The Mating Quotes

#1. It is remarkable indeed how we human beings are capable of delighting in the mating call of a flower while we are surrounded by the charred carcasses of our fellow animals.

Mohsin Hamid

#2. The sex even in serious pornography has less singularity than the mating of squirrels.

Storm Jameson

#3. Then she yelled at him. "Are out of your mind? You could have been killed!" Kor looked stunned for a moment, then grinned. "You mean you'd care?" "No." Then at his pointed look, she muttered, "Maybe a little." "You're mine whether you've said the mating words or not. No one touches what is mine.

Eve Langlais

#4. Lovebirds?' Laurie interjects. 'Can we put off the mating call for a sex? Methinks we have some bigger issues on the table.

Andrea Cremer

#5. But what is the love life of newts, if you boil it right down? Didn't you tell me once that they just waggled their tails at one another in the mating season?'
'Quite correct.'
I shrugged my shoulders. 'Well all right, if they like it. But it's not my idea of molten passion.

P.G. Wodehouse

#6. I'm a tone-deaf siren, a wallflower at the mating dance. And I do wonder why men can't want me for me. I'm smart, I don't defer, and I didn't put making babies number one on my list of priorities.

Arthur C. Clarke

#7. I just watched this documentary on the mating habits of whiptail lizards and trust me, if those things can make it happen, you can too, my friend.

Robin Bielman

#8. With shrieks of adoration it flung itself on human breasts, 'to crush you, to suck your life away. I cannot drag my own weight over the crust of the earth so you must carry me on your back so that in time you will be crippled with my weight.' These words are in every heart in the mating season.

Leonora Carrington

#9. Let us observe the mating rituals of the lecherous North American lounge lizard in his native habitat: The Open Bar.

Qwen Salsbury

#10. And that unusual squawking sound is actually the mating call of the the rare ... oh, it's just an oboe player.

Steve Irwin

#11. The sadness it feels in attaining any happiness less than the infinite - all these constitute the mating call of God to the soul.

Fulton J. Sheen

#12. The mating rites of mantises are well known: a chemical produced in the head of the male insect says in effect, 'No, I don't go near her, you fool, she'll eat you alive.' At the same time a chemical in his abdomen says, 'Yes, by all means, now and forever yes.

Annie Dillard

#13. Ah, yes, the mix tape. The mating call of the introvert.

Sophia Dembling

#14. Civilization is a condition which unsocial misfits impose on the rest of popular, easygoing, family-oriented humanity. Only the miserable, the failures, the outcasts will crouch for days to observe the mating habits of a salamander.

Chuck Palahniuk

#15. Because, all things considered, researching the mating habits of squid didn't sound so terrible anymore.

Autumn Doughton

#16. Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!

Charles Eastman

#17. Sex begins before adolescence, and survives sterility; it is indeed coeval with our lives, although at the mating age its effects are more obvious to Society.

E. M. Forster

#18. In short, the democratic faith is this: that the most terribly important things must be left to ordinary men themselves - the mating of the sexes, the rearing of the young, the laws of the state.

G.K. Chesterton

#19. One conservation worker we met said he sometimes wondered if the mating call of the male didn't actively repel the female, which is the sort of biological absurdity you otherwise find only in discotheques.

Douglas Adams

#20. The wolf inside him prowled and preened, eager to finish the mating and mount to completion. The man wanted to fuck her hard against the wall and then twice more against the counter and bed just because he could

Carrie Ann Ryan

#21. I am always surprised by how much little emphasis schools of architecture, and indeed, many architects, place on the process of the mating of a building.

Norman Foster

#22. John's tattoo..Goddamn..He'd done it as a memorial to her-putting her name in his skin so she'd be with him always. After all, there was nothing more permanent than that-hell, that was why in the mating ceremony males got their backs carved up: Rings could get lost.

J.R. Ward

#23. He had a great laugh, a sexy laugh. My laugh was the mating call of the Yeti.

L. H. Cosway

#24. We live in a time of twin credulities: the hunger for the miraculous combined with a servile awe of science. The mating of the two gives us superstition plus scientism
a Mongoloid metaphysic.

Edward Abbey

#25. Just a little touches her and there. He puts his hands on your arms or back, he stands close to you, getting you used to him ... it's a mating ritual. Like March of the Penguins.

