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Quotes About Humans

Where I saw we were all humans coming together to then become one of the people at the table for the "Galactic Federation.
~ Dolores Cannon
They're calling the children the ones learning... the humans... the learning ones.
~ Dolores Cannon
Where the quality of life goes down for the environment, the quality of life goes down for humans.
~ George Holland
Life on this earth first emerged from the sea. As the polar ice melts and sea level rises, we humans find ourselves facing the prospect that once again we may quite literally become ocean.
~ John Luther Adams
To feel grateful is one of the most important experiences we need as humans. When we feel it, there is an acceptance of everything in our life.
~ Barbara Brennan
If all insects disappeared, all life on earth would perish. If all humans disappeared, all life on earth would flourish.
~ Jonas Salk
I hope that someday we will find evidence that there is intelligent life among humans on this planet.
~ Sylvia Earle
Elaine: Ugh, I hate people. Jerry: Yeah, they're the worst.
~ Jerry Seinfeld
Love'? What do you know about love?" "It's at the heart of every story," Rollo said with authority. "If humans could avoid falling in love, you would never get yourselves into any trouble.
~ Jessica Day George
There are three truths I have come to learn in the year since the Dragon War. The first is that both humans and dragons have the capacity to be good or evil. The second is that even if you're doing something you love, you can still become bored with your work. And the third is that my business partner, Marta, will never be finished with her wedding gown. Either one of them.
~ Jessica Day George
Humans in the developed world spend more than 90 percent of their lives indoors, where they breathe in and come into contact with trillions of life forms invisible to the naked eye: microorganisms.
~ Jessica Green
The courtroom atmosphere was stale with that psychic stench which comes from packed humans whose emotions are roused to a high pitch of excitement.
~ Erle Stanley Gardner
We humans have been brilliantly clever... almost as clever as we think we are, though not, perhaps, as wise.
~ Andrew Marr
Right, right. You know, you really look quite unwell. You probably should see a healer or something. You humans are so fond of those." The karvensi took to the air, flying high above the writhing wyvern. "You really are quite a disappointment, wyvern. I expected better from one of the serpent's children. But alas, few can match my own splendor.
~ Andrew Rowe
I like elven legends, they are so captivating. What a pity humans don't have any legends like that. Perhaps one day they will? Perhaps they'll create some? But what would human legends deal with? All around, wherever one looks, there's greyness and dullness. Even things which begin beautifully lead swiftly to boredom and dreariness, to that human ritual, that wearisome rhythm called life.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
I like elven legends, they are so captivating. What a pity humans don't have any legends like that. Perhaps one day they will? Perhaps they'll create some? But what would human legends deal with? All around, wherever one looks, there's greyness and dullness. Even things which begin beautifully lead swiftly to boredom and dreariness, to that human ritual, that wearisome rhythm called life.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
Elves live a long time, Ciri. By our time scale they are almost eternal. They thought humans were something that would pass, like a drought, like a heavy winter, or a plague of locusts, after which comes rain, spring, a new harvest. They wanted to sit it out. Survive.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
I predict a bad end for your race, humans,' Zoltan Chivay said grimly. 'Every sentient creature on this earth, when it falls into want, poverty and misfortune, usually cleaves to his own. Because it's easier to survive the bad times in a group, helping one another. But you, humans, you just wait for a chance to make money from other people's mishaps.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
Why don't you humans finally realize that your domination of the world is as natural and repellant as lice multiplying in a sheepskin coat? You could propose we cohabit with lice and get the same reaction—and I'd listen to the lice as attentively if they, in return for our acknowledgment of their supremacy, were to agree to allow common use of the coat.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
Humans had run barefoot for millennia, and some still preferred doing so in the modern Stone Age of the mid-20th century, when the handful of people running for exercise often wore whatever they happened to have on at the moment of inspiration.
~ Steve Rushin
Whenever you get a large body of work like 'Humans of New York,' a natural pathway becomes to put it between two covers. I wanted this to be a very nice keepsake. A lot of work went into it, and a lot of fans are attached to it.
~ Brandon Stanton
There's a long tradition in Western thought that humans are not shackled by biology, whereas animals are pure instinct machines.
~ Frans de Waal
Kubrick's vision seemed to be that humans are doomed, whereas Clarke's is that humans are moving on to a better stage of evolution.
~ Marvin Minsky
Robots are very tricky to design and expensive, whereas humans are cheaply manufactured. Humans can handle things with greater manual dexterity than most robots I've known.
~ Roger Zelazny