Apes Quotes · Page 4

“When talking apes from the future land on the beach, slay them.”

— Phil Elmore

I have a deep sympathy with war; it so apes the gait and bearing of the soul.

— Henry David Thoreau

The library is what keeps us a step ahead of the apes.

— Dana Stabenow

I would rather be a transformed ape than a degenerate son of Adam.

— Paul Broca

“Sometimes I feel that it was donkeys and not apes the man was evolved from.”

— Imran Salahuddin Khan

We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realize that we are apes.

— Richard Dawkins

“without a doubt, that we evolved from apes.” Langdon nodded. “I’m”

— Dan Brown

Man alone of animals plays the ape to his dreams .

— James Branch Cabell

Planet of the Apes was a gigantic challenge, making the clothes work so people could do stunts and action in the clothes.…

— Colleen Atwood

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

— Arthur Koestler

With massive doses of eye-popping special effects I applaud the visual achievements in 'Dawn of the Planet of the Apes.'

— Leonard Maltin

“humans had to become the nicest of all apes before they could also evolve into the smartest.”

— Stefan Klein

I think the problem we have as apes is we're asking far bigger questions than we could possibly process.

— Charlie Brooker

The problem is that the Enlightenment dream may make too many demands on poor African apes like us. We may just not…

— Dale Jamieson

He who lets the world choose his plan of life for him has need of no other faculty than that of ape-like…

— John Stuart Mill

Almost all theological thought is anthropocentric and I just cannot buy into the anthropocentric ideology. Basically we're a bunch of conceited apes.

— Paul Watson

In fact I was slightly badly behaved at school and got in trouble. I would get a bee in my bonnet about…

— Olivia Colman

Mass ought to be in Latin, unless you could do it in Greek or Chinese. In fact, any abracadabra that no bloody…

— Ezra Pound

As if to demonstrate, by a striking example, the impossibility of erecting any cerebral barrier between man and the apes, Nature has…

— Thomas Huxley

Terrorism benefits the Arabs, it may lay waste the Yishuv and shake Zionism. But to follow in the Arabs' footsteps and ape…

— David Ben-Gurion

We start out postulating sharp boundaries, such as between humans and apes, or between apes and monkeys, but are in fact dealing…

— Frans de Waal

As nature made every man with a nose and eyes of his own, she gave him a character of his own, too;…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

All beings so far have created something beyond themselves; and do you want to be the ebb of this great flood and…

— Anonymous

A man has no reason to be ashamed of having an ape for his grandfather. If there were an ancestor whom I…

— Thomas Huxley

At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilised races of man will almost certainly exterminate and replace…

— Charles Darwin

“The shrieks were coming from two quite naked girls, who were pursued by a pair of apes snapping at their bottoms. [...]…

— Voltaire

I am not an ape, I am a man. The world has been created by God. Man has been created by God.…

— Vaslav Nijinsky

People sometimes try to score debating points by saying, Evolution is only a theory. That is correct, but it's important to understand…

— Richard Dawkins

“The First Human (Sonnet 2632) Apes have lords and ladies, I don't. Apes have kings and queens, I don't. My time is…

— Abhijit Naskar

“I believe that this hairless embryo with the aching oversized braincase and the opposable thumb—this animal barely up from the apes—will endure,…

— Robert Heinlein

The idea that humans could be related to ape-like ancestors and the rest of creation was considered subversive. If man was just…

— James Moore

I don't hold it against Dizzy [Gillespie], you know, but if a guy wants to play a certain way, you work towards…

— Miles Davis

And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

They worry one another like mastiffs, scrambling for rank and pay like apes for nuts.

— John Adams

It wasn't a monkey on my back, it was Planet of the Apes.

— Mick McCarthy

I would rather be the offspring of two apes than be a man and afraid to face the truth.

— Thomas Huxley

'Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes' was really well done.

— Christopher Miller

“Libraries are what keep us a step ahead of the apes.”

— Dana Stabenow

Any ape can reach for a banana, but only humans can reach for the stars.

— Anonymous

I'd rather be a rising ape than a falling angel.

— Terry Pratchett