Quadruped Quotes

#1. We thus learn that man is descended from a hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in its habits, and an inhabitant of the Old World.

Charles Darwin

#2. The "hairy quadruped furnished with a tail and, pointed ears, probably arboreal in his habits," this good fellow carried hidden in his nature, apparently, something destined to develop into a necessity for humane letters.

Matthew Arnold

#3. You don't just magically flip some evolutionary switch somewhere and transmute a quadruped into an upright-walking bipedal human.

Donald Johanson

#4. Quadruped lions are said to be savage, only when they are hungry; biped lions are rarely sulky longer than when their appetite for distinction remains unappeased.

Charles Dickens

#5. Many of the most charming women I know possess at least on cat or dog. Maybe after getting used to an affectionate quadruped it is hard to settle for a man.

Luigina Sgarro

#6. Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.

Charles Darwin

#7. the evolutions of the bird on the wing are quite as safe and infinitely more rapid and beautiful than the movements of either the quadruped on the land or the fish in the water.

David McCullough

#8. This is where the whole ape-descended thing reveals its worth, I thought madly. Sucks to be you, quadruped. Opposable thumbs - don't leave home without them.

Ben Aaronovitch

#9. It is a little known but true fact that a two-legged creature can usually beat a four-legged creature over a short distance, simply because of the time it takes the quadruped to get its legs sorted out.

Terry Pratchett

#10. A horse is a quadruped, and quadruped's latin for beast, as everybody that's gone through grammar knows, or else what's the use in having grammars at all?

Charles Dickens

#11. Trust me, there are as many ways of living as there are men, and one is no more fit to lead another, than a bird to lead a fish, or a fish a quadruped.

Frances Wright

#12. The gods are made of marble
Deep inside a museum
A quadruped monster beckons me to approach
("Outcries")

Helene Baronne D'Oettingen

#13. You know I think you hung the moon, right?" "Right. Just like I know you held the ladder and looked up my skirt.

Gena Showalter

#14. Sometimes an answer doesn't come in one go. Sometimes it has so many layers to it that it takes time for the person to tell you what they really mean.

Carolyn Jess-Cooke

#15. Music is not a very stable business. It comes and it goes, and so does money, but your education stays with you for the rest of your life. When you have that education, and you have nothing to fall back on, you can get a get a job anywhere.

Selena

#16. It can be so terrifying to open yourself up to true love. That love can be with your mate, with your child, with yourself, because we are ultimately such vulnerable little creatures in this world.

Lauren Bowles

#17. Who do you think controls the Republican Party? Big money controls the Republican Party. This is where their campaign contributions come from.

Bernie Sanders

#18. If you think about $7.25 an hour, that's $290 a week. It's inhumane to have that kind of wage.

Jeff Greene

#19. See the beauty of sunset to enjoy the passion of life.

Debasish Mridha

#20. But I think it's very key that there's a plan for Haiti. And we have to begin to - as progressives and people who are concerned about Haiti and have been concerned about Haiti, we have to begin to build some sort of consensus, a movement around the Haiti that the Haitians envision.

Danny Glover

#21. When the hell did things one who comes up with the wacky, impossible plans. I'm supposed to be the general here. Now I'm barely a lieutenant.

Richelle Mead

#22. I was for years in the yellow period, you know.

Josef Albers

#23. You can read a lot about a country by looking at its beaches: across cultures, the beach is that rare public space in which all absurdities and quirky national behaviors can be found,

Martin Parr

#24. When you're sick of the world, lock your door, grab your pillow, plug in your headphones and turn the music up.

Dreamer Girl