Top 216 Apex Predators Quotes & Sayings

If you live in a baboon troop in the Serengeti, you only have to work three hours a day for your calories, and predators don't mess with you much. What that means is you've got nine hours of free time every day to devote to generating psychological stress toward other animals in your troop. So the baboon is a wonderful model for living well enough and long enough to pay the price for all the social-stressor nonsense that they create for each other. They're just like us: They're not getting done in by predators and famines, they're getting done in by each other.

Whether I was The Legend Killer, The Viper, The Apex Predator, nothing's really changed.

The problem with the United States is that it is making an increased use of drones/Predators [which are] particularly prominently used now in relation to Pakistan and Afghanistan...My concern is that drones/Predators are being operated in a framework which may well violate international humanitarian law and international human rights law.

Without sharks, you take away the apex predator of the ocean, and you destroy the entire food chain.

There is always a moment in the pyramid of our lives when the apex is reached.

My field is with apex predators, hence your crocodiles, your snakes, your spiders.

When you hunt predators, the best camouflage is weakness.

I watched 'Predator,' 'Predator 2,' and 'Predators.' I fell asleep during 'Predators,' but then I watched it again. Not because it was boring! Because I was 10!

My live show is almost like a meditation. An emotional apex - that's what I want it to feel like.

We are predators, whose all-seeing eyes were meant to give them detachment.

In reality, it is the waste collectors, the nurses, and the cleaners whose shoulders are supporting the apex of the pyramid. They are the true mechanism of social solidarity.

I developed an optical lure that imitates certain types of bioluminescent displays that I think might be attractive to large predators. The other way to do it is just use dead bait, but I think dead bait attracts scavengers, and we wanted to attract active predators.

We apply fight-or-flight reflexes not only to predators, but to data itself.

Chances are, when we meet intelligent life forms in outer space they're going to be descended from predators.

A wise man can and should stand above his times, not so the poet, but he should be their apex.

The individual is at the apex of his species' past, at the entrance to its future.

Predators and prey always coexist. That's why we have galleries as well as photographers.

Predators, they're the best coal miners' canary. When they're gone, you've got a sick ecosystem.

To be at the apex of the executive branch and understand that there are lot of moving pieces and the importance of working with Congress to get things done - I think that gave me a unique perspective as a young person.

An apex is always surrounded only by emptiness

We raise predators by treating children as prey.

These predators loved with wild fury, but they were also darkly possessive, crossing the boundary into what humans might term obsession.

Horses are prey animals, and most of the other animals that I've shot are predators. If you act mellow with predators, they know that they can kill you, so they are cool, but if you work with prey, they think that you're going to kill them at any moment.

Psychopaths are social predators, and like all predators, they are looking for feeding grounds. Wherever you get power, prestige and money, you will find them.

Human relationships with predators have always been thorny. Predators are the first creatures our kind purposely eradicates. Too often, people feel humans are and should be in control; we are enraged to discover this is not true. And when other creatures share our appetites and kill our livestock (often animals we were raising to kill, ourselves), we call them vandals and murderers...Predators are the most persecuted creatures on Earth.

So, my tactic with conservation of apex predators is to get people excited and take them to where they live.

I saw 'Predators.' That was pretty good, actually.

Man is the apex of the only world we can ever know.

Spiritual adoption is the excellency and apex of God's salvation.

As a system of philosophy it is not like the Tower of Babel, so daring its high aim as to seek a shelter against God's anger; but it is like a pyramid poised on its apex.

I used to watch 'ER' a little bit when it was at its kind of apex.

Astronomy is not the apex of science or of invention. But it is a test of the cast of temperament and mind that underlies a culture.

People need to look at wildlife conservation in its totality. As soon as you lose the apex predator, it has harmful consequences right down the food chain.

Lawyers are predators in grey worsted.

Lawyers are predators in grey worsted

My musical genius reached its apex thirty years ago when I played the triangle in Haydn's children's symphony, so I could not play unless you needed someone to make one sustained note!

The world is anxious to admire that apex and culmination of modern mathematics: a theorem so perfectly general that no particular application of it is feasible.

For practicing Christians, Easter Sunday and the Holy week that precedes it are the apex of our faith. Without the resurrection of Christ there is no Christianity.

Just when you arrive at the apex of your skills, it's time to retire. But as it turned out, I decided that since it was the thing that I felt I did best, I owed it to all that be to pursue it.

You can't imagine anything like nature as we know it without predators.

The apex of glorifying God is enjoying Him with the heart. But this is empty emotionalism where that joy is not awakened and sustained by true views of God for who He really is

I hope that America as a whole, and especially its architects, will become more seriously involved in producing a new architectural culture that would bring the nation to the apex - where it has stood before - and lead the world.

Giraffes are completely tranquil - they have no predators as adults because there's not an animal in the jungle stupid enough to go for them.

If the world's oceans have had nearly half a billion years with sharks as the apex predators, then the delicate balance of its food webs must rely on their presence in complex ways we cannot possibly predict.

Apex predators are good for an environment in terms of biodiversity and trophic cascade - we have very few. But realistically, only a few areas could sustain free-roaming wolves in Britain, mostly in Scotland.

I think people are frustrated in this society, where predators prey upon normal, law-abiding citizens, and you never see justice in the courtroom. In my films, the predators don't get away with it.

Without sharks, you take away the apex predator of the ocean, and you destroy the entire food chain

I think it's true to say that everybody has a fascination with predators. It's something that's hardwired into us.

The way I was educated, maybe from just inhaling something in the air back then, I grew up believing that E. B. White occupied the apex of essay writing.

Murder is the apex of megalomania, the ultimate in control.

Life will not be a pyramid with the apex sustained by the bottom, but an oceanic circle whose centre will be the individual.

The world consisted of predators and prey. You were either hunting or running.

The apex of my civic pride and personal contentment was reached on the bright September morning when I entered the public school.

It was a pretty good year for predators.

Black widows may be powerful predators, but every predator is somebody else's prey.

Crocs are apex predators, and as with all apex predators, they are critical to the environment: if you lose the crocs, you'll lose the barramundi, you'll lose the crabs - a catfish can eat 30,000 barramundi fingerlings, and who do you think eats the catfish? Crocs.

Chronic sexual predators [to Vachss, pedophiles] have crossed an osmotic membrane. They can’t step back to the other side - our side. And they don't want to. If we don't kill them or release them, we have but one choice. Call them monsters and isolate them.... I’ve spoken to many predators over the years. They always exhibit amazement that we do not hunt them. And that when we capture them, we eventually let them go. Our attitude is a deliberate interference with Darwinism - an endangerment of our species.

There are bugs and there are the pigeons and other predators, but you shouldn't be afraid of them, because this is how nature works.

Look at my big teeth. I'm an apex predator. My genetic material is awesome

Life is apogee, apex, decline; life is death - and everything else is open to discussion.