116 quotes found
“There is more important work to be done here. The strong must lead us into a new energy age before our world dies out. Who's going to do that? You, Caleb? Your face bears new marksyou are not ready...”
“We do not stop. You all took the oath to come here. Hard work lies before us in breeding our new community. - Adrian”
“Reality is highly overrated.”
“I am too much alien and not enough monkey to fit in here.”
“National boundaries are not evident when we view the Earth from space. Fanatical ethnic or religious or national chauvinisms are a little difficult to maintain when we see our planet as a fragile b...”
“NASA has decades of experience in studying the effects of Sick Building Syndrome (SBS) and their experiments show that continuous habitation of an alien environment in Space results in sickness in ...”
“Here march the eaters of earth, the swallowers of rain.”
“The reason creatures wanted to use language instead of mental telepathy was that they found out they could get so much more done with language. Language made them so much more active. Mental telepa...”
“We have held the peculiar notion that a person or society that is a little different from us, whoever we are, is somehow strange or bizarre, to be distrusted or loathed. Think of the negative conno...”
“You're a poem?' I repeated.She chewed her lower lip. 'If you want. I am a poem, or I am a pattern, or a race of people whose whose world was swallowed by the sea.''Isn't it hard to be three things ...”
“The simplest truth about man is that he is a very strange being; almost in the sense of being a stranger on the earth. In all sobriety, he has much more of the external appearance of one bringing a...”
“Humans should be grateful if they haven't been in contact withaliens, while humans are still making bloodshed with each other.”
“Oh, no, nope, shoot. Are we about to human mate?”
“True, beneath the human facade, I was an interloper, an alien whose ship had crashed beyond hope of repair in the backwoods of Southern Appalachiabut at least Id learned to walk and talk enough lik...”
“It might have been my human side clamoring for blood, or my alien side looking for a chance to exercise strategic dominance over a lesser life form. Either way, I was going to win.”
“Aliens are within the human genes.”
“I have a dream, humans were part of aliens on earth.I also dream, that some humans are really indigenous.”
“You do what you have to do to give people closure; it makes them feel better and it doesnt cost you much to do it. Id rather apologize for something I didnt really care about, and leave someone on ...”
“In the end, it all comes down to the Blood...”
“Or sit they girt by laws unknownWhereto the senses serve as bars With fire of unrecorded starsThat light a heaven not our own?(The Testimony of the Suns)”
