I didn’t know exactly when cars were invented, but I…

Even the picturesque prehistoric settlements at Akrotiri on the Greek island of Santorini were an exercise in problem-solving; white-washed homes and town halls built…

— Bettany Hughes

I guess storytelling's always been in my blood. My mom said I was always dressing up and jumping in front of the camera and…

— Amber Valletta

Most cats feel that bird-catching is their duty; the instinct goes back to prehistoric times. Amber keeps in practice by chasing moths.

— Gladys Taber

Sampling is kind of prehistoric, given the technology and the textures you can create.

— Macklemore

Sharks are really serious animals. They've been around longer than dinosaurs. They're basically prehistoric killing machines, and that's terrifying and fascinating, at the same…

— Sara Paxton

Many years ago, when I was once saying sadly to Max it was a pity I couldn't have taken up archaeology when I was…

— Agatha Christie

In every island of the Aegean Sea are found abundant traces of a vast prehistoric empire.

— James Theodore Bent

Studying elephants is like going back into prehistoric times. In size, elephants are the closest thigns we have to dinosaurs. There are days when…

— Roland Smith

What has been forgotten is never something purely individual. Everything forgotten mingles with what has been forgotten of the prehistoric world, forms countless, uncertain,…

— Walter Benjamin

The art of beautiful motion is far and away the oldest. Before man learned how to use any instruments at all, he moved the…

— Gerard van der Leeuw

“The phrase "the violent bear it away" fascinated the 20th century Irish-American storyteller Flannery O'Connor, who used it as the title of one of…

— Thomas Cahill

PREHISTORIC, adj. Belonging to an early period and a museum. Antedating the art and practice of perpetuating falsehood.

— Ambrose Bierce

In our prehistoric past, we would have lived in extended families, surrounded by kin whose interests we might have wanted to promote because they…

— Richard Dawkins

It is a strange fact, characteristic of the incomplete state of our current knowledge, that totally opposite conclusions are drawn about prehistoric conditions on…

— Alfred Wegener

I suppose there is something in all of us that harks back to the soil. When you come to think of it, what are…

— Mary Roberts Rinehart