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Stone Age Quotes

We have progressed from the stone age and moved on to the age of stone hearted people
- Amit Abraham

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

If it makes you feel any better, this isn't my first apocalypse. There is hope." Sasha
"Obviously the world survived." Abigail
"Yeah, not really. It kind of blew everything back to the Stone Age. The good news is, people are resilient, and that which doesn't kill you merely serves as a cautionary tale for others. It also makes one hell of a bedtime story, especially if the Crypt-Keeper's your audience." Sasha
- Sherrilyn Kenyon

If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age.
- Jacques Barzun

I'm not a prophet or a stone aged man, just a mortal with potential of a superman. I'm living on.
- David Bowie

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

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

The expression of this idea is Queens of the Stone Age, but the idea is that you will never slack on the music and will always humble yourself at the alter of Rock.
- Joshua Homme

A whole bunch of months passed and I didn't hear anything and then he emailed and asked if I could do a little piece on POD and Queens of the Stone Age.
- Chuck Klosterman

My solution to the problem would be to tell the North Vietnamese Communists frankly that they've got to drawn in their horns and stop their aggression or we're going to bomb them into the stone age.
- Curtis Lemay

We should bomb Vietnam back into the stone age.
- Curtis Lemay

I've decided that has been the great achievement of our age: to so thoroughly flood the planet with megabits that every image and fact has become a digitized disembodied nothingness. With magnificent determination, our species has advanced from Stone Age to Industrial Revolution to Digital Emptiness. We've become weightless, in the bad sense of the word.
- Alan Lightman

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

I raise my head and see a red illuminated EXIT sign and as my eyes adjust I see tigers, cavemen with long spears, cavewomen wearing strategically modest skins, wolfish dogs. My heart is racing and for a liquor-addled moment I think Holy shit, I've gone all the way back to the Stone Age until I realize that EXIT signs tend to congregate in the twentieth century.
- Audrey Niffenegger

Our shouting is louder than our actions,
Our swords are taller than us,
This is our tragedy.
In short
We wear the cape of civilisation
But our souls live in the stone age
- Nizar Qabbani

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

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