Animal Quotes

Anomalocaridids seemed to lack front limbs, being an arthropod - being a joint-legged animal - and not having legs, it's kind of embarrassing.

The discovery informs about the origins and early evolution of arthropods, the most ubiquitous, species-rich, morphologically diverse and successful animal group on Earth.

To me, animal communication seemed an insane idea, years ago; but my experience altered my life and my beliefs.

Animal intuitives can diagnose an animal's physical health problems by listening to the animals.

Animals are complicated and so is the animal-rights opposition. It's hard to read motives in animals, and hard to read motives in politics.

When I'm around animals, I don't pay attention to people.

I've worked with Morris Animal Foundation for more than 40 years now, and I'm so proud of all they've done to advance veterinary medicine for animals worldwide.

I'm in the middle of my sixth book, which is about animals at the Los Angeles Zoo.

It's a silly fool who thinks killing an animal with one tool is different than killing him with another.

The dogs absolutely do bark and play with each other, even though [Marino] says she trains them not to be noisy. But they're animals; that's what they do.

The Bible's emphasis is on the good treatment of animals, and not just the forbidding of cruel treatment.

Both my wife and I have a lot of compassion for animals in general.

You walk into the room like a camel and then put your eyes in your pockets and your nose on the ground.

You use to ride on the chrome horse with your diplomat, who carried on his shoulder a Siamese cat.

I set my monkey on the log, and ordered him to do the Dog. He wagged his tail and shook his head, and he went and did the Cat instead.

Maybe the hardest lesson is the one I have to learn over and over again, that each story is its own animal, that every story I write is going to come only with difficulty.

If you guys are interested in getting any kind of animal, definitely go and adopt.

You're not a bunch of people lock-stepped with the politically correct. Oh no! Don't shoot the animals! They might get their feelings hurt!

I know so many people think my music is quite influenced by Animal Collective, but honestly I think maybe the factor is that we're both influenced by the same stuff.

I do everything I can for wild animals because they have such a bloody awful time.

I'm just an animal guy. I feel like every creature has some purpose, whether I know it or not.

The fact that there are bigger injustices and wrongs doesn't make it right to sacrifice an innocent monkey. It doesn't alter the case at all.

I can no longer walk. I can no longer swim. But I'm lucky when I see how animals suffer.

Feeding plants to animals then eating the animals is like filtering water through a sewer then drinking it.

Animals... don't have a sense of time. You just have to do things over and over with animals until they happen to do it right because they don't really know what you want.

You can beat on your chest, hell, any monkey can.

My point of view is that men are basically animals, and I'm okay with that.

I do love animals so much, and have a great respect for them emotionally and intellectually, because they are so different from human beings.

We often do to people what people are very comfortable with doing to animals without a second thought.

My expertise lies in what I've devoted my life to. I wouldn't pretend to be a great gift to any other animal. My interest has always been in the horses.

Now sir, said the bulldog in his business-like way. 'Are you a animal, vegetable, or mineral?' - The Magician's Nephew

A writer must be fearless. A writer has to be like a clawed animal." -The Carrie Diaries pg. 337

My children have grown up around animals. They're not scared of them.

Hunting is doing business with animals.

The introduction of cooking may well have been the decisive factor in leading man from a primarily animal existence into one that was more fully human.

I am a literary animal. For me, everything ends in literature.

Animal experiments are no joke. Thank goodness scientists are finding better, more humane ways to develop treatments for cancer and other killer diseases.

I don't need that much to live - we don't need that much to have a wonderful life. I learned that from animals.

I’ve really become super active in rescuing animals, and it has made my life feel so much better. I can’t even express to you how happy it has made me.

Animals were my pets, and the thought of eating my pets freaked me out.

(Sebastian) "See, there you go. You're always looking at me like that." "Like what?" "Like I burn down animal shelters for fun and light my cigarettes with orphans.

Never work with kids or animals.

I've just always loved animals. So I've often thought that if I weren't a writer I'd work for some nonprofit organization that does something positive for animals.

Caution is the instinct of the weaker animal.

The life-world of human and animal experience, with colours, tastes, solid objects, is a perceptual effect of massed atoms.

Any time you're working in the world of taming animals, you're going to get hurt. But it's a rush that we get.

The love of dress is very marked in this attractive animal.

I'm not afraid to be a Russian Jewish romantic in my approach to anything, even in my animal divinities, or anything about the feeling.

Judiciously show a cat milk, if you wish her to thirst for it. Judiciously show a dog his natural prey, if you wish him to bring it down one day.

You should keep dogs-fine animals-sagacious.