Actually, scientists don't know exactly how lice jumped from gorillas to our human ancestors. They speculate that we may have eaten them… — Ziya Tong Copy Share Image
You wanna deliver papers in a big city?" an expert with a bent nose told me, "then you gotta shake the trees… — Edwin Diamond Copy Share Image
Here's where I ask why don't you spend your time doing something safer and more boring. Like maybe administering suppositories to rabid… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
I think a lot guys get laid pretending to be Shaggy 2 Dope because without his paint he's a lot more unrecognizable.… — Joseph Bruce Copy Share Image
For captive gorillas, trees should be available to climb and material such as straw, branches, or bamboo supplied for nest building. — Dian Fossey Copy Share Image
It never gets easier, you just go faster. To put it another way, training is like fighting with a gorilla. You don’t… — Greg Henderson Copy Share Image
Gorillas remind me of my father. He was a very big, physically strong man but also very sensitive. — Anthony Browne Copy Share Image
Gorillas are the largest of the great apes. A mature male may be six feet tall and weigh 400 pounds or more;… — Dian Fossey Copy Share Image
I want a girl who looks good when she wakes up in the morning. We could take her face and dip it… — Flavor Flav Copy Share Image
They [gorillas] are brave and loyal. They help each other. They rival elephants as parents and whales for gentleness. They play and… — Pat Derby Copy Share Image
I actually taught perceptual psychology at N.Y.U. when I was younger. I was interested in the aesthetic impulse in lower primates. But… — Arne Glimcher Copy Share Image
When you're wearing an animal costume and something bad happens, your facial expression doesn't change. The animal is deadpan the whole time.… — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
“Our close cousins the gorillas and orangs and chimps and gibbon apes have gotten along just fine all this time while eating… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The newspapers do little better. Their coverage of nonhuman animals is dominated by "human interest" events like the birth of a baby… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Adult gorillas will fight to the death defending their families. This is why poachers who may be seeking only one infant for… — Sy Montgomery Copy Share Image
...Humans were the only creatures in the world that ate their food cooked. You'd never find a Gorilla frying up some bananas… — Dick Gregory Copy Share Image
Traveling across the United States, it's easy to see why Americans are often thought of as stupid. At the San Diego Zoo,… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
I meditate, and when I do, Prince Harry appears in my subconscious and meditates with me. It's a little strange but I… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
Stupefaction overrode all other emotion when I saw this creature on the lookout, lying in wait for the game. For it was… — Pierre Boulle Copy Share Image
Eating a RAW food lifestyle is the purest and best way to live. Many of the strongest and longest living animals are… — Eric Nies Copy Share Image
If zoos are like arks, then rare animals are like passengers on a voyage of the damned, never to find a port… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
[I]n Africa I was a member of a family—of a sort of family that the people of your culture haven't known for… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
That there is a continuous link from humans to gorillas, with the intermediate species merely long dead, is beyond the understanding of… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I watched the gorilla's eyes again, wise and knowing eyes, and wondered about this business of trying to teach apes language. Our… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Social Security's not the hard one to solve. Medicare, that is the gorilla in the room, and you've got to put all… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
My dream job would be to work in a zoo with gorillas. You get to feed them and go in the enclosure… — Charlotte Crosby Copy Share Image
We've got to have major health care reform because that is the 800-pound gorilla. That is the thing that can swamp the… — Kent Conrad Copy Share Image
I had never planned to become a savanna baboon when I grew up; instead, I had always assumed I would become a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Saving New York City from bankruptcy is like making love to a gorilla. You don't stop when you're tired; you stop when… — Felix Rohatyn Copy Share Image
I feel more comfortable with gorillas than people. I can anticipate what a gorilla's going to do, and they're purely motivated. — Dian Fossey Copy Share Image
“People and gorillas, horses and duikers and pigs, monkeys and chimps and bats and viruses: We’re all in this together.” — David Quammen Copy Share Image
There was no way that I could explain to dogs, friends, or parents my compelling need to return to Africa to launch… — Dian Fossey Copy Share Image
Worrying about a large institution, especially when it has computers, is like worrying about a large gorilla, especially when it's on fire. — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
Gorillas are almost altruistic in nature. There's very little if any 'me-itis.' When I get back to civilization I'm always appalled by… — Dian Fossey Copy Share Image
[About gorillas] You take these fine, regal animals. How many (human) fathers have the same sense of paternity? How many human mothers… — Dian Fossey Copy Share Image
The only other animals that would be in the ballpark to be able to do it would be a gorilla, but it's… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
The problem with object-oriented languages is they've got all this implicit environment that they carry around with them. You wanted a banana… — Joe Armstrong Copy Share Image
I like when they say a movie is inspired by a true story. That's kind of silly. "Hey, Mitch, did you hear… — Mitch Hedberg Copy Share Image
I hate superheroes. I always hated superheroes. From the time I was a little kid, I could believe in a 50-foot gorilla… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
![“They [gorillas] are brave and loyal. They help each other. They rival elephants as parents and whales for gentleness. They play and have humor and they harm nothing. They are what we should be. I don't know if we'll ever get there.” quote by Pat Derby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/4dc/pat-derby-66142_brave_they-gorillas-are-brave-and-loyal-they-h_1708873.jpg)
![“[I]n Africa I was a member of a family—of a sort of family that the people of your culture haven't known for thousands of years. If gorillas were capable of such an expression, they would tell you that their family is like a hand, of which they are the fingers. They are fully aware of being a…” quote by Daniel Quinn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/9c4/daniel-quinn-1786_capable_i-n-africa-i-was-a-member-of-a-family-of_496819.jpg)
![“[About gorillas] You take these fine, regal animals. How many (human) fathers have the same sense of paternity? How many human mothers are more caring? The family structure is unbelievably strong.” quote by Dian Fossey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/1d4/dian-fossey-18586_animal_about-gorillas-you-take-these-fine-regal_1213656.jpg)
