Animal Quotes

My main message to folks who love animals is that you can do something every day to help them.

The point of sloths is to bring a sense of wonder, magic, and happiness to all other species. Did you know that every other animal's favorite animal is the sloth?

Without guilt / What is a man? An animal, isn't he? / A wolf forgiven at his meat, / A beetle innocent in his copulation.

The eternal being..., as it lives in us, also lives in every animal.

Personal courage is really a very subordinate virtue-a virtue, indeed, in which we are surpassed by the lower animals; or else you would not hear people say, as brave as a lion.

It is a surprisingly close progression from hunting animals to hunting and torturing people... catching and lynching blacks or smoking out Jews during the Holocaust.

Animals are like people because people are animals.

I lay there knowing something eerie ties us to the world of animals. Sometimes the animals pull you backward into it. You share hunger and fear with them like salt in blood.

Well, it's a lot less dangerous - working with snakes and mountaibn lions and dangerous animals - than working in Hollywood [laughs]. Hollwood will kill you.

No matter how eloquently a dog may bark, he cannot tell you that his parents were poor, but honest.

For me, it's about the desire to win. My audience becomes a crowd of wild animals and I have to be the lion-tamer or be eaten.

In the Old Testament, the first born of every being, animal and man, was dedicated to the Lord. There’s a special punishment Christians would suggest.

I only live in the world of animal protection. I speak only of that. I think only of that. I am obsessed.

China once again disgusts the world, portraying the image of a cruel, perverted people devoid of any feelings towards animals.

We were made to be neither cerebral men nor visceral men, but Men. Not beasts nor angels but Men - things at once rational and animal.

In justifying cruelty to animals we put ourselves also on the animal level. We choose the jungle and must abide by our choice.

I very much believe in rescuing animals, not buying them.

When religion stops talking about animals it will be all downhill.

Man simply cannot live as the time-animal and the art-animal that he is, without history.

One of the best gifts you can give to an animal is a donation of a blanket to your local animal shelter during the winter months.

Discipline isn't about showing a dog who's boss; it's about taking responsibility for a living creature you have brought into your world.

[T]he young and the old of widely different races, both with man and animals, express the same state of mind by the same movements.

When I think of our condition, my heart is heavy. I see men of my own race treated as outlaws and driven from country to country, or shot down like animals.

Working together always works together better... it also appeals to a primal, animal thing, which is that humans are social creatures.

In Egypt, the cats...afford evidence that animal nature is not altogether intractable, but that when well-treated they are good at remembering kindness.

Maybe the world would be better if people didn't hate so much and kill animals.

Just give food without showing affection, [animals] might not get sort of 100% satisfaction. So they also, you see, when we human beings, we show affection, the poor animal also respond to us.

An animal that is very abundant, before it gets extinct, it becomes rare. So you don't lose abundant animals. You always lose rare animals. Therefore, they're not perceived as a big loss.

I think the most alarming animals I have encountered are really poisonous snakes.

The only difference between kids and jungle animals is pants. Kids wear them. Jungle animals don't.

Two of the many areas of conflict between Judeo-Christian values and leftism concern the separation between the holy and the profane and the separation between humans and animals.

I like handling newborn animals. Fallen into life from an unmappable world, they are the ultimate immigrants, full of wonder and confusion.

If you look at little kids and wild animals, these are two groups of things that whenever I'm with them forces me to be in the moment.

I'm turned on by diversity. I'm turned on by things that are different. I like different animals, I like different ways of travel, and I like different people.

I've just always loved animals.

It is heartbreaking to see so many animals in distress through the Gulf Coast region. Many of them are frightened, confused, hungry, dehydrated and lost.

Somewhere, there, is an analogy, in a small way, if you have the patience for it. But I guess it isn't a very good anecdote. I'm better at animal stories.

Thank God I got the rejects. These animals are very, very affectionate.

Men have never loved one another much, for reasons we can readily understand: Man is not a lovable animal.

You're an animal that needs to move across the landscape, you can't anymore, and that's another way we're just changing the surface of the Earth in very dramatic ways.

I hate having to do small talk. I'd rather talk about deep subjects. I'd rather talk about meditation, or the world, or the trees or animals, than small, inane, you know, banter.

It's been argued that of all the animals humans have domesticated, the horse is the most important to our history. For thousands of years, horses were our most reliable mode of transportation.

For me, it always has to be about health. That's why I'm a vegan. Well, I don't even do that for my health entirely, I do it for animals.

I went to a commune with my parents when I was a kid and everyone else got given cool spirit animals like tigers and panthers. I got a mouse.

As a person who performs on stage, it's good to be emotionally open. If you mess with someone when they are in that state, it's like you're messing with an animal when it's eating.

The Garden of Eden presents the same story: If you want to make yourself gods, you'll find you're akin to the animals.

There's no reason to drink cow's milk at any time in your life. It was designed for calves, not humans, and we should all stop drinking it today.

A person who looks different all the time frightens me. Only one animal changes its skin: the snake.

An intelligent patient, private or otherwise, to whom you have taken the trouble to explain the nature of the investigation, makes the best laboratory animal.

Love every leaf, every ray of light. Love the animals, love the plants, love each separate thing. Loving all, you will perceive the mystery of God in all.