Apes Quotes - Page 14

• As every parent knows, children go through an adolescent growth spurt, during which they put on inches at an alarming rate. Humans are unique in this respect: most mammalian species, including apes, progress almost directly from infancy to adulthood.

  Richard Leakey

  Children, Unique, Parent

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• We are bipedal apes, and it should not be surprising to see that fact reflected in the way our ancestors lived.

  Richard Leakey

  Way, Facts, Should

  Richard Leakey (2008). “The Origin Of Humankind”, p.50, Hachette UK

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• I was a 'Planet of the Apes'-obsessed kid.

  Justin Cronin

  Kids, Obsessed, Planets

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• The 'missing link' between ape and man will probably never be found- because it was an embryo.

  Arthur Koestler

  Men, Missing, Society

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• Contrary to general belief, humans imitate apes more than the reverse. The sight of monkeys or apes induces an irresistible urge in people to jump up and down, exaggeratedly scratch themselves and holler in a way that must make the primates wonder how this otherwise so intelligent species has come to depend on such inferior means of communication.

  Frans de Waal

  Communication, Mean, Intelligent

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• The fact that the apes exist and that we can study them is extremely important and makes us reflect on ourselves and our human nature. In that sense alone, you need to protect the apes.

  Frans de Waal

  Important, Needs, Facts

  "The Bonobo in All of Us". Interview with Sue Western, www.pbs.org. January 1, 2007.

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• Break the skin of civilization and you find the ape, roaring and red-handed.

  Robert E. Howard

  Civilization, Skins, Roaring

  Letter to Harold Preece, c. January or February 1928.

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• Happy Birthday to Fay Wray, a wonderful actress. She was, of course, in the movie 'King Kong' and would have been 99-years-old today. She was famous because of her love interest with a giant ape, and, wait a minute, that's Maria Shriver.

  David Letterman

  Kings, Years, Waiting

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• Most people recognize me from The Shawshank Redemption, but there is this subculture of people who have collected all 13 episodes of Greg The Bunny. And I'm still close to a number of the creative people, Dan Milano particularly, who created Warren The Ape and Greg The Bunny and all of those characters.

  Bob Gunton

  Character, Numbers, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• We can no longer communicate with the apes by direct language, nor can we understand, without special study, their modes of communication which we have long since replaced by more elaborate forms. But it is at least presumable that they could still detect in our speech, at least when it is public and elaborate, the underlying tone values with which it began. Thus if we could take a gibbon ape to a college public lecture, he would not understand it, but he would "get a good deal of it." This is all the students get anyway.

  Stephen Leacock

  Communication, College, Long

  Stephen Leacock, Gerald Lynch (2002). “Leacock on Life”, p.60, University of Toronto Press

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• Much like the French (or like ourselves, their apes),Who with strange habit do disguise their shapes;Who loving novels, full of affectation,Receive the manners of each other nation.

  Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas

  Shapes, Strange, Habit

  Josuah Sylvester, Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas (seigneur), Gui Du Faur de Pibrac, Odet de La Noue (seigneur de Téligny), Henry Smith (1967). “The Complete Works of Joshuah Sylvester: For the First Time Collected and Edited”

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• In an address before the "Academia," which had been organized to combat "science falsely so called," Cardinal Manning declared his abhorrence of the new view of Nature, and described it as "a brutal philosophy to wit, there is no God, and the ape is our Adam." ...These attacks from such eminent sources set the clerical fashion for several years.

  Andrew Dickson White

  Fashion, Philosophy, Views

  Andrew Dickson White (2012). “A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom: From Creation to the Victory of Scientific and Literary Methods”, p.71, Transaction Publishers

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• Caught Beauty , held to light, now apes A good, now evil, thing the shifting sign And spectrum of archaic, psychic shapes.

  Philip Jose Farmer

  Light, Psychics, Evil

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• Man is still an ape in that he forgets what is not ever before his eyes.

  Robert E. Howard

  Eye, Men, Forget

  Robert E. Howard (2007). “The Best of Robert E. Howard Volume 1: Volume 1: The Shadow Kingdom”, p.17, Del Rey

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• 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

  Missing, Links, Monkeys

  Najwyższy Czas! magazine, January 03, 2008.

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• Terrorism benefits the Arabs, it may lay waste the Yishuv and shake Zionism. But to follow in the Arabs' footsteps and ape their deeds is to be blind to the gulf between us. Our aims and theirs run counter: methods calculated to further theirs, are ruinous to us.

  David Ben-Gurion

  Running, Benefits, Deeds

  "Rebirth and destiny of Israel". Book by David Ben-Gurion, 1954.

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• The illegal trade in apes has little to do with poverty. It is instead generated by the rich and powerful.

  Ofir Drori

  Powerful, Littles, Poverty

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• A homely woman is one of the most comely of apes.

  Publilius Syrus

  Women, Homely

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• Cunning to wise, is as an Ape to a Man.

  William Penn

  Wise, Men, Cunning

  William Penn (1775). “Fruits of Solitude. ... Eighth edition”, p.40

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• He ["the male"] is trapped in a twilight zone halfway between humans and apes, and is far worse off than apes, because he is, first of all, capable of a large array of negative feelings that the apes aren't - hate, jealousy, contempt, disgust, guilt, shame, disgrace, doubt - and, secondly, he is aware of what he is and isn't.

  Valerie Solanas

  Hate, Twilight, Feelings

  "SCUM Manifesto". Book by Valerie Solanas, p. 1, 1967.

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• It is rather an unpleasant fact, that the ugliest and awkwardest of brute animals have the greatest resemblance to man: the monkey and the bear. The monkey is ugly too (so we think) because he is like man--as the bear is awkward, because the cumbrous action of its huge paws seems to be a preposterous imitation of the motions of human hands. Men and apes are the only animals that have hairs on the under eye-lid. Let kings know this.

  Charles Lamb

  Kings, Eye, Thinking

  Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles and Mary Lamb (Illustrated)”, p.1492, Delphi Classics

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• Man alone of animals plays the ape to his dreams .

  James Branch Cabell

  Dream, Animal, Men

  James Branch Cabell (2009). “The Silver Stallion”, p.226, Wildside Press LLC

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• What right do we have to claim, as some might, that human beings are the only inhabitants of our planet blessed with an actual ability to be "aware"? The impression of a "conscious presence" is indeed very strong with me when I look at a dog or a cat or, especially, when an ape or monkey at the zoo looks at me. I do not ask that they are "self-aware" in any strong sense (though I would guess that an element of self-awareness can be present). All I ask is that they sometimes simply feel!

  Roger Penrose

  Dog, Strong, Zoos

  "The Emperor's New Mind". Book by Roger Penrose, 1989.

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• It took a couple of hundred million years to develop a thinking ape and you want a smart one in a lousy few hundred thousand?

  Spider Robinson

  Couple, Smart, Thinking

  "God Is an Iron and Other Stories". Book by Spider Robinson, 2002.

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• The solution is not to reinvent ourselves, not to ape the Labour Party or the Liberal Democrats.

  Malcolm Rifkind

  Party, Democrat, Solutions

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