Animal Quotes

I do ask myself sometimes, what am I doing writing about animals that talk like we do? But I guess it's okay if it brings across a point.

We hit and we kept on hitting; we were allowed to be what we were, frightened and vengeful — little animals, clawing at what we needed.

Caring for animals means caring for the environment they live in, and vice versa.

I don't understand "animal people" who say they are not environmentalists. Do they not realize that the vast majority of animals live in the environment?

People moan about drugs being tested on animals. I sort of think it depends innit. If the drug's aspirin and the monkey's got a headache, is it right?

That's the problem with them fables, they're putting animals together that wouldn't meet. I don't know where a scorpion is knockin' around with a frog.

If an animal is named after what it eats, how interesting is it?

Truthfully, I love all animals.

My paintings are reflections of my own inner mysteries... they all reflect my relationship to my steadiest of companions and muses - nature and animals.

Animals should have rights and should be treated with compassion and empathy; we are their caretakers. If you don't have it in your heart to help them, then just leave them alone and do no harm.

We are able to help animals all around the world as a result of the media and entertainment business, which is able to spread compassion and change at rapid speed.

I'm interested in raw land and trees and fresh air and rivers and lots of animals around them.

You're an animal, you live, maybe this one time is your lifetime - go there. Who cares what somebody else thinks?

I think people should give in to what they feel like doing at the time and be a raw animal.

I hope to bring much more attention to important issues and change for issues and practices that are harming animals.

The people who come to my shows have dollar signs drawn all over them. They have blue lipstick. I call them my animals because they just go totally mental.

Reality TV is a totally different animal than the infomercial world.

I just don't believe people can tame animals.

I'd see movies, comedies, and I loved 'Animal House', I loved all the John Hughes stuff, but I never saw me and my friends totally represented.

I had stopped making figures, and then I began making images of animals in nature, which was a way to introduce the figure.

I'm very sensitive to energy and people and life and animals and a lot of things.

I can't wait to have kids one day. I want to have kids and a farm with lots of animals on a lake.

I liked animals more than people! OK, I liked certain people, but the idea of mankind'-it really irritated me!

But it’s compounded by the fact that I love animals and feel better not eating them.

Africa is being raped mainly by Asia, but the second largest market for dead endangered animals is the US. Most don't know this is happening. I didn't, but once I found out, I had to try and help.

Just because we think we're so wonderful doesn't mean we really are. We could be really terrible animals and just never admit it because it would hurt so much.

It is always pitiful when any human being falls into a condition hardly more respectable than that of an animal. How much more pitiful it is when the person who falls has had all the advantages!

You know, the Emancipation Proclamation was like giving freedom to domestic animals.

I think a bird is the worst present you can give somebody because it's guilt-ridden. This animal has the gift of flight, and you put it in a cage and watch it not do that until it dies.

Horror is a totally different animal. It's intense. You can do drama or comedies, but in horror, you really have to trick yourself into believing a lot of unbelievable phenomena.

The thing is, you throw brains and souls into an animal and stir, you don’t really know what you’re going to get.

When the intelligent and animal souls are held together in one embrace, they can be kept from separating.

Oh, no, a leopard blew up and plastered itself all over everything, but hey, animal print was in this year.

The priests and the scientists are right about one thing: At our heart, at our base, we are no better than animals.

I have such a passion because I adore animals so much.

Many birds and beasts are...as fit to go to Heaven as many human beings - people who talk of their seats there with as much confidence as if they had booked them at a box office.

I think breakfast is the one meal when you don't have to eat animal, maybe.

A part of me feels like I was an animal in my past life that wasn't treated very nicely.

The painter's mind is a copy of the divine mind, since it operates freely in creating the many kinds of animals, plants, fruits, landscapes, countrysides, ruins, and awe-inspiring places.

Make yourself a master of perspective, then acquire perfect knowledge of the proportions of men and other animals.

Oh! how foul a thing, that we should see the tongue of one animal in the guts of another.

Agent Jones held Sinjin’s face in his hands. “I’m going to make balloon animals. People need balloon animals.” “How right you are, strange delusional man,” Sinjin said.

The maternal impulse in animals to protect their young - that kind of instinct and subsequent violence is quite beautiful. Mythic even.

I was always empathetic with animals. It's a terrible and self-involved point of view that we do something because someone else is exploitable.

I hope that people who don't live with animals will appreciate that each animal is a unique individual with a rich inner life.

A boy is a dangerous animal.

My animals are a really important part of my life.

Animals have been reduced to objects for production, and their lives are designed around our needs and desires.

But man is above all a social and political animal; his relations with his fellow human beings form his most absorbing and important interest.

Sweetheart, all men are animals. Feed us, pet us, and use a firm hand, and we'll worship at your feet.