Savages Quotes

Where now is Britain? . Even as the savage sits upon the stone That marks were stood her capitols, and hears The bittern booming in the weeds, he shrinks From the dismaying solitude.

Music is the language of all. It tames the savage beast and allows us to get over heartbreak. It helps us express what we really want to say and it has the power to lift hearts and awaken our souls.

The fact that tradition hinders the individual savage from thinking logically by no means proves that he cannot think logically.

I always enjoy seeing Adam [Savage] in pain.

Every savage can dance.

All men, even those we call savages, have been so tormented by the passion for strong drinks, that limited as their capacities were, they were yet able to manufacture them.

Mankind, I hazard, wherever found, Civilized or Savage, cannot keep to any purpose for much length of time, except the purpose of destroying himself.

The savages are upon me and I feel my flesh burn beneath the teeth of their indifference.

To savages it would seem preposterous to seek out a place where nothing but learning was going on in order that one might learn.

The ocean has the conscienceless temper of a savage autocrat spoiled by much adulation

Savage bears agree with one another.

All I'd have to do then was roll with the consequences of inviting dewinged, fanged fairies into Trent's backyard. God, they were savage looking. Served him right.

Then he raised her enough to whisper in her ear, and while his voice was tender, his words were savage. "You're my woman, and no man or God or ghost will ever take you from me.

Don't be surprised if I behave like a savage. I am a savage

He'd kill for her, destroy for her, savage anyone who dared attempt to take her from him. And he would never let her go...even if she begged for her freedom.

I took delight in hurling books across the room if I knew I would not be reading the second chapter. Then I’d go and pick them up again, because they are books, after all, and we are not savages.

I like to think I'm some savage realist.

You know we poor artists have to show ourselves in society from time to time, just to remind the public that we are not savages.

When we attempt to define and describe God, both language and thought desert us, and we are as helpless as fools and savages.

That chemistry that we had [with Fred Savage] is very, very hard to find. We were lucky to have those 22 episodes [of The Grinder]. I'm unendingly proud of it.

'Savage' describes a cultural condition, not a degree of intelligence.

Hunting was the labour of the savages of North America, but the amusement of the gentlemen of England.

Robespierre, crippled and blind, has yet to be healed to the knowledge that service - his desire - is a deed of savage-speaking gentleness, not soft-spoken savagery.

Scratch a schoolboy and you find a savage.

The settler and pioneer have at bottom had justice on their side; this great continent could not have been kept as nothing but a game preserve for squalid savages.

If science produces no better fruits than tyranny... I would rather wish our country to be ignorant, honest and estimable as our neighbouring savages are.

I am savage enough to prefer the woods, the wilds, and the independence of Monticello, to all the brilliant pleasures of this gaycapital [Paris].

Praise Him, each savage furious beast That on His stores do daily feast; And you tame slaves, of the laborious plough, Your weary knees to your Creator bow.

In them was not the savage blankness of the reptile species. Instead there was something far worse - burning, unquenchable rage mixed with the self-mocking irony of great intelligence.

Wolves and bears, they say, casting their savagery aside, have done like offices of pity.

Doubt is the offspring of knowledge: the savage never doubts at all.

They are as smart as they are ruthless. That's why they've been around for all five years.

...he'd had the foresight to know that a lot of the savages wear store-bought clothes.

Battles waged in daylight are fought by soldiers. Battles waged at night are fought by savages.

...Mankind is not a race of noble savages - but primitive monsters hide inside us, elusive as Sasquatch...