--- title: "4 Gary Anderson Quotes" description: "Gary Anderson has 4 quotes on SMS4Smile. Browse their most insightful sayings." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d3b/gary-anderson-66234_progenitors-reached_i-spent-much-of-my-youth-wondering-about_2366.jpg" --- # Gary Anderson **4** quotes in **6** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet ## Quotes by Gary Anderson > [“. . . I spent much of my youth wondering about the verticality of my own biological progenitors. So that when I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-anderson/i-spent-much-of-my-youth-wondering-about-the-verticality-of-my-own/) [Gary Anderson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-anderson/) [Progenitors Reached](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/progenitors-reached-262326/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d3b/gary-anderson-66234_progenitors-reached_i-spent-much-of-my-youth-wondering-about_2366.jpg) > [“Nothing was worse than a bovine with a 150 IQ trying to wrap its stunned mollusk tongue around the finely tuned syllables…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-anderson/nothing-was-worse-than-a-bovine-with-a-150-iq-trying-to-wrap-its/) [Gary Anderson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-anderson/) [Bovine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bovine/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9f2/gary-anderson-66234_bovine_nothing-was-worse-than-a-bovine-with-a-1_31708.jpg) > [“Does being self-aware magically negate all our other predatory instincts? After all, humans put the ape in apex predator. We are the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-anderson/does-being-self-aware-magically-negate-all-our-other-predatory/) [Gary Anderson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-anderson/) [Best of the best](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/best-of-the-best/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1a6/gary-anderson-66234_best-of-the-best_does-being-self-aware-magically-negate-a_208438.jpg) > [“Not all was as it seemed, he realized in the simple rendering of a child’s comprehension. Not all was good and honorable…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-anderson/not-all-was-as-it-seemed-he-realized-in-the-simple-rendering-of-a/) [Gary Anderson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-anderson/) [Children](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/children/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d49/gary-anderson-66234_children_not-all-was-as-it-seemed-he-realized-in_3209876.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-anderson/#itemlist", "name": "Gary Anderson Quotes", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“. . . I spent much of my youth wondering about the verticality of my own biological progenitors. 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