Animal Quotes

Wild animals are just as confused as people are now. You've got toxins in the water, oil, sewage, all sorts of things.

To live in this precious animal body on this earth is as great a part of spiritual life as anything else.

Man is a singular creature. He has a set of gifts which make him unique among the animals, so that unlike them, he is not a figure in the landscape, he is the shaper of the landscape.

Hunger. It's like an animal trapped inside you, Thomas thought.

There was no last animal I treated. When young farm lads started to help me over the gate into a field or a pigpen, to make sure the old fellow wouldn't fall, I started to consider retiring.

It was Sunday morning (one a.m.), a not unusual time for some farmers, after a late Saturday night, to have a look round their stock and decide to send for the vet.

Of course animals have a personality and emotions.

Researchers find it very necessary to keep blinkers on. They don't want to admit that the animals they are working with have feelings.

Eurasia ended up with the most domesticated animal species in part because it's the world's largest land mass and offered the most wild species to begin with.

Although native Africans domesticated some plants in the Sahel and in Ethiopia and in tropical West Africa, they acquired valuable domestic animals only later, from the north.

I think that sacrifices of animals in the name of religion are barbarous and they degrade the name of religion.

Animals have no unconscious, because they have a territory. Men have only had an unconscious since they lost a territory.

Of the top 30 words that parents are calling kids' attention to ('look at the'), 12 are animals.

The universe remains dark. We are animals struck by catastrophe.

Hollywood movies are designed for 15-year-old youths from North Dakota who, intellectually speaking, are on equal terms with a British zoo animal.

If someone is killing, on a regular basis, thousands of animals, and if that person can only be stopped in one way by the use of violence, then it is certainly a morally justifiable solution.

If (a particular researcher) won't stop when you ask nicely, when you picket in front of his house, or when you burn his car, maybe he'll stop when you hit him over the head with a two-by-four.

If killing [animal research scientists] is the only way to stop them, then I said killing them would certainly be justified.

The West is color. Its colors are animal rather than vegetable, the colors of earth and sunlight and ripeness.

We were like farm animals compared to today's players who are treated like thoroughbreds.

The spectator is a dying animal.

There's something about watching an animal that puts you in contact with where we came from and what we're still a part of.

Man is the animal who weeps and laughs - and writes. If the first Prometheus brought fire from heaven in a fennel-stalk, the last will take it back - in a book.

The oldest continuously operated aquarium in the country features 630 species and more than 8,000 animals. The walruses are especially popular.

A terrible animal, indeed, is an unbridled woman.

Every animal is providentially directed to the use of its proper weapon.

Fierce and poisonous animals were created for terrifying man, in order that he might be made aware of the final judgment in hell.

The case against vivisection is the same as that against war and all other forms of cruelty - that violence does not produce long-term solutions.

... the only argument against vivisection that will be seen to have lasting power - that we do not improve human society by means that debase human character.

The chameleon, who is said to feed upon nothing but air, has of all animals the nimblest tongue.

Principally I hate and detest that animal called man; although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth.

In the matter of animals I love only cats, but I love them unreasonably for their qualities and in spite of their numerous faults. I have only one, but I could not live without a cat.

There is not, in my opinion, anything more mysterious in nature than this instinct in animals, which thus rise above reason, and yet fall infinitely short of it.

We have today to learn to get back into accord with the wisdom of nature and realize again our brotherhood with the animals and with the water and the sea.

A humanist is anyone who rejects the attempt to describe or account for man wholly on the basis of physics, chemistry or animal behaviour.

Then you have a big problem, because a human is a thinking animal. If you don't think, you're not really a human.

My first attempts to transmit typhus to laboratory animals, including the smaller species of monkeys, had failed, as had those of my predecessors, for reasons which I can easily supply today

I was less successful in my attempts to effect preventive vaccination against typhus by using the virus and in trying to produce large quantities of serum using large animals

Animal life, sombre mystery. All nature protests against the barbarity of man, who misapprehends, who humiliates, who tortures his inferior brethren.

People liked to eat veal until they saw pictures of these darling little animals with brown eyes. Veal calves been raised the same way for centuries.

We have people who are healers and those who posses a certain animal magnetism.

Constant labor of one uniform kind destroys the intensity and flow of a man's animal spirits, which find recreation and delight in mere change of activity.

My name is Patrick Fitzgerald ... I like to tear the tops off small animals.

I have two young kids. So my VCR, like, you kind of have to sift through a lot of, like, 'Animal Mechanicals,' 'Mickey Mouse Clubhouse.'

You are a flower crushed beneath the feet of the animal that is concealed in a human being. Take comfort, in that you are the flower crushed and not the foot that has crushed it.

Horror is my motor. It gets to me on an animal level and satisfies my impulse toward scenario building.

By steadily disciplining the animal nature, until it becomes one pointed, it is possible to establish conscious awareness of The Eternal.

Those who have hardened, have a covenant with Death. Those who remain gentle are conjoined with Life.

Anyone who doesn't love animals has a serious hole in the heart.

Man and the animals are merely a passage and channel for food, a tomb for other animals, a haven for the dead, giving life by the death of others, a coffer full of corruption.