Animal Quotes
I don't shoot anything. I could never kill an animal. My dad does all the hunting, and he eats everything that he kills.
WOMAN, n. An animal usually living in the vicinity of Man, and having a rudimentary susceptibility to domestication.
Every heart is the lair of a ferocious animal. The greatest wrong that you can put upon a man is to provoke him to let out his beast.
TAIL, n. The part of an animal's spine that has transcended its natural limitations to set up an independent existence in a world of its own.
Anger is the resentment of the animal, and gentle blood alone makes the gentleman.
I would love to be considered Zen, but I'm not sure that I am. Maybe just with animals and babies and in tough situations.
I think of a band like Animal Collective where they really follow their own sound and I think that's a really important thing to do. You can find an audience if you can find your voice.
If tomorrow we decided only to desist from killing and causing suffering for sport and entertainment, the world would be significantly better for animals. Even this we have failed to achieve.
I would happily, sometimes more than happily, have vacated my role as an animal theologian, if there were others prepared to take my place.
I fear theology is--in the words attributed to William Temple--"still in its infancy" when it comes to animals.
A little bird told me that jumping is easy and the falling is fun, right up until you hit sidewalk shivering and stunned.
She say guilt is a useless emotion." "Oh, please," says Nancy. "Guilt is what separates humans from animals.
Good food is a celebration of life, and it seems absurd to me that in celebrating life we should take life. That is why I don't eat flesh. I see no need for killing.
The horse, the noblest, bravest, proudest, most courageous and certainly the most perverse and infuriating animal that humans ever domesticated
If I'm training I'm cutting weight for a competition. I'm hard. I'm pretty much eating animal protein and that's it. No rice, no beans, certainly no sweets.
Animals and humans come in many different sizes and colors, but we all have the same loving heart and soul.
It's not whether animals will survive, it's whether man has the will to save them.
Coral is a very beautiful and unusual animal. Each coral head consists of thousand of individual polyps. These polyps are continually budding and branching into genetically identical neighbors.
I adore pigs, and I love eating them and cooking them, and I love using the whole animal.
Since fear is such a primal reaction, making the choice to move forward despite fear is an evolved decision that transcends our animal nature.
Desperate people lose the thing that makes them human beings. They lose their heart. Anger and hate fill them so that they act like animals.
Some things have eternal value, and compassion is one of them. I hope we never lose that. Compassion for humans as well as animals.
Three quiet days. This hell fiend is like a cat with a mouse. She lets me loose only to pounce upon me again. I am never so frightened as when every thing is still.
The animal lacks both anxiety and hope because its consciousness is restricted to what is clearly evident and thus to the present moment: the animal is the present incarnate.
It was implicitly supposed that every living thing was distinctively plant or animal; that there were real and profound differences between the two, if only they could be seized.
A book and a movie are different animals. You need a cinematic perspective to be involved in the motion pictures. And this is something I lack.
Each man's soul is a menagerie where Conscience, the animal-tamer, lives with a collection of wild beasts.
The men who attempt to survive, not by means of reason, but by means of force, are attempting to survive by the method of animals.
It's very important that we have a president who is mindful of the cruelty that is perpetrated on animals.
my own relationships with the animals in my life are absurdly complex: Some I love, some I eat, and the scraps left over from the ones I eat, I feed to the ones I love.
As a biologist, I can't think of myself as anything but an animal among animals and plant.
The standard approach has been to pump up the dosage of chemicals ... Twenty percent of these approved-for-use pesticides are listed by the EPA as carcinogenic in humans.
It does not demean men to want to be what they imagine the wolf to be, but it does demean them to kill the animal for it.
I have held healthy respects of bears along with assorted crocodiles, snakes and lots of other animals. You know, bears are dangerous, you have to be super careful.
I'm interested in questions my son asks me, like, "Why do animals fight? Why do you have to leave us to go on the road?" Everything he asks gets me thinking.
Greed is a basic part of animal nature. Being against it is like being against breathing or eating. It means nothing.
That the vegetable creation should restore the air which is spoiled by the animal part of it, looks like a rational system, and seems to be of a piece with the rest.
