Walking Upright Quotes

#1. What makes us human depends on what place on our evolutionary path we're talking about. If you go back six million years ago, what makes us human is that we were walking upright. That's all. If you go to 2.6 million years ago, it's the fact that we're designing and making stone tools.

Donald Johanson

#2. Better have men reproach you for being good, than have God damn you for being wicked. Be not laughed out of your religion. If a lame man laugh at you for walking upright, will you therefore limp?

Thomas Watson

#3. When you're mortal, life is nothing more than a drawn-out game of Russian Roulette. Every moment is the spin of a gun cylinder, every decision pointing the barrel at your head. Over and over, again and again, you pull the trigger, hoping it won't be your last turn in the game.

J.M. Darhower

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

Donald Johanson

#5. I'm the king of bad ideas.

Lisa Kessler

#6. When you give someone your whole heart and he doesn't want it, you cannot take it back. It's gone forever.

Sylvia Plath

#7. If Paul Revere had been a modern day citizen, he wouldn't have ridden down Main Street. He would have tweeted.

Alec Ross

#8. Our sacred beliefs have been made pencils / names of cities / gas stations / My knee is wounded so badly that I limp constantly / Anger is my crutch / I hold myself upright with it / My knee is wounded / see / How I Am Still Walking.

Chrystos

#9. Who are we? That is the big question. And essentially we are just an upright, walking, big brained, super intelligent ape.

Louise Leakey

#10. We hope to find more pieces of the puzzle which will shed light on the connection between this upright, walking ape, our early ancestor, and modern man.

Richard Leakey

#11. You play tough guy, making jokes to hide the anger you feel in your heart because they were taken from you, the men responsible never found.

Charlie Cochet

#12. his hands clasped over a huge carved walking-stick, and a big old woman, sitting upright, with a roll of knitting on her embroidered

Katherine Mansfield

#13. Did Google need to make robot cars in order to make Streetview work? Absolutely not. It's the equivalent of saying you need a walking robot in order to push an upright vacuum cleaner. It's gratuitous robotics!

Colin Angle

#14. Opportunity is ever worth expecting; let your hood be ever hanging ready. The fish will be in the pool where you least imagine it to be.

Ovid

#15. We get the leaders we create.

Peter Block

#16. There is this to be said for walking: it is the one method of human locomotion by which a man or woman proceeds erect, upright, proud and independent, not squatting on the haunches like a frog.
Little boys love machines. Grown-up mean and women like to walk.

Edward Abbey

#17. Hominids are all the Neanderthals, australopithecines, Homo
habili, Homo erecti, etc., the upright-walking apes of which we are
the only surviving species.

Joe Quirk

#18. There is no meaning if meaning is not shared, and not because there would be an ultimate or first signification that all beings have in common, but because meaning is itself the sharing of Being.

Jean-Luc Nancy

#19. Haste is never more dangerous than when you feel that victory is in your grasp.

Eugene Znosko-Borovsky

#20. I was swimming with the turd sharks in an ocean made of piss

Sam Cheever

#21. It wasn't to free him of his guilt.
It wasn't to punish him.
It wasn't anything other than an act of mercy.

Alexandra Bracken

#22. Sixty years ago this week Hitler invaded Poland. This led to the creation of The History Channel.

Jay Leno