Animal Quotes

Favorite animal: steak.

He who lives in the single exercise of his mental faculties, however usefully or curiously directed, is equally an imperfect animal with the man who knows only the exercise of muscles.

I love being in the ocean. I love the unpredictability of it- size of wave, animals you see, etc.

Let us never forget that the greatest man is never more than an animal disguised as a god.

Recording an album and doing it live are like two different animals. There are some people that are great singers live, horrible in the studio.

The idea that by eating the meat of an animal, the animal powers or faculties could be conveyed to oneself is nonsense and originates in a mental ignorance of the perfect and genuine primitive laws.

To animalise is humane, to humanise is animal.

A downed animal is most certainly the object of a hunting trip, but it becomes an anticlimax when compared to the many other pleasures of the hunt.

About sacrifice and the offering of sacrifices, sacrificial animals think quite differently from those who look on: but they have never been allowed to have their say.

Predators make it much more difficult to find consensus. It's a lot easier to agree about birds and plants than about animals that endanger people and livestock.

Harm no other beings. They are just your brothers and sisters.

Man is an historical animal, with a deep sense of his own past; and if he cannot integrate the past by a history explicit and true, he will integrate it by a history implicit and false.

I was a town child, it is true, but that did not prevent me enjoying open-air life, with plants and animals.

Ever since 'Lassie' and 'Old Yeller', I won't watch animal movies. Animals in movies always die.

I really don't think I could consent to go to Heaven if I thought there were no animals there.

I choose not to make a graveyard of my body for the rotting corpses of dead animals.

While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal living conditions on this earth?

We are all victims of the violence that animals suffer... their liberation is also our liberation.

I prefer my Mexican food to have a little bit of an animal that suffered a little bit. That's some of the best food.

The birds, the poets of the animal creation - what though they never get beyond the lyrical! - awoke to utter their own joy, and awake like joy in others of God's children.

Animals are born and bred in litters. Solitude grows blessed and peaceful only in old age.

Man is an animal that cannot long be left in safety without occupation; the growth of his fallow nature is apt to run into weeds.

Although the works of the Creator may be in themselves all equally perfect, the animal is, as I see it, the most complete work of nature, and man is her masterpiece.

We are not the only animal that mourns; apes do, and elephants, and dogs. Yet we are the only one that tortures.

When we describe a process, or make out an invoice, or photograph a tree, we create models; without them we would know nothing of reality and would be animals.

My friends call me 'Dolittle One' [a reference to her physical stature and affinity for animals].

The minute that you bring a unicorn into a story, you know that it's a fairy tale or a fable, because unicorns don't exist as animals. They exist as fantasy creatures.

We're social animals; we're meant to be together, but we were never necessarily meant to be together without being together. That was never the plan, I don't think.

Our philosophy is to go for one company at a time, and go for its finances. If we had gone down and protested outside HLS every day for the last five years we would have got nowhere

Animals have two vital functions in today's society; to be delicious and to fit well.

Elphaba looked like something between an animal and an Animal, like something more than life but not quite Life.

An animal may be ferocious and cunning enough, but it takes a real man to tell a lie.

The history of Canada has been profoundly influenced by the habits of an animal which very fittingly occupies a prominent place on her coat of arms.

The first comedy screenplay that I wrote was Animal House and I always thought I could and should be a director but no one was about to give me that opportunity on Animal House.

The art of negotiation is perhaps what most deeply distinguishes man from the animals, and it is this art and this will to negotiate that has brought man forward, elevated him beyond the animals.

In photography, you've got to be quick, quick, quick, quick...Like an animal and a prey.

Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.

Man is at the bottom an animal, midway a citizen, and at the top divine. But the climate of this world is such that few ripen at the top.

Generation by male and female is a law common to animals and plants.

My relaxation has always been my animals - going to the dog park with them, going to the beach.

Things are no longer what they seem to be. My telephones are haunted, and animals whisper at me from unseen places.

Look for the music on all things, and life will be a symphony of joy. My music is best understood by children and animals.

I don't use the word 'pet.' I think it's speciest language. I prefer 'companion animal.' We would no longer allow... pet shops... Eventually companion animals would be phased out.

Eventually companion animals would be phased out, and we would return to a more symbiotic relationship - enjoyment at a distance.

If we are ever to halt climate change and conserve land, water and other resources, not to mention reduce animal suffering, we must celebrate Earth Day every day - at every meal.

One day, we would like an end to pet shops and the breeding of animals.

I wish we all would get up and go into the labs and take the animals out or burn them down.

Cows are gentle, interesting animals.

My first student film was Orientation, which was basically the set-up for Animal House. There are a couple of scenes that we later borrowed in some form.

The most important of all rights is the right to life, and I cannot foresee a day when domesticated animals will be granted that right in law.