A Quote by Terry Pratchett

I'd rather be a rising ape than a falling angel.

Terry Pratchett

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Terry Pratchett
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April 28, 1948 - March 12, 2015

Evolution was far more thrilling to me than the biblical account. Who would not rather be a rising ape than a falling angel? To my juvenile eyes, Darwin was proved true every day. It doesn't take much to make us flip back into monkeys again.

Terry Pratchett

Humans need fantasy to be human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape.

Terry Pratchett

The spring sea rising and falling, rising and falling all day.

Yosa Buson

This / is the use of trampolines / I will remember, the broken sunlight / Coming through the trees in a strange / Land, and lighting up my rising / And falling children, and their friends, / And the apples falling, / The new trees rising.

Gerard Woodward

I'd rather have an ape for an ancestor than a bishop.

Thomas Huxley

I would rather be a transformed ape than a degenerate son of Adam.

Paul Broca

Is man an ape or an angel? Now I am on the side of the angels.

Benjamin Disraeli

I viewed my fellow man not as a fallen angel, but as a risen ape.

Desmond Morris

He reached up t0 grab one and came down with several, and they kept coming, washing over him, floating all around him. Never have tampon strings seemed so beautiful as they rolled up and down with the wind, landing on the ground and then twirling and floating up again, falling and rising and falling and rising.

John Green

The real goal should be reduced government spending, rather than balanced budgets achieved by ever rising tax rates to cover ever rising spending.

Thomas Sowell

If then, said I, the question is put to me would I rather have a miserable ape for a grandfather or a man highly endowed by nature and possessing great means and influence and yet who employs those faculties for the mere purpose of introducing ridicule into a grave scientific discussion-I unhesitatingly affirm my preference for the ape.

Thomas Huxley

I looked at an angel today, but the angel could not see me. The angel was more amazing than beautiful, like the best forgotten dream.

Delano Johnson

The bar to get entry into the labour force is rising faster than people expected, and the ability to stay there is falling.

Sebastian Thrun

The question is this - Is man an ape or an angel? My Lord, I am on the side of the angels. I repudiate with indignation and abhorrence these new fanged theories.

Benjamin Disraeli

But I'd rather help than watch. I'd rather have a heart than a mind. I'd rather expose too much than too little. I'd rather say hello to strangers than be afraid of them. I would rather know all this about myself than have more money than I need. I'd rather have something to love than a way to impress you.

Po Bronson

Be persecuted, rather than be a persecutor. Be crucified, rather than be a crucifier. Be treated unjustly, rather than treat anyone unjustly. Be oppressed, rather than be an oppressor. Be gentle rather than zealous. Lay hold of goodness, rather than justice.

Isaac of Nineveh

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