Stone Age Quotes - Page 2

• The rhinoceros stood ... about five hundred yards away ... not a twentieth-century animal at all, but an odd, grim straggler from the Stone Age.

  Winston Churchill

  Animal, Age, Yards

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• We need to have nature back in our atmosphere. There might be a turning point of going backward - within a few thousand years we are going back to the Stone Age! There are many scenarios [with] the robot technologies: Humans no longer need to walk; machines can produce products and food and everything. You might not be able to recognize what's false and what is real.

  Hiroshi Sugimoto

  Real, Technology, Years

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I have no policy for my collection. For example, there's a bunch of meteorite [on the windowsill in my studio]. I touch it and I feel the energy from the universe. I have a 1/1,000th of a fragment of stone-age tools and pottery and debris. I can learn many things from my collection. Actually, the 1,000 Buddha, I wanted to buy it, but it's a National Treasure, so I couldn't. If you cannot buy it, just photograph it!

  Hiroshi Sugimoto

  Age, Energy, Example

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• ISIS says they want to go back and reject modernity? Well, I think we should help them. We ought to bomb them back to the Stone Age.

  Ted Cruz

  Thinking, Isis, Age

  "The Lead" with Jake Tapper, www.cnn.com. September 1, 2014.

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• My favorite place that I've been to that most people haven't been to is the Golden Triangle in the northeast of Thailand, which is inhabited by people as if in the Stone Age, without any form of power, without running water, simply living in huts on stilts.

  Arthur Frommer

  Running, People, Water

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• Certainly ordinary language has no claim to be the last word, if there is such a thing. It embodies, indeed, something better thanthe metaphysics of the Stone Age, namely, as was said, the inherited experience and acumen of many generations of men.

  J. L. Austin

  Philosophical, Men, Age

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• It's a simplification to say that the men [during Stone Age] went to war to maintain their dominance over the women. The men would help dig agricultural ditches because they were superb farmers. That was very heavy lifting work. But then they just preened themselves, and put bird-of-paradise plumes [in their hair], and smoked dope.

  Peter Matthiessen

  War, Dope, Men

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• My father had osteomyelitis-his left arm was withered between his elbow and his shoulder ... . But the amputation of a Stone Age man called Leaf, a stoneworker, does not relate to my father at all.

  Jim Crace

  Father, Men, Age

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• And I repeat: if there is anything that can divert the land of my birth from its current stampede into the Stone Age, it is the widespread dissemination of the thoughts and perceptions that Robert Heinlein has been selling as entertainment since 1939.

  Spider Robinson

  Land, Perception, Age

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• The young people have MTV and rock and roll. Why would they go to read poetry? Poetry belongs to the Stone Age. It awakens in us perceptions that go back to those times.

  Robert Morgan

  Rocks, Mtv, Rock And Roll

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• The Queens Of The Stone Age have teamed up with multimedia wizard brain Liam Lynch to make the video for 'Burn The Witch' , a home-made affair that's just in time for Halloween. For the band, playing both the roles of cast and crew paid ginormous dividends, in the form of a video that cuts the heads off all contemporaries .

  Joshua Homme

  Queens, Halloween, Home

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• We have wished, we eco-freaks, for a disaster or for a social change to come and bomb us into Stone Age, where we might live like Indians in our valley, with our localism, our appropriate technology, our gardens, our homemade religion-guilt-free at last!

  Stewart Brand

  Technology, Garden, Age

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• If you Americans aren't from the stone age then explain to me how your president is a ****ing pterodactyl

  Thom Yorke

  Age, President, Stones

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• One-third to one-half of humanity are said to go to bed hungry every night. In the Old Stone Age the fraction must have been much smaller. This is the era of hunger unprecedented. Now, in the time of the greatest technical power, is starvation an institution. Reverse another venerable formula: the amount of hunger increases relatively and absolutely with the evolution of culture.

  Marshall Sahlins

  Night, Humanity, Age

  Marshall Sahlins (2013). “Stone Age Economics”, p.38, Routledge

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• My solution to the problem would be to tell [the North Vietnamese Communists] frankly that they've got to draw in their horns and stop their aggression or we're going to bomb them into the Stone Age. And we would shove them back into the Stone Age with Air power or Naval power - not with ground forces.

  Curtis LeMay

  Military, Age, Vietnam

  "Mission With LeMay: My Story". Book by Curtis E LeMay and MacKinlay Kantor, p. 565, 1965.

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• The Dark Ages may return-the Stone Age may return on the gleaming wings of Science; and what might now shower immeasureable material blessings upon mankind may even bring about its total destruction. Beware! I say. Time may be short.
  Referring to the discovery of atomic energy.

  Winston Churchill

  Dark, Science, Blessing

  Winston Churchill (1949). “The Sinews of Peace: Post-war Speeches”

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• Gracie: You have an unusual house. Have you lived here long? Bobby Tom: A couple of years. I don't much like it myself, but the architect is real proud of it. She calls it urban Stone Age with a Japanese Tahitian influence. I sort of just call it ugly.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Couple, Real, Years

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• We've had the Iron Age, the Stone Age, this is the pissin' about age.

  Karl Pilkington

  Funny, Iron, Age

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• I cannot say who, precisely, came up with the idea of a Stone Age family.

  Joseph Barbera

  Ideas, Age, Stones

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• But for the silly chaps, we would still be living in the Stone Age.

  Christopher Cockerell

  Silly, Progress, Age

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• Stone Age. Bronze Age. Iron Age. We define entire epics of humanity by the technology they use.

  Reed Hastings

  Epic, Technology, Iron

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• We can be hindered in our development and our personal growth by political conditions. Outer circumstances can constrain us. Only when we are free to develop our innate abilities can we live as free beings. But we are just as much determined by inner potential and outer opportunities as the Stone Age boy on the Rhine, the lion in Africa, or the apple tree in the garden.

  Jostein Gaarder

  Boys, Opportunity, Garden

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• It is no coincidence that a rebirth of psychedelic use is occuring as we acquire the technological capability to leave the planet. The mushroom visions and the transformation of the human image precipitated by space exploration are spun together. Nothing less is happening than the emergence of a new human order. A telepathic, humane, universalist kind of human culture is emerging that will make everything that preceded it appear like the stone age.

  Terence McKenna

  Order, Mushrooms, Space

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• I don't think I'm wrong when I say that the most beautiful objects of the "stone age" were made of skin, fabric, and especially wood. The "stone age" ought to be called the "wood age." How many African statues are made of stone, bone, or ivory? Maybe one in a thousand! And prehistoric man had no more ivory at his disposal than African tribes. Maybe even less. He must have had thousands of wooden fetishes, all gone now.

  Pablo Picasso

  Beautiful, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

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• The more I have learned about wine ... the more I have realized that it weaves in with human history from its very beginning as few, if any, other products do. Textiles, pottery, bread ... there are other objects of daily use that we can also trace back to the Stone Age. Yet wine alone is charged with sacramental meaning, with healing powers; indeed with a life of its own.

  Hugh S. Johnson

  Healing, Wine, Age

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