Evolved Quotes
442 quotes by 370 authors
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What’s happened so far? Coyotes evolved limited powers of speech. Worms developed teeth and became aggressive and territorial. Snakes grew wings and developed a new…
— Michael Grant
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The universe, which is not merely the stars and the moon and the planets, flowers, grass and trees, but other people, has evolved no terms…
— James A. Baldwin
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Sometimes human beings are very much like bees. Bees are fiercely protective of their hive, provided you are outside it. Once you’re in, the workers…
— Neil Gaiman
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Toughness found fertile soil in the hearts of Palestinians, and the grains of resistance embedded themselves in their skin. Endurance evolved as a hallmark of…
— Susan Abulhawa
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ASTONISHING, said Death. REALLY ASTONISHING. LET ME PUT FORWARD ANOTHER SUGGESTION: THAT YOU ARE NOTHING MORE THAN A LUCKY SPECIES OF APE THAT IS TRYING…
— Terry Pratchett
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You ever noticed how people who believe in Creationism look really un-evolved? You ever noticed that? Eyes real close together, eyebrow ridges, big furry hands…
— Bill Hicks
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I miss you, Eleanor. I want to be with you all the time. You’re the smartest girl I’ve ever met, and the funniest, and everything…
— Rainbow Rowell
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History is the most dangerous product evolved from the chemistry of the intellect. ...History will justify anything. It teaches precisely nothing, for it contains everything…
— Paul Valery
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Put it this way: Jazz is a good barometer of freedom... In its beginnings, the United States of America spawned certain ideals of freedom and…
— Duke Ellington
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It is a lot better to come from an evolved monkey than from a fallen angel.
— Marcellin Boule
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I wanted to invent some kind of American dance that was danced to the music that I grew up on: Cole Porter and Rodgers and…
— Gene Kelly
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It shouldn't be too much of a surprise that the Internet has evolved into a force strong enough to reflect the greatest hopes and fears…
— Denise Caruso
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The most difficult part is to convince a human being that in the entire creation, he is the most highly evolved being; that he is…
— Nirmala Srivastava
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It evolved from my experience in the fifties, growing up during the McCarthy era, and hearing a lot of assumptions that America was wonderful and…
— Warren Farrell
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In fact, at this point in history, the most radical, pervasive, and earth-shaking transformation would occur simply if everybody truly evolved to a mature, rational,…
— Ken Wilber
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The pre-human creature from which man evolved was unlike any other living thing in its malicious viciousness toward its own kind. Humanization was not a…
— Eric Hoffer
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Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's, but apples did not suspend themselves in mid-air, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from apelike ancestors whether they…
— Stephen Jay Gould
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Biologists must constantly keep in mind that what they see was not designed, but rather evolved.
— Francis Crick
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Darwin abolished special creations, contributed the Origin of Species and hitched all life together in one unbroken procession of Siamese Twins, the whole evolved by…
— Mark Twain
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Unity of plan everywhere lies hidden under the mask: of diversity of structure-the complex is everywhere evolved out of the simple.
— Thomas Huxley
Who Wrote These Evolved Quotes
370 authors contributed a total of 442 Evolved Quotes, led by these top contributors: