Animal Quotes

We are developing all sorts of technologies based on what we have learnt from birds, animals and soils. Pollination is worth £billions. But it also highlights how nature is so interconnected.

It's not hard to draw from within yourself to play someone protective of her daughter. I have animals and I'm a daughter, sister, wife, aunt and friend, and I can be fiercely protective.

It's hard to see how anyone can fail to care about innocent children and animals being blown up by landmines.

The literature of the emperor penguin is as forbidding, as inaccessible, as the frozen heart of Antarctica itself. Its beauties may be unearthly, but they are not for us.

I always compare human beings to animals. It's a nice way to figure out who they are.

The policy of man consists, at first, in endeavoring to arrive at a state equal to that of animals, whom nature has furnished with food, clothing, and shelter.

I envy animals for two things - their ignorance of evil to come, and their ignorance of what is said about them.

The stars are dead. The animals will not look: We are left alone with our day, and the time is short, and History to the defeated May say Alas but cannot help nor pardon.

I never kissed a bear, I've never kissed a goon, but I can shake a chicken in the middle of a room.

The issue of xenotransplantation - such as transplanting animal organs into humans - is fraught with risks for animals, naturally, and for people.

It is only on the condition of humility and reverence before the world that our species will be able to remain in it.

Let's not be too quick to blame the human race for everything. A great many species of animals became extinct before man ever appeared on earth.

Consume my heart away, sick with desire And fastened to a dying animal It knows not what it is, and gather me Into the artifice of eternity.

Animals of all classes, old and young, shrink with instinctive fear from any strange object approaching them.

We are not only gregarious animals, liking to be in sight of our fellows, but we have an innate propensity to get ourselves noticed, and noticed favorably, by our kind.

No animal, according to the rules of animal-etiquette, is ever expected to do anything strenuous, or heroic, or even moderately active during the off-season of winter.

In the animal kingdom, one of the keys to survival is to outwit your enemies. And when you're surrounded by carnivores, one of the best strategies is to fade into the background and disappear.

There is no 'need' for us to eat meat, dairy or eggs. Indeed, these foods are increasingly linked to various human diseases and animal agriculture is an environmental disaster for the planet.

Laws exist in every state that make animal cruelty a crime. Horse slaughter is simply another form of animal abuse.

I am a huge animal lover. I prefer to rescue any of the pets that I have had.

I am an avid supporter of PETA and all animals as well as animal rights programs.

I love animals. I love being around them.

I think everything in my life has led to my animal welfare work.

A business man's conversation should be regulated by fewer and simpler rules than any other function of the human animal. They are: Have something to say. Say it. Stop talking.

For real company and friendship, there is nothing outside the animal kingdom that is comparable to a river.

More power to [Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty] if they can get someone's attention.

No domestic animal can be as still as a wild animal. The civilized people have lost the aptitude of stillness, and must take lessons in silence from the wild before they are accepted by it.

In giving us dominion over the animal kingdom God has signified His will that we subdue the beast within ourselves.

He who is not actively kind is cruel!

Working in this industry, I have been exposed to so many products and now realize more than ever how cruel and unnecessary animal testing is.

I'm totally against animal cruelty. I don't have clothes, shoes or bags made from any animal products.

The animal testing regime... is utterly futile

The death sentence is a barbaric act . . . It is a reflection of the animal instinct still in human beings.

...It is a legal requirement to carry out animal testing to ensure they are safe and effective

Growing up, the two things that made my blood boil were religious intolerance and animal cruelty. I’ve never understood it. I can’t stand to have an animal in pain.

The extermination of the buffalo has been a veritable tragedy of the animal world.

There's nothing funnier than the human animal.

My point is, I don't see the need to eat animals. I love animals; besides the horrible stuff that's put in meat, I actually love cuddling with animals and petting them and stuff.

It is in the nature of cats to do a certain amount of unescorted roaming.

I can bend paper clips into the shapes of small animals.

Only passions can raise a man above the level of the animal.

Women tell time by the body. They are like clocks. They are always fastened to the earth, listening for its small animal noises.

There is an animal inside me, clutching fast to my heart, a huge crab.

Humans can be fairly ridiculous animals.

Once you start cooking, one thing leads to another. A new recipe is as exciting as a blind date. A new ingredient, heaven help me, is an intoxicating affair.

Corn syrup and added fats have been outed as major ingredients in fast food, but they hide out in packaged foods too, even presumed-innocent ones like crackers.

Food culture in the United States has long been cast as the property of a privileged class. It is nothing of the kind. Culture is the property of a species.

Whatever you do to the animals, you do to yourself. Remember that.

To a mind of sufficient intellectual power, the whole of mathematics would appear trivial, as trivial as the statement that a four-footed animal is an animal.

Even if you feed the cow cocoa you will not get chocolate.