Mammals Quotes - Page 5

• For nearly 2 million years, our ancestors survived and thrived and spread across the planet because they could run other mammals into heat exhaustion.

  Christopher McDougall

  Running, Years, Heat

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• Know your load. That's rule numero uno in this business, which is why I make them count the penguins out in front of me one at a time. I'm not going to be the schmuck who shows up in Orlando twobirds short of a dinner party....I know I'm pulling out of Houston with exactly forty-two Gentoo penguins, seventeen Jamaican land iguanas, four tuataras from New Zealand, and a pair of rare, civet-like mammals called linsangs. No more, no less.

  Jacob M. Appel

  Party, Land, Two

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• I am a vegetarian because I realized that even little chickens suffer pain and fear, experience a range of feelings and emotions, and are as intelligent as mammals, including dogs, cats, and even some primates.

  Paul McCartney

  Dog, Pain, Cat

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• The human species is no more unsuited to give birth than any other of the 5,000 or so species of mammals on the planet. We are merely the most confused.

  Ina May Gaskin

  Confused, Giving, Birth

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• Isimangaliso must be the only place on the globe where the oldest land mammal (rhinoceros) and the world biggest terrestrial mammal (elephant) share an ecosystem with the world's oldest fish (coelacanth) and the world's biggest marine mammal (whale)

  Nelson Mandela

  Marine, Whales, Land

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• The only clear thing is that we humans are the only species with the power to destroy the earth as we know it. The birds have no such power, nor do the insects, nor does any mammal. Yet if we have the capacity to destroy the earth, so, too, do we have the capacity to protect it.

  Dalai Lama

  Bird, Doe, Earth

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• I think midwifery was developed by people with common sense, people who were close to nature, and people who observed other species of mammals and saw that there were lessons there to be learned.

  Ina May Gaskin

  Thinking, People, Common Sense

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• I believe the time has come to acknowledge that the practice of routine circumcision rests on the absurd premise that the only mammal in creation born in the condition that requires immediate surgical correction is the human male.

  Thomas Szasz

  Believe, Practice, Males

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• I feel like having an actual taxidermy-ed mammal would get gross, like its hair would get dirty and stuff.

  Nick Antosca

  Dirty, Hair, Taxidermy

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Many images of animals, mammals or birds, resurface regularly in my narratives. They are not symbols, but chromatic benchmarks. For me, music has always been the perfect construction - an inaccessible ideal.

  Dumitru Tepeneag

  Animal, Perfect, Bird

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Apparently being a mermaid is dead dull. I watched The Little Mermaid with her once a few years ago—she thought it was freaking hilarious. She couldn’t stop laughing about the shell-bra thing, given that mermaids aren’t mammals. Plus, as she put it, Prince Eric was far too hairy and “peach colored” for her taste. I always thought he was pretty hot, but then again, I am a mammal.

  Kiersten White

  Years, Laughing, Mermaid

  Kiersten White (2011). “Paranormalcy (Paranormalcy, Book 1)”, p.15, HarperCollins UK

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• Plus as she put it, Prince Eric was far too hairy and peach colored for her taste. I always thought he was pretty hott, but then again, I am a mammal.

  Kiersten White

  Eric, Peaches, Taste

  Kiersten White (2011). “Paranormalcy (Paranormalcy, Book 1)”, p.15, HarperCollins UK

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• If we return abruptly to a Miocene-like climate, it's reasonable to think that we would experience a lot of extinctions, and maybe even a mass extinction in the long term. Would the life on Earth be radically different? Of course we can't say for sure, but I think a lot of it would look familiar. Like a lot of people, I worry a lot about whether marine mammals would survive, especially whales. Ocean acidification is one of the major killers in climate change events, and that makes the ocean a very inhospitable place.

  Annalee Newitz

  Ocean, Marine, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Where else is fatness at a premium? The answer is clear. There are two classes of mammals which are liable to accumulate large quantities of adipose tissue - hibernating mammals and aquatic mammals.

  Elaine Morgan

  Class, Two, Answers

  Elaine Morgan (2011). “The Aquatic Ape Hypothesis”, p.69, Souvenir Press

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• There is a relative order to the fossilized species of plants found in the geologic record for which Flood Geology cannot account, unless you can imagine apple and orange trees with Nike sneakers on their roots, racing past the magnolias and primitive mammals, leaving the ginkgoes back there with the dinosaurs when the Flood waters began to rise.

  Frank Zindler

  Nike, Past, Order

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• No writer in a free country should be expected to bother about the exact demarcation between the sensuous and the sensual; this is preposterous; I can only admire but cannot emulate the accuracy of judgment of those who pose the fair young mammals photographed in magazines where the general neckline is just low enough to provoke a past master's chuckle and just high enough not to make a postmaster frown.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Country, Writing, Past

  Vladimir Nabokov (2010). “Lolita”, p.314, Vintage

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• There's nothing wrong with being a large mammal.

  Jim Morrison

  National Defense

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• Spiders so large they appear to be wearing the pelts of small mammals.

  Dave Barry

  Spiders

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• I've become sort of an accidental advocate for attachment parenting, which is a style of parenting that... basically, the way mammals parent and the way people have parented for pretty much all of human history except the last 200 years or so.

  Mayim Bialik

  Attachment, Years, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The geologist, in those tables of stone which form his records, finds no examples of dynasties once passed away again returning. There has no repetition of the dynasty of the fish, of the reptile, of the mammal. The dynasty of the future is to have glorified man for its inhabitant; but it is to be the dynasty-"the kingdom"-not of glorified man made in the image of God, but of God himself in the form man.

  Hugh Miller

  Future, Science, Men

  Hugh Miller (1857). “The Testimony of the Rocks: Or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed”, p.178

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• Man is not the most majestic of the creatures; long before the mammals even, the dinosaurs were far more splendid. But he has what no other animal possesses: a jigsaw of faculties, which alone, over three thousand million years of life, made him creative. Every animal leaves traces of what he was. Man alone leaves traces of what he created.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Animal, Men, Years

  "'The Ascent of Man' ('Lower than the Angels')". Documentary TV Mini-Series, Episode 1, 1973.

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• Perhaps the most mysterious of all mammals is the male Homo sapiens. Indeed, many anthropologists classify the group as a subspecies.

  Patricia Marx

  Males, Groups, Mysterious

  "Gifts for Him" by Patricia Marx, www.newyorker.com. November 26, 2007.

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• Anyhow, there simply isnt enough room in the museums Fishes Hall, so weve decided to pretend to the public that a whale is actually a mammal without any legs. Its pathetically ridiculous-I mean to say, just look at the thing, its a gigantic fish if I ever saw one-but mums the word! In my experience the public will believe just about anything, so long as you write it down on a little piece of card.

  Gideon Defoe

  Believe, Mean, Writing

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• There are transitional forms between the metals and non-metals; between chemical combinations and simple mixtures, between animals and plants, between phanerogams and cryptogams, and between mammals and birds [...]. The improbability may henceforth be taken for granted of finding in Nature a sharp cleavage between all that is masculine on the one side and all that is feminine on the other; or that any living being is so simple in this respect that it can be put wholly on one side, or wholly on the other, of the line.

  Otto Weininger

  Taken, Simple, Animal

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• The notion that big business and big labor and big government can sit down around a table somewhere and work out the direction of the American economy is at complete variance with the reality of where the American economy is headed. I mean, it's like dinosaurs gathering to talk about the evolution of a new generation of mammals.

  Bruce Babbitt

  Mean, Reality, Government

  "Democrat Bruce Babbitt". Interview with Steven Pearlstein, www.inc.com. August 1, 1987.

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