161 Creature Quotes for You to Enjoy

Homo Sapiens is a frontier creature. It is what we do; it defines what we are. This has been true from our very beginnings. It is the core reason our progenitors wandered forth from the first primordial valleys in search of more room, better hunting, or more fertile soil. Rick Tumlinson

Better Soil First Our Valleys Defines Has-Been Hunting More True Primordial Been Fertile Very Beginnings Frontier Wandered Room Forth Sapiens Reason Search Creature Homo Homo Sapiens Core

In the role of Ziggy Stardust, Bowie seemed in 1972 like a strange alien creature, not so much coming from another planet as from a future age. His purpose: to warn us about a dangerous society where values were to be turned inside out. Robert Hilburn

Future Age Strange Dangerous Alien Values Society Out Inside Inside-Out About Seemed Purpose Like Bowie Another Coming Were His Role Where Turned Us Warn Much Planet Creature Stardust

Man is a competitive creature, and the seeds of conflict are built deep into our genes. We fought each other on the savannah and only survived against great odds by organising ourselves into groups which would have had a common purpose, giving morale and fortitude. Robert Winston

Great Man Conflict Giving Odds Other Our Ourselves Would Seeds Morale Only Purpose Had Genes Built Survived Common Which Against Fortitude Deep Groups Each Fought Creature Competitive Savannah

My son craves picture books about Transformers and Ninja Turtles and the Hulk; they show one fantastic creature smashing or zapping another into smithereens on page after page. They are dull and ugly and show no interesting stories or models of conflict resolution or character building. Russell Smith

Character Son Conflict Ugly Picture Building Books Ninja About Picture Books Smashing Another Dull Models Hulk Stories After Craves Transformers Interesting Fantastic Interesting Stories Page Show Creature Resolution

I didn't want to become some embittered old hack getting his revenge for the rest of my life. And I didn't want to become some scared creature cowering in a corner. I remember telling myself not to carry the hatred around, although I know where it is. I have it in a trunk in storage. Salman Rushdie

Life Myself Revenge Remember Old Rest Hatred My Life Become Corner Telling Embittered Carry Scared Some Hack Know Although Around His Trunk Getting Storage Where Want Creature

Man is essentially a selfish creature. The differences in the degree with which this developed are infinite. Samuel Freeman Miller

Man Selfish Degree Differences Developed Infinite Essentially Which Creature

My father was a creature of the archaic world, really. He would have been entirely at home in a Gaelic hill-fort. His side of the family, and the houses I associate with his side of the family, belonged to a traditional rural Ireland. Seamus Heaney

This creature of the poem may assemble itself into a being with its own centrifugal force. Sharon Olds

Own Poem Force Itself May Being Assemble Creature

I never belonged anywhere. I just felt like a creature from another planet. Siobhan Fahey

Never Like Another Felt Just Anywhere Planet Creature Belonged

Sigmund Freud was very much a creature of his time. He did not 'invent' the unconscious. Siri Hustvedt

Time Invent Unconscious He Freud His Very Did Much Creature

I mostly wrote 'Thursday's Child' to explore the idea of a wild child - a creature who lived much as humans used to live, when our needs were simple and our worlds were small. Sonya Hartnett

I love my creature comforts. Stephen Graham

Love Comforts Creature

You have to remember that not every creature that was evolving left behind its skull or its tools for our convenience tens of thousands of years later. Most bones or most tools rot or get buried and are never found again. Steven Pinker

You Remember Every Tools Our Later Evolving Thousands Thousands Of Years Never Tens Tens Of Thousands Most Years Left Get Behind Convenience Buried Again Rot Skull Creature Found Bones

The view which regards man as a well, a reservoir full of possibilities, I call the romantic; the one which regards him as a very finite and fixed creature, I call the classical. T. E. Hulme

Man Possibilities Classical Finite Well Call Him Very Fixed Romantic Regards Which View Full Reservoir Creature

Rarely do I try to pull a creature out of life and make it a character. Theresa Rebeck

Life Character Try Out Rarely Make Creature Pull

The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only. Thomas Hobbes

Man Living Only Absurdity Subject Privilege Which Creature

You look at a horse, and he's such a majestic, beautiful, powerful creature that you can't not be impressed. I love scraping the water off them when I wash them down because you go all round the contours, and its muscle and body, and you just think, 'Ooh, isn't this a magnificent creature.' You're touching it, and it's just solid, carved muscle. Victoria Pendleton

Love Beautiful You Water Down Think Solid Carved Touching Magnificent Horse He Powerful Majestic Look Because Go Off Impressed Scraping Just Them Body Wash Creature Round Muscle

Nothing exists from eternity but God, and God is not the matter or a part of any creature, but only the maker. William Ames

God Matter Nothing Only Part Maker Exists Any Eternity Creature

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