Species Quotes

• The eyes of that species of extinct giant, whose bones fill the mounds of America, have gazed on Niagara as our eyes do now.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • America
  • Giant
  • Niagara

• Cities are the abyss of the human species.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Humans
  • Cities
  • Abyss

• However wretched a fellow-mortal may be, he is still a member of our common species.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • May
  • Common
  • Members

• I'm very pessimistic about the future of the human species. We have been so indifferent to life on the whole that it will take its toll. It's not just the polar bears that are having a hard time; what we're doing is gradually impoverishing and poisoning the whole of the rest of life.

  

  W. S. Merwin
  • Life
  • Time
  • Future

• In every advanced mammalian species that survives and thrives, a common anthropological characteristic is the fierce behavior of the adult female of the species when she senses a threat to her cubs. The lioness, the tigress and the mama bear are all examples.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Behavior
  • Fierce
  • Characteristic

• I am a worrier. I worry about the state of our country, of the world, of our species. Every day seems to deliver a new nail to hammer into our collective coffin.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • World
  • Country
  • Worrier

• A creationist can embarrass an evolutionist by asking for a definition of species.

  

  Walter Lang
  • Asking
  • Species
  • Definition

• The obligations of law and equity reach only to mankind; but kindness and beneficence should be extended to the creatures of every species, and these will flow from the breast of a true man, as streams that issue from the living fountain.

  

  Plutarch
  • Creatures
  • Issue
  • Obligations

• We are the only species systematically destroying its own habitat.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Species
  • Destroying
  • Habitat

• When I am at a dinner table, I love to ask everybody, 'How long do you think our species might last?' I've read that the average age of a species, of any species, is about two million years. Is it possible we can have an average life span as a species? And do you picture us two million years more or a million and a half years, or 5,000?

  

  Alan Alda
  • Life
  • Long
  • Age

• A race is what zoologists term a variety or subdivision of a species.

  

  J. Philippe Rushton
  • Race
  • Species
  • Variety

• Even though the album is an endangered species, can we try and make a coherent and good one, even if it's like making a horse and cart at a Nascar conference?

  

  Chris Martin Coldplay
  • Good
  • Horse
  • Album

• We are a naturally hierarchical species.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Species
  • Naturally

• The more Indians we can kill... the less will have to be killed the next war, for the more I see of these Indians, the more convinced I am that they all have to be killed or be maintained as a species of paupers.

  

  William Tecumseh Sherman
  • War
  • Next
  • Convinced

• Endangered species are our friends.

  

  Yao Ming
  • Friends
  • Species
  • Endangered

• There is part of a structure in which every species is related to every other species. And they're built up on species, like a pyramid. The simpler cell organisms, and then the more complicated ones, all the way up to the mammals and birds and so forth. We call it 'developing upward'... The whole thing depends on every part of it. And we're taking out the stones from the pyramid.

  

  W. S. Merwin
  • Up
  • Part
  • Structure

• I made efforts to swallow tears and to protect the species of the Japanese nation.

  

  Emperor Hirohito
  • Tears
  • Japanese
  • Efforts

• When I'm on the operating table, I'm happy for the surgeon to treat me as a machine, but the moment I return to consciousness I have other needs and aspirations that should be recognized. We're not here only to survive or extend our individual or species life but to do something seemingly more difficult, for which I've used words and phrases like 'love' and the 'Kingdom of God'.

  

  George Pattison
  • Moment
  • Difficult
  • Consciousness

• Life is a fight, but not everyone’s a fighter. Otherwise, bullies would be an endangered species.

  

  Andrew Vachss
  • Life
  • Life is
  • Bullying

• I toyed with the idea of what it might be like to live with some species of heatstroke that maybe didn't go away all that quickly. He's a pirate, which is about rum, sodomy and the lash, isn't it? So, to be able to keep things like that in my head, when I'm going to do a film for Disney, I'd been through the ringer. That was like infiltrating the enemy camp. I wasn't able to stop smiling.

  

  Johnny Depp
  • Idea
  • Species
  • Heatstroke

• Shower on him every blessing, drown him in a sea of happiness, give him economic prosperity such that he should have nothing else to do but sleep, eat cakes, and busy himself with the continuation of the species, and even then, out of sheer ingratitude, sheer spite, man would play you some nasty trick.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Sleep
  • Blessing
  • Prosperity

• Dogs and humans are symbiotic species. We need each other.

  

  Cynthia Heimel
  • Needs
  • Humans
  • Species

• Like species, couples die out or evolve.

  

  Marge Piercy
  • Die
  • Species
  • Evolve

• The desire to create continually is vulgar and betrays jealousy, envy, ambition. If one is something one really does not need to make anything --and one nonetheless does very much. There exists above the ''productive'' man a yet higher species.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Desire
  • Create
  • Exist

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