Lisa Kleypas

#26. It was hard to explain. But what was between them went further than a mating ceremony or a back carving or a witnessed exchange of commitment. He couldn't put his finger on the why of it ... but she was his missing puzzle piece, the twelfth in his dozen, the first and last pages of his book.

J.R. Ward

#27. He held up his index finger. "Rule one: in any dispute between mates, the
male is always to blame, even when he is clearly blameless. Rule two" - his middle finger joined the
first - "whenever in doubt, refer to rule one.

C.L. Wilson

#28. At first it was the complete antithesis of the kiss she'd shared with Matthew. That one had been crazy, emotional. Uncontrolled. This was a gentle mating of lips. Soft, sweet, and easy. He didn't press for her to grant him access, but she gave it, opening for him with a low moan.

Cari Quinn

#29. What is the meaning of life? Why are we here? Philosophers have pondered that question for centuries. I'm afraid the answer is disappointingly simple: Mating. That's it.

Oliver Markus

#30. I love you, Nita. Will you spend the winters putting up with my growly ass and the summers mating with me in every way possible?

Milly Taiden

#31. Then we'll be Tarzan and Jane, mating like wildebeests and frolicking from tree limb to tree limb." "The Disney movie never showed them mating." "Jane was a hottie. Tarzan would have tapped that ass the second the credits came up. Now that's a fact.

R.J. Lewis

#32. For the butterfly, mating and propagation involve the sacrifice of life, for the human being, the sacrifice of beauty.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#33. No matter how much I remind myself that there aren't mating signs, my wolf doesn't care. He has claimed her and he wants her.
Loftis, Quinn (2012-02-04). Just One Drop, Book 3 in the Grey Wolves Series (p. 68). Kindle Edition.

Quinn Loftis

#34. McCrae was the kind of southerner who had only left the parish of his birth to serve his country in wartime or to carry bulls across the state for mating purposes.

Greg Iles

#35. The librarian thought the problem was just that the right books weren't breeding with each other and proposed a forced mating program. The library committee had an epic secret meeting about the ethics of literary eugenics which ended in a furious deadlock.

Lev Grossman

#36. All nature's creatures join to express nature's purpose. Somewhere in their mounting and mating, rutting and butting is the very secret of nature itself.

Graham Swift

#37. I like to stretch my mind by reading and writing and watching educational TV shows like The Bachelor to learn the complex mating rituals of heterosexuals.

Ellen DeGeneres

#38. Let's see what my options are," he said, then slid open the drawer. Holy shit. It was like a fiesta of sex toys. "I think they might be mating in there.

Lauren Blakely

#39. The world is well supplied with spiders whose male ancestors died after mating. The world is bereft of spiders whose would-be ancestors never mated in the first place.

Richard Dawkins

#40. Human material culture - the buildings and roads and works that would strike any human as an obvious sign of intelligence - had for years seemed like part of an elaborate mating ritual to the starlings, useless and flamboyant as the peacock's tail.

Joe Pitkin

#41. The big-business mergers and the big-labour mergers have the appearance of dinosaurs mating.

John Naisbitt

#42. Pushing through her own feeling of panic to find what Kane was trying to communicate to her. It was a bit of a jumble and she strained to make sense of it, finally grasping a repeated thread: I love you. Be ready.

Nicky Charles

#43. Sex in social mammals is generally carried out in public, before the gazes of other members of the troop.

Jared Diamond

#44. The act of mating concludes with the drone's genitalia being ripped from his abdomen as he falls to his death.

C. Marina Marchese

#45. Men are attracted to beauty because it indicates health and youth - no point mating with a sickly woman who won't be around to raise the children.

Becca Fitzpatrick

#46. How did your day go?"
"I got some head. It was vamp, but still."
I stared at her. Kate was the last person I would have expected to make that joke. Well, someone had loosened up since mating. "That good, huh."
"Yup.

Ilona Andrews

#47. Until you have experienced raccoons mating underneath your bedroom at three in the morning, you have missed one of life's sensational moments.

Robert Fulghum

#48. There was one thing he liked about the human's mating ritual, the female accepting the male's name. Callum liked this not because it denoted possession, but because it signified the birth of a single unit, a family.

Kristen Ashley

#49. Stieglitz conceived, though he never carried out, a series of photographs of the heads of stallions and mares, of bulls and cows, in the act of mating, hoping to catch in the brute an essential quality that would symbolize the probably unattainable photograph of a passionate human mating.

