Animal Quotes

You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts: nothing else will ever be of any service to them. Stick to Facts, sir!

'Time's noblest offspring is the last.' This line of Bishop Berkeley's expresses the real cause of the belief in progress in the animal creation.

Anybody can claim to be a member of the ALF when rescuing animals, destroying "tools of torture" (such as research equipment) or financially depleting a corporation that abuses animals.

My mother saved hundreds of animals in her life. Wherever she encountered and injured or needy or abandoned animal, she brought it home.

...if it comes to a choice between regulated studies on a few animals and a treatment for an incurable disease... most people reluctantly make the same choice.

The Breath becomes a stone; the stone, a plant; the plant, an animal; the animal, a man; the man, a spirit; and the spirit, a god.

He found a stuffed animal, a fluffy wolf with bright blue eyes, and was immediately drawn to it. "I want to get this for her. It is telling me it needs to go home with us." Francesca laughed at him.

If man attempts to suppress the animal side of his nature by a sheer effort of conscious will, nature finds a hundred unexpected and unpleasant ways to take its revenge.

Palestinians caged up like animals.

All field sports people are doing is turning an inevitable necessity into a pleasure. If the animal is going to be killed anyway, why not take pleasure in it?

People expect black women to be angry, irrationally so, without reason. They think we are animals and we go around like the Wild Things.

That’s a divorce. You ever seen a divorce? That’s like her taking not only the furniture and the silverware -- she took the dog, too. (Harvick) didn’t get the animal, I would say.

Acting is an animal thing, not an intellectual thing.

We remain of the view that in many areas of research we are still reliant on primates to achieve our goals for improving human health

Man is the only animal who is prone to insanity.

Faculty X is a sense of reality of other places and other times, and it is the possession of it—fragmentary and uncertain though it is—that distinguishes man from all other animals.

TV is a different animal these days. You can bring together really smart writing and directing, in-depth character development and really meaty political and emotional stories.

I have learned that you can communicate on a very deep level with any living form. Thats why my gardens bloom and my animals are so healthy-because I communicate with them.

Id like to be a lion... they are very family-oriented. Unfortunately. too many wild animals are afraid at what man can do to them.

The habit of shedding blood, or even of seeing it shed, corrupts all sentiment of humanity.

We roared. We were one big animal throat, roaring.

The devil is not abroad at night in the form of a cat or a wolf or any other animal. He lives eternally in the hearts of men.

If ever you feel like an animal among men be a lion.

The peoples influenced by the animal dance have a variety of movements and dance with enthusiasm; those who do not know the animal dance have few movements and show little zest for dancing.

For a country without a past is nothing, a word That, hardly spoken, loses its meaning, A perishable wall destroyed by flame, An echo of animal emotions.

What strikes me most of all in Christian culture, which is supposed to be concerned with the rights of the weakest, is the lack of regard toward animals. Maybe because they're thought to be soulless.

Every man has the basis of good. Not only human beings, you can find it among animals and insects, for instance, when we treat a dog or horse lovingly.

Basically, a human being is a social animal. So, if you create some short moment of happiness for people, you get deep satisfaction.

I am like a wounded animal in a remote isolated place - How wonderful! - How happy!

Morally speaking, we should be concerned for our whole environment.

We are social animals. Others' suffering is ultimately your suffering; their happiness is ultimately your happiness.

[Animals] appreciate others' affection, they also have the sort of ability to show their own affection. And then as soon as we're born, child, no religious faith.

Increasingly both environmentalists and animal ethicists recognize the enormous destruction caused by animal agriculture.

On leather jackets: That's the next step. You have to take one step at a time. It was easier to start with fur.

Marriage is the only game where the trapped animal has to buy the license.

A novel is like an animal you have to hunt down and kill. If you let it sit for two days, it's got a two-day head start. So, if I just look at it every day, I'm so much better off.

Like People, animals will become frightened and likely do whatever you say if you whip them enough.

Werewolves are much more common animals than you might think.

I might have to drink the blood of animals to stay alive, but I would never feast on one of my own kind, no matter what Mr.Crepsley said, or hows much my belly growled.

The coyotes made too much noise last night and kept me awake. Please eradicate these annoying animals.

Ban walking sticks in wilderness. Hikers that use walking sticks are more likely to chase animals.

The more you go on, the less you need people standing between you and the animal and the camera waving their arms about.

I've been bitten by a python. Not a very big one. I was being silly, saying: 'Oh, it's not poisonous' Then, wallop! But you have fear around animals.

God put many animals here [on Earth] for pets, playthings and companions for us and our children, and we're still going to enjoy them [in Heaven].

But of all the animals, man holds the fate of the world in his hands.

Yes,' growled Fell, 'for animals do not know what they do, but man has knowledge of his cruelty.

I don't think I'd ever be cruel to an animal.

Back in the day, I came up with the expression "Same Animal - Different Cages" to describe our songs. I suppose over the years I've just broadened the meaning of that.

War. What was it about the prospect of some bloody enterprises that reduced men to the level of animals?

We are concerned by the upward trend in the use of animals in scientific procedures.