Animal Quotes

Don't worry, Mrs. Colder. For the most part, we keep him leashed and gagged. We only let him free when the cute little animal jokes are needed. ~Sherra Callahan (on Kane Tyler)~

I don't eat or wear animals, but I never tell people not to - that's just my view

God looks after children, animals and idiots.

Embryology furnishes, also, the best measure of true affinities existing between animals.

I have a special relationship with animals. I contribute to harmony and balance among all the living creatures of the earth.

My father so appropriately put it that we are certainly the only animal that makes conscious choices that are bad for our survival as a species.

The only true animal is a cat, and the only true cat is a gray cat.

I know young people are all going to have different passions, but I would say that if you happen to have a heart for animals, never forget that without your voice, there is no channel for them.

She screamed, the high scream that was neither human nor animal but something terrible in between, the sort of sound that you never forget no matter how many beautiful things you hear afterward.

Sam: “I—it’s—I’m not an animal.

The lower animals are our brethren. I include among them the lion and the tiger. We do not know how to live with these carnivorous beasts and poisonous reptiles because of our ignorance.

A man who wants to control his animal passions easily does so if he controls his palate.

There can be in the eyes of God no distinction between man and man, even as there is no distinction between animal and animal.

My ahimsa is my own. I am not able to accept in its entirety the doctrine of non-killing of animals.

Man is neither mere intellect not the gross animal body, nor the heart or soul alone.

When I see a cow, it is not an animal to eat, it is a poem of pity for me and I worship it and I shall defend its worship against the whole world.

The measure of a society can be how well its people treat its animals

You can judge a society by the way it treats it's animals

Kaffirs are as a rule uncivilized - the convicts even more so. They are troublesome, very dirty and live almost like animals.

Love based upon indulgence of animal passion, is at best a selfish affair, and likely to snap under the slightest strain.

Himsa does not need to be taught, Man as animal is violent, but as spirit is nonviolent.

Chins are exclusively a human feature, not to be found among the beasts. Ithey had chins, most animals would look like each other.

Animals awaken, first facially, then bodily. Men's bodies wake before their faces do. The animal sleeps within its body, man sleeps with his body in his mind.

Humans socialize in the largest groups of all primates because we are the only animals with brains large enough to handle the complexities of that social arrangement.

I have kept every kind of animal and plant that is legal to privately own.

The animals have no need for speech, why talk when you are a word.

Food is love, for my body, wellbeing, and the animals that go unheard every day.

Times were so hard it was difficult to feed and lodge humans, much less animals.

Maine should be pleased that its animal is not a waverer, and rather than fight, lets the primed quill fall. Shallow oppressor, intruder, insister, you have found a resister.

The way animals were and are abused appalls me to this very day.

The person who thinks I worship the devil and kill animals is just as important as someone who makes an interpretation that's closer to what I intended.

Human beings are storytelling animals. That's what separates us from other creatures, not just having thumbs or using tools.

She did not know that the wolf was a wicked sort of animal, and she was not afraid of him.

We are already eating less animal foods since a few years ago, but we are still eating 8-9 billion animals per year.

Human Beings are the only animals that blush, or need to.

My experience with horses is that they never throw away a chance to go lame.

There are no wild animals until man makes them so.

Man is the only animal that is cruel. It kills just for the sake of it.

The only meat I eat is from animals I've killed myself.

Like an animal, cancer sleeps, prowls, hibernates, turns surly or placid.

There are as many jealousies in life as there are different flowers or trees or animals.

Snakes and monkeys are subjected to the demon more than other animals. Satan lives in them and possesses them. He uses them to deceive men and to injure them.

The things that are really important to me are my man, my animals and my books. I don't need anything else.

Have compassion towards each other, including animals.

Animals teach us about the animals in ourselves. We need their spirits.

I love animals, and not only do I get to help animals in need, I learn a lot too!

To the factory farmer, in contrast to the traditional farmer with his sense of honor and obligation, the animals are production units, and accorded all the sympathy that term suggests.

Something about her suggested that her leisure activities included wrestling large woodland animals and banging bricks together.

A tortoise is, I suppose, a Jewish pet. It knows its place. Out on the lawn. It doesn't bark. It doesn't tear the Dralon.

We're animals. We're violent. We're criminal. We're not so far away from the gorillas and the apes, those beautiful creatures.