"Life is like a very short visit to……" — Desmond Morris
"Life is like a very short visit to a toy shop between birth and death."
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29 Quotes by Desmond Morris
Desmond Morris has 29 quotes on this site.
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Biologically speaking, if something bites you it's more likely to be female.
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The roots of our Soccer Tribe lie deep in our primeval past.
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Artists like cats; soldiers like dogs.
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We are to put it mildly, in a mess, and there is a strong chance that we shall have exterminated…
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We read off the many signals that our companions' clothes transmit to us in every social encounter. In this way,…
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The idea that it is funny to see wild animals coerced into acting like clumsy humans, or thrilling to see…
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I think like the species I am studying, whatever it is. If I am watching a lizard, I become the…
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There are one hundred and ninety-three living species of monkeys and apes. One hundred and ninety-two of them are covered…
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No matter how old we become, we can still call them 'Holy Mother' and 'Father' and put a child-like trust…
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We never stop investigating. We are never satisfied that we know enough to get by. Every question we answer leads…
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We may prefer to think of ourselves as fallen angels, but in reality we are rising apes.
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It must be stressed that there is nothing insulting about looking at people as animals. We are animals, after all.…
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More Birth Quotes
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one of 2,462 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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The climate, the economic situation, rising birth rates; none of these things give me a lot of hope or reason…
— David Attenborough
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Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.
— Marcus Aurelius
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As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.
— Francis Bacon
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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as…
— Francis Bacon
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They credited us with the birth of that sort of heavy metal thing. Well, if that's the case, there should…
— Ginger Baker
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There is a 'sanctity' involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of…
— James A. Baldwin
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When I gave birth to my fourth child, I suffered from post partum hemorrhaging. I almost lost my life. I…
— Joyce Banda
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That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and…
— Amelia Barr
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Birth control that really works - every night before we go to bed we spend an hour with our kids.
— Roseanne Barr
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The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from…
— Charles Baudelaire
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They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.
— Samuel Beckett
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Some people are born to lift heavy weights, some are born to juggle golden balls.
— Max Beerbohm
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