Gorillas Quote by Thomas Carlyle Download Open image “I have no patience whatever with these gorilla damnifications of humanity.” — Thomas Carlyle ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Gorillas Humanity I have no patience Nature of man No patience Patience
The more you learn about the dignity of the gorilla, the more you want to avoid people. — Dian Fossey Copy Share Image
I feel more comfortable with gorillas than people. I can anticipate what a gorilla's going to do, and they're purely motivated. — Dian Fossey Copy Share Image
They [gorillas] are brave and loyal. They help each other. They rival elephants as parents and whales for gentleness. They play and have humor… — Pat Derby Copy Share Image
Gorillas are almost altruistic in nature. There's very little if any 'me-itis.' When I get back to civilization I'm always appalled by 'me, me,… — Dian Fossey Copy Share Image
I cannot concur with those who advocate saving gorillas from extinction by killing and capturing more free-living individuals only to exhibit them in confinement. — Dian Fossey Copy Share Image
Gorillas are in danger of being wiped out by the Ebola virus. I feel like we have limited time to get to know them… — Sara Gruen Copy Share Image
It's hard to put into words. Gorillas are not complainers. We're dreamers, poets, philosophers, nap takers. — Katherine Applegate Copy Share Image
It really sucks to be the number two intelligent species on this planet; you can just ask gorillas. — Jaan Tallinn Copy Share Image
There was no way that I could explain to dogs, friends, or parents my compelling need to return to Africa to launch a long-term… — Dian Fossey Copy Share Image
If mountain gorillas are to survive and propagate, far more active conservation measures urgently need to be undertaken. The question remains, is it already… — Dian Fossey Copy Share Image
O thou that pinest in the imprisonment of the Actual, and criest bitterly to the gods for a kingdom wherein to rule and create,… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such: it is an accident, not a property, of… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Be a pattern to others, and then all will go well; for as a whole city is affected by the licentious passions and vices… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The glory of a workman, still more of a master workman, that he does his work well, ought to be his most precious possession;… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
All human things do require to have an ideal in them; to have some soul in them. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Insurrection, never so necessary, is a most sad necessity; and governors who wait for that to instruct them are surely getting into the fatalest… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Let Time and Chance combine, combine! Let Time and Chance combine! The fairest love from heaven above, That love of yours was mine, My… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutan shave been living for hundreds of thousands of years in their forest,living fantastic lives, never overpopulating, never destroying the forest. I… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
It's hard to put into words. Gorillas are not complainers. We're dreamers, poets, philosophers, nap takers. — Katherine Applegate Copy Share Image
Actually, scientists don't know exactly how lice jumped from gorillas to our human ancestors. They speculate that we may have eaten them or perhaps… — Ziya Tong Copy Share Image
When you start to do research into gorillas or any kind of apes, if you're going to play them, that's one of the biggest… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
Rather than something like King Kong where I really went after studying gorillas in the wild and captivity. I based Caesar [ from the… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
We're animals. We're violent. We're criminal. We're not so far away from the gorillas and the apes, those beautiful creatures. — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
The fact that all our ape cousins - chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans - can acquire signs - is powerful evidence that our hominid ancestors'… — Roger Fouts Copy Share Image
That's right. Uh-huh. Uh-huh," Nick said arrogantly. "You might know karate, boy, but I know gorilla, and I'm a level 40 champion in it.… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
I actually taught perceptual psychology at N.Y.U. when I was younger. I was interested in the aesthetic impulse in lower primates. But what really… — Arne Glimcher Copy Share Image
It will be a killer, and a chiller, and a thriller, when I get the gorilla in Manila. — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
I was doing comedy in laundry mats in 1992, literally where I would bring a little gorilla amp and a lapel mike and just… — Dane Cook Copy Share Image
It never gets easier, you just go faster. To put it another way, training is like fighting with a gorilla. You don’t stop when… — Greg Henderson Copy Share Image