Zoological Quotes

#1. Zoological taxonomists in general are inclined to be practical workers rather than philosophers, if only because they face such an unending task that they are not encouraged to sit back and philosophize.

Richard E. Blackwelder

#2. The juke joint, the honky tonk, and the ballroom also represent one more thing, anthropologically speaking: a ceremonial context for the male-with-female-duet dance flirtation and embrace, upon which the zoological survival of the human species has always been predicated.

Albert Murray

#3. The best intentions (of respect and tolerance) can often be annoying to those whose cultures are not in dominance: we feel that we are often zoological specimens.

Vijay Prashad

#4. God is a complex of ideas formed by the tribe, the nation, and humanity, which awake and organize social feelings and aim to link the individual to society and to bridle the zoological individualism.

Maxim Gorky

#5. The rest of my work, besides sketching and keeping a diary, which was the most troublesome of all, consisted in making geological and zoological collections.

John Hanning Speke

#6. The history of man is essentially zoological; it becomes human late in the day, and then only in the beautiful souls, the souls alive to justice, goodness, enthusiasm, and devotion. The angel shows itself rarely and with difficulty through the highly-organized brute.

Henri Frederic Amiel

#7. Africa north of the Sahara, from a zoological point of view, is now, and has been since early Tertiary times, a part of Europe. This is true both of animals and of the races of man.

Madison Grant

#8. Wisdom is not mathematical, nor astronomical, nor zoological; when it talks too much of any one thing it ceases to be itself. There are wise physicists, but wisdom is not physical; there are wise physicians, but wisdom is not medical.

George Sarton

#9. Ah, the outdoors,' Shallan said. 'I visited that mythical place once.

Brandon Sanderson

#10. British films are all "room with a view and a staircase and a pond."

Ben Dreyfuss

#11. Fashion is fun, but it's not that important, really, is it? It's important to have other intellectual and creative interests.

Jerry Hall

#12. There are three kinds of friends in the world. An ordinary person sees only who you are; for that you don't need a friend. Then there's a friend who sees in you what you can be. And then there's the real holy Friend, and the presence of this Friend you are already.

Shlomo Carlebach

#13. I want him to love me as much as I love him.

L.J.Smith

#14. Few men are killed by the bayonet, many are scared by it. Bayonets should be fixed when the fire fight starts

George S. Patton

#15. I have a life. A real one. And not all of it is with you.

Richard North Patterson

#16. I write because writing is the gift God has given me to help people in the world.

Anne Lamott

#17. Let us drink to the renewed success of Irish arms, and confusion to the Pope.

Patrick O'Brian

#18. You might not think it now, but if you're one of God's children, you're going to figure it out by the end of your life God is good.

James MacDonald

#19. [...]he's a man you'd be proud to bring home to mom.
Gay or straight.
Unfortunately, if your mother is anything like mine, you'd probably never get him back out of her house.

Adrienne Wilder

#20. I find it hard to believe that so many people doubt the existence of God. I mean, seriously, I'm here, so is it such a stretch to imagine that another all-powerful being could exist somewhere in the universe?

Zach Braff

#21. Across all of the universe of creative lying, whether you believe in the art of it or the entertainment of it, or both, a certain foundation in the basics allows you to kind of jump out into the unknown.

Jeff VanderMeer

#22. I feel like I'm a basketball player in a football uniform.

Terrell Owens

#23. How very near us stand the two vast gulfs of time, the past and the future, in which all things disappear.

Marcus Aurelius