Lewis Mumford

#50. Alekhine's real genius is in the preparation and construction of a position, long before combinations or mating attacks come into consideration at all.

Max Euwe

#51. Maybe life involves the pairing of unsuitable people, those who wait and those who keep others waiting, and the key to happiness is finding the one person with whom you share the same internal chronometer.

Jacob M. Appel

#52. He watched groups of children in the play yard move their lips, raise and lower their teeth like white drawbridges, dance their tongues in the ritual mating of speech.

Stephen King

#53. If it were left to men, there'd be nothing in the world but mating and squabbling.

Judith Tarr

#54. I felt the pull toward you the first time we met.

Lia Davis

#55. High status males had multiple wives or additional mating opportunities in the ancestral environment.

Keith Henson

#56. Charity groped for the phone, coming up with it at last and croaking "hello" in a voice that sounded exactly like a bullfrog's mating call. Which made a kind of twisted sense
last night she'd been hunting for a mate as well.

Elizabeth Jane Howard

#57. What in the blue star-blazes did you see in Jason?" he asked, still forcefully but with his frustration and jealousy under better control.
"For one thing, Djetth, he wasn't trying to kill me!"
("Marsh", heroine of Insufficient Mating Material)

Rowena Cherry

#58. In the next instance Graham claimed her lips in a demanding, yet gentle kiss

Lia Davis

#59. I worked the extremely long night shifts for three years on the 13,796 feet very high altitude summit of Mauna Kea and I noticed during that time that my mating cycle was being repeatedly triggered. It cleared up when I left for my next job.

Steven Magee

#60. The dragon shifter mating call was a powerful, magical thing that once initiated was impossible to break unless the female denounced her mate.

Julia Mills

#61. One of the basic steps in saving a threatened species is to learn more about it: its diet, its mating and reproductive processes, its range patterns, its social behavior.

Dian Fossey

#62. So the hotel tells us that it is not safe to go in the water because its shark mating time. I know how I'd feel if someone interrupted me.

Bill Engvall

#63. It's easy to remember, because dating rhymes with mating, and they're almost the same [ ... ] So your mom thinks we're ma
Uh, dating?

Anna Banks

#64. I had a patient once who dreamed she kept her husband in the deep freeze except for mating. Lots of men feel that way.

Robert Johnson

#65. Unlike the Jukel, he had not been raised among the Tigani (Gypsies who inhabited eastern Romania). Revered, protected, and educated. He had been born in the wild. The offspring of a werewolf to werewolf mating. A Ruv Bengalo (devilish wolf).

Shirley A. Martin

#66. I would think you'd have better things to do right now than look up the marital status of my ex-boyfriends on the Internet," Mom had said to him, scathingly.
"I like to keep track of their mating habits," Dad had smirked.

Meg Cabot

#67. Think of controversy as the necessary mating ritual before various good ideas can give birth to progress.

Lois Kelly

#68. If the cycle of mating heat was anything like the desire clawing at him, he and Savannah were in for either a difficult time or a glorious one.

Christine Feehan

#69. Pack is built on the bonds of family, of mating, of love. You come first. You always will.

Nalini Singh

#70. In a competition for mates a well developed capacity for self-deception is an advantage. The same is true in politics and and other contexts

John Gray

#71. I think by and large, humans prefer to think of themselves as minds from the neck up. We don't really like to think of ourselves as another animal, another digesting, excreting, mating, snoring, sleeping kind of sack of guts. I don't think we like that. I think we'd rather not be reminded of it.

Mary Roach

#72. A male frigate bird blows up a wild red pouch on his neck. He can keep it puffed up for hours. It is his way of impressing the girls.

Julie Murphy

#73. Why do we shave? It doesn't seem like a natural activity. There are no examples of shaving in nature. The only creature that comes close is the male South Pacific Groping Beetle, which sometimes, just before mating, will slap on a little Aqua Velva. But we think this resulted from atomic testing.

Dave Barry

#74. It makes you realize how basically everything we do comes down to a) mating or b) competing for resources. It's just like Animal Planet, only we've got Cover Girl and Victoria's Secret instead of colored feathers and fancy markings, and the violence occurs at the Nordstrom's Half-Yearly Sale.

Deb Caletti

#75. Dragon form is generally reserved for mating and fighting. We found over the years that it was simply easier to blend in - physically speaking - if we resembled those around us. Do you wish to mate with me?

