Domesticated Quotes

58 Domesticated quotes by 51 unique authors

Today the Western powers and media want to domesticate us like sheep, to keep us tame and domesticated. — Abu Bakar Bashir
Although native Africans domesticated some plants in the Sahel and in Ethiopia and in tropical West Africa, they acquired valuable domestic animals only later, from… — Jared Diamond
Measles and TB evolved from diseases of our cattle, influenza from a disease of pigs, and smallpox possibly from a disease of camels. The Americas… — Jared Diamond
Brod discovered 613 sadnesses, each perfectly unique, each a singular emotion, no more similar to any other sadness than to anger, ecstasy, guilt, or frustration.… — Jonathan Safran Foer
Abraham Lincoln did not shoot John Wilkes Booth. Titanic did not sink a North Atlantic iceberg. And Fox News is neither fair nor balanced. These… — Keith Olbermann
The first animals to be successfully domesticated were dogs, which were a big help because they would bark all night and fetch thrown sticks, thereby… — Dave Barry
I've been trying really hard to be more domesticated. It's not in my nature to clean and cook, and so I've been really good about… — Jenna Dewan
Thousands of years ago, humans domesticated every possible large wild mammal species fulfilling all those criteria and worth domesticating, with the result that there have… — Jared Diamond
I'm really enjoying living in Los Angeles. It's a great city to live in. I'm living a very suburban domesticated lifestyle out there - a… — Ioan Gruffudd
So the experience of death is turned into that of the exchange of functionaries, and anything in the natural relationship to death that is not… — Theodor Adorno
We have domesticated crops over a very long period of time, like tens of thousands of years. And crops get - seeds get carried. Sometimes,… — Nina Fedoroff
Man can be chained, but he cannot be domesticated. — Robert A. Heinlein
Eurasia's main axis is east/west, whereas the main axis of the Americas is north/south. Eurasia's east/west axis meant that species domesticated in one part of… — Jared Diamond
I'm not very good at being domesticated. I've tried. The domestic life I find claustrophobic - the rituals and habits and patterns. — Ralph Fiennes
At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair and learned to… — Flannery O'Connor
He domesticated and developed the native wild flowers. He had one hill-side solidly clad with that low-growing purple verbena which mats over the hills of… — Willa Cather
There is between sleep and us something like a pact, a treaty with no secret clauses, and according to this convention it is agreed that,… — Maurice Blanchot
I was taught that candles are like house cats - domesticated versions of something wild and dangerous. There's no way to know how much of… — Sloane Crosley
Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated… — Virginia Woolf
Golden eagles don`t mate with bald eagles, deer don`t mate with antelope, gray wolves don`t mate with red wolves. Just look at domesticated animals, at… — Russell Means
A work in progress quickly becomes feral. It reverts to a wild state overnight. It is barely domesticated, a mustang on which you one day… — Annie Dillard
There had been a popular joke on Freedom, started by a man named Calder. Looking down from space, he had said, the dominant life forms… — Larry Niven
I've always wanted to be a cat. Warm and domesticated when you want to be, wild when you don't. — Jenny Downham
Musing takes place in a kind of meadowlands of the imagination, a part of the imagination that has not yet been plowed, developed, or put… — Rebecca Solnit
Walter had never liked cats. They'd seemed to him the sociopaths of the pet world, a species domesticated as an evil necessary for the control… — Jonathan Franzen

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