Animal Quotes

When you raise an animal, you live it like your own child.

Old MacDonald had a farm-until America's corporate animal factories plowed it under.

I've always loved stories of animals and birds that can appear to be human, just by taking off their skins or their feathers.

Aren't we most aware of our animal natures when love or hunger or hatred burns through reason and encourages us to do exactly what we desire to do, with frequently tragic results?

The fact that I seem to prefer seals over any other animal brides is something I hadn't actually realized until this moment. Perhaps it's because there's a lot of very cool folklore about it.

Not all animal brides are doomed. Not all men are greedy or violent or possessive.

When I am at rodeo I find it difficult not to root for the animals.

When they were naming the animals, somebody got lazy: anteater? What's it doing? It's eating ants. DONE!

Animals are our inferior brothers and sisters. They are not meant to be eaten, but must be treated with love.

One of the things I like best about animals in the wild is that they're always off on some errand. They have appointments to keep. It's only we humans who wonder what we're here for.

We have vexed and bothered every plant and every animal on every continent.

I always felt people should live with animals.

Pythagoras used to say that he had received as a gift from Mercury the perpetual transmigration of his soul, so that it was constantly transmigrating and passing into all sorts of plants or animals.

Your body's made to run, to walk, to trek long distances and carry things, work in a forest, and hunt animals. You have to keep it alive to function.

Everybody thinks people who promote PETA don't eat meat, but I think animals were made to be eaten.

You know what animals exist in the desert. He's going to his indigenous natural habitat. What better place for night crawlers?

I have no neighbours other than animals and Joshua Trees.

Animals we are, and animals we remain, and the path to our regeneration and happiness, if there be such a path, lies through our animal nature.

A talking dog is not the answer. That's not a way to convince people not to smoke pot. If animals started talking to me, I would up my pot consumption just to make that happen.

For millions of years, on average, one species became extinct every century.... We are now heaving more than a thousand different species of animals and plants off the planet every year.

Animals interest me more than anything else.

What is human behavior, except trying to prove that we're not animals?

Q: If you could be an animal, what kind of animal would you be? A: You already are an animal.

Besides, animals don’t even have time. Only humans have time. It’s what makes us different.

Animals look at people the way people look at people that might mug them.

Women want a man who is sensitive, but god forbid you can't get it up after being frightened by a small woodland animal.

To describe an animal as a physico-chemical system of extreme complexityis no doubt perfectly correct, except that it misses out on the animalness of the animal.

But once the ants and termites jumped the high barrier that prevents the vast variety of evolving animal groups from becoming fully social, they dominated the world.

And whenever you feel that essence in another, you also feel it in yourself.

The consciousness of the animal begins to change when it interacts with a human who's gone beyond thinking. It's not only the animals assisting us; we are also assisting the animals.

The animals certainly like to be close to humans, especially as humans go through the shift in consciousness.

If you turn your back on these people, you yourself are an animal. You may be a well-dressed animal, but you are nevertheless an animal.

Our ability to factory farm animals is coldly psychopathic.

Man is by his constitution a religious animal.

Man is an animal that cooks his victuals.

Man is by his constitution a religious animal; atheism is against not only our reason, but our instincts.

In all of nature, there is no sound more pleasing than that of a hungry animal at its feed. Unless you are the food.

I find more and more, as I grow older, that I prefer women to men, children to adults, animals to humans.... And rocks to living things? No, I'm not that old yet.

Our toil is lessened, and our wealth is increased, by our dominion over the useful animals . . .

Man is different from animals in that he speculates, a high-risk activity.

Every time we help an animal, we are healing ourselves, over and over.

When you have an animal in your home, a relationship forms very quickly, where that animal ceases to be an animal to you. It feels like a member of your family.

This is my social face,” he said lightly. “Don’t confuse it with the animal beneath.

I think, if you were being cruel to animals, then the thought of eating them would be horrific.

Honestly, I would eat cardboard rather than go back to eating animals.

I cannot imagine not going home to animals. They are the closest thing to God. They don't harbour resentment.

(Raven) "Makes me think of werewolves. Do you think a man can change into an animal?" (Alexander) "If he's with the right girl.

I saw three shrimp in the water, two were old and gray. I swam a little closer, and I heard the third one say, good-bye Mama.

I don't want to be a tiger, tigers play too rough. I don't want to be a lion, cause lions ain't the kind you love up.

Im very passionate about animals.