Katie MacAlister

#76. After a lifetime of nature shows and magazine photos, we arrive at the woods conditioned to expect splendor - surprised when the parking lot does not contain a snarl of animals attractively mating and killing each other.

Bill McKibben

#77. It's amazing how sudden the effect is - it must be the result of a deep atavistic mating urge buried inside us. A glance and you think: 'Yes, this is the one, this one is right for me.' Every instinct in your body seems to sing in unison.

William Boyd

#78. Elise?" He looked at her with a pleading, puppy-dog expression in his eyes.
"Yes?"
"I love you.

Nicky Charles

#79. A male scorpion is stabbed to death after mating. In chess, the powerful queen often does the same to the king without giving him the satisfaction of a lover.

Gregor Piatigorsky

#80. The hypothalamus is one of the most important parts of the brain, involved in many kinds of motivation, among other functions. The hypothalamus controls the "Four F's": fighting, fleeing, feeding, and mating.

Marvin Dunnette

#81. Bucks, doe - thank God everything boils down to money, I always say."
"During mating season the doe constructs a bed for herself, and then she urinates all around the outside of it. That's how she gets her mate."
"So that's it," murmured Odette. "I was always peeing in the bed.

Lorrie Moore

#82. Anyway, I was the one in real danger. I got cornered by a pack of wild sorority girls in the food court. Apparently it's mating season.

Rachel Vincent

#83. It only takes a tenth grade course on evolution to know that the prostate g-spot's existence alone is proof that ass play has been done for a very, very long time.

Maggie Young

#84. The real hope of the world lies in putting as painstaking thought into the business of mating as we do into other big businesses.

Margaret Sanger

#85. She chose you for your deficiencies, not in spite of them, a new kind of mating strategy for millennial women whose priority is keeping the more disastrous fathers away, not establishing a nuclear family.

Ben Lerner

#86. In primates at least, infanticide seems to have been the crucial factor driving the evolution of monogamous mating systems.

Robin I.M. Dunbar

#87. A thorough understanding of the typical mating continuations makes the most complicated sacrificial combinations leading up to them not only not difficult, but almost a matter of course

Siegbert Tarrasch

#88. In my work, I see couples who no longer wait for an invitation into their partner's interiority, but instead demand admittance, as if they are entitled to unrestricted access into the private thoughts of their loved ones

Esther Perel

#89. Call it the Darwinian contradiction. We come down from the trees and walk upright and what do we get for it? Foot pain! Bad backs! We cease living sexual lives regulated by mating seasons, by hormonal tides or the rotation of the earth and what happens? Marital misery. Divorce. Rape.

Jonathan Rosen

#90. Doc begs me for the wires to fix the pump.
We should at least keep putting the hormones in the water," he insists, "so that they don't start mating with relatives."
"Most people don't want to commit incest," I say dryly.

Beth Revis

#91. In its purest form, dating is auditioning for mating (and auditioning means we may or may not get the part).

Joy Browne

#92. Okay, well, on Borelletrox V, the males are kept completely isolated from all images of the female until Binding Day and the females are, erm, let's just say they've' got a lot of--

Jackson Lanzing

#93. In that moment Apollo resolved that no matter how ridiculous their mating might be, he wasn't going to let her change her mind. She was his now - and if he had any say in the matter, she'd be his always.

Elizabeth Hoyt

#94. The kingmaker. He regained both prestige and fresh mating opportunities.

Frans De Waal

#95. Heroism and obscenity appear no more important in the life of the universe than the fighting or mating of a pair of insects in the woods. All is on the same plane.

Henry Miller

#96. Damned mating heat. Lawe is threatening to join a monastery and Rule's threatening to quit. Why don't you two try to show the younger guys it can be fun instead of taking a note out of everyone else's books and letting it drive you insane?
-Jonas

Lora Leigh

#97. Practically every woman in town makes a showing at Tucker's after a Jake sighting. I feel like I am watching the National Geographic Channel on mating rituals in the wild.

L.A. Fiore

#98. It wasn't like there was a dating and mating website for bear shifters. If there had been, its mascot would have been that yellow Care Bear with the heart on its stomach.

Lila Felix

#99. Thus mating of females was strictly along the lines of paternal song.

Peter R. Grant

#100. One should give up the conditional life of this material world and the association of so-called civilized human beings who are simply following, in a polished way, the same stereotyped principles of eating, sleeping, defending and mating.

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