Prehistoric Man Quotes

#1. The student of prehistoric man ... cannot reject [the Castenedolo skull] as false without doing injury to his sense of truth, and he cannot accept it as fact without shattering his accepted beliefs.

Arthur Keith

#2. The evolution of the brain not only overshot the needs of prehistoric man, it is the only example of evolution providing a species with an organ which it does not know how to use.

Arthur Koestler

#3. Through the release of atomic energy, our generation has brought into the world the most revolutionary force since prehistoric man's discovery of fire. This basic force of the universe cannot be fitted into the outmoded concept of narrow nationalisms.

Albert Einstein

#4. "Natural" man is always there, under the changeable historical man. We call him and he comes-a little sleepy, benumbed, without his lost form of instinctive hunter, but, after all, still alive. Natural man is first prehistoric man-the hunter.

Jose Ortega Y Gasset

#5. He admired this too: their ability to preserve joy at any cost, the way prehistoric man might have preserved fire.

Daniel Alarcon

#6. Soil erosion is as old as agriculture. It began when the first heavy rain struck the first furrow turned by a crude implement of tillage in the hands or prehistoric man. It has been going on ever since, wherever man's culture of the earth has bared the soil to rain and wind.

Hugh Hammond Bennett

#7. Sleep: a poor substitute for caffeine!

Wallace Shawn

#8. He is a man who understands the power of the German soil, who feels its dark prehistoric vigor thudding in his very cells.

Anthony Doerr

#9. Drawing is still basically the same as it has been since prehistoric times. It brings together man and the world. It lives through magic.

Keith Haring

#10. I didn't write any music at all, and then, I remember Jon Anderson being very insistent saying that there were two kinds of musicians: the ones who wrote music and the ones who didn't.

Bill Bruford

#11. Living is having ups and downs and sharing them with friends.

Trey Parker

#12. I've gotten to meet so many people who've inspired me as a human being.

Kenny Chesney

#13. Submissive men, men who desire to serve as consensual slaves, are on one of the most difficult journeys in the world today, because they have rejected patriarchal privilege and embraced their own heart's calling instead.

TammyJo Eckhart

#14. Being a witness of His love, by loving my neighbour, by being one with my family, by helping my colleagues at work, is a way of living which I know draws me closer to God.

George Calleja

#15. Man needs spiritual expression and nourishing ... even in the prehistoric era, people would scrawl pictures of bison on the walls of caves.

Fernando Botero

#16. Of course
the New Testament is very small.
Its mouth opens four times
as out-of-date as a prehistoric monster,
yet somehow man-made ...

Anne Sexton

#17. The idea that in prehistoric times a man would spend his life hunting only for the benefit of his own wife and children, who were dependent solely upon his hunting prowess for survival, is simply a projection of 1950s marital norms onto the past.

Stephanie Coontz

#18. It is easy to find fault, if one has that disposition. There was once a man who, not being able to find any other fault with his coal, complained that there were too many prehistoric toads in it.

Mark Twain

#19. The long-term solution in preventing another famine in Somalia is to promote self-reliance.

Hawa Abdi

#20. Polymeric materials in the form of wood, bone, skin and fibers have been used by man since prehistoric time. Although organic chemistry as a science dates back to the eighteenth century, polymer science on a molecular basis is a development of the twentieth century.

Alan J. Heeger