Top 35 Quotes About Great Apes
#1. But there is every reason to think that the bulging cortex which would later measure stars and ice ages was still a dim, impoverished region in a skull box whose capacity was no greater than that of great apes.
Loren Eiseley
#2. What appears to be lacking, even in great apes, is a motivation to find means to exchange what is on each other's minds.
Thomas Suddendorf
#3. As he drank, I remembered that there's a reason we English are ruled more by tea than by Buckingham Palace or His Majesty's Government: Apart from the soul, the brewing of tea is the only thing that sets us apart from the great apes
or so the Vicar had remarked to Father ...
Alan Bradley
#4. Although elephants are far more distantly related to us than the great apes, they seem to have evolved similar social and cognitive capacities.
Frans De Waal
#5. Paleontologists do not have to search for famous "missing link" from which humans supposedly came, and current great apes. This link is simply the socialist - because he has both monkey genes.
Janusz Korwin-Mikke
#6. Gorillas are the largest of the great apes. A mature male may be six feet tall and weigh 400 pounds or more; his enormous arms can span eight feet.
Dian Fossey
#7. With the exception of humans, all the great apes today are facing oblivion.
Elizabeth Kolbert
#8. Apart from the soul, the brewing of tea is the only thing that sets us apart from the great apes.
Alan Bradley
#9. (At least one theory suggests that while great apes and adult
Humans are sentient, young Human children are not. I admit to a
certain fondness for this conclusion; if childen aren't nonsentient,
they're certainly psychopathic)
Peter Watts
#10. Treat each other like human beings? But the other great apes have no class hierarchy.
Bauvard
#11. Our species may yet end its strange eventful history as just the last, the cleverest of the great apes. The great ape that was clever - but not clever enough. It could escape from most things but not from its own mental confusion.
H.G.Wells
#12. Bonobos are unique among great apes because they are not dominated by males.
Claudine Andre
#13. It was their individuality combined with the shyness of their behavior that remained the most captivating impression of this first encounter with the greatest of the great apes.
Dian Fossey
#14. Ask, 'How are we different from the great apes?' We have culture, we have civilisation, and we have language to be celebrated as part of being human.
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
#15. Meet the bonobos, the rare and marvelous "make love not war" great apes who swing through the trees as well as with each other.
Susan Block
#16. Stability and order have always been paid for with captivity and blood. (76)
Mary Doria Russell
#17. Doctors estimate that seventy to eighty percent of their business is non-health-related. People aren't sick, they're self-dramatizing. Sometimes the hardest part of a medical job is keeping a straight face.
Steven Pressfield
#18. The most basic activism we can have in our lives is to live consciously in a nation living in fantasies. Living consciously is living with a core of healthy self-esteem. You will face reality, you will not delude yourself.
Bell Hooks
#19. All gods have good points, just as have all priests. Personally, I attach much importance to Hanuman , and am kind to his people the great gray apes of the hills. One never knows when one may want a friend.
Rudyard Kipling
#20. She
wondered if any of them had truly understood the cost
of what they were asking of each other.
Lorraine Heath
#21. I looked for great men, but all I found were the apes of their ideals.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#22. We are random animals. That is who we are, and we have only ourselves, nothing more-there is no greater relationship. Long before Darwin, a priest lucid in his madness encountered four chimpanzees on a forlorn island in Africa and hit upon a great truth: We are risen apes, not fallen angels.
Yann Martel
#23. If there are two persons praying, there are three. If three meet to pray, there are four praying. There is always one more than you can see.
S.D. Gordon
#24. I feel like I'm walking on eggs and can't take another step.
Bill Buckner
#25. One French guy at a bar wanted several of us to "faire le parachutisme." He said it was easy, you just jumped out of a plane. It sounded very exciting but no, thank you. He said "I'm not a homo." I said it's not a question of whether or not you're a homo, I just don't want to jump out of a plane.
Nicholson Baker
#26. Clay is moulded to make a vessel, but the utility of the vessel lies in the space where there is nothing ... Thus, taking advantage of what is, we recognize the utility of what is not.
Laozi
#28. P33- the son of an english lord and an english lady nursed at the breast of kala, the great ape.
Edgar Rice Burroughs
#29. The great thing about this jungle of ours is that anyone of you could grow up to be Lord of the apes.
Gary Larson
#30. If you read something, what you have written you ain't gonna like it...
- It sounds horrible... so write don't read your own stuff.
Deyth Banger
#32. This, she thought inanely, is the part where I am supposed to run. Oh, and that screaming thing
Jacquelyn Frank
#33. I've learned a tremendous amount over the years by watching designers work. I now have a good understanding of what sits well on the body, not to mention the importance of a great cut and quality.
Claudia Schiffer
#34. When you tell the children tales of the Baba Yaga on a cold winter's night, you might remember to mention that whether or not the witch is wicked often depends on who is telling the story.
Deborah Blake
#35. The disappointed one speaks. I searched for great human beings; I always found only the apes of their ideals.
Friedrich Nietzsche
