human - quotes

Elvis (Aaron) Presley, 1935-1977

was an US rock singer

The image is one thing and the human being is another. It's very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.

( press conference, 1972 )

Frank(lin) (Patrick) Herbert(, Jr.), 1920-1986

was an US science fiction novelist

Humans live best when each has a place to stand, when each knows where he belongs in the scheme of things and what he may achieve. Destroy the place and you destroy the person.

( “Dune” (novel), 1965 )

Edward Gibbon, 1737-1794

was an English historian of Rome

All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.