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Apes Quotes by Jane Goodall
- In what terms should we think of these beings, nonhuman yet possessing so very many human-like characteristics? How should we treat them? Surely we should…
- It has actually been suggested that warfare may have been the principle evolutionary pressure that created the huge gap between the human brain and that…
- Certainly the first true humans were unique by virtue of their large brains. It was because the human brain is so large when compared with…
- When I was 10 years old, I loved - I loved books, and I used to haunt the secondhand bookshop. And I found a little…
More Apes Quotes
- As the most social apes, we inhabit a mirror-world in which every important relationship, whether with spouse, friend or child, shapes the… — Diane Ackerman
- The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris. — Honore de Balzac
- Men have a lot less to write about, unless you're somebody like Tom Waits or John Lennon. And the female voice is… — Brandon Boyd
- We are not the only animal that mourns; apes do, and elephants, and dogs. Yet we are the only one that tortures. — Geraldine Brooks
- I think I've still got a bit of a sado-masochistic streak in me, because if I'm not going to be restricted by… — Helena Bonham Carter
- What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
- Man, proud man, drest in a little brief authority, most ignorant of what he's most assur d, glassy essence, like an angry… — William Shakespeare
- And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge