Prehistoric Man Quotes

• Living is having ups and downs and sharing them with friends.

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  Trey Parker

  Ups & Downs   Prehistoric Man  

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• It's like a prehistoric reflex, you know, going out and getting the meat and bringing it back to the cave. You feel you're supposed to make it better, but more than likely she's asking you to tell her how you feel.

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  Fred Ward

  Meat   Going Out   Asking  

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• The evolution of the brain not only overshot the needs of prehistoric man, it is the only example of evolution providing a species with an organ which it does not know how to use.

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  Arthur Koestler

  Men   Brain   Needs  

  "The Ghost in the Machine". Book by Arthur Koestler, 1967.

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• PREHISTORIC, adj. Belonging to an early period and a museum. Antedating the art and practice of perpetuating falsehood.

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  Ambrose Bierce

  Art   Museums   Practice  

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.186, University of Georgia Press

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• Soil erosion is as old as agriculture. It began when the first heavy rain struck the first furrow turned by a crude implement of tillage in the hands or prehistoric man. It has been going on ever since, wherever man's culture of the earth has bared the soil to rain and wind.

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  Hugh Hammond Bennett

  Rain   Men   Agriculture  

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• Sometimes what's right isn't as important as what's profitable.

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  Trey Parker

  Important   Sometimes   Profitable  

  "Fictional character: Government Agent #2". TV Series "South Park" ("Prehistoric Ice Man", 1999), www.imdb.com. (1997 - ).

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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.

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  Pablo Picasso

  Beautiful   Men   Thinking  

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

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• "Natural" man is always there, under the changeable historical man. We call him and he comes-a little sleepy, benumbed, without his lost form of instinctive hunter, but, after all, still alive. Natural man is first prehistoric man-the hunter.

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  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Hunting   Men   Historical  

  Jose Ortega y Gasset (2007). “Meditations on Hunting”, p.125, Wilderness Adventures Press

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• There is tragic evidence to show that the paintings at the French prehistoric art sites are deteriorating.

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  Louis Leakey

  Art   Aggravation   Painting  

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• Cookery is the art of preparing food for the nourishment of the body. Prehistoric man may have lived on uncooked foods, but there are no savage races today who do not practice cookery in some way, however crude. Progress in civilization has been accompanied by progress in cookery.

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  Fannie Farmer

  Art   Food   Men  

  Fannie Merritt Farmer (1896). “Original 1896 Boston Cooking-School Cook Book”, p.17, Courier Corporation

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• I've learned that all a person has in life is family and friends. If you lose those, you have nothing, so friends are to be treasured more than anything else in the world.

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  Trey Parker

  Lost Friendship   Family And Friends   World  

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• Drawing is still basically the same as it has been since prehistoric times. It brings together man and the world. It lives through magic.

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  Keith Haring

  Art   Men   Drawing  

  Keith Haring (2010). “Keith Haring Journals: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.105, Penguin

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• The body was the slave of the vortex; but the slave has become the master; and we must free ourselves from that tyranny. It is this stuff [ indicating her body ], this flesh and blood and bone and all the rest of it, that is intolerable. Even prehistoric man dreamed of what he called an astral body, and asked who would deliver him from the body of this death.

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  George Bernard Shaw

  Men   Blood   Vortex  

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.4038, e-artnow

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• Through the release of atomic energy, our generation has brought into the world the most revolutionary force since prehistoric man's discovery of fire. This basic force of the universe cannot be fitted into the outmoded concept of narrow nationalisms.

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  Albert Einstein

  Men   Fire   Our Generation  

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• Man needs spiritual expression and nourishing... even in the prehistoric era, people would scrawl pictures of bison on the walls of caves.

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  Fernando Botero

  Spiritual   Wall   Men  

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