Homo Quotes

109 Homo quotes by 83 unique authors

Of the four billion life forms which have existed on this planet, three billion, nine hundred and sixty million are now extinct. We don't know… — P.D. James
My single greatest challenge is to remain centered and loving in an overwhelmingly nonvegan world. In today's world, cruelty and exploitation of other beings -… — Michael Klaper
The female of the genus homo is economically dependent on the male. He is her food supply. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Homo sapiens [are] a tiny twig on an improbable branch of a contingent limb on a fortunate tree. — Stephen Jay Gould
Girls will get together just to get together. Guys need an activity as an excuse. Otherwise it’s too homo for them to handle. — Megan McCafferty
But the truth is that Homo sapiens is a sensual species. I think all species are, to one degree or another. — Jock Sturges
I will always admit immediately to what's obvious, which is that Homo sapiens is inherently erotic or inherently sensual from birth. — Jock Sturges
The Latin words humus, soil/earth, and homo, human being, have a common derivation, from which we also get our word 'humble.' This is the Genesis… — Eugene H. Peterson
It struck me as I listened to those two men that a truer nomination (name) for our species than Homo sapiens might be Homo narrans,… — Henning Mankell
Possibly, over the course of time, the brain capacity of homo sapiens will have made such great progress, that complications as contained in this game… — Lodewijk Prins
Homo sapiens Yuck You contemporary fools laugh at religious and political lies spewed by sociopaths, lies that tether you forever to poverty and mediocrity. Yet,… — Unknown Author
There's no particular evidence that any of the lower mammals or any of the other animals have any interest in aesthetics at all. But Homo… — Jock Sturges
It took nature 100 million years to make the ape stand up and become Homo sapiens. It took us only 10,000 to make knowing obsolete. — Sugata Mitra
RATTLESNAKE, n. Our prostrate brother, "Homo ventrambulans". — Ambrose Bierce
We who revel in nature's diversity and feel instructed by every animal tend to brand Homo sapiens as the greatest catastrophe since the Cretaceous extinction. — Stephen Jay Gould
It must be stressed that there is nothing insulting about looking at people as animals. We are animals, after all. Homo sapiens is a species… — Desmond Morris
Surely one zoo in the world should have the courage to draw the ultimate conclusion about our ancestry? A cage with Homo Sapiens in all… — Cees Nooteboom
I think we're going to move from a Homo sapiens into a Homo evolutis: ... a hominid that takes direct and deliberate control over the… — Juan Enriquez
A need to tell and hear stories is essential to the species Homo sapiens-second in necessity apparently after nourishment and before love and shelter. Millions… — Reynolds Price
We're all homos. Homo sapiens. — Michael Scott
Economics, as it is often taught today, portrays us as homo economicus-someone who doesn't vote in presidential elections, doesn't return lost wallets, and doesn't leave… — Robert H. Frank
Ah, but is it not the mind that is the real grace of Homo sapiens? All the things to think about! All the things to… — Carol Emshwiller
Human beings are not inevitable, and our brief existence is not preordained to be extended into the distant future. If Homo sapiens is to have… — Jeff Schweitzer
I don't know who he (Wladimir) was trying to impress in that homo-erotic video of his doing bicep-curls. It didn't impress me. — David Haye
Every culture from the Egyptians to the Mayans to the American Indians to the Bedouins created bestiaries that enabled them to express their relationship with… — Gregory Colbert

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