girls and boys respond to stress differently - not just in our species, but in every mammal scientists have studied. Stress enhances learning in males. The same stress impairs learning in females.

Leonard Sax

#40. To me it seems that the warm blooded dinosaurs replaced advanced mammal ancestors that were warm blooded, also.

Robert T. Bakker

#41. The role of dissident is not, and should not be, a claim of membership in a communion of saints. In other words, the more fallible the mammal, the truer the example.

Christopher Hitchens

#42. From a simple, mammal perspective, you think you're going to make friends through the movie. You think, "Oh, this kind of humor that I play with will bring people that have a similar kind of humor. I'll make new friends," or something. You don't even think in terms of audience or of money.

Gaspar Noe

#43. The order Chiroptera (the "hand-wing" creatures) encompasses 1,116 species, which amounts to 25 percent of all the recognized species of mammals. To say again: One in every four species of mammal is a bat. Such

David Quammen

#44. I am really a sea creature. Just a mammal that lost its fins.

Kathleen Quinlan

#45. There are more than nine hundred species of bats, a figure that represents almost a quarter of all mammal species on earth,

Christopher Dewdney

#46. What is the largest land mammal doing with three times as many neurons as our own species?

Frans De Waal

#47. If you found a mammal with feathers, then you'd know that Darwin was wrong. Well, it's rather the same with memes.

Susan Blackmore

#48. Humans are now the most numerous mammal on the planet. There are more humans than rats or mice. Humans have a huge ecological footprint, magnified by their technology.

David Suzuki

#49. We're animals. We're born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.

Barbara Kingsolver

#50. Recently, I've ventured into the mammal family - so that's good for my sex life.

Emo Philips

#51. The largest living land mammal is the absent mind.

Don Van Vliet

#52. She just looked at him over the rotating pencil like, how slow can a mammal be and still have respiratory functions? But instead of lowering the boom on him, she just gave a simple answer: No.

Neal Stephenson

#53. Any seed or insect or lizard or mammal that found itself in LA had to believe that there was a chance to thrive. Living in Southern California was like waking up in a children's book titled Would Be If I Could Be.

Walter Mosley

#54. Man is the only mammal whose normal method of locomotion is to walk on two legs. A pattern of mammal behavior that emerges only once in the whole history of life on earth takes a great deal of explaining.

Elaine Morgan

#55. Thousands of years ago, humans domesticated every possible large wild mammal species fulfilling all those criteria and worth domesticating, with the result that there have been no valuable additions of domestic animals in recent times, despite the efforts of modern science.

Jared Diamond

#56. The idea of man as the dominant mammal of the earth whose whole behaviour tends to be dominated by his own desire for dominance gripped me. It seemed to explain almost everything, and I applied it to everything.

Frank Macfarlane Burnet