"A bird does not fly because it has……" — Robert Ardrey
"A bird does not fly because it has wings; it has wings because it flies."
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25 Quotes by Robert Ardrey
Robert Ardrey has 25 quotes on this site.
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We are born of risen apes, not fallen angels.
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Aggressiveness is the principal guarantor of survival.
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The hunter died when he achieved supremacy. Perhaps the death of the hunter will be the long monument to interglacial…
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There is a virtue, I must presume, in shamelessness, since by placing on parade the things one does not know,…
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There is nothing so moving - not even acts of love or hate - as the discovery that one is…
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Man is a fraction of the animal world. Our history is an afterthought, no more, tacked to an infinite calender.…
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Far from the truth lay the antique assumption that man had fathered the weapon. The weapon, instead, had fathered man.
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Do you care about freedom? Dreams may have inspired it, and wishes prompted it, but only war and weapons have…
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While we pursue the unattainable, we make impossible the realizable.
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Why is man man? As long as we have had minds to think with, stars to ponder upon, dreams to…
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The dog barking at you from behind his master's fence acts for a motive indistinguishable from that of his master…
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Classic is our daring, classic our cowardice. Classic is our cruelty, classic our charity.
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More Bird Quotes
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Gliders, sail planes, they're wonderful flying machines. It's the closest you can come to being a bird.
— Neil Armstrong
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What I am interested in with birds, just as I am with spiders or monkeys, is what they do and…
— David Attenborough
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Everyone likes birds. What wild creature is more accessible to our eyes and ears, as close to us and everyone…
— David Attenborough
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Birds are the most popular group in the animal kingdom. We feed them and tame them and think we know…
— David Attenborough
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I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime…
— John James Audubon
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It is a matter of shame that in the morning the birds should be awake earlier than you.
— Abu Bakr
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If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that…
— Douglas Adams
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What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish,…
— Pedro Calderon de la Barca
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Since I had my gastric bypass surgery in 1998, I eat like a bird. Unfortunately, that bird is a California…
— Roseanne Barr
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I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.
— James M. Barrie
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I used to live a very social life and never spend much solitary time looking at birds or reading.
— Lynda Barry
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A fish may love a bird, but where would they live?
— Drew Barrymore
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