Apes Quote by Richard Griffiths

“My family tree spreads wide as well. I am a great ape, and you are a great ape, and so are chimpanzees and orangutans…

— Katherine Applegate

“I was warmly amused at the way each one tried to outdo the others in showing how her ape was the “most human”—trying to…

— Sy Montgomery

The relationships I've had with animals are often some of the most profound. That's why you cry when a dog dies in a movie.…

— David Lowery

The best relationship you can have with a chimpanzee is total mutual trust.

— Jane Goodall

“I never knew my father, my mother was an ape”

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

“Watching our closest living relatives, the chimpanzees, is reading the first chapter of human-being’s adventures in this universe!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

[About gorillas] You take these fine, regal animals. How many (human) fathers have the same sense of paternity? How many human mothers are more…

— Dian Fossey

Gorillas remind me of my father. He was a very big, physically strong man but also very sensitive.

— Anthony Browne

I share a very cordial relationship with my father's side of the family.

— Nagma

Chimpanzees have given me so much. The long hours spent with them in the forest have enriched my life beyond measure. What I have…

— Jane Goodall

My dad and me were incredibly close. He was an actor, and so him and I shared this whole movie-world thing closer than anyone…

— Jackie Earle Haley

As the most social apes, we inhabit a mirror-world in which every important relationship, whether with spouse, friend or child, shapes the brain, which…

— Diane Ackerman