Primitive Quotes

You white people are so strange. We think it is very primitive for a child to have only two parents. - Unknown

You see, every creature alive on the earth today represents an unbroken line of life that stretches back to the first primitive organism to appear on this planet; and that is about three billion years. - George Wald

You cannot control the primitive urges and hormones that drive your eating behavior. - Mark E. Hyman

Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heart-one of the indivisible primary faculties, or sentiments, which give direction to the character of Man. - Edgar Allan Poe

When primitive law has once been embodied in a Code, there is an end to what may be called its spontaneous development. - Henry James Sumner Maine

When most people in this region think outdoor recreation, they instinctively think of the Sierra or the coast. This will give them a wonderful alternative. We'd like to see a network of trails and primitive campsites for the entire area that can be used by hikers, mountain bikers and equestrians. - Ray Krauss

What we're finding is that adolescents actually use a different part of their brain than adults do, in particular when responding to things with emotional content. They are much more likely to use the more primitive parts of their brain. - David Fassler

What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great calamity, when all the artificial vesture of our life is gone, and we are all one with each other in primitive mortal needs? - George Eliot

What I have always wanted for myself is much more primitive. It is probably nothing more than the affection of the people with whom I am in contact, and their good opinion of me. - Anna Freud

We've got to do something. Fowler Park has the Pioneer Village and camping on the lake, which was its drawing card. Now it's not. If you watch most campers today, they have modern, up-to-date equipment. It's not bringing a tent and roughing it. Prairie Creek with electrical hookups has no primitive sites, like Fowler or Hawthorn. - Darlene Norman