Mating Quotes

61 quotes by 55 authors

Learning is a deep human need, like mating and eating, and like all such needs it is meant to be deeply pleasurable to human beings. — James Paul Gee
But what is the love life of newts, if you boil it right down? Didn't you tell me once that they just waggled their tails… — P.G. Wodehouse
The only method compatible with our notions of civilization and the race is to prevent the breeding of the unfit by sterilization and the deliberate… — Nikola Tesla
Desert springtime, with flowers popping up all over the place, trees leafing out, streams gushing down from the mountains. Great time of year for hiking,… — Edward Abbey
Sex begins before adolescence, and survives sterility; it is indeed coeval with our lives, although at the mating age its effects are more obvious to… — E. M. Forster
Passion in a dromedary doesn't go so deep; a camel when it's mating never sobs itself to sleep. — Noel Coward
All nature's creatures join to express nature's purpose. Somewhere in their mounting and mating, rutting and butting is the very secret of nature itself. — Graham Swift
The big-business mergers and the big-labour mergers have the appearance of dinosaurs mating. — John Naisbitt
High status males had multiple wives or additional mating opportunities in the ancestral environment. — Keith Henson
I am a very good shot. I have hunted for every kind of animal. But I would never kill an animal during mating season. — Hedy Lamarr
I think romantic love evolved to enable you to focus your mating energy on just one individual at a time, thereby conserving mating time and… — Helen Fisher
Romantic love allows you to focus mating energy. Attachment sustains that relationship as long as necessary to raise your baby. — Helen Fisher
In general, men are wired to notice obvious signs that convey interest in mating - a warm smile, for example - and ignore other subtleties,… — Helen Fisher
...just a little touches her and there. He puts his hands on your arms or back, he stands close to you, getting you used to… — Lisa Kleypas
The male frog in mating season," said Crake, "makes as much noise as it can. The females are attracted to the male frog with the… — Margaret Atwood
Damned mating heat. Lawe is threatening to join a monastery and Rule's threatening to quit. Why don't you two try to show the younger guys… — Lora Leigh
Alice doesn't seem to mind because she's laughing too, and biting her lip, all doe-eyed, and tossing her freshly washed hair, and Norton tosses his… — David Nicholls
I really hate Squires. (Syra) (She pulled another flat bolt out and loaded it, then shot it at Otto. Moving so fast he could hardly… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
We could mate. In a year our nestlings would be large enough to mob anyone we like...Should I begin to court you? Do you like… — Tamora Pierce
The thing you fail to grasp is that people are not basically good. We are basically selfish. We shove and clamour and cry for adoration,… — Christopher Nolan

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