Animal Quotes

Kids are more drawn to animal characters than human.

We have abolished the death penalty for humans, so why should it continue for animals?

The writing and making of each of my albums has been such a different beast each time, so I'm interested in seeing what kind of animal the fourth one turns out to be!

The moment I began to understand what was going on with the treatment of animals, it led me more and more in the way of the path I am [on] now, which is a complete vegan.

Until suitable alternatives are found, this vital work should continue so that hundreds of millions more lives can be saved in the future

A lot of people, quite frankly, think intense attachments to animals are weird and suspect, the domain of people who can't quite handle attachments to humans.

We need, in a special way, to work twice as hard to help people understand that animals are fellow creatures, that we must protect them and love them as we love ourselves...

Man is an animal with primary instincts of survival. Consequently his ingenuity has developed first and his soul afterwards. The progress of science is far ahead of man's ethical behavior.

My first place in Nashville was like Animal House. The whole band lived under one roof, and most nights the jam sessions ended close to sunrise.

My prayer is that what we have gone through [World War One] will startle the world into some new realization of the sanctity of life, animal as well as human.

Often people who are wonderful with animals aren't always terribly good with human beings.

Compassion for animals is something that every child has naturally but they are lured away from these instincts by society's nasty habits.

Derangement is the only possible explanation for owning a cat, an animal whose preferred mode of communication is to sink its claws three-quarters of an inch into your flesh.

Basically Ken is a very gentle, home-loving person. I remember when one of his stick insects had a knee infection. He stayed up all night rubbing it with germoline and banging its head on the table.

I'm not a propagandist, I'm not a polemicist; my primary interest is just looking at and trying to understand how animals work.

Mitt Romney is quite a guy. At one point he and his wife bought a zoo and fired all the animals.

Animal research saves lives, but wherever possible alternatives should be used

When people and animals die, they stay with us in our minds.

No matter what anybody says, relationships are based on physical attraction. The first time I saw my wife, it was pure animal whatever.

Writing poetry is a process of discovery...you can smell the poem before you see it....Like some animal.

How many of those dead animals you see on the highway are suicides?

Horseracing and ranch horses are two different animals. You're getting race horses out and running and running them. It can be really problematic. A thoroughbred's very delicate.

We're losing biodiversity globally at an alarming rate, and we need a cornucopia of different plants and animals, for the planet's health and our own.

When I go on holiday, I go to places that have animals I'm interested in.

Man O' War was a great racehorse, but if I put a extra 20 pounds on him they would say I was cruel to the animal. So don't ask me to do that to Chavez.

Fairies are angels who reside very close to the Earth so that they can perform their Divine mission of protecting nature and animals.

Not sure how I feel about reality. I'm going to begin purchasing stuffed animals and endowing them with the qualities people in my life lack.

Ninety-nine percent of all species that ever lived are now extinct.

Animals in the wild are lean, and I think we should be too.

I have never, in all my life, been so odious as to regard myself as 'superior' to any living being, human or animal. I just walked alone - as I have always walked alone.

Wouldn’t it be great to see a line in all movie credits that truthfully says, “Nobody was harmed in the making of this film, and at the cast party, all animals got a belly belly belly rub”.

I guess in general, people tend to not eat the cute animals.

Most people love animals, and most people love to laugh. Combining the two makes both resonate deeper.

I think people say you shouldn't work with children or animals, but you must only work with children.

What is it that distinguishes man from animals? It is not his upright posture.

I love him who laboureth and inventeth, that he may build the house for the Superman, and prepare for him earth, animal, and plant: for thus seeketh he his own down-going.

Veganism must be the baseline if we are to have any hope of shifting the paradigm away from animals as things and toward animals as nonhuman persons.

Being vegan is not just a matter of being 'kind' to animals. First and foremost, it is a matter of being just and observing our moral obligation to not treat other sentient beings as things.

Like a graceful vase, a cat, even when motionless, seems to flow.

Man is a fighting animal; his thoughts are his banners, and it is a failure of nerve in him if they are only thoughts.

Right in the Hart of the Africn Jungel a small wite man lives. Now there is one extraordinary fact about him that he is the frind of all animals.

Humans are a TOUGH animal! We can do anything.

Mankind is not a tribe of animals to which we owe compassion. Mankind is a club to which we owe our subscription.

We're communal animals. If we're by ourselves, we can feel wrong and crazy and out of step with society. We really need those talking circles.

There are three types of intelligence. The intelligence of man, the intelligence of animals and the intelligence of the military. In that order.

My feeling is, we ran from animals for three million years. It's our time now. If a cow could eat you, it would. And it wouldn't care how comfortable your truck ride over was, either.

I'd love to see some animals in their natural habitat - as long as those animals are being well looked after.

Of what use is it to please the herd? They are simply coarse animals - for all that is admirable in man is the artificial product of special breeding.

On Jesus: "Everyone around me was flat-out in love with him, and who wouldn't be? He was good with animals, he loved his mother, and he wasn't afraid of blind people.

Man,--the aristocrat amongst the